The 60 Best New Order Songs

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by jimmydean, May 21, 2020.

  1. jimmydean

    jimmydean Senior Member Thread Starter

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    From a poll in the german Rolling Stone-Forum


    1. True Faith (451/20/1)
    2. Blue Monday (403/19/1)
    3. Bizarre Love Triangle (342/16/1)

    4. Crystal (273/17/4)
    5. Ceremony (253/13/4)
    6. Regret (213/14/3)
    7. Vanishing Point (197/14/4)
    8. Temptation 12“ (186/11/1)
    9. The Perfect Kiss (182/11/4)
    10.Age Of Consent (160/9/3)

    11. Sub-Culture (157/9/4)
    12. Love Vigilantes (152/11/5)
    13. Your Silent Face (152/9/1)
    14. 1963 (150/12/3)
    15. All The Way (143/8/1)
    16. Thieves Like Us (137/8/2)
    17. 60 Miles An Hour (134/9/3)
    18. Everythings Gone Green 12“ (98/5/2)
    19. Dreams Never End (96/7/3)
    20. Sunrise (93/7/8)

    21. Touched By The Hand Of God 12“ (91/5/1)
    22. Dream Attack (85/6/2)
    23. Round & Round (84/7/9)
    24. Procession (80/6/5)
    25. Leave Me Alone (75/6/3)
    26. Shellshock (70/6/9)
    27. This Time Of Night (68/4/2)
    28. Temptation 87(Substance-Version) (68/3/1)
    29. Lonesome Tonight (67/4/5)
    30. Ruined In A Day (63/4/3)

    31. Someone Like You (61/4/1)
    32. Singularity (58/4/3)
    33. Run (55/4/7)
    34. Paradise (53/5/10)
    35. Restless (53/4/8
    36. Turn My Way (50/4/11)
    37. The Perfect Kiss 12“ (47/2/1)
    38. All Day Long (46/4/9)
    39. Confusion (46/3/7)
    40. The Village (45/3/7)

    41. Elegia (43/4/8)
    42. Bizarre Love Triangle 12“ (41/2/5)
    43. Guilty Partner (37/2/3)
    44. Krafty (33/3/9)
    45. Academic (33/3/12)
    46. In A Lonely Place (33/2/8)
    47. Temptation 7“ (31/2/10)
    48. Waiting For The Sirens Call (30/3/15)
    49. The Him (30/2/6)
    50. Ultraviolence (29/2/9)

    51. Love Less (28/2/10)
    52. State Of The Nation (28/2/11)
    53. Turn (25/3/16)
    54. Weirdo (25/2/9)
    55. Hellbent (23/2/12)
    56. 586 (22/2/12)
    57. Mr. Disco (21/2/15)
    58. World In Motion (20/3/18)
    59. Spooky (20/1/6)
    60. Who’s Joe? (19/2/13)
     
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  2. mark winstanley

    mark winstanley Certified dinosaur, who likes physical product

    I really like New Order, but the bulk of my favourites are around the album Lowlife.
    Thieves like us - number 1 easily
    Perfect kiss
    Love vigilantes
    Are my top three
     
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  3. John54

    John54 Senior Member

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    I like a lot of what I've heard. I just listened to Vanishing Point for the first time, which is pretty good, and right now it's Crystal, which is maybe not quite as good but still sounds alright.

    The notable exception is Blue Monday, which I have never liked.
     
  4. hutlock

    hutlock Forever Breathing

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    Yes, Thieves Like Us is to me their most astounding and perfect work, I never get tired of it. Far and away my #1 as well.
     
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  5. jimmydean

    jimmydean Senior Member Thread Starter

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    it's a good song, but imho it is a little bit too much sounding like don't you want me from human league
     
  6. hutlock

    hutlock Forever Breathing

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    Also ranking the LP version of The Perfect Kiss in the top 10 and the 12” version all the way down the list at 37 is ABSOLUTE BLASPHEMY. The LP mix is missing the best part of the song!
     
  7. friendofafriend

    friendofafriend Forum Resident

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    I agree with True Faith at the top and Who’s Joe at the bottom. In between, there are some I’d switch around in my personal list.
     
  8. MikeManaic61

    MikeManaic61 Forum Resident

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    Ditto. They're one of the few where I'm only interested in their remixes than their original stuff on the albums.
     
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  9. Achn2b

    Achn2b Forum Resident

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    That All Day Long is that far down the list is a crime.
     
  10. Synthfreek

    Synthfreek I’m a ray of sunshine & bastion of positivity

    "Elegia" at 41?! Haha, that's a good one.
     
  11. palisantrancho

    palisantrancho Forum Resident

    Agree. It's just what I was about to post. One of my favorites. Easily a top five for me.
     
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  12. Hollow Horse

    Hollow Horse To pretend to be happy could only be idiocy

    Regret and Waiting For The Siren's Call.

    Sixty songs - they made as many as that?

    Fair play!
     
  13. hanfrac

    hanfrac Forum Resident

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    I go back and forth between Ceremony and the Substance version of Temptation. But when those songs were new, it was definitely Bizarre Love Triangle.
     
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  14. irong

    irong Forum Resident

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    I had to go to youtube to listen to Crystal, a song I had totally forgotten (even though it went to #3 on canadian charts in 2001... when I was 19...)

    It's all right but there is at least 2 dozen better songs on the list.
     
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  15. Beamish13

    Beamish13 Forum Resident

    “Player in the League” deserves love. Beautiful instrumental b-side from GET READY
     
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  16. ghoulsurgery

    ghoulsurgery House Ghost

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    Seriously. The LP version of that song feels so silly to me. It ends before it really gets to go anywhere
     
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  17. ghoulsurgery

    ghoulsurgery House Ghost

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    If I thought about it for long enough I could do a top 60. A top 10 is easier in the moment though...

    1. Temptation (1982 12” version)
    2. Ceremony (12” version)
    3. Bizarre Love Triangle (LP version)
    4. Procession
    5. Leave Me Alone
    6. The Perfect Kiss (12” version)
    7. Love Vigilantes
    8. Regret
    9. Broken Promise
    10. Primitive Notion
     
  18. hutlock

    hutlock Forever Breathing

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    I like your list better than the one in the OP.
     
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  19. AFOS

    AFOS Forum Resident

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    Just re-acquainted myself with this song and it is great
     
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  20. AFOS

    AFOS Forum Resident

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    "Fine Time" should be top 10 IMO

     
  21. ghoulsurgery

    ghoulsurgery House Ghost

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    Fine Time is great as a single but always felt out of place on Technique to me. It’s like an intro track and then the album changes considerably for the next couple songs.
     
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  22. Eleventh Earl of Mar

    Eleventh Earl of Mar Somehow got them all this far.

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    The Perfect Kiss is probably my favorite

    Mostly the Low Life tracks - that was their best album start to finish. Sub-culture might be there best no edit album cut.
     
  23. ghoulsurgery

    ghoulsurgery House Ghost

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    Low Life is really solid. Sunrise didn’t make my top 10 but it’d be number 11 or 12
     
  24. Eleventh Earl of Mar

    Eleventh Earl of Mar Somehow got them all this far.

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    New York
    I got this on vinyl last year - an original UK copy for only $15, and it's fantastic

    But the record skipped on Sunrise when it got to playing. I know I need to clean the LP itself, but the issue with Sunrise is it's really hard to tell where the song actually is for half it's duration. But, a lot of the album does this, it's a pure focus on incredibly proper musicianship that I don't hear as much before this album. I'm not claiming New Order can't play their instruments mind you - it's just these pieces (particularly for Peter) have more going on song for song.
     
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  25. KUJayhawk

    KUJayhawk Forum Resident

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    Urban Kansas
    My top ten (no order):

    Face Up
    Lonesome Tonight
    Run
    Sub-culture
    Temptation 97
    Bizarre Love Triangle
    The Village
    All Day Long
    Dream Attack
    Krafty
     
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