The Wednesday Canon: New Order/Joy Division

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Much demanded in the write-in votes last week, this - here are the UK hit singles of New Order (Blue Monday remixes have been compressed for purposes of voting, and Joy Div's two hits have been flung in to add choice. I thought of putting in Electronic too, but then I really ought to have included Monaco, and we know where THAT leads.



You get NINE picks across the 27 choices, I can guess where the bulk of them are going to lie but the ordering should be of some intrigue.

(Edit: And "Bizarre Love Triangle" wasn't a hit, amazingly since it's probably the best thing they've ever done)


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MEANWHILE the Girls Aloud Canon stands as follows. 1 - No Good Advice. 2 - Biology. 3. The Show. 4. Wuv Machine. 5. Sound Of The Underground. Hurrah for the gurls! And yes I will be doing the unbelievably huge Madonna poll before too long.

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Was Bizarre Love Triangle really not a hit?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes :(

But checking the listings nor was Run 2, I'm not sure how that snuck in, I was clearly on Technique era autopilot.

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

If memory serves, Run2 was whipped from record shop shelves pretty quickly due to an impending law suit from John Denver... Either that or it was just a limited run anyway. Regardless, it has a music video and The Chart Show played it.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

For future weds canons I may well use the Good Book not everyhit.com

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Why did John Denver sue?

I love "Run", it's my favourite thing on Technique.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

How is it that the three NO songs I have heard count among my favouritest songs EVER - but I haven't heard any others! I'm shocked at myself. Are the others like 'True Faith' and 'Regret'? What album should I get?

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

Run supposedly steals a lick from "Leaving On A Jet Plane".

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

I prescribe Substance 1987.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

True Faith and Regret are probably their most straightforwardly poptastic songs. Get Technique. Or just download "Run", "All The Way", "Age Of Consent", "Bizarre Love Triangle", "1963", "Love Vigilantes", "Temptation"...hold on you mean to say you've never heard "Blue Monday"???!!

"Perfect Kiss" not a hit either I notice.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

we can't stil be surprised by what alex doesn't know, can we?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

No I know 'Blue Monday', I DJed a mash-up of it with 'Stand Up Tall' two days ago! It is really different to 'Regret' and 'True Faith' so I assumed it was a one-off?

I have a sneaking suspicion that I own Technique but that it got buried in eone of my house moves.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

If ever a worth of a band (or two bands even) was ill-served by a list of their hits, it's this lot.

Lex you will probably enjoy the Substance compilation, if that's still in print. Power, Corruption and Lies is also worth having.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Blue Monday is actually closer to most of their 80s output than True Faith is. All their great 80s singles are the same mix of 'songy' and 'tracky'.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think the reason I don't own any NO is that I keep looking for an album/compilation with both 'True Faith' and 'Regret' on it but can never find one. I will keep Substance in mind though.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

There is one - "The Best Of New Order" from about 1994. But don't start with that - the tracklisting is very odd and the early stuff is skimped on.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I think these are the only 2 Joy Division songs I listen to with any frequency.

Oh, "Dead Souls" too I suppose.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think it speaks volumes for how good 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is that it hasn't yet been completely ruined despite the best efforts of...lots of people. Especially those who play it in clubs! Weirdos, it's the last thing i want to hear in a club.

I didn't know JD had any other songs until a couple of years ago, I don't think I want to hear them.

IN MY ROLE AS BROKEN RECORD SKIPPIN

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

love will tear us apart =

i. jd's WORST song by a v.long way
ii. jd's INDIEST song by a v.long way

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I already told you, that was The Sun Always Shines On TV by A-ha.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

They don't have any songs that sound much like LWTUA. They had an amazing rhythm and sound (everyone agrees on this), spoiled a bit to my mind by a plank for a lyricist (few agree on this).

"Atmosphere" is very beautiful.

Re: IN MY ROLE AS BROKEN RECORD SKIPPIN

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's ridiculously indie to claim i.

ii is true, though.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"Isolation" would sound awesome in a club. JD were more disco than you might think.

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that International compilation, or the recent Singles one wrap the two?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

What actually is the link between JD and NO? I know that some of the former were in the latter but I don't really know who's who (I only ticked Gillian because she's a girl, I didn't know NO had a girl in them until now!)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Joy Division = the three men from New Order plus Ian Curtis, who sang. Ian Curtis killed himself, the three others turned into New Order (their first single wd have been JD's next one) and recruited Stephen Morris' girlfriend Gillian to play keyboards.