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Summary: A great reissue
Comment: This 2 disc set collects the first album and all of the singles at that time. The bonus disc includes: Ceremony, Temptation 7"mix, In a Lonely Place, Everyting's Gone Green, Procession, Cries and Whispers, Hurt and Mesh, Ceremony (Alt Version), Temptation 12" Mix. Neither of the versions on disc two is the Substance version of Temptation like another review says.
The album was the beginning for NO and definitely different than later albums. But the beginnings are all there, from the bass hooks, to the driving drums. Sumner's vocals are more like Ian Curtis's on this than on future albums.
Rhino did a nice job with this package. Sonically, disc 1 (the album) is excellent. Disc 2's sonics are ok, but could have been better.
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Summary: Total New Order Fan
Comment: I grew up listening to New Order. Throughout my angst teenage years of pubescent dreams I continually got told "turn it down !!" by my parents as from my bedroom I played (far too loud) the likes of Denial, Procession , Confused beats , Mr Disco etc etc. I'm 40 now and still get told "turn it down" by my wife and kids . Some things never change and I can honestly say New Order (as sad as it sounds) were/are part of my life. As a young lad I was lucky enough to go and experience the mecca that once was the Hacienda. Imagine going to a Nite Club owned by the band that you idolized ? Amazing experience amazing place. Unfortunately I also got thrown out of possibly their last gig in the UK, in Glasgow. Mistaken identity ! It was my brother throwing paper off the balcony. Anyway if you are a New Order fan you'll have aready bought all these latest editions and if you're not , Just buy and you'll not regret it, no Regret whatsoever..(just the Price of Love)
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Summary: Tattered legacy
Comment: Trust New Order eh? Such an amazing back catalogue of ingenuity, joy, feeling, and innovation. And with these reissues, the chance to draw a line under their amazing career after their acrimonious split last year.
And what do we get? A lazy, clumsy, set of reissues that offer neither satisfactory remastered versions or a bonus disc of rarities nicely captured in one place. Even the sleeve notes are cheap and don't tell the whole story. The bonus discs contain tracks recorded straight from vinyl - can you believe that?
Compare with the Pet Shop Boys or Depeche Mode reissues, and weep!
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Summary: We Should Review This 'Movement' Re-issue Not The Original Issue!
Comment: I would like to state clearly and umambiguously that I adore, treasure and hold dear to my heart the music of New Order and Joy Division.
However, where I part company completely with some of the reviewers is on two crucial and I think central points. First, because you love an artist's work does not mean you are craven and submissive to a record company re-issue programme. This seems to me to fly in the logic of what was punk, new wave and post-new wave in the 1980s. I love the Factory Records period of New Order 1981-89, but I detest what London Records have done to their back catalogue subsequently. I am not too keen on what New Order subsequently became musically either post-1990, post-Factory, but that's another argument.
Second, I note with New Order's and previously Joy Division's re-issues that quite a few people give critical reviews, blasting the bonus discs and then giving five out of five. Such reviews point in other comments that if you love the original album and detest the bonus - you cannot give it a low rating - as you should just ignore the bonus disc.
This is entirely wrong. When one is reviewing an album like this or any of the other NO reissues - one is not just reviewing the 'Movement' album in question. This would seem to me missing the point. What one should be reviewing is the release in question: 'Movement' plus the bonus disc.
In this case, Movement was never a classic NO release, always the sound of a band leaving the powerful shadow and legend of Joy Division, and feeling and sounding very insecure and fragile. This is thus a fascinating period, which does not always make for pleasant listening.
The bonus disc here is like all the NO so-called bonus releases; collecting the singles between Movement and NO's second release Power, Corruption and Lies, which show the band finding its voice, power and evolving in an amazing and surprising direction. However, eight of the ten tracks are easily available on a variety of the numerous New Order compilations from Substance to the numerous London comps.
An interesting footnote is that London Records mucked-up the re-issue programme in more ways than the bonus disc. Four out of the five releases came out as planned, but Movement was delayed until a week later.
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Summary: 1982 7" original version of Temptation
Comment: Does anyone know where I can get the 1982 7" original version of Temptation on CD or Download?
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