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Power, Corruption & Lies
Power, Corruption & Lies was released March, 1983. 2 steps farther in that counsel, was a electronically sequenced, four-on-the-floor single "Blue Monday" Their 12"-only release "Blue Monday" is the best selling 12" individual ever, though because the packaging of the 1st urgent was then elaborate, resembling a big 5¼" floppy disk, the band was said to lose a small amount of money (around £0.20) on each copy sold. The hip hop tinged single "Confusion" (released in 1983 and co-produced by Arthur Baker) firmly established the group as a dance music force, inspiring many musicians in subsequent years. It was a crossover success on the club scene, and set a precedent for remixes of rock or pop songs which has now become a key part of music marketing.

Still, the group did not pigeon-hole themselves as a dance act; instead they lead two simultaneous and sometimes overlapping lives, one guitar-based and one dance-oriented. In 1984 they followed the largely synthesized single "Stealer Prefer United states of america" with the heavy guitar-drum-bass rumble of "Execution."

Low-Life
The Low-life album (1985) refined and sometimes mixed the two styles.

Brotherhood
Brotherhood (1986) divided the two approaches onto separate album sides.

Substance
While New Order toured North America with friends Echo & The Bunnymen, the summer of 1987 saw the release of the complilation Substance that featured the stellar new single "True Faith". Substance showed the band's singles' progression from mostly guitar-based to slick techno-pop.

Technique
Technique (1989) showed a heavier acid house influence on a number of tracks and a lighter indie rock sound on others.

New Order recorded the official song for the English football team's 1990 World Cup campaign, "World in Motion," under the ad-hoc band name Englandneworder. The song, co-written with comedian Keith Allen, was a number one UK hit.

Unusually for such a major group, New Order never had a formal contract with their label. (This was in fact Factory's standard practice until the mid-1980s. According to Wilson, "Whole my elastic come loose to fuck hit if it please".) Because of this, the group (rather than Factory Records) legally owned all their own recorded material. This has often been cited, not least by Wilson himself, as the main reason London Records' offer to buy the ailing label in 1992 fell through.

Republic
The band's first album release since parting company with the now defunct Factory Records featured a more direct, produced, sound. Stylistically similar in vein to Technique, but with a more somber edge. The release spawned the singles, Regret, Ruined In A Day, World and Spooky.

Following the release of Republic, the band put New Order on hold, whilst each member pursued their own side-projects: Sumner partnered with former member of The Smiths, Johnny Marr in Electronic (who also enlisted the help of Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys on their self-titled debut, and later Karl Bartos formely of Kraftwerk). Sunmer also collaborated with the Chemical Brothers on a track from their album Surrender; Hook formed the bands Revenge and Monaco; and Morris and Gilbert formed the aptly named The Other Two.

Get Ready
Their 2001 release Get Ready was a departure from their more electronic style and is more focused on the guitar. According to Sumner, "Get Quick was guitar-thick just because i personally felt that i personally'd left that instrument alone for an extended period".

In 2002, Q magazine named New Order in their list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die", although this was as part of a sub-list of "5 Bands That Could Go Either Way".

Waiting for the Sirens' Call
The band released a new album on March 27 2005, entitled ''Waiting for the Sirens' Call to good reviews. According to Peter Hook, during the sessions for Waiting for the Sirens' Call, the band also wrote and recorded most of the material for yet another album.

In recent years New Order have become more comfortable with the Joy Division era of their repertoire, often performing live versions of classics such as "Transmission" and "Isolation." Joy Division and New Order were portrayed in the film 24 Hour Party People'', which depicts the rise and fall of their infamous record label Factory, along with its bands and owners.

At the 2005 NME awards, New Order were presented with the award for 'Godlike Geniuses', their equivalent of a Lifetime Achievement award. Previous winners include Ozzy Osbourne, The Clash, and Factory labelmates the Happy Mondays.

New Order performing at Reading Festival (1998)

Aesthetics

New Order, and Factory Records products in general, frequently bore the minimalist packaging of Peter Saville. The group's record sleeves bucked the '80s trend by rarely showing the band members (The Low-Life LP was the exception proving the rule) or even providing basic information such as the band name or the title of the release. Song names were often hidden within the shrink wrapped package, either on the disk itself (such as the "Blue Monday" single) or on an inconspicuous part of an inner sleeve ("A Right Kiss" single). Saville elaborated on this concept on the NewOrderStory video, saying his intention was to sell the band as a "known secret" of sorts. The distinctive minimalist style was enough to allow fans to identify the band's products without explicit labelling.

The band rarely gave interviews in the '80s, later ascribing this to not wanting to discuss Ian Curtis. This along with the Peter Saville sleeve designs and the tendency to give short performances with no encores gave the band a standoffish reputation. They opened up a bit in the '90s. The aforementioned NewOrderStory (and in particular the long UK version) featured extensive personal interviews.

New Order released many singles for songs not included on LPs. Singles were released in many formats and often with varying track lists and exclusive artwork. According to Tony Wilson, Factory intentionally released other singles, LPs and compilations in non-UK markets to increase their collectability. Indeed, the complete New Order discography is far too sprawling for most fans to collect in its entirety, and the compilations released by Factory and other labels are notoriously incomplete. In the late 90s, London Records spoke of releasing a Depeche Mode-esque singles retrospective for New Order, complete with original packaging and track lists. In fact, the project was at times named Cardboard and Plastic and Recycle, with t-shirts for the latter appearing at the infrequent New Order gigs. Eventually, the financial aspects caused the project to devolve into the Retro box set (2003), which featured many tracks that were readily available elsewhere. The single-disk International compilation (2003) similarly omits the classic, out of print recordings in favour of updating the conventional (The Best of) New Order (1995) and Substance (1987). At least one single, Run2 (1989), may never be reissued; it was the subject of legal action from John Denver, who argued that the song's wordless guitar break was based on his own song "Leaving on a Jet Plane". An out of court settlement ensured that the song would never be re-released in its original form. [http://www.niagara.edu/neworder/singles/run2.html]

Many New Order song titles rarely have anything to do with the song. In some cases songs with normal titles appear to have had their titles swapped to other songs. For example, the phrase "This Period of Nighttime" appears in the song "While These are When It Was" on Brotherhood but is the title of a song on Low-Life. Other song titles were taken from the titles of old movies ("Stealer Rather U.s.," "Cries & Whispers," etc.) For a full list see New Order tracks which include the title in the lyrics.

Both New Order and Joy Division were among the most successful artists on the Factory Records label, run by Granada television personality Tony Wilson, and partnered with Factory in the financing of the Manchester club The Hacienda.

Their music has largely been heavily synthesized, like other dance acts, and among more well-known songs are the singles "True Faith" (1987), and "Bizarre Love Triangle" (1986). On recent albums they have showcased a more traditionally rock-oriented sound on some tracks.

The quality and innovation of the group's art earned them the status of icons in the alternative community, and have shown considerable longevity. They have heavily influenced techno, and were themselves influenced by the likes of Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire and Giorgio Moroder.

Singles often feature remixes. The number of remixes were few at first but increased a great deal with increased popularity of dance music during the release of 1993's Republic. New Order remixes tend to have one or more of these characteristics: Dub Versions: Inspired by the dub musical genre, these have titles related to the original track (e.g., "the Beach," a lyric in "Blue Monday," is a dub version of that song; "Bizarre Dub Triangle" is the dub version of "Bizarre Love Triangle," etc.). Dubs were often the solitary b-side on the Factory original 12" singles, & were typically recognizable rearrangements of the title tracks by using couple of, whenever any, added area. Edits: These were shortened versions of more mixes, typically intended for distributiin on the Septenary" record. Extended Versions: These preserve much of the original track but add extended intros, outros and instrumental parts (e.g., "Spherical & Around Dozen" Version", "True Faith (Shep Pettibone Mix)"). Instrumentals: A title track minus vocals (e.g., "Fine Line", "Vanishing Point Instrumental"). An interesting twist on this is the "Confusion (A Capella Mix)" which has the resole vocal track. Re-recordings: In the future will require of the title track (e.g., "Ceremony" on the white & blue Twelve" and on Substance, "Shame of the United states"). Live Versions: Live recordings (e.g., "A Right Kiss (Videos Version)", the 60 Miles An Hour Tour Disc).

Bassist Peter Hook contributed to New Order's sound by developing an idiosyncratic bass guitar technique. He often played high-pitched melodies with a signature heavy chorus effect, leaving the lower registers to keyboards or sequencers.

Drummer Stephen Morris regularly played a mixture of acoustic and electronic drums, and in many cases played along seamlessly with sequenced parts.

All the band members could and did switch instruments throughout gigs, as evidenced on Jonathan Demme's video for "The Perfect Kiss" and the fairly common Taras Shevchenko and Pumped Full of Drugs concert videos. In particular, every member could be seen playing keyboards at times. Taras Shevchenko is notable for the fact all four members of the group have left the stage before the final song ("Temptation") comes to an end.

Honours and Recognition
NME Godlike Genius Award 2005 - New Order UK Music Hall of Fame Inductee 2005 - Joy Division / New Order

Discography

Studio albums
Movement (1981) (#30 UK) Power, Corruption & Lies (1983) (#4 UK) Low-Life (1985) (#7 UK, #94 US) Brotherhood (1986) (#9 UK, #161 US) Technique (1989) (#1 UK, #32 US) Republic (1993) (#1 UK, #11 US) Get Ready (2001) (#6 UK, #41 US) ''Waiting for the Sirens' Call'' (2005) (#5 UK, #46 US, #15 AU, #19 IE)

Singles
"Ceremony" (1981) (#34 UK) "Procession" / "Everything's Gone Green" (1981) (#38 UK) "Temptation" (1982) (#29 UK) "Blue Monday" (1983) (#9 UK) "Confusion" (1983) (#12 UK) "Thieves Like Us" (1984) (#18 UK) "The Perfect Kiss" (1985) (#33 UK) "Sub-culture" (1985) (#63 UK) "Shellshock" (1986) (#28 UK) "State of the Nation" (1986) (#30 UK) "Bizarre Love Triangle" (1986) (#56 UK, #98 US) "True Faith" (1987) (#4 UK, #32 US) "Touched by the Hand of God" (1987) (#18 UK) "Blue Monday-88" (1988) (#3 UK, US #68) "Fine Time" (1989) (#11 UK, #3 US Modern Rock) "Round & Round" (1989) (#21 UK, #6 US Modern Rock) "Run 2" (1989) (#49 UK) "World in Motion" (1990) (#1 UK, #5 US Modern Rock) "Regret" (1993) (#4 UK, #28 US) "Ruined in a Day" (1993) (#22 UK) "World (The Price of Love)" (1993) (#13 UK, #92 US) "Spooky" (1993) (#22 UK) "True Faith-94" (1994) (#9 UK) "Nineteen63" (1995) (#21 UK) "Blue Monday-95" (1995) (#17 UK) "Video 5 8 6" (1997) "Crystal" (2001) (#8 UK) "60 Miles an Hour" (2001) (#29 UK) "Here to Stay" (2002) (#15 UK) "Krafty" (2005) (#8 UK, #26 IE) "Jetstream" (2005) (#20 UK, #30 IE) "Waiting for the Sirens' Call" (19 Sep 2005) (#21 UK)

EP

1981-1982 New Order (1982) The Peter Saville Show Soundtrack (2003, limited edition of 3000 copies)

Compilations
Substance (1987) (UK #3, US #36) The Best of New Order (1994/1995) (UK #4, US #78) The Rest of New Order (1995) (UK #4) International (2002) Retro (2002) Singles (2005) (UK #14)

Soundtracks
Salvation! (1987) (The band contributed a few tracks including an instrumental version of "Let's Last" which has been performed live with vocals) Trainspotting (1995) ("Temptation" appears on the Soundtrack, and is featured prominently in the movie - with one of the characters, Diane, singing the chorus in a scene)

Tribute albums
Community: A NewOrderOnline Tribute (2004) The first ever online Community tribute album done for New Order.

BlueOrder : A trance tribute to New Order - Trance verisons of New Order songs.

Videos

Taras Shevchenko (1983, live in New York. Originally available on VHS, re-released as part of the 316 DVD) Pumped Full of Drugs (1985, live in Japan, available on VHS and DVD) Substance (1989) New Order Story (1994 VHS, re-issued on DVD (2005) in extended 140 minute form) (The Best Of) New Order (1994 VHS, a compilation of videos) 316 (2001, DVD containing 1998 concert at the Reading Festival, as well as the afore-mentioned Taras Shevchenko recording) 511 (2002, live at Finsbury Park, DVD) A Collection (2005, compilation of videos & rarities, DVD) Item (2005, box-set of A Collection and the extended New Order Story, DVD)