Rock'n'roll pedantry. This month: New Order
Posted by Andrew Harrison on 6 October 2008 - 1:22pm.
Just to head off any complaints about the review of the New Order re-releases in the next issue...
I grumbled that the reissues featured the horrible, clanking 1987 version of 'Temptation' and not the lovely and hard-to-find original, whose inclusion is surely the whole point of projects like these. Anyway, it turns out that the advance CD we were sent for review was wrong, and the new version of 'Movement' does indeed include the proper versions of 'Temptation' in both 12-inch and 7-inch incarnations. So, no angry emails please. We can only work with what's in front of us.
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well I'm, going to complain
anyway as I now have no excuse not to go and buy the lot again on cd. Point of order when they say "collectors editions" surely they should be called "Johny come lately re-issuses for the none obessives who didn't cycle 4 miles on Monday afternoons to Windsor and back to buy the latest 12" of "round and round" and have just waited for someone to put them in one place for a fraction of the cost editions"
I hope...
...you pointed out the shocking quality of some of the extras - the vinyl clicking on the 'Round & Round' remix and the audible glitches in 'Best & Marsh' on the Technique reissue, along with various other minor complaints?
Rich
Actually I missed those shortcomings
But after 18 years in this job I'm a bit "rock deaf". We listen to music via a HMV-style, Heath Robinson amplifying horn here at THE WORD.
Too much...
...Berlin Techno?
PARDON?
A quarter to four, I think.
I understand that a common reviewing practise...
...among more jaded music journalists is the placement of a small dog directly in front of the Heath Robinson amplifying horn. The canine's reactions to the music are observed from behind a pane of soundproof glass and form the basis of the review.
what?!?!?
you mean the dog awards stars to the music
Thank gawd for that
I was annoyed enough that this version of "Temptation" wasn't in the "Retro" box set, so I'd have been really upset if it hadn't been included in this reissue... as an aside, "Movement" has become my most-listened to NO album after a long gap, so there's my excuse for buying it sorted out...
I'm looking forward to these new editions, they seem to have adopted the Pet Shop Boys' re-release template, and they're my exemplars of how reissues should be done, so fine by me, but are NO in danger of becoming the most compiled-band ever?