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| | Substance | | | Music Artist : | | New Order | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Qwest / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1990-10-25 | | Discs : | | 2 | | Store Price : | | $24.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $22.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. 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
Disc 21. In a Lonely Place
2. Procession
3. Cries and Whispers
4. Hurt
5. Beach
6. Confusion [Instrumental]
7. Lonesome Tonight
8. Murder
9. Thieves Like Us [Instrumental][Mix]
10. Kiss of Death
11. Shame of the Nation
12. 1963
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Near-perfect collection of New Order's early singles
Submitted on: 2009-09-25 |
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Like Joy Division, New Order's singles as a rule didn't appear on their albums. Unlike Joy Division, New Order's singles were nearly always their best songs. All of this makes 'Substance' an essential collection for serious New Order fans, as well as being the best place to start for casual fans. 'Substance' covers that band's most consistent and creative period, beginning with the final Joy Division song 'Ceremony' and ending with 'True Faith', which would become one of their biggest hits.
The first CD consists of New Order's singles from 1981-1987, containing all of their most important songs: 'Ceremony', 'Temptation', 'Blue Monday', 'Perfect Kiss', 'Bizzare Love Triangle', 'True Faith'. Apart from new recordings of 'Temptation' and 'Confusion' (both of which are superior to the original versions), these are all the original extended 12" mixes. This does mean a couple of songs drag on a little, but the quality of the music is so high that most of the time you won't care. While every song has a clear electronic and dance/rock influence, there is still considerable diversity here: the post-punk of 'Ceremony', the vaguely hip-hop 'Confusion', the blue-eyed soul of 'Thieves Like Us', the football chant of 'Shellshock'. The only dud is the 12" mix of 'Subculture', which is a shocker, marred by annoying backup singers and unnecessary studio affects. The 7" version on 'Low Life' is vastly superior to this.
The second CD consists of all the B-sides, and as with Joy Division's 'Substance', there are some real hidden gems here. About half the tracks are take-it-or-leave-it remixes and instrumentals of the A-sides, but there are 7 original songs. Beginning with the unsettling 'In a Lonely Place', it includes 'Procession' and 'Mesh' (actually 'Cries and Whispers')from the Movement sessions, the proto-industrial 'Hurt', and a pair of decent pop/rock tracks in 'Lonesome Tonight' and '1963'. The most interesting song here is the disturbing 'Murder', a chaotic tribal song that sounds like it belongs a horror movie soundtrack.
In all, this is the best collection of New Order songs around. The 12" mixes really highlight the impact New Order's early work had on dance and electronic music, whereas most other collections present songs in the more radio-friendly 7" mixes. And given the band's singles were their best tracks, there are no weak spots or embarassing moments which plague a couple of the studio albums. This is simply a great collection of innovative dance/rock music, and arguably New Order's best ever release.
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Outstanding collection of singles from a seminal band
Submitted on: 2009-09-09 |
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Rising out of the ashes of Joy Division after Ian Curtis' suicide in 1980, New Order fashioned an amazing portfolio of music over the next few years culminating in this greatest hits retrospective in 1987. By then, New Order was a leader of the early alternative movement and an established dance club band.
Substance chronicles their early releases of songs penned while the band was still Joy Division all the way to their more mainstream success with "State of the Nation", "Bizarre Love Triangle", and "True Faith". It is an unconventional greatest hits album, featuring dance/club mixes and probably a little more material than warranted for a retrospective of their first 7 years. Still, a must have for any New Order collection and a nice complement to the later greatest hit releases - "Best of New Order" (1995), and "International" (2002), and "Singles" (2005). I'm personally a huge fan of their earlier stuff (nothing since has touched Bizarre Love Triangle and True Faith), and as such, Substance is the essential collection of New Order music. |
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New Order Substance 1987
Submitted on: 2009-09-01 |
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| I had this on vinyl and decided to get CD so I knew it would be great. |
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 Worth boycotting on principle
Submitted on: 2009-08-30 |
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New Order was a singles band who did their best work in the 12" format. However, none of Warner Brothers' six - count 'em, six - compilations contain all of those original 12" mixes. "Substance" has the most of them. But it replaces the original versions of "Temptation" and "Confusion" with re-recordings - and lops a minute or more off "The Perfect Kiss", "Sub-Culture", and "Shellshock". To remedy these defects, Warner Brothers requires you to purchase "Collector's Editions" of the three separate albums containing those songs. [If you do a web search for "sorting out the New Order compilations", you can get full details.]
Well, screw that. All of the music from the original 12" records is available for free on the Internet, if you know where to look. You can also get the original sleeve art - something else "Substance" couldn't be bothered with. |
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 Classic Alt/New Wave Rock
Submitted on: 2009-06-15 |
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| Album came in good condition (as promised). Delivery took longer than most, but within time frame given. New Order defines 80's dance music. |
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