Technique

Mostly bland. didn’t mind brain dead activities to this album.

Mmm, básico básico, no ofrece más.

Department store music, really generic and repetitive. Hate the vocals. Each track is 2+ minutes longer than it needs to be as well.

Irgendwie keinen Zugang gefunden. Und erinnert, dass ich ihn noch nie hatte.

I was expecting better with it being Joy Division but it's just average.

This album doesn’t know what it wants to be. The acid house is interesting, The Cure clone is boring. Overall, not cohesive and wouldn’t listen again.

Very boring to me idk

This album just feels so soulless to me </3 dunno

Some music can reach across time and space to meet you where you are and speak to what’s inside of you. Some music has to be listened to while driving your convertible through Miami in 1989 just after a break up while on a lot of cocaine.

I really wanted to enjoy this record. I love dark, gothy synthwave stuff. I just can’t get over the feeling that in a perfect world Ian Curtis would still be making music and New Order would not exist. There’s just something about this record that feels forced and inauthentic. It’s technically fine, but “technically” is the refuge of nerds and perverts. The vibes are off on this one and I found it unenviable overall.

I've heard better vaporwave This album's like masturbating to Vaporeon. I don't like it myself, but I kinda understand why some people are into it

I appreciate the heavy synth lines and drum machines, but it gets really old really fast.

Violater this ain't. Some 80s synths have aged well. Not these though.

mid as fuck

This list has made one thing crystal clear for me - new wave, post punk, electronica is not for me. 80s tend to get a bad wrap too and so I don’t have such high hopes for this one 🫣 Yeh, as expected. It’s just so flat, unappealing and sickly. Kinda corny and shiny in a tacky, cheap way. Urgh, I’m so sick of this sound and especially on this list. Ready to finish it already. Feels so u skilled and bland (2.5)

Had higher expectations because I knew their other songs. Not a bad album though

Benign but forgettable electronic music

Not a super consequential album for me. It was interesting enough but trying to do too much. I'm glad I got to learn more about the band however. I'll be checking out more of their albums.

Nope.

Don't like all rhe synth pop touches. 2.5 stars

I like earlier New Order more, before this Ibiza acid house side trip. Not sure this album deserves to be on the list when there are more deserving albums by this group. 2⭐️

I see why it made the list because just as annoying as so many other albums on the list.

Longing for the old order.

Pretty boring

super heavy overly synth tracks. with irritating vocals. every last one on this album

++: Love Less, Run +: Fine Time, Round & Round +-: Guilty Partner, Mr. Disco, Vanishing Point, Dream Attack -: All the Way 4,0/10

Not rememberable at all

Great for what it is. Perfectly good pop music. I didn’t find it particularly interesting though, personally.

I think I’m realising New Order were a great singles band None of the singles I love are on this album

I don't love the vocal delivery or the production. I do love the cover art. I think New Order are probably great but just not to my taste. If it's not Blue Monday or World In Motion, I'll pass, thanks.

Weird rock/punk techno. Singer is monotone. Noah would love… jasmine hates, would rather listen to Casper baby pants.

It was ok. I didn’t know any songs on this. I do know and like some New Order songs. It was a little too 80’s for me though.

I noticed I was enjoying the music was playing when something else had started and I think that sort of tells me everything I need to know,.

Not my thing even if it's not entirely unpleasant.

Nothing wrong with it musically but just doesn’t grab my attention.

Not the worst album from the 80s. Still not my favorite decade

Nothing more than background noise. Not a fan but not terrible.

Meh and middling New Wave. Some interesting innovative synthesizer use but otherwise blah.

Das fünfte Studioalbum der englischen Band New Order wurde 1988 auf Ibiza (Mediterranean Studios) begonnen und in den Real World Studios bei Box (England) fertiggestellt. Es verbindet elektronische Club-Ästhetik mit dem bandtypischen Gitarren- und Bassfundament. Genre: Alternative Dance / Synth-Pop mit Balearic- und Acid-House-Einflüssen. Besonders bekannte, stilprägenden Titel: „Fine Time“, „Round & Round“, „Run“. Aufnahmeorte: Mediterranean Studios (Ibiza), Real World Studios (Box, England). Kurzbewertung: homogenes, tanzorientiertes Album, das die Band souverän in den Clubkontext überführt; leichte Abstriche für Hörer, die stärkere Rock-Dramaturgie erwarten.

Really didn't like the first song, and was concerned the rest of the album would be the same. Next few songs were better. Mostly it was just bland 80s music to play in the background.

Do I only like Blue Monday by New Order? Very possibly.

Better than what I expected.

Its okay. Not anything that I love, but its got 80's funk oozing all over it. 2/5.

Britpop. Grew on me after a few listens but more like background music

It's not offensive, but it is just another British 80's synth-pop act that sounds like every other one. Not really my jam.

Očekivala sam više od ovog albuma, znala sam neke stvari i to bi u teoriji trebao biti skroz moj djir, ali mi jednostavno ne zvuči dobro, previše je sirovo i loše smiksano. 2/5, 3/10

Technique sounds like a party held in the ruins of something beautiful. Without Ian Curtis’s haunted gravity, the band trades darkness for gloss, grief for glitter. The album glitters, yes, but like sunlight on broken glass. It’s the sound of a band living again, even if the joy sometimes feels borrowed. Then there’s “Round & Round” which is the album’s quiet revelation and best song. Its euphoria doesn’t come from volume or grandeur, but from precision: every note placed just so, each rhythm pulsing with contained light. In those few minutes, New Order distills a song that is ostensibly about a toxic relationship but it dances at the edge of absence. Everything else on the album pales in comparison.

Very techy

Not for me

Like 2 quite good completely different albums squished together

Did not dig this at all, very dated - cool cover though

Most of this album isn't quite as bad as the first track, but it's also not very compelling or interesting. Just bloops and synths

Ugh it’s fine. His voice gets really obnoxious as the album goes on. The Casio sounds are really dated, too.

Was disappointed in this album - there are much better New Order albums. Pass

Meh

Thought I would like this way more than i did. Added too young to my playlist. I will see if it grows on me a bit more.

Cant say i lostemed to yhis very hard. Was too busy running around to pay attention. Its New Order. A bit more eefined than earlier in the 80’s. Bice enough album. Not likely on high rotation for mw bit reminder of the late 80’s sound.

Just okay

2.5/5

Boring. 3/10

I really like a bit of dancey poppy rock music but this is depressing and dreary :(

Not my thing at all. 1.5 stars. Will round to 2.

Legit never heard of this band or (so I thought) never heard a single song by them, but it turns out they have one song that went viral on TikTok/IG (Blue Monday) so I’ve heard that one. This album feels very quintessential 80s dance but IMO pales in comparison to other similar artists of the era. Regardless, it’s always interesting to listen to something brand new to you that isn’t remotely brand new but once was good for me!

This album was not my fave. It's not bad music, but I think I just don't like whatever genre this is. Every song sounds essentially the same. I kinda just felt like I was being Rick Rolled. Lol. Still objectively fine so 5/10.

Wasn’t a huge fan of this one. Very typical sound for the decade imo.

Very 80s. Not very me.

Not my thing

1 stern

Not my thing :(

very dated sounding, dont really like the songwriting

So electro 80s.....

Just not a fan of dance music. Couldn't really get into it

Peter Hook once said that The Walk by The Cure bore more than a passing resemblance to Blue Monday. The implication was that imitation might have been the sincerest form of flattery, but flattery doesn’t pay publishing royalties. Amusingly, Hook had less to say about the fact that All the Way sounds quite a bit like Just Like Heaven, which came out two years earlier. “A chance to steal one back,” he said—wryly, one assumes, though with Hook, it’s hard to tell where the mischief ends and the grievance begins. He may even have been referring, with gallows humour, to the passing resemblance between Dreams Never End and Inbetween Days. This sort of borrowing doesn’t bother me much. If it did, you have to scrub Elastica. But it does make the comparison between New Order and The Cure a little easier to draw. And here’s the thing. when New Order sound like The Cure, they sound like a very particular version of The Cure: the hits. The radio edits. The songs people dance to at weddings. When The Cure sound like New Order (because it does go the other way), they sound like the whole discography. Joy Division included. That sense of brooding underworld atmosphere and emotional churn, that was Robert Smith just as much as synthpop bangers. What New Order achieved with two bands - Joy Division and themselves - Smith managed with one. And for longer. And with far greater consistency. And without descending into legal wranglings, betrayal memoirs, or Punch & Judy feuds conducted via NME headlines. Hook, for his part, remains the obvious star of New Order. His basslines have swagger, and you get the feeling he knows it. Sumner’s vocals, on the other hand, always sound slightly startled to find themselves in front of a microphone. Smith, by contrast, sings like someone perpetually on the brink of an epiphany or a breakdown. Or both. It may be crass to drag Joy Division into the conversation, but how can you not? Ian Curtis didn’t just leave a gap, he left an outline. Everything they made after him felt shaped by that absence. It’s not just that they lost a frontman. They lost the sense of having a single, obsessive centre. In his place, they had a collective. And the result is music that’s brash in tone, sometimes, but cautious underneath. Nobody quite takes the lead, everything is pushed in the mix. In fact, their most iconic musical moment, on Blue Monday, was generated by a stuttering drum machine, neither human nor intentional. To me, they never sound cool or confident. It's no surprise that their World Cup song didn't inspire England to victory. New Order are always, to borrow a phrase from Sumner’s side project, getting away with it. And sometimes they do, handsomely. But not on Technique. That record - something of a darling still — leans heavily into acid house and Balearic beats. Dated now, but, even then, the thirty year olds of New Order must have appeared like they were chasing the latest thing. They may have owned a nightclub by then, but they dressed like they were standing outside with no chance of getting in. The production is polished but bloodless, the vocals as wispy. The singles are pale imitations of what they did before. Notice Robert Smith never stole anything from Technique. And then you think about Disintegration. Same year. Not my favourite Cure album, not even close. But it holds together in a way Technique never does. Every track belongs. The whole thing feels like it’s been dreamt by one person and set down before it faded, although it was as much of a group effort as anything by New Order - it was just a group that bought into the leader's vision. New Order never managed this. They offered flashes, fragments, stumbling innovations. They were a brilliant accident that never learned to be anything else. 2 I must admit to never having listened to a New Order album before. All I have in the house is the compilation Substance which has on it Blue Monday, Bizarre Love Triangle and True Faith (or ‘The Bounce Bounce Song‘ as I regularly referred to it when I was 5). That has done me rightly for New Order to date and although Technique certainly isn’t bad it hasn’t left me feeling like I’ve been missing out. This is a solid album of workmanlike songwriting, slick production and decent detail in the music. The dancey tracks (Fine Time, Round and Round, Mr Disco) may well be the most memorable parts of this album but they are quite possibly also its weakest parts; dated keyboard sounds, dated beats and a overwhelming stench of cheap gimmick. Much of the rest had me absolutely itching to put on Cure albums. The Cure do it better. Better singer, better lyrics, better bass player, better guitar riffs. Not that it’s a competition but very early on in the album I feel like New Order started selling tickets. The intro to All the Way felt like smack talk to me. 2.5/5

As a devoted The Smiths fan, I am often told I should give New Order a chance, along with bands like Coldplay and Siouxsie and the Banshees: (1) Coldplay's music is dreadful. The best thing Christ Martin did was expose that company CEO. (2) I haven't heard much Siouxsie but her collaboration with Morrissey on "Interlude" is probably the most beautiful thing I ever heard in musical history. I thought I'd finally check New Order recently because I might appreciate their sound. I couldn't have been more wrong. Never compare cheap electronica to The Smiths again. Jesus Christ!

I listened to this record first thing in the morning while driving to go mountain biking and it really didn't do anything for me. I mostly just felt like they were trying to be The Cure but couldn't pull it off. The acid house music vibes did not really work with the vocals at all. Honestly I just did not care for this at all.

80‘s synthpop, fängt sehr tanzbar an. Dann eher poppig weiter, bisschen langweilige schrummelgitarre dabei. Später kommen noch ein bisschen the cure vibes dazu. Aber leider nicht ganz so spannend.

Electro pop,nothing too notable

Liker veldig godt vokalen. Noen av låtene som er minst techno fungerer greit. De fleste låtene har lyder som var tacky alt på 80-tallet, og tar du bort vokalen står du igjen med dårlig italiensk disco uten de melodiøse refrengene.

New Order is so much cooler in my memory than they are on this album. Low energy dance music, very repetitive. It has their trademark drum machine sound, but this isn’t their best and I don’t feel it made my life better having listened to it.

Right artist, wrong album.

Another New Wave forgettable. Hard to believe this band arose out the ashes of Joy Division.

Trippy cover. Not sure I love it but it's cooool. Fine Time: Synth and drums and lasers, like I'm in a nightclub! All the Way: VERY The Cure. I almost expected a "Show me, show me, show me..." idc abt these songs Guilty partner: I dont like his british voice. Mr Disco is kinda fun.! im liking it probably best song on the record tbh Vanishing POint is cool... I like the dancy smooth music its real nice idk it's fine like a 2.8

Don't like it

Ok

Kind of a weird album... the opening track made me think "oh boy, this is going to suck." Thought we were in store for some 80's pop album with way too much synth, leather pants, and hair spray. But then that opener was followed up with All the Way, which I loved and is reminiscent of some of The Smiths' best songs and also Age of Consent, which is my favorite New Order song. All in all, the album feels a bit disjointed. Post-punk alt rock songs are interrupted by weird 80's synth pop. When the album is not jumping between genres, it flows. But these stretches are short-lived. All around, not incredibly memorable. Wish the band had committed to a style here.

Do less.

Got kind of tedious after a time.

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ja toinen pettymysalbumi peräjälkeen yleisesti hyvältä bändiltä. new order.. same as the old boss.. tässä on niin vähän nannaa verrattuna aikaisempiin (mitä olen kuullut ei ei bändin kronologinen tuotanto oeuvre heh) hei me löydettiin meidän soundi nyt tehdään pelkästään sitä.. no inspiration.. no passion.. kävelee jalkaa toiseen ei mitään halua käyttää energiaa pysähtymiseen ja suunnanvaihtoon.. suoraan vaan suoraan vaan antaa inertian viedä eteen ja eteen tyhjään ja tummaan.. näkymättömään ja koskemattomaan... älä edes katso sivulle... kaks kautta perkuleen viisi ei siinä muuta. dream attack

I will admit I was not in the mood for this style of music today and did not give this the time of day. My instinct is a 1, but for benefit of the doubt it gets a 2 and an "I should revisit this"

Some old 80’s punk rock. I remember the band, but only recognized one song.

Fine Time - Based on the first minute, I can't say I'm gonna vibe with this. But I do like how wild it is. The vocals just aren't my thing. 100% get the appeal of this sound though. It just sounds kinda disjointed, which isn't a bad thing, but it isn't that appealing to me. All the Way - Really like the start of this one, I like the guitar. Already liking the vocals a lot more too. I don't mind this track at all, I dig the melody of the guitars and synths. Not something I'm itching to listen to again though Love Less - Keeping up with a similar sound from the previous track, don't mind it, but the vocals on this one seem a bit flat and one note. Not vibing too much. Just a bit too boring for me. Round & Round - Holyyyyy what a shift sonically haha. Kinda sick at the start, let's see how it progresses. I kinda wish the vocals would match the energy of the instrumental. Then i think I'd enjoy it a lot more. I could see myself vibing with this out on the dance floor though Guilty Partner - I just can't see myself enjoying many of the melodies from this album, which is a big thing for me. Especially on first listens. They all just are a bit boring to me. Nothing really stands out. The vocal performance again is just kinda one note and standard, and not completely my vibe. The instrumentals are also just kinda meh on this one. Run - At this point in the album, it's just blending together. I just don't dig this sound. I kinda like the guitars, but the vocals are just not for me. I like the electric guitar coming in around 0:40 though. Mr Disco - I like the spacey instrumental. The synth melodies are cool. Vocals stink as usual (sorry). Kinda just waiting for tracks to end. So far this might be my favorite song though Vanishing Point - I'm liking the start, like the deep synth. Andddd then the vocals come in... Just not for me Dream Attack - Interesting start to this one, not too similar to anything I've heard yet. But now it's just kinda more of the same. Not my vibe. Although I do quite like the ending of this song. Cool melody with the guitar/synths or whatever Overall - Just not my vibe, the vocals are the big killer. I think if those were a bit more energetic, i could vibe with it more.

Maybe it was because I wasn’t in a dark and sweaty dance club, or maybe it was because I wasn’t in an altered state of mind or maybe it was a once prominent band just going through the motions on the back side of their career, whatever it was it made for a less than exciting album.

Probably my least favorite so far. Not much of a melody. Mostly mellow, but not much else to it.

It’s fine for what it is, not really my favorite genre, but it’s interesting sonically. Decent work music, not too distracting.

Um, not really ever been a New Order fan and this album didn’t change my mind.

Oh dear... The opening track of this album, 'Fine Time', is probably the most appaling sonic attack I have had to endure during my first 35 albums. What on earth is that? I've got a couple of New Order albums and of course all Joy Division albums, that's nothing like this. It's a really weird album. In fact, it seems to consist of two albums of two different bands mixed randomly together. One band makes uninteresting electronic kind of danceable music, the other one is the New Order I know - though not necessarily in top form - making almost straight ahead pop music with the well known great bass lines played by Peter Hook. The only track where these two bands sort of meet is the closing track 'Dream attack' - and that's by far the most listenable track of the album. Experiment failed...

I wasn't really into this. Even when New Order is more post-punk they don't do a whole lot for me, but this album was more of a dance album and just wasn't for me. 2.4/5

I guess this album came at the wrong time... Was excited for SOMETHING different that was hinted at in the first song of the album, only for it to go back into the same 80's pop-punk uninspiring cliché lyrics mush you've heard a million times with different vocalists. Idk... I'm tired of listening to this stuff. Maybe it doesn't deserve 2 stars but I'm gonna give it 2 as an outlet for my frustration

I like some of their early work, but this album is horrid. It's like eating a breakfast of soggy toast and lukewarm tea, it's just bland and joyless.

Never understood the hype or love these guys get. I don't get it. It doesn't do anything for me.

yep that's depeche mo-- i mean new order

Tällä levyllä bändi tyytyy tekemään omannäköistään musiikkia, mikä ei synnytä uusia hittejä. Paras biisi, Round & Round, kärsii yliampuvasta kikkailusta ja tutun kuuloisesta kertosäemelodiasta. Kuuntelisin uudelleen vain valikoidusti. 2,5

I am now thinking the generator hates me. Why else is it giving me the band behind Blue Monday, the most soulless song ever! I didn't dislike this as much I thought I would but, even though I love electronic music, this is too dancey for me

Not a bad album by any means, but this comes at the tail end of this type of music so not influential. Seems like another nod to British new wave by this group and author

Boring aye...

As quoted and summarized perfectly by another user: I hate half-assed records like this, where a band will experiment with one sound, but keep the other foot in comfortable territory. If you want to make an acid house record, make an acid house record. If you want to make a maudlin, Cure-like record, make one. Don’t sandwich the two together without regard for consistency. Nobody wants a record where four songs sound like one band and five songs sound like another. It’s timid. If you go for it, go all in. I’d rather see a band take a risk and fail than take half a risk and convince themselves they’ve succeeded.

It takes a lot for me to enjoy 80s cheese-synth and this album is a lot, but that’s not what I mean by “a lot”… the opening track is the epitome of this. There are some tracks here that aren’t obnoxious in that way, but are still very Manchester-in-the-80s and I just don’t care for it.

ну не то

Музыка для машины

Nothing about this interested me, musically or lyrically. Just nothing. The songs are poorly constructed and uninteresting. Didn’t hate it as much feel complete apathy toward it, though the more I listen the less I like it. I do like the sound on “Dream Attack” so it’s not all bad.

not 4 me

2.1

I liked it but then I think I had a headache and it didn't work for my headache...lol

New Order have some really good albums. This isn't one of them. Power, Corruption and Lies is great. Brotherhood too. Get Ready was a welcome return, and Waiting for the Siren's cool a terrible let down. Technique - it's just as my kids would say - mid. All the way is a rip off of Just Like Heaven by The Cure. Feels like the band just phoned this one in.

I want to like New Order but this record didn't help the cause. I found it a little boring.

Pretty interesting, couple of good songs. Didn’t like it that much

Whow. I guess it was modern back then. But what does it have to offer today? 2,3

Didn't like it. But a few songs, which were ok (Run and Dream Attack).

2/5

Poor showing from a band so utterly non plussed at this point

This has to have one of my least favorite opening tracks. It's just an ugly synthetic mess of a song to me, and it doesnt sound like the rest of the album and only left me with a sour taste for what was a pretty solid album otherwise. Round & Round is pretty nice, though I also don't love the opener there. Once it gets rolling, though, it's pretty good. My favorite is probably Vanishing Point, this song has some beautiful moments in it. Overall, this album is kind of a culmination of the 80s worst habbits all collected, and it's not my favorite.

1.89

Listenable but not great.

New Order - as ever, providing some nursery rhyme melodies over techno beats, and then adding a splash of melancholy. Doubtless a groundbreaking record of its time, especially for the use of drum machines and sequencers, but the highlights were those little bittersweet melodies, hinting at regret.

not my cup of tea

2/5

I gotta stop reading other people's reviews. Good record, though not really my thing.

wouldve really liked this in 2012.

Not unpleasant but not outstanding and not sure why this is among the albums everyone must hear before they die.

Didn't like it. One song is heavy on the synths and more experimental then the next has a more traditional sound and so on. Felt like a weird mix

Matig album, niet echt mijn muzieksmaak Zeurende stem 2.4

It was ok. Nothing else to say.

Sin más; música electrónica muy lejos de Joy Division.

Ehhhhhhhhh just not my style even though I feel like I enjoy some “progressive rock”

Not the strongest New Order album. And unless the stronger ones make an appearance on this list, Technique has no real right to be here

I get it, this is the coolest darkest synth band of the 80's after reinventing itself from being the coolest darkest guitar band from the 70's. I should love New Order since I was so keen on Joy Division, but it always bothered me that their essential sensibility inflected from punk to something corporate - not suggesting that they sold out with a big record deal, but they felt so contrived. To be honest, what really bugs me about NO is I can't stand Bernard Sumner as a vocalist with his faltering, tin-ear amateurism, which just doesn't match the compositions. As a matter of fact, I conversely get irritated by Depeche Mode since David Gahan's vocals are just too pristine and refined for their attempted dark and biting vibe. Here's a theory. Let's have the two bands switch vocals and we may finally get the balance right.

New Order has always been a guilty pleasure. A lot of history with this band and its former incarnation. It is hard to beat Substance, but this is decent album.

I don't really know how I feel about this album. On one hand, there were parts that made me vibe, on the other hand, I don't think anything particularly stood out and it all sort of blended together. Realistically I don't see myself ever coming back to any of these songs. 2/5

I've definitely heard most of this before in the pre-recorded tunes in my parents old Yamaha keyboard - I can't say I hate it, it's just generic 80s synth pop

"Love Less" is a near-perfect song. It's a shame the rest of the album didn't get anywhere near the heights of that song.

Some of it I liked, but I think of all the genres that Henry, techno ages the worst. And the techno on this album is just a miss for me.

Not exciting. Grand for listening to in the background.

I expected better from New Order. Especially with singles like "Blue Monday" and "True Faith". At least this album sounds good. "Run" and "Vanishing Point" are great in my opinion. Speaking of "True Faith", how come "Substance" didn't make it on the list? 2 stars for "Technique".

My first reaction to this album was a surprise that it has already finished and I haven't even noticed. This album is as bland as it gets. And it gets pretty bland, believe me.

I consider myself of a fan of New Order, but I really enjoy their alternative/punk sound to this dance/electronica sound. Think the guy has a great voice for the band, but I didn't get a lot from this album. The beginning of All The Way made me think of Just Like Heaven and that was really was biggest take from this album. Nothing terrible, just wasn't a fan of this album. 2.5

The plasticky sound of synths and repetitive loops really got to me by the end of this album, eliciting the same dreariness I get from listening to The Smiths and dragging it down to a low 2.

If you had asked me yesterday in a list of '80s since we've been if I liked New order I would have emphatically said sure! After listening to this album, I've just got to say that I don't like it. Part of it is that it is just a rudimentary area where people were focused on forcing in new technology that maybe wasn't quite ready for prime time. Part of it is that it is self-centered and kind of weenyish. I just didn't care for it. I'm not going to say it's bad.

Not bad but I wasn't overly impressed. The techno, dance vibe is good and I was bopping my head to it

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No thank you. It's probably fine for what it is, but it's not for me. 1.9

Sounds like the other New Order albums post-PC+L. Pleasant enough, but I do find the inane lyrics a bit tedious after a while. Some nice bass playing, but that again is par for the course with NO.

Yawn, sounds very similar throughout, nothing catching my ear here.

If you've heard any new wave then you don't really need to listen to this, just kind of a baloney sandwich of 80's music

I liked "guilty partner" and "love less" but everything else just sounded generically EIGHTIES

No good

Første nummer har lyden af dårlig tysk porno fra 90erne. Resten var ok. Hørte albummet 2 gange for at sikre mig at jeg ikke missede noget.. Og nej, det er et helt ligegyldigt album husker intet fra det dagen efter.

Poo Order

Very 80s

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

forgettable

non male ma a me questo sound non fa impazzire

Damn, this is the 8th album (of 11) from 1989-2000 I’ve been given. Something from a different time period would be nice next… It wasn’t bad but I didn’t particular enjoy a lot of it. I felt that none of the songs were all that memorable and that it sounded mostly the same. I’ll maybe give it a listen in the future. 4.5/10

# 294 : I can listen to it but it's not real good. Nothing stood out and I wouldn't go back to this. Easily forgettable.

Was hoping to find some lost gems or nostalgic treats, but it mostly sounded dated and a bit boring.

I truly love most 80s electronica, but, for some reason, I've always been lacking the New Order gene. I actually hate Peter Hook's plinky plonky high notes/ melodies on the bass guitar (it's a BASS). I can't engage with Bernard Sumner's understated vocal style. And there are, generally, too many major chords. I find New Order really bland, with the exception of Blue Monday. Despite all that, I went in with an open heart, as I couldn't remember what they sounded like by this late stage and was hopeful. But I haven't changed my mind. If I had to listen to any of this again, it would be the purely synth, dance breaks (ie where I can't hear Peter Hook). I always liked Blue Monday and disliked everything else. Apparently, my taste hasn't changed. Go and plinky plonk somewhere else, Hooky.

Achei um álbum bem perdido. Ele fica intercalando músicas formadas com sons super fritos de sintetizadores, com outras com instrumental naipe The Smiths, sem qualquer coesão ou sem conseguir misturar isso bem. Tem momentos que comecei a entrar na brisa do álbum que foram rapidamente quebrados com essa troca brusca.

Nah

I just don’t have a ton of patience for vibe based boring songwriting music. There were some cool songs though

Not much to say. Kinda boring. Bloated songs. But some cool stuff and cool production no question.

It's just the same dumb song over and over again and the same dumb song that they already released on their other albums.

I liked some parts and disliked some other parts.

I find myself getting upset when the hits I like from people on this list aren’t on the albums :/

Nothing special here.

Pretty poor offering. The first track sounds like a Happy Mondays tribute band, then it descends into gloomy synth-driven pop with little substance. I quite enjoyed the earlier New Order albums, but this just seems derivative and directionless drivel. 2 stars.

honestly kind of dull as you get further into the album

Best Song: Fine Time. This one is enjoyable as a sort of parody of how awful 80s pop music is. Worst Song: Dream Attack. I really hate that classic 80s guy "talk-singing". I don't think it's ever sounded good. Overall: The whole thing is just a blended slurry of dated samples and 80s dance vocals. Nothing altogether original or interesting.

It feels mean to mark a band down because the lead singer can't carry a tune, when I'm such a fan of Belle and Sebastian, but here we are

Exploring music over the year so far has been both fun and informative. Example: At the start of the year I would have never guessed I was into metal. Another example: At the start of the year I didn't know how much didn't care about disco. Favourite track: Love Less.

When All The Way started I thought it was going to be a cover of Cure's Just Like Heaven.

It’s not my favourite technique

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. Honestly, it's just a bit boring. I know New Order are supposed to be the New Wave gods that ushered in blah blah blah, but it just sounds really paint-by-numbers synth pop. Considering this album came out the same year as Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails, I just think it sounds safe and uninteresting. It gives me no pleasure to give this 2 stars, and I would potentially give it 2.5 if I could, but here we are.

Oh look, another 80’s British band. Great. I had low expectations for this album. I’m becoming jaded to the fact that there are so many albums from the same era, and so many from British bands, that I just really didn’t care about this one going in. It did surprise me; it wasn’t really bad at all. But I still wasn’t crazy about it. The use of synths and drum machines was honestly over the top. And I get it - it’s the 80’s. But still. It felt like what someone might create today if they were asked to replicate that “80’s sound” in a new song. Like a stereotype. This was fine if not a little overdone. 2.5 stars rounded to 2 because I’m bored of this genre. Standout tracks: All the Way, Round and Round, Mr. Disco

I think I've decided (as has most of my listening group) that we're just not into this blippy late-era new wave. There are some good tracks on here - Track 2 All The Way was pretty great! But that came after being subjected to the bizarre opener. One in my listening group quipped: "I am very glad that grunge existed. British techno Pop should never have made it as far as it did."

Dadadada dnsk

Just super generic music that blends into the background as your mind wanders to other things. No interest in it.

Non mi piace il genere 2

This kind of 80s electro synth pop has never really done it for me. I assume you have to have been there at raves off your tits to enjoy it. This album specifically does nothing for me, it's just meh music.

nothing special here

It just didn’t hit really

Didn't like it, honestly, but also didn't totally hate it.

Nope, catchy, electro-pop tunes, but not unless I’m forced to listen. Change the channel.

This didn't do too much for me. This sounded like someone wanted to make a Cure album but wasn't sure how to do it. All The Way in fact sounds like the poor man's Just Like Heaven, immediately from the opening bass riff to the choice of melody and synths. It tries real hard but doesn't ever get there. It was an ok listen, but I don't think I'll be listening on purpose again.

Insipid, repetitive, muzak - never caught my attention on a single track.

Nope.. I think they experimented with a new sound on this album and it didn’t work. The electronic beats are terrible. Some parts were okay but mostly garbage.

No major bangers, it's a New Order album for sure.

Inoffensive and forgettable

I forgot I was listening to this one. Totally invisible in the background for me.

Nah

First song is like a gay bar in your ears. Also kinda pedophilish

A far cry from the brilliant Low Life. The songs lack the mystery, emotion and sparseness that made previous albums so memorable. Here they are in territory that The Cure had a better handle on in 1989

This was a fun listen but it didn't really grab me.

These songs are heavy on the synth effects. Some of these songs sound like the soundtrack to some random platformer video games for the PS1. Then we get into that 80's dark electronic sound like Depeche Mode that I don't care for at all. High 2!

#130. Nothing about this album really does anything for me. I feel like some bands get to a point where they just put out albums because they think it's expected of them because musician is their job title, and not for the actual art of it. And that's what this album sounds like. Just kinda half assed. 2/5: meh

About what I would expect from a band called new order. Incredibly 80s, but at least easy to tune out.

Just feels kind of pointless. Like it’s fine if you want to dance to it, but it’s not great to just listen to. Lyrics don’t grab me. I sometimes wonder if I’m harsh on New Order for not being more Joy Division, but I keep trying and nothing but the occasional song grabs me.

Bearable but nothing memorable. Cool album cover.

ew

Mostly boring, but generally not obnoxious.

Not bad and a few strong songs that don't sound like typical New Order

Nothing bad on the ears, pretty boring

Nothing special. Generic sound of that era. Not sure why it’s on the list.

For some reason, the songs just sound bitter in a mean way. And the mix of synthpop with straight-up dance music is a bit jarring.

Not their finest moment

nah

nervig

80s meme pop

Weird late-80s techno-rock where I don't know any of the songs. This was a bit strange. Too much of the same for 48 minutes. I prefer their earlier work.

Vanishing Point

Fine. 80s but moving into 90s rock sounds.

Not their best work. No standouts from the album.

I was hoping today would be the day I finally got into New Order. It was not.

An ok album that for the time it came out, would have been a bit out there, if you weren't in the party scene. You can definitely feel the Ibiza vibes from where they recorded it. Best: Vanishing Point Worst: Guilty Partner

def not my bag, repetitive song structures and off-key singing

2.5

Short and ….sort of ok. Not my kind of music.

p609. 1989. 1.5 stars. Tedious electro disco, with no memorable tunes. WTF is this doing on this list?

verry new wave

The order of the day is a mellow, wisful and not entirely unpleasant 9 course meal. Synths for appetizers, synths for the entree, and for desert, you guessed it.. more synths. Two menus out of five. 📖📖

This was a strange one. Half the record was new wave/post punk style and half was a sort of hybrid between that and acid house. While that does make it interesting, it also makes the record sound pretty dated. It wasn’t great honestly. However, if I did a line or two of coke I can’t say I wouldn’t be dancing to it.

New Order are a bit too much like The Cure ... or maybe The Cure are a bit too much like New Order. (You could swap Pet Shop Boys or The Church for The Cure.) There is absolutely nothing unique or surprising about this album.

I didn’t like a lot of the “dance” tracks. All the Way, Run, and Love Less are bangers!

It’s way to 80s for me. It’s everything I hate about 80s music in one package. Shitty synths, drums, bass. No good.

Not memorable

I love Joy Division and some earlier new order, but this album didn’t do anything for me.

Good stuff

Sounds like some decent songs with a bunch of Fisher Price instruments played over the tracks. I’ve always wanted to like New Order but the majority of their work is ruined by awful synth choices over what would be otherwise good songs. Less said about the lyrics the better half the time too

Boring and the whisper style singing made the vocals seem weak and sound off-key often

Boring at best, weak and outdated for the most part.

First song a little weird and very much what I think of for 80s electronic. Second song was very reminiscent of "The Cure". Third song was fine and unassuming. Fourth, little more interesting and varied. I really cannot take the electronic dance sounds in the beginning of this and the first song seriously. It just screams middle school dance, or a kid messing with the worst part of a keyboard. Song five was okay, forgettable. Song six might be my favorite song on the whole album so far, probably because it was more like Joy Division. Song seven reminds me of Regular Show lol. Song eight was solid, one of the better ones. Song nine was really good as well. Anytime they incorporate some of their guitar in a heavier way and refrain from some of the more ridiculous 80s aspects I don't mind it. Overall, the album was fine, probably wouldn't revisit it, although I did enjoy about 3/9 songs. I would give this a 2/5

i like new order when they still had a line to joy division, all this euro disco shit just seems lame

This sounded like either a band that couldn’t make up its mind or was midstream in changing directions. Not a fan of dance music and found the album too erratic in styles for me.

No real drums, Hardly any guitar, not for me.

Interesting album, but it’s gonna have to be a no for me dog. At first I thought it was a techno group. Definitely an interesting sound. Sounds like this should be playing in an urban outfitters in 2011.

Good production, like the bass sound, but the songs overall didn’t do it for me and started to sound repetitive.

Door moeten zetten, denk dat als ik zin heb in een 80’s album het deze niet wordt! Met name mr. disco een verschrikkelijk nummer. Een beetje een sarcastische zangstem. Het laatste nummer is wel een goedmaker, 2 sterren (2,5 als het kon) Favoriete Nr: dream attack

Weinig over te zeggen. Blue monday hard nummer van ze maar stond hier niet eens op

New Order is niks voor mij, laatste paar nummers geskipt kon het niet aan

Crazy that this was once 3/4 of Joy Division. So incredibly fucking 80s. Not my jam.

What if The Cure, Depeche Mode and Joy Division had an annoying little sister.

Everything I dislike about this kind of 80's music. Whiny singing and lyrics mismatched with positive sounding upbeat music. I greatly dislike 80's electronic pop music. This just isn't my thing.

This was really 'meh' for me. A fading relic of the synth-pop era that didn't grab me at all.

If average was an album, this would be it. Background noise and nothing more.

2.75

Not a fan

Interesting, just not cutting it.

I thought all of new order sounded like world in motion (and a lot of it did) but there was also a fair chunk that sounded like Smiths/stone roses. Can't say I cared too much for it but wasn't offensive.

I expected a bit more really, I found it pleasant enough background music.

Wasn't really a fan of this. Best thing I can say is that it seemed alright as background music. Highlights were "Mr Disco" and "Vanishing Point".

Very New Order sounding, but no great songs

I only knew New Order by reputation I suppose. I expected this to be better, not sure I understand the hype. The best things I can say about this album is that first, there are some compelling moments and second, it never offends me to the point where I just had to skip a track. Good solid production for bland music.

Not even close to their best work.

whiny vocals

Gosh. People went overboard with synths in the 80's. I thought this was a 3 star, until the album finished and The Replacements came on, and I felt a massive sense of relief. Replacements 5 stars, of course, but this splodgy bit of synths has got to be a 2.

Actually really disappointed. Joy Division were such a remarkable spooky band and New Order have some famous tracks which were highly I foeintial in electronic dance but this album didn't supply anything if note to me. Just sort of went by

Okay sound from the era but not unique enough to be memorable for me.

Nothing really stood out from this album to me tbh, likely won’t revisit any songs soon

Was meh

I feel this is another inclusion because of who they are rather than what the work is. It's OK. But not a new direction or enjoyable enough to warrant inclusion.

Doesn't stand the test of time. On some tracks the synth sticks out like a sore thumb. Fisher Price makes animal keyboards that sound better than the synth on this album. That Mortal Kombat orchestral hit kind of synth sound always makes me laugh and can be found in at least 3 songs on this album. They sound like a highschool The Cure coverband here. It reminds me of the South Park goth kids. It kinda screams "you just don't get it, mom" for me. Probably a legendary album if you were heartbroken young person doing coke in sweaty clubs back in 1989.

I like dancing but the sounds are just so dated I don’t even feel nostalgic.

80s synth 80s 80s, cocaine Reagan, synth 80s.

sounds like New Order, just no songs I know. Nice melodies and sounds but not much to grab onto. probably wouldn't listen to this too many times.

Didn’t vibe with this, which was disappointing because I’ve liked a few songs from New Order before, but never listened to a full album.

Pretty ordinary

Not really my style

Trendsetting...unfortunately

Not for me.

Première écoute décevante. 2e écoute, un peu plus attentif, ok, il y a des bouts intéressant, mais les explorations vers la House sont un peu too much. Bravo pour la recherche d'innovation et le désir de se réinventer, mais ça ne me donne pas tant envie de réécouter l'album. Je peux comprendre en revanche pourquoi il est dans cette liste.

I could get through the first 3 songs...

A bit boring, innit

I just can't connect with it. I don't like the pace of the tracks, I don't enjoy the blend of synthesized and real instruments, and I don't like the claustrophobic effect of reverb on everything.

Not bad but not their most memorable sound or period. The album art cover is a banger and totally avant-garde.

Can't give this anything more than 2, there really isn't anything of particular interest. Janky synth notes, uninteresting lyrics, feels incredibly dated. Best bits are when they relegate the synthesiser to the background and let the guitars play, but those are too few and far between.

This record cannot decide if it wants to be a proper New Order album or a collection of house music tracks. Both kinds of songs are there, but whenever we reach a house track, the album sounds dated. And for the new Order proper sections, the song material is quite weak. It's not utterly horrible, and Dream Attack is quite nice, but overall the album is a very mixed experience without any real highs. 2/5

Just not my thing.

Felt really dated

I hate to say this about New Order, but this album is dreadful. It's like the last sad, desperate grasp at their former glory. None of the tracks are distinguishable from one another, it's just the same song over and over again. Not for me. Rating 2 stars though because I sure respect the hell out of their earlier catalogue.

2.5/5

This album was in one ear and out the other for me. Like it was a fine 80s album but whatever. I remember sorta liking the last track

Generally, the electro-pop of the 80s does not bode well for this listener. New Order is no exception, and with a little research come to find out that this is a rebranded Joy Division, which has not also scored well with this reviewer. The 1980s was a seemingly complicated decade for music. The electronic takeover started to become the impact of consumerism in the music industry where the perfection that could be achieved using electronics/synths was the way that music would be heading, taking the manual work out of production. This certainly provided a specific sound that only the 80s would have, the sound of superficiality. The brain knows when music is a little too good, and the brain senses the impostor. Were this not true, we may still be inundated with this sound today, but thankfully it seems we found a balance that leaves a bit of humanity in our work again. This negative nostalgia does not work in much favor for Joy Div... New Order. Tragedy reasons aside, the lessons of 1001 that could be learned by a lot of the electro-pop genre prevalent in the 80s involve things that people should be grateful is no longer the prevailing style today. Dance and/or electro-pop, whatever this is called should be okay in small doses, but that may be asking too much still. Overall, New Order demonstrates a significant growth from their Joy Division roots to where their music is nowhere near as infuriating in 1989 as it was in 1979. This is a solid 80s album (good and bad), with all the technology of the time at their disposal (good and bad), rhythms and melodies are genre-defining and for that the nostalgia does work in their favor, even if just a little bit.

How does Joy Division morph into this sweaty 80's mancore stuff? There were some redeeming tracks on this album, All The Way and ... welp, nope I misspoke. That was the only redeeming song on this album. Mostly terrible.

Totally 80s. Totally not my thing. The best part was the opening 90 seconds of Vanishing Point until he starts singing.

Struggled to get into this

How peculiar. Technique starts off with some pungent electro in the form of 'First Time', and later on 'Vanishing Point' picks up the baton...but in between it's a whole load of anaemic indie-ish synthrock. Sung, I should add, in the most characterless voice imaginable. A band whose appeal I've never truly understood, and this album hasn't really helped me. The filler-to-killer ratio is worse than Iron Maiden's - and this is one of their better albums? Give me a break.

This album began the end of my love affair of New Order.

Meh. I didn't even notice it was playing until Spotify 'album radio based on' started playing Cowgirl by Underworld.

I know New Order are supposed to be canon and all that, but does anyone else find them boring? They have neither the mordant wit of Kraftwerk, or the excitement and raw energy of Chicago footwork, so end up disappointingly less than the sum of their influences. Bernard Sumner's voice is so weedy and innefectual. A vocalist could make this group so much more exciting. It's not terrible. It's just very unexciting. Very okay. Like most Manchester bands, it's importance has been well overstated out of desperation to look better than Liverpool or Birmingham. Bless the little Mancs. You've got the big but unloved football teams, why not enjoy that?

Kasarilla ei taidettu tehdä mitään muuta musaa? Nyt lähes 40v myöhemmin kasari pop on kuin korealaiset, kaikki ihan samanlaisia.

Meh