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Low Life di New Order
* Actors: Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner, See more
* Directors: David Barnard
* Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
* Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
* Rated: NR (Not Rated)
* Studio: Rhino / Wea
* DVD Release Date: August 12, 2003
* Run Time: 132 minutes
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* ASIN: B0000AGQ3K
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Memory. Creation. Change., March 7, 2004
Reviewer: Tartan Cossack of Mercia (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
I saw part of this Reading concert on TV once and had wanted it ever since. When I found out that you also get a 1981 concert on the same DVD, I knew I HAD to own this immediately.
I think I must have been shown the best part of the 1998 concert (the part of the set from "Bizarre Love Triangle" to "Blue Monday"). And yes, they are undeniably great here. But viewing these two concerts back to back has given me a very different feeling. -- (Cue tacky sound bite from Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon": - "what you ha~d, and what you lost...")
The 1981 concert was held at a venue called the Ukrainian National Home in NYC. Its stage just happened to have a portrait of Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko hanging above it, so they took advantage of this rather bizarre combination by naming the concert after him. The concert begins with some overly-long shots of various posters in the lobby written in Ukrainian. (Ooh look, it's words written in Cyrillic!") I guess particularly in 1981 at the height of the Cold War they must have seemed quite exotic, but the shots dwell too long here, and combined with some cheesy early video effects, this is the only part of the concert that really looks dated to me.
The performance itself is pure brilliance from end to end. The band's sound still retains the dark intensity of Joy Division that I LOVE, and Sumner's voice seems to hold an echo of Ian Curtis. And on some songs we even get to see Gillian strap on a guitar and rock out with the boys. How I miss those days, and what a versatile performer! The moody lighting also enhances the magic of this concert.
Fast forward 17 years, and we have the now veteran group playing to a packed stadium. They are by no means bad here. The drumming is every bit as dead-on and inventive as 1981, and Gillian is great as always. So what is it that bothers me here?
Hook has grown crustier though the years, and with experience has developed a bravado for playing to the audience. But at the same time, I can't help feeling I detect a tinge of "rock star" to him completely absent from the 1981 concert, where the band was completely unpretentious and totally absorbed solely in the task of bringing their music to the people.
Sumner in particular seems to have changed his singing style over the years, and while it is perfect for their later hits, I had to cringe when they performed a few old Joy Division songs. While he could easily have pulled it off in 1981, Sumner's voice is just too sweet now, and I found myself wishing they had given Hook the vocals on these instead.
Sumner also seems to have picked up a habit of throwing random "whoops" into his songs, which he over-uses till it becomes annoying, especially on songs like "Touched By the Hand of God" and "Paradise", which I did not enjoy at all. And he has also acquired a habit of striking a typical "rock star" stance with right hand held aloft, which he again over-uses throughout the concert, making me long for the sparsely expressive and earnestly intense band of 1981, which seemed the diametric opposite of such stadium-rock posturing.
The absence of surround sound on the 1998 concert is missed, but I felt it did not affect my enjoyment enough to warrant taking off a star.
The band interview segment is interesting, but the sound level is too low, and combined with the band's accent (-- not to demean the way any of our British brothers and sisters speak, but --), made it difficult for me to understand at times. But thankfully Rhino has included optional subtitles here, and I found I understood about 50% more with them turned on.
Reading this review, people may mistakenly assume that I did not enjoy the 1998 concert. This is not true. I loved many songs, even including their much-maligned soccer stadium anthem "World in Motion" (--which I never even realized was a New Order song till I saw this concert, its sound being so different from what I think of as the N.O. sound). But perhaps it is fitting that the second concert ended with this song, as it truly brought home to me the distance they have come from their early roots. While I do indeed love their more recent dance-oriented songs, seeing the first concert really reminded me of how, --once upon a time--, they had been so, soooo infinitely much MORE than just a great dance band.
I am so thankful we have this precious record of their early days on the boldly risk-taking and experimental cutting edge available to us today. I hope that more concerts from the years between '81 and '98 will become available to us on DVD too (as well as their music videos and ANY Joy Division stuff, please~!!!). In the meantime, I'm going to go and check out "511" as well to see how they fared without Gillian.
* Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
* Original Release Date: 1985
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Original recording reissued
* Label: Qwest / Wea
* Catalog Number: 25289
* ASIN: B000002L7S
* Other Editions: Audio Cassette
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With the 1985 release of Low Life, New Order put forth their most commercially accessible effort to date. While some of the dark-wave drippings of their Joy Division roots are evident, high energy progressions, which would carry them for years to come, began to emerge here. Hits like "Perfect Kiss" and "Sub-Culture," with their synth hooks, club-stomping accents, and visceral lyrics, helped bridge the gap for growing synth-pop audiences who bolstered their success. Other refined techniques on the album became standard New Order conventions: sweeping analogue rolls, live and sequenced drum percussion, tight bass melodies, and edgy guitar leads. Sustained by a peerless level of emotional involvement, the vocals and lyrics further entice the listener with the obliquely nuanced style of Bernard Sumner. Standing the test of time, this release is a must-have in order to understand the origins of introspective pop-wave culture. --Lucas Hilbert
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Their high point, February 27, 2004
Reviewer: Bighairydoofus "-" (Brooklyn Park, MN United States) - See all my reviews
This is the album that best strikes the balance between what they once were and what they were to become. They still remembered their beginnings while breaking new ground. Dance and club beats aside, listen to elegia and tell me that it isn't a powerful piece of music.
I just wish they'd come out with a remastered CD. The original I've had since 86 pales to the UK vinyl... come on, guys. Break out the master tapes and show us what's really there. We deserve it after all these years.
* Audio CD (November 3, 1992)
* Original Release Date: 1981
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Original recording reissued
* Label: Qwest / Wea
* Catalog Number: 45089
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This is New Order's debut in name only, with the ghost of Ian Curtis still hanging heavily over his grieving Joy Division bandmates. It would take them one more step, to the brilliant Power, Corruption and Lies, to really assert their own power. Movement, then, is the sound of guitarist Bernard Sumner, percussionist Stephen Morris, and innovative bassist Peter Hook building a bridge from JD's Sturm und Drang drone to New Order's considerably brighter dance pop. It's an interesting bridge to cross though, peppered with dark highlights like the almost poppy "Dreams Never End," the blip-blooping electro chaos of the Pere Ubu-influenced "ICB," and "The Him," with its rhythmic echoes of JD's "Atrocity Exhibition." --Michael Ruby
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From a strange blue planet, May 23, 2005
Reviewer: Gary - See all my reviews
Now this stands the test of time. Do not heed the siren's call and get this instead. Teutonic and depersonalized, it was a bit of a shock after 'Closer'. The elastic twang of Joy Division is missing without the human windmill conducting proceedings, but kudos for sounding like a new band. The production is metalic meets stone masonary. My favourite song is Chosen Time due to its killer bass line. I walk around the house going "do do do do da da da doo". Actually, that's due to a medical condition, but the song is still good.
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Dreams Roll On , April 11, 2005
Reviewer: H. L. Thomas (Athens, GA) - See all my reviews
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I was a huge fan of Joy Division and Public Image Limited in that time, and still love them. That said. I am a New Order fan. I was of the few in San Francisco that saw them at the I-Beam on the first sans Ian tour. They were touching. That said.
Strip them of their history and take this album as it is for the time it was released and even today, and still it holds as a very good set of songs about stretching across a blackened musical landscape of minor chords and sketchy guitar with guilt ridden vocals and the occasional dance-trippy melodies. Movement is a musical statement. It shows the now and the where to go of the later masterpiece, Power, Corruption And Lies. Movement is a gloomy record, but that's ok, the dark wave really did rejoice in it's melancholy and of course in it's layered sounds. Put this album next to PIL Metal BOX and Echo and the Bunneymens Heaven Up Here and you have a couple of dreamy hours into the netherlands of what was to become of Manchester and American Brit rock idolators. Great stuff, and a wonderful clarion call to what was to become the makings of the greatest dance single of all time from the darkness of Dreams Never End: Blue Monday. After the regrettabel suicide of Ian Curtis, who I hope has found some new incarntion better fitted to his damaged soul, New Order lifted spirits rathers than dampened them.
* Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
* Original Release Date: 1983
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Qwest / Wea
* Catalog Number: 25308
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Power, Corruption & Lies established New Order's identity separate from its previous incarnation as Joy Division. Containing "Blue Monday," one of the most sacredly important dance songs of all time, this album truly stands not only as New Order's most defining moment but perhaps as the most standard-setting moment in alternative dance. Yet as definitive as they may be, New Order have outsmarted any copycats. Owing in substantial part to Peter Hook's prominent and melodic bass lines, New Order's songs have always aspired to a complexity that maintains the band's timelessness. Rarely formulaic, New Order's songs are seldom overwhelmed by a four-on-the-floor throb. But interesting rhythms are just one facet of this musical diamond. Their foreboding, grim, and often just plain heartbreaking lyrics present a contradiction to most dance-pop songs, whose lyrics are almost always uplifting or even evangelical. With this album, New Order cut a path for themselves that was rarely, if ever, explored by other artists. --Beth Bessmer
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Pinnacle of World-Weary Dance-Pop, June 1, 2001
Reviewer: J. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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Who could listen to the opening riff of "Age of Consent" and not be hooked? My first hearing of that remains a high point of my encounters with pop culture. I agree with other reviewers who've said that the album in its original form without "Blue Monday" was "better"; it was, but I'm still glad to have it, since I'm not a perfectionist about keeping cultural artifacts in some pristine state.
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the perfect mix, November 19, 2003
Reviewer: Philippe Landry (Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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Whenever someone complains that electronic music is totally void of warmth or realism, I just point to this album. New Order play electronic music with the urgent and manic shifts of rock. Bernards vocals are earnest yet detatched, with guitar work that is jagged, random and sparse; Gillian and Stephen's percussion and synth sequences are both lively and rigid, an up-beat/down-march; Peter's basslines are fluid yet kinetic. This is a work of ironic friction. The warmth and humanity flow thru the restrained and urgent detatchment. The whole album sounds like a friend that wants to say something but can't, hiding it behind his/her eyes.
I would consider Power, Corruption & Lies an artistic/pop masterpiece in the true sense. The electronic and post-punk meanderings are only the charms that envelope the wonderfully angular pop sense that Bernard brings to his lyrics. Everything is so vague and pretty; it's like the album cover...just a random slice of still-life, full of colour and restraint. Tracks like 'Your Silent Face' or '5-8-6' explode with edgy, manic shades of light, sorta like impressionism via expressionism.
You won't be let down by this album. With the band themselves producing it, it's a natural workout of rock and electronics, perfectly blended together to make a classic.
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Track Listings
1. True Faith
2. Isolation
3. Touched
4. Atmosphere
5. Paradise
6. Slow Jam
7. Your Silent Face
8. Close Range
9. Rock the Shack
10. Transmission [CD-ROM Track]
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Having Seen New Order Evolve from Tentative (Post Curtis) Synth-twiddling to Monumental Soundscaping Via Icily Perfect Techno-pop, We Arrive at the First of the Sessions on this CD. Recorded in 1998 the Versions of 'true Faith', 'touched' and Joy Division's 'isolation' Draw Heavily on the Dance Production Values of the Time, to Devastating Effect, While Retaining the Unmistakable Bass Hooks, Guitar Motifs and Vocal Melodies which Make the Tracks Inimitably New Order. For 'atmosphere' the Tempo and Arrangements Are Taken Right Down, the Song Emerging as a Starkly Powerful Drum-led Ballad, While 'paradise' Sees New Order Indulge their Classic Pop Skills.
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Exactly what I was looking for...., May 15, 2004
Reviewer: A music fan
I really enjoyed the 511 and 316 DVDs, and the versions of the songs here are similar to how they played them in those concerts. You get some "updated" versions of the old classics such as 'True Faith' and 'Touched by the Hand of God' as well as Barney doing some Joy Division songs in a "New Order" style. The songs from 'Get Ready' are more impressive than they were on the original album. I'm still amazed that after 25 years or so this band can still release material that remains true to their roots and sounds fresh.
Chosen Time, In A Lonely Place, Dreams Never End, Senses, Truth,
Procession, Denial, Everything's Gone Green
Stockholm 1981
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( LFL 070 )[Released 1991]
Confusion
Love Vigilantes
Ceremony
Dreams Never End
The Him
Truth
I.C.B.
Senses
Procession
Chosen Time
Denial
Everything's Gone Green
- Stockholm 19/5/81
Taken from the "Dead Bodie's(sic) Can't Sing" CD boot. The sound quality, unlike many of the 81 European gigs, doesn't suffer from boominess.
It's obvious that this has been mastered from a boot LP (probably the Radio Order Stockholm disc) due to the scratching and crackling in a few places. Otherwise, the sound is very good.
Ceremony
PH: (about a minute in) "Gillian's guitar is ... ... on"
Audience members are pretty vocal between songs here.
Dreams_Never_End
(at the end)
BS: "Needs a bit of er, snare drum...over in the front..."
The_Him follows.
Truth
The band were having equipment problems, making the intro on this song very different than how it normally gets played.
BS: Can't hear(?) the bass guitar's coming through the Vox now...through the Vox."
ICB
It almost sounds like 'Cries and Whispers' for a second, lots of scratching in the first part.
The song has some very distinctive riffing/soloing from Bernard.
Chosen_Time
Fast tempo.
About midway into things, Bernard inserts the following couplet:
People up and down
People in the city
People like you blink[?] and shout
Make me sick!
Denial segues into _Everything's__Gone_Green, which is the prototype 10+ min jam version. One version fades out after 12 1/2 minutes, another just cuts out.
lyric: "One two three four, everybody hit the floor Five six seven eight, everybody spewing hate!"
BS: (at 8:25) "In five seconds, ...your help from below. Nice people...[can't make out rest]..."
Everything's Gone Green 19 MAY 81 Roxy Stockholm Sweden
Here's a transcription...the wording in certain places is very uncertain.
Hearing the love from above
And shooting it up ... the world[?]
Position[?] it all above
Destruction brought up below
By the boardwalk
By the boardwalk
Down by the boardwalk
Down by the boardwalk
Where all you people go
They destroy you sa...
Down by the boardwalk
Where people go...
Down by the boardwalk x5
Woo woo woo woo
(with syncopated mouth drum sounds]
Down by the boardwalk!
Down by...
One two three turn around
All you people upside down
One two three
One three four
Everybody hit the floor
One two three four
Everybody hit the floor
Five six seven eight
Everybody's feeling great
Woo!
By the boardwalk
Where all the hip people go
By the boardwalk
You people are so slow!
I'm waiting from up above...x3
I'm in love x4
(melody of 'I feel love' by Donna Sunner
I'm in love
I'm in love x4
I'm in love x4
Wooooo...
[Bernard yelps]
Down by the boardwalk...
In five seconds
You'll receive your help from below
Where nice people don't like you go...
Wooooooo...woohoowhoohoo
Wooooooo...woohoowhoohoo
[More yelping]
In A Lonely Place, Dreams Never End, ICB, Truth, Procession,
The Him, Senses, Ceremony
Soundcheck (25 minutes): Love Will Tear Us Apart, Walked In A Line,
No Love Lost, Digital, Decades, Atmosphere, Ceremony, Truth
New Order
Heaven
"Une femme est une femme, mais un Caporal est une cigarette?" -
R. Kipling.
Which is which? What is what? The doubt of the (un)expected prevails.
There seemed to be a certain hype about the whole situation, the
fact(ory) that New Order had deliberately left London out until last on
their handful of live dates - a punishment for living in the terminally
fashionable metropolis? But then again, with venues like Heaven who
cares? Heaven is. Heaven with it's comfortable bars, it's videos, it's
gentle and covivial atmosphere - perfect for a live band. My type of
place. Standing in Heaven my former fanaticism for this (that) group
was slowly replaced with a growing cynicism. What type of hype is this?
My type of hype - our type of hype, didn't we want/expect this?
A lonely band, faltering onwards, striving to find that right rhythm.
New Order were not obvious, but obsessive. The first number was an
aching and swirling song, 'In A Lonely Place', about memory, about
loss, about loneliness. Off the closer edge into new areas. An
unfamiliar, tearful sensation.
The comparisons are there, don't draw them - difficult.
New Order are Albrecht, Hook, Morris and his girlfriend Gillian, they
swap and switch instruments, they experiment and deviate. New Order are
growing, they are almost foetal at the moment. Playing through their
growing pains I feel they are not ready for this - the(ir) growing
pains are too strong. Shy and desperate they should be reviewed by the
fans - not/never the post-death sycophants. In their incubator stage
the sound was not quite right (not their sound, but the sound
that the PA emitted), there were frequent squeals of feedback and
Hook's bass lead seemed to be faulty. At one point Albrecht lay down
(in frustration?) as Hook fiddled with his bass amp to get the right
sound. Their sound is the right sound, will be the right sound.
New Order are not part of the tired old rock system - they are young,
don't predetermine their niche.
Hook and Albrecht share the vocals, Albrecht is dark(er), Hook is
harsh(er). They are both shy, their voices reflect their careful
approach to the problems facing them. The problems that face all of us
- of fear, of violence, of indirection, of inhibition, of failure...
of whatever it is rooted deep down inside you. Above all though, they
still have love. Instinctive and distinctive love.
Tact(ful/less). The New Order will be great/big/fabulous, they are
heading towards excitement in this new age.
As I left Heaven someone told me Bill Haley had died. The old order.
Throw away the past and follow your spirit.
CHRIS BURKHAM
The Him, Chosen Time, Ceremony, Truth, Senses, Everything's Gone Green,
Dreams Never End, Denial, Hurt (instrumental)
We All Stand, Ceremony, Dreams Never End, Hurt, The Him, Ultraviolence,
Chosen Time, Senses, Everything's Gone Green, Temptation
Ceremony, Confusion, The Him, Thieves Like Us, We All Stand,
Leave Me Alone, The Village, Denial, Your Silent Face, Blue Monday,
Temptation
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