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Answer Me - New Order Rarities

 

new order. one of the most influential bands across rock and electronic based music. you can have your depeche mode, i'll take the four from manchester, england. the band came about from the remains of joy division when lead singer, ian curtis hung himself the night before they were to embark on their first ever american tour. so, three of the members were in two of the most influential bands of all time. what made new order different was how they melded electronics with their traditional rock instruments to form these perfect melodic pop songs. peter hook played his bass like a guitar player and helped to define that thumpy driving new order sound.

one of the first cassette tapes i got was 'brotherhood' which was more of a soulful effort, and then i bought 'low life' which is probably their best album. i got to see them for the 'substance' tour and then the 'technique' tour, which was their last great album. besides the popular songs that everyone seems to know from all of the 80's compilations, their catalog is full of songs that stand the test of time especially now, when you hear some of those 80's bands and think, how the hell did i like that. after reuniting and supposedly disbanding now, for good, new order like kraftwerk leaves a legacy of music that continues to push forward in the form of the artists that were influenced by their music.

here are some rare treats from my collection :

Run 2 (Extended Version) - from 1989, this track is from the limited edition rare 12" of run2 (pictured above) which has regular and extended versions of the title track as well as mto (much too young). it's value is similar to a vintage eames LCW. the original version, 'run' is from the masterpiece 'technique'.

MTO (Much Too Young) - also, from the run2 12". i guess this is the counterpoint to 'finetime' which was once titled 'much too old'. an instrumental track that is for the collectors.

Evil Dust - a remix of 'angel dust' from the 'brotherhood' album. it's a song that was only available on some industrial compilations and possible a promo. another one for the completists.

Let's Go (Original Version) - this is a different version than the one features on the 'the best of" and does not have the vocals. it's not as poppy as the vocal version and it's taken from the salvation soundtrack from 1988.

Best & Marsh (7inch) - this is taken from the 'round&round' single and it was a theme song for a tv show hosted by factory records head, tony wilson.

Crystal (Pornoclub Mix) - this pre-original version was given to corvin dalek by bernard sumner for his 'hotkunst' mix and supposedly bernard sumner liked the track so much that he used it for the 'get ready' comeback album. it's a driving progressive techno track that has some vocal snippets from sumner. i got this entire mix cd from overseas and it cost way too much, but it was worth it to get my hands on, what was at the time, an early taste of the comeback from new order.

http://foeweel.com/2007/05/answer-me...-rarities.html