New Order 6Music playlist help

Looks like Now Playing on Friday is doing a New Order special and via Friend of Radio Clash (I should make Tshirts saying that) Jeb 50PoundNote I’ve heard they want input from New Order fans what to play…links in quite nicely with their recent Kraftwerk specials too, I bet – and New Order have some dates later in the year so the Troxy gig which I went to in December wasn’t a one-off! Hooky won’t be pleased though.

So who’s going to be brave enough to vote in The Happy One? Go on, I know you want to…or the Xmas Flexi LOL. Someone recently on YouTube or FB was denying it was them…yes it was!

My list Goes. A. little. Something. Like. This.

• New Order — Cries and Whispers and
  New Order – Procession – along with Cries and Whispers it was the first time I ‘got’ New Order was more than Blue Monday…and lead into Joy Division for me.
  New Order – Regret, as a comeback track it bode well for Republic and a great TOTP performance. Shame Factory didn’t survive…
  New Order – Elegia – shows the Philip Glass influence
  New Order – Don’t Do It – some of the best New Order tracks were B-sides!
  New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle (Richard X remix) – was going to play this at Ian’s wedding. Ace remix of an amazing track, hard call to improve it but he did.
  Klein + M.B.O – Dirty Talk one of the four tracks that inspired Blue Monday, a great track in it’s own right
  Sylvester – You Make Me Feel Might Real – ditto
  New Order – Turn The Heater On (Peel Session) – a great Peel session and shows their love of dub, 5-8-6 from this session is probably better than the PCR version
  Section 25 – Looking from a Hilltop (Remix) – a remix by Bernard Sumner who also produced Section 25 track, proto-acid house years before Phuture but of course Factory never released it til years after. DOH!
  New Order – Hurt – ace tune and love the Bis cover too.
  New Order – Homage – this is a strange one, I heard it on a really bad bootleg tape years back, it’s now out there in decent quality via the Western Works 1980 demos, oddly it was recorded but never released.

So what’s yours? (to them, not me! Well copied here if you want…)

I almost added the Stephen Morris version of Truth off said Western Works demo, always preferred that to the album version. Hell all the demos and B-sides are better than Movement! *thwack sound of Jeb hitting me* OWW! It is! It is! 😉