I thought that there was no New Order remix I couldn’t like, no mash-up I wouldn’t enjoy the clash of sounds brought to my ears.
But this? It’s too, too much. Truly Substance Abuse.
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I thought that there was no New Order remix I couldn’t like, no mash-up I wouldn’t enjoy the clash of sounds brought to my ears.
But this? It’s too, too much. Truly Substance Abuse.
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salwarpe says
To open the album with that monstrosity, when something completely sublime awaits in track 5.
fentonsteve says
DMC mixes seem to get a free pass over on the post-punk blog I frequent. Their appeal, let’s just say, passes me by.
For an hour of aural torture, I can help you with CD2 of The Rest Of New Order – a whole hour of doof-doof remixes of Blue Monday. I’ve never made it to the end.
Junior Wells says
Substance abuse. 👏👏👏
fentonsteve says
Good grief, I’ve just listened to that DMC mix. It makes Jive Bunny sound cutting-edge.
I want to wash my ears out now.
salwarpe says
It is a blot on an otherwise very enjoyable remix collection. I did catch something of interest in the reverberations between the bass notes in the John Barry Bond theme and in Blue Monday, but a test mash didn’t produce anything worth reproducing here.
pawsforthought says
Oh my god, that is hilarious. Why would you even feel the need to do that- Was it for a bet, do you think?
Martin Hairnet says
I’ve never really warmed to the New Order remixes, and I consider myself a moderate fan of their 80s/early 90s work. I still have those fancy Factory tape boxes of Lowlife and Brotherhood. Years ago they were used as frisbees at a party that got out of hand and their once pristine white cardboard covers are soiled with ancient flecks of vomit and beer. Yet the tapes inside remain unmangled. Lowlife, especially, is ace. But I’ve always found the remixes a bit biff, bang, pow! Shrill and overblown, draining the originals of their subtlety and beauty. You know that annoying brittle crashing sound that emerges from the kitchen cupboard when you try and remove a single saucepan from the back but end up disturbing all the others in an avalanche of stainless steel? That’s the sound of NO remixes to me.
salwarpe says
You make a good point, and the bacon lettuce and tomato mix up there is a good example of clattering pots and pans all over the track. But sometimes I like a rejigging of all the elements that make the original (is there just one?) such a classic.
I’ve never heard any NO versions as monstrous as the Blue Monday megamix in the OP. Confusion, for example, I think of as being expressed through all the versions on the 12″ – better than just the rather sparse original.
Martin Hairnet says
The five track 81-82 EP was an old favourite that was sadly stolen at the aforementioned frisbee party. That EP contained superb 12″ versions of Everything’s Gone Green and Temptation. But those early 12″ tracks sound like extended versions rather than remixes. The remixes of the later material, such as Bizarre Love Triangle, all seem to over-emphasize the rhythm, at the expense of the original melody, and I tend to find them a bit monotonous and wearing.
That ‘version’ of Blue Monday you posted is in a different league though. A kitchen sink abomination.
myoldman says
If I remember right the 7” and 12” of Temptation are two different mixes
fentonsteve says
Possibly, even, two different recordings. Or was that EGG?
Sewer Robot says
Ceremony is different recordings for 7” and 12”.
fentonsteve says
And there are two different recordings on two different 12″ singles (green sleeve = all-male trio, white & blue sleeve = with Gillian).
Rigid Digit says
Had to read that twice – for one moment I thought Ian Gillan had joined NO
Freddy Steady says
Mutually Assured Deconstruction!
salwarpe says
This Deep of Purple!!
moseleymoles says
Going to disagree on all remixes are bad thesis:
Bamber says
This is bad too but not nearly as bad as the original post. Still it’s hard not to like at least something from the Trevor Horn remixes the 80s album.
moseleymoles says
Another good one
fentonsteve says
This is another goody – I prefer it to the original, as did the band as they started paying it live in 1998.
Oakenfold & Osbourne’s take on True Faith:
Moose the Mooche says
I’m pleased that this has turned into a small compendium of NO remixes that are actually quite good, because I’ve always steered clear of them.
myoldman says
A bit of an obvious choice but I still love this
fentonsteve says
A later favourite, the Planet Funk remix of WFTSC