This is a follow up to last Sunday's Your Silent Face mix which veered into their New Order's back catalogue and those of some adjacent artists- Galaxie 500, The Liminanas, Ian McCulloch, Gorillaz, The Times, Mike Garry, Joe Duddell and Andrew Weatherall. This one starts off with another Power, Corruption And Lies song, Age Of Consent, and then heads off with some covers, some 80s NO, another Weatherall remix and some recent edits.
Forty Five More Minutes Of New Order And Friends
- New Order: Age Of Consent
- Iron And Wine: Love Vigilantes
- Thurston Moore: Leave Me Alone
- New Order: Dreams Never End
- New Order: Lonesome Tonight
- New Order: Regret (Sabres Slow 'N' Lo)
- New Order: Vanishing Point (Rich Lane Edit)
- New Order: Blue Monday (Newly Reordered Remix)
Age Of Consent is the opening song on New Order's 1983 album Power, Corruption And Lies, a day- glo, lysergic rush of guitars, bass, drums and synths, Bernard sounding more comfortable as vocalist. His choppy, rapid Velvets guitar breaks are a joy too. A peak New Order album song.
As is Love Vigilantes, the opening song on 1985's Low Life, forty years old this month. Bernard's Vietnam ghost story lyric is up there among his most off the wall, and the band, Stephen Morris in particular, are on it, the classic New Order sound perfected. Iron And Wine's 2009 Americana acoustic cover is a low key beauty, Sam Beams tripping the song down to the country that lies at its core.
Thurston Moore's cover of Leave Me Alone, another Power, Corruption And Lies song, is from the B-side of a 7" single from 2019, recorded in Salford with 'local musicians and local pints', to quote Thurston.
Dreams Never End is from Movement, the 1981 New Order debut that saw them trying to will themselves out of being Joy Division and into becoming something else. Hooky sings Dreams Never End, his bass and Bernard's guitar wrapping around each other, inching away from the shadow Ian's death cast of them. If a compilation of the band's 10 best album tracks were put together this song would be on it.
Lonesome Tonight was the B-side to Thieves Like Us, a superb 1984 single. Lonesome Tonight is its low key flip, melancholic, stripped down, beautiful, self- produced song that any other band would have given A- side status to and promoted to the world. The band's limitations forced them to experiment, to use their heads and the studio, and Factory put few, if any, demands on them to be commercial. From this they made truly great records.
Regret was their 1993 comeback single, an indie- pop guitar riff with a singalong chorus. Sabres Of Paradise got to work on it and turned in a pair of epic remixes. Andrew Weatherall's genius is evident in both, especially the first remix- take the bassline, slow it down and find acres of space, loop a little guitar part and a line of vocal, and hey presto, turn New Order's indie- pop into Lee Perry style dub.
Vanishing Point was an album track, another one, that could have been a single, off 1989's era- defining Technique. Rich Lane's edit takes all the best bits, pumps them up and sends it off flying.
There are times when I think I never need to hear Blue Monday again. The band may feel the same. A few years ago Jack Butters, a friend of Rich Lane's, made an entirely unofficial edit that goes all thumpy and acidic, finding a new story inside the song, making it worth hearing all over again.
Excellent again.
ReplyDeletePleased to see Rich’s Vanishing Point in here and brings a swell of pride.
It isn’t an edit as such, but a cover version by Rich, recreating the sounds and the parts. It was created to announce our new party VANISHINGPOINT! of which Rich was the first guest (and dear friend) and host really alongside myself and Marc Hasler. The party named after my favourite track ever.
Went down a treat on that opening night I tell you.
Also, another heart glow moment when it was then played the following week iirc at ALFOS at Corsica.
Ah, that's the best kind of comment- back story and personal connections to the music. And ALFOS too
ReplyDeleteIt's a time and place thing, but Age of Consent is very much my all-time favourite New Order song. And I'm another who has a lot of love for each of Vanishing Point and Dreams Never End.
ReplyDeleteYet another wonderful mix.