A great leap forward from their funereal debut album, Power, Corruption & Lies cemented New Order's place as the most exciting dance-rock hybrid in music (and it didn't even include the massive "Blue Monday" single, released earlier that year). Confident and invigorating where Movement had sounded disconsolate and lost, the record simply pops with energy from the beginning "Age of Consent," an alternative pop song with only a smattering of synthesizers overlaying an assured Bernard Sumner, who took his best vocal turn yet. Unlike the hordes of synth pop acts then active, New Order experimented heavily with their synthesizers and sequencers. What's more, while most synth pop acts kept an eye on the charts when writing and recording, if New Order were looking anywhere (aside from within), it was the clubs -- "The Village" and "586" had most of the technological firepower of the mighty "Blue Monday." But whenever the electronics threatened to take over, Peter Hook's grubby basslines, Bernard Sumner's plaintive vocals, and Stephen Morris' point-perfect drum fills reintroduced the human element. Granted, they still had the will for moodiness; the second track was "We All Stand," over five minutes of dubbed-out melancholia. Aside from all the bright dance music and production on display, Power, Corruption & Lies also portrayed New Order's growing penchant for beauty: "Your Silent Face" is a sublime piece of electronic balladry.
You know the eighties weren't all bad. The start of the decade brought New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies album. Before I bought this record I was mainly listening to (very Fast Show) terrible heavy metal albums.I was living in London when it came out and bought it on cassette (which I've still got!) in a record store on Leicester Square.Banging it in my Walkman (those were the days) and li...
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When I heard the news about Anna Nicole dying, my mouth dropped.....maybe I feel like this is how I will die, just falling out one day with no notice. These are not just morbid thoughts, but it actually runs in the family, Anyways, lucky for Anna Nicole that she is famous. What about us regular folks? I heard about a friend of a friend who was my age who passed away recently. He lived alon...
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Ok, so I haven't logged in for a while, and I just noticed that MOG now sometimes posts links to YouTube videos next to songs, which is awesome. I noticed the video icon next to New Order's Age of Consent, and thought, "I didn't know this song had a video."Well it doesn't.Instead it's some kind of slide-show montage of Natalie Portman and the holy trinity of bands I find mediocre: the Strokes,...
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Here it goes, my first review on Mog! I used to do this for my school newspaper, among other places.New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies, the second album from 1983 I acquired this week, the first was Metallica's debut record Kill 'Em All via file transfer from my roomate, is an album of pleasant, pretty and danceable art pop. Synthesizers and melody are the biggest players here, but the alb...
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o.k. if mog is about letting the inner geek out, then mine is gonna shine: new order was not a good live band. backstory. living in the suburbs of new jersey in my youth i was exposed to a lot of music, other than what my parents wanted me to listen to. or maybe, what they thought i should listen to. no matter. the point is this: a friend's father came home one day in the summer of '84 ...
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Possibly my all-time favorite New order song. Is it the plucky guitar? Or the incessant high-hat? Maybe the synth strings. It always makes me feel very happy and very sad at the same time. I guess that’s what the Age of Consent represents - joy and sadness. All the possibilities are before you. The hope, the fear – of growing up and becoming an adult. Finding yourself – losing yourself. Taki
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Once again inspired by Anna, what's your favorite album cover art? One of my favorites of all time is New Order's Power, Corruption, and Lies:And the "Blue Monday" single that looked like a 5.25" floppy disk - very cool, especially to a bourgeoning geek like myself.Actually, I like most all of his cover art.I've also always liked the cover to Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's Dazzle Ships:Wha...
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i feel like slipping deep into a dream that is just floating in pools of color and calm; and music, always music.goodnight, mog.lucy.
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So I recently read on Mog that Peter Hook is making some sort of super group (I hate that term, but what can ya do). Two bass players and a singer....Not sure how I feel about it yet. They appear to have several different vocalist lined up for the record. Isn't Peter the one who wanted to stop playing with New Order...? But super groups are ok...? Well here's one of their better song in my opin...
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Here it goes, my first review on Mog! I used to do this for my school newspaper, among other places.New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies, the second album from 1983 I acquired this week, the first was Metallica's debut record Kill 'Em All via file transfer from my roomate, is an album of pleasant, pretty and danceable art pop. Synthesizers and melody are the biggest players here, but the alb...
More >
You know the eighties weren't all bad. The start of the decade brought New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies album. Before I bought this record I was mainly listening to (very Fast Show) terrible heavy metal albums.I was living in London when it came out and bought it on cassette (which I've still got!) in a record store on Leicester Square.Banging it in my Walkman (those were the days) and li...
More >
o.k. if mog is about letting the inner geek out, then mine is gonna shine: new order was not a good live band. backstory. living in the suburbs of new jersey in my youth i was exposed to a lot of music, other than what my parents wanted me to listen to. or maybe, what they thought i should listen to. no matter. the point is this: a friend's father came home one day in the summer of '84 ...
More >
When I heard the news about Anna Nicole dying, my mouth dropped.....maybe I feel like this is how I will die, just falling out one day with no notice. These are not just morbid thoughts, but it actually runs in the family, Anyways, lucky for Anna Nicole that she is famous. What about us regular folks? I heard about a friend of a friend who was my age who passed away recently. He lived alon...
More >
Possibly my all-time favorite New order song. Is it the plucky guitar? Or the incessant high-hat? Maybe the synth strings. It always makes me feel very happy and very sad at the same time. I guess that’s what the Age of Consent represents - joy and sadness. All the possibilities are before you. The hope, the fear – of growing up and becoming an adult. Finding yourself – losing yourself. Taki
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Anthony "Tony" WilsonBorn 10 February 1950Salford, Lancashire, EnglandDied 10 August 2007 (aged 57)Christie Hospital, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
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Ok, so I haven't logged in for a while, and I just noticed that MOG now sometimes posts links to YouTube videos next to songs, which is awesome. I noticed the video icon next to New Order's Age of Consent, and thought, "I didn't know this song had a video."Well it doesn't.Instead it's some kind of slide-show montage of Natalie Portman and the holy trinity of bands I find mediocre: the Strokes,...
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I have been rating the songs in my music library for about two months and have just completed 20%. This looks like going on for another eight months then!Anyway, slipping the data from iTunes in to an Excel spreadsheet I can produce the following Top Tens with average song ratings (from 1 to 5 stars):Artists1. Joy Division 3.932. Thom Yorke 3.803. Peter, Bjorn And John 3.673. Simple Kid 3.673....
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Original article from MMN partner A Future in Noise READABLE HERE---In the present day, what kind of relationship do art and music have with each other? Does each field have the kinship with the other as they have in the past? Let's go back for a moment. There are a number of known musicians who attended art school; John Lennon (The Beatles), Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno (Roxy Music), Ray Davies ...
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| 1 Age of Consent |
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| 2 We All Stand |
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| 3 The Village |
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| 4 586 |
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| 5 Blue Monday |
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| 6 Your Silent Face |
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| 7 Ultraviolence |
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| 8 Ecstasy |
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| 9 Leave Me Alone |
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| 10 The Beach |
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