New Order
Substance
Label:  Qwest 
Date:  10/25/1990
Length:  0:00
Format:  2CD
Genre:  Rock; Post Punk
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      Ceremony    
      2.  
      Everything's Gone Green    
      3.  
      Temptation    
      4.  
      Blue Monday    
      5.  
      Confusion    
      6.  
      Thieves Like Us    
      7.  
      Perfect Kiss    
      8.  
      Subculture    
      9.  
      Shellshock    
      10.  
      State of the Nation    
      11.  
      Bizarre Love Triangle    
      12.  
      True Faith    
      13.  
      In a Lonely Place    
      14.  
      Procession    
      15.  
      Cries and Whispers    
      16.  
      The Hurt    
      17.  
      Beach    
      18.  
      Confusion [Instrumental]    
      19.  
      Lonesome Tonight    
      20.  
      Murder    
      21.  
      Thieves Like Us [Instrumental][Mix]    
      22.  
      Kiss of Death    
      23.  
      Shame of the Nation    
      24.  
      1963    
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      It's a simple concept--the first dozen singles by New Order collected, a couple of them rerecorded--but it's also a totally entertaining seven-year history of the band that married British post-punk alienation to the relentless hedonism of the dance floor. The band's hits were always deeply unconventional (like the haunting "Blue Monday," essentially a seven-minute drum machine test with a short lyric that alluded to the Falklands War), but they were brilliant productions, layering dozens of electronic countermelodies and percussion tricks over Barney Sumner's uncertain warble and Peter Hook's lead bass parts. Though they're audio snapshots of the dance beats of their time, they've held up both as club classics and as idiosyncratic rock songs. --Douglas Wolk