Power, Corruption & Lies
by New Order

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Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order
Year: 1983
Release date: 1983-05-02
Overall rank: 252nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 952 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1983 (3rd)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 1980s (30th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (252nd)

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Power, Corruption & Lies is ranked as the best album by New Order.

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Power, Corruption & Lies track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Age Of Consent
Average Rating: 91 (338 votes)Comments: View 6
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We All Stand
Average Rating: 78 (198 votes)Comments: View 2
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The Village
Average Rating: 83 (205 votes)Comments: View 0
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5 8 6
Average Rating: 83 (210 votes)Comments: View 1
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Your Silent Face
Average Rating: 87 (225 votes)Comments: View 6
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Ultraviolence
Average Rating: 80 (193 votes)Comments: View 0
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Ecstasy
Average Rating: 81 (189 votes)Comments: View 0
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Leave Me Alone
Average Rating: 87 (224 votes)Comments: View 4

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Power, Corruption & Lies rankings

Power, Corruption & Lies rankings summary
Overall rank: 252nd | 1980s rank: 30th | 1983 rank: 3rd  Overall chart history
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Power, Corruption & Lies forum mentions

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From 08/29/2015 21:53 | #148829 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I wear a shirt with this album cover on it and it's made me more than a few friends. (Edited)
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From 05/23/2014 20:58 | #112782 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Out of the ashes of Joy Division came New Order in possibly the most impressive musical reinvention to move seamlessly from cult to (night)club darlings. Its an auspicious beginning as they define the synth pop dynamic for the 1980s.
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From 04/08/2013 04:37 | #71893 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The most ripped off album of the decade. Though the sound is dominated by synthesizers Bernard Sumner's melodic and decidedly subdued singing and guitar playing ensured that this record would be the most human synth pop album of the era. Sumner may not have been anywhere near as mesmerizing as the great Ian Curtis, but New Order was never about that. New Order were the picture perfect team playing group. A group in which each member was never above passing the ball and no one member ever dominated an entire song.

Highlights: Age of Consent, 586, Your Silent Face, Leave Me Alone
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From 01/22/2012 21:19 | #35650 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The perfect transition from Joy Division into New Order... regardless of whether you mentally include Blue Monday and The Beach or not. I include them because I'm an American and they are on the album I own.
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From 03/15/2013 15:14 | #68415 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
As much as I love Joy Division, Power, Corruption And Lies is so good that it almost justifies Ian Curtis' death.
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