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10/08/2006
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New Order
"Power, Corruption And Lies"
© Qwest Records
Year of Release: 1983
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track listing
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Age Of Consent
We All Stand
The Village
5 8 6
Blue Monday
Your Silent Face
Ultraviolence
Ecstasy
Leave Me Alone
The Beach
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New Order
"Power, Corruption And Lies"
New Order makes their official debut on the WSVNRadio website this week,
with their 1983 release, Power, Corruption And Lies. This album's
biggest hit was "Blue Monday," a song that received heavy airplay,
and was the band's breakthrough song in the mid-1980s, as many groups were
becoming popular with the New Wave/Dance and Industrial styles.
The opening track strongly resembles the early years of U2, and a song
that New Order would later record on 1985's Low-Life, "Love
Vigilanties." The next track is just ultimately weird -- "We All
Stand"; a very strange song in sound and everything in general.
"The Village" is another song that definitely is recognized as the
New Order sound, like on the opening track, and has a vrey easy dancebeat.
"5 8 6" has an unfamiliar sound in its beginning, yet it merges into
the common 1980s industrial dance sound, with the vocals comparing to another
1980s band, The Cure. All in all, it easily fits New Order's dance sound style.
"Your Silent Face" compares to
The Thompson Twins, and "Ultraviolence" has the common New Order
sound, as heard on previous songs from this release. "Ecstasy" relates
more to computerized technology, another new wave/dance sound, that compares
to the likes of many dance oriented groups, Kraftwerk, and even the prime years
of Duran Duran. "Leave Me Alone" easily should be left alone; it is
just kind of boring. The last track, "The Beach" is really "Blue
Monday" again, with a few added remix tricks, more of a remix version,
and the vocals have the use of computer technology.
Power, Corruption And Lies is a fair album. I may not be into the
whole Industrial/New Wave/Dance style contained on this album, as much as the
true fan of this music. "Blue Monday" made this album, as it was their
biggest hit. Some of the songs can be used in techno/dance styled clubs. The
"remix" "Blue Monday" would be a great song to play in such clubs. But
for the dance fan in general, this maybe more enjoyable to them, as I am pretty
much from the old school of rock n roll.
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