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- #1
- Posted: 12/30/2017 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#2573): Substance by New Order
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Today's album of the day
Substance by New Order (View album | Buy this album)
Compilation
Year: 1987.
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Overall rank: 563
Average rating: 83/100 (from 323 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Ceremony
2. Everything's Gone Green
3. Temptation
4. Blue Monday
5. Confusion
6. Thieves Like Us
7. Perfect Kiss
8. Subculture
9. Shellshock
10. State Of The Nation
11. Bizarre Love Triangle
12. True Faith
13. In A Lonely Place
14. Procession
15. Cries And Whispers
16. Hurt
17. Beach
18. Confusion [Instrumental]
19. Lonesome Tonight
20. Murder
21. Thieves Like Us [Instrumental]
22. Kiss Of Death
23. Shame Of The Nation
24. 1963
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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mickilennial
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Location: Detroit 
- #2
- Posted: 12/30/2017 21:57
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I prefer Joy Division. Doesn't have the same atmosphere and Hook's basslines just aren't as mesmerizing here.
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- #3
- Posted: 12/30/2017 22:09
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| Gowi wrote: | | I prefer Joy Division. Doesn't have the same atmosphere and Hook's basslines just aren't as mesmerizing here. |
yes, but New Order added an interesting irony in their music (especially in Barney's singing). A very cerebral band, in fact.
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Antonio-Pedro
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- #4
- Posted: 12/30/2017 22:57
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This album collects the most important singles from new order, which is a guaranteed trip into eris and beyond the echoes in your mind, and if this don't rock your socks like snakes on the neon dancefloor then you should see a doctor as soon as possible.
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HazeyTwilight
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- #5
- Posted: 12/30/2017 23:12
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drop all that old fogey rockist shit and listen to some 80s synthpop - aka the real best music
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CharlieBarley
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- Posted: 12/30/2017 23:19
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True Faith is in my top 100 favourite songs of all time, its a genius pop song.
The rest of the stuff is pretty ace too.
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LordMark
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- Posted: 12/31/2017 03:04
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I know it's a compilation, but I just can't make a list of my 100 favourite albums and not include this one. The first disc is pretty much flawless, starting with "Ceremony" and finishing with "True Faith". Obviously, the second disc is nowhere near as good as the first, but it still does have "Hurt" and "Confusion", both of which are awesome.
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Jimmy Dread
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- #8
- Posted: 12/31/2017 17:07
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| Gowi wrote: | | I prefer Joy Division. Doesn't have the same atmosphere |
Good pun Gowi.
I think there's a lot to be said for which out of Joy Division or New Order you discover first. And for me, once I'd heard Blue Monday on the Chart Show (admittedly in remixed form) in '88 it was one of those life-affirming moments that completely blew my pre-teen head wide open. I frog-marched my dear old Mum down to WHSmith in Aldershot to buy the twin cassette of Substance, only to repurchase it in 1992 when I got my first CD player (and after the tape had been chewed up), and then again when I spied an original 2xLP set in a record shop in the dead-end military town of Bordon a couple of years back. As you can probably guess, it holds a very special place in my heart.
The first half of Substance is virtually flawless, although after all these years I could happily take or leave Subculture and State Of The Nation. The B-sides, however, have rarely done anything for me (apart from Lonesome Tonight, which could have come straight off Low-Life, Mesh and Hurt. The Beach is basically Blue Monday performed by robots). The LP ditches the B-sides, leaving only the 12 12" a-sides.
I discovered JD around 5 or so years after first listening to Blue Monday, and strangely enough picked up their equivalent Substance compilation before listening to their two studio albums. Although it's somewhat churlish to compare their output side-by-side, I'd still pick Technique over Closer or Unknown Pleasures, and Temptation over Love Will Tear Us Apart anyday. If I'd found Joy Division first it may have easily been the other way round, but Blue Monday is so ingrained in my musical DNA it's impossible for anyone to convince me to the contrary after all this time. It's still my definitive, sure-fire favourite track nearly 30 years since I first heard it, and likely always will be.
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mickilennial
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- #9
- Posted: 12/31/2017 18:18
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I suppose it is worth a relisten. Also, the pun was unintended. If I was being cute I would've said it doesn't have the same substance. 
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dihansse
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- #10
- Posted: 12/31/2017 20:22
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Both substances are great but I hate this one because it’s indeed nearly impossible not to include this one in a top chart while for JD it’s very easy to pick a regular album.
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