Just Like a POLL Without a Key! A Poll of New Order's Brotherhood

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just an odd take, since for me Peter Hook's bass playing is just about one of the most distinctive things in music

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Oh I missed that - I would have voted for Broken Promise with Paradise a close second. Like others, it's the NO album I know least (including the come-back albums which I love). Unlike others, I really don't like "All day Long" and "Every Little Counts" which I think turned me off this album. Something about barney's singing that I find really off-putting on these songs (kinda similar in thsi regard to Love Vigilantes and 1963)

I too have always been a bit baffled by the love for those two songs, in particular. I think I missed the poll but I probably would have voted "Paradise." This is definitely not my favorite NO album.

Having recently seen Wagner's Rheingold at the opera, I was struck by the similarity between the synth line in All Day Long beginning at around 3'10" and the Rhine leitmotif emerging in the Rheingold's prelude at ca. 2 minutes into the piece.

For comparison:

https://youtu.be/MuHNXoZvlgg?t=189

https://youtu.be/gH4947fQcgo

Isn't the Reinghold the walk on music for New Order typically?

Thanks! Haven't really kept up with NO after Technique, so that's news to me. Checking recent setlists and concert clips, the Rheingold prelude indeed is their walk on music, so the ADL string synth part is definitely a conscious borrowing.

The walk-on music last Saturday was "Times Change."

Yeah, I watched a very long video compiled from the Miami shows and that instrumental version of Times Change was the best thing they 'played' in 4 days. Mostly due to Bernard not singing on it. Although Dream Attack sounded great.

The Saturday show was solid. The show last January was superb.

It's so much better in person than it is watching a hand held youtube stream.

Despite squishing together several superior NO singles, "Angel Dust" is perfect orientalist goth.