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Old 05-31-2019, 02:06 PM   #181
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Their newest album, Music Complete, has some good songs but overall is pretty sterile imo

 
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Old 05-31-2019, 03:07 PM   #182
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Their newest album, Music Complete, has some good songs but overall is pretty sterile imo
i don't get it



this is better than anything on Lost Sirens

Anyways, I bought a copy of Singles so I am looking forward to cruising with that. Its like Substance but updated and all 7" instead of 12" mixes. And it goes through Lost sirens

 
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Old 05-31-2019, 03:12 PM   #183
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yeah that song is fine and all, but like sonically the album sounds quantized, polished & processed within an inch of its life, all but draining a lot of the charm that actually drew me to N.O. in the first place. hell, i'm an Electronic fan (for the most part) so it's not like i went in immediately thinking it would suck or something because Hook wasn't there. & it doesn't suck, i just feel like most of those songs are better served live than they are on this generally lifeless sounding, plastic (yeah yeah, track title pun) thing

i'm probably being overly harsh here because i do love a couple of tracks, but yeah i dunno it just feels like there's very little of the "human-ness" here that made so much of their past work so good

 
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Old 05-31-2019, 05:01 PM   #184
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yeah that song is fine and all, but like sonically the album sounds quantized, polished & processed within an inch of its life, all but draining a lot of the charm that actually drew me to N.O. in the first place. hell, i'm an Electronic fan (for the most part) so it's not like i went in immediately thinking it would suck or something because Hook wasn't there. & it doesn't suck, i just feel like most of those songs are better served live than they are on this generally lifeless sounding, plastic (yeah yeah, track title pun) thing

i'm probably being overly harsh here because i do love a couple of tracks, but yeah i dunno it just feels like there's very little of the "human-ness" here that made so much of their past work so good
i love the first Electronic album, the rest, meh

yeah I see what you mean, i am not a big fan of the new album that much either. I think quality control went out the window after Get Ready. Sumner's voice sounds awful live now too. this being said Lost Sirens just sounds like a bunch of songs that never should have left the demo stage

 
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Old 05-31-2019, 05:50 PM   #185
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I actually like some of Twisted Tenderness (from Electronic) quite a bit

that second album sounded like they couldn't actually agree on where to go, but still has some stand-outs

 
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yeah I see what you mean, i am not a big fan of the new album that much either. I think quality control went out the window after Get Ready. Sumner's voice sounds awful live now too. this being said Lost Sirens just sounds like a bunch of songs that never should have left the demo stage
I have a soft spot for Waiting for the Sirens' Call, partly because it was the first album I ever heard from them

but having read both Hooky & Sumner's books on New Order, the difference between them recording Get Ready (the "honeymoon period") and Siren's Call seems like it was pretty night & day. Bernard apparently hired a bunch of producers for Sirens' Call so they would "argue less" or something, but ultimately it seems like their differences on touring/playing live in general played a big part on the band ultimately splitting like they did

Also according to Hooky, Stephen & Gillian weren't on Get Ready at all

 
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I have a soft spot for Waiting for the Sirens' Call, partly because it was the first album I ever heard from them

but having read both Hooky & Sumner's books on New Order, the difference between them recording Get Ready (the "honeymoon period") and Siren's Call seems like it was pretty night & day. Bernard apparently hired a bunch of producers for Sirens' Call so they would "argue less" or something, but ultimately it seems like their differences on touring/playing live in general played a big part on the band ultimately splitting like they did

Also according to Hooky, Stephen & Gillian weren't on Get Ready at all
Oh that's cool, I never read their books but am very interested in them. Stephen has his own book coming out I see. I have this DVD of them playing in 1998, the version of True Faith they play is awesome, i think it was the honeymoon b4 the honeymoon, being that they just reunited

 
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