Well, that was real NOW!

I should add that I chose this album because it was...

Well, that was... Side one was Totally New Order by Numbers, and sounded really, really badly produced. They can make a good post punk rock sound, bit that's all it was there were no songs, just well made build of the grooves and rifting.

Side 2 was better, but Bizarre Love Triangle just towered over everything, A very good example of a groups who's Best Of it their best album,

Oh, and the lyrics are terrible. But they always were.

New Order playing at the AIDS benefit gig at the Brixton Academy that year was and remains the best gig I've ever been to.

Me and my friends had some speed before and we sat/stood through the undercard or support artists patiently.

Then, when NO went on everyone went berserk.

NO are notorious for being amazing one gig and hopeless and drunk and sloppy the next.

We were lucky - they absolutely tore it up.

It remains, 35 years later, by a mile and more the best gig I've ever been at.

I was only 17 and I was chicken/punch-dancing with blokes twice my age and size.

Well, I saw that Taras Shevchenko Live video on TV when they showed it at 3 in the morning on ITV, as was the fashion at the time, and I got all excited the bass player had a Shergold Bass.

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:

Oh, and the lyrics are terrible. But they always were.

Barney wrote the lyrics usually and, yes, he was hardly TS Eliot, but his lyrics were always heartfelt.

He's a good guy is Barney.

He was the only one who ever listened to and discussed in depth anything profound or existential with Ian Curtis.

Well, apart from Genesis P. Orridge.

According to G.P.O. Anyway.

GPO is an immense liar.

I've read "Wreckers of Civilisation" and have met, Simon Ford?

Is that his name?

Anyway, when I/we met him my friend Matthew stole a whole load of archived COUM stuff from the V&A.

I said to him at the time that I wasn't sure whether it was OK, but then...

Matthew jumped under train.

Nightjar wrote:

GPO is an immense liar.

I've read "Wreckers of Civilisation" and have met, Simon Ford?

Is that his name?

Got it, read it, sold it for a fortune on eBay.

Really, is it worth money?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/1901033600/ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=used

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:

Well, that was... Side one was Totally New Order by Numbers, and sounded really, really badly produced. They can make a good post punk rock sound, bit that's all it was there were no songs, just well made build of the grooves and rifting.

Side 2 was better, but Bizarre Love Triangle just towered over everything, A very good example of a groups who's Best Of it their best album,

I had another listen to this, and I stand by ever drunken word I said.

A couple of tracks on side 2 did grow on me, a bit.