Not to my knowledge. Just three separate 45s. Looks unofficial but in the words of William Shakespeare, what the fuck do I know?

The sleeve was released separately as were each of the x3 7" singles.I have the sleeve and all the 7" singles.Can't recall exactly where i ordered the sleeve from, maybe an official New Order thing but don't think it was NewOrder.com as don't remember that existing back in 2005.I received the sleeve before any of the singles.I think i managed to purchase the singles one by one over a week or two period.


So no, it wasn't originally released as all together.You had to get the sleeve and then each 7" single bit by bit.

I remember I won the slipcase thanks to a competition organized by Nool.

This single is one of the worst NO release. A lot of mixes have never been officially released on CD. I can't still believe there was only some poor edits released on 7"...

I was not talking about the song or the mixes. I was talking about the official availability (CD mp3...). It was very difficult to get all the promo CDs.

I was lucky and bought it off ebay, all 3x7 inches with the sleeve all at once from someone that had it that way.

I already had all the 7 inches already, so i ended up duplicating those, and gave those without the sleeve to my brother.

I think i found all the promo cds too, except for the one with the unedited mixes, and also the rare rich costey instrumental,
which i still haven't found yet.

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What evidence do you have that albino's "do do" is fairer than regular people's do do?




Quite well done actually.

not too bad, the 2 track one on discogs it went for $30-$50 usually.
(the 6 track promo one isn't much higher)

there's several copies up there in the range of $40 right now.

there's tons of promos that go for way more though.

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Not too bad? I bought mine in HMV for £1.99.

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Agreed, a difficult single for fans to collect at the time given the content being splayed out across numerous formats some of which were (and still are) difficult to pin down.

The Warners in-house promo CDrs were not well made either as many had skips, gloops and some of the mixes (Richard X's BLT & the Planet Funk mixes) sound as if they were taken from MP3s as opposed to a master source although I never confirmed that for certain. It was a bit rubbish paying through the nose for them on eBay and then discovering skips etc. Mind you, they would argue they were never supposed to be for sale. We would argue, well then make the audio easily available to purchase. Most of us would have happily paid £1-2 per track which was the going rate then (digitally).

My own playlist for the single consisted of the following, which I think just about mops everything up. I didn't include the "Tribute Mix" as that was intended to be a part of the never-to-be-released "Turn" single:

The 7" Mixes (3x7" content, also available on digital stores)
1. Waiting For The Sirens' Call (Rich Costey Radio Edit) 3:52
2. Temptation (Secret Machines Remix Edit) 4:37
3. Waiting For The Sirens' Call (Band Mix) 3:53
4. Everything's Gone Green (Cicada Remix) 4:33
5. Waiting For The Sirens' Call (Jacknife Lee Remix Edit) 4:11
6. Bizarre Love Triangle (Richard X Remix Edit) 4:19

The Full Length Mixes (The 2 track CD single + Promo mixes)
7. Waiting For The Sirens' Call (Rich Costey Mix) 5:39
8. Temptation (Secret Machines Remix) 7:21
9. Waiting For The Sirens' Call (Rich Costey Instrumental) 5:38
10. Everything's Gone Green (Mobilegazer Remix) 4:55
11. Waiting For The Sirens' Call (Jacknife Lee Remix) 6:10
12. Bizarre Love Triangle (Richard X Remix) 7:06

The Planet Funk Mixes (Again, Promo only)
13. Waiting For The Sirens' Call (Planet Funk Remix) 7:27
14. Waiting For The Sirens' Call (Planet Funk Dub) 8:13

More recently, an instrumental of the album version of WFTSC was included on the recent Universal Music Publishing 2xCD promo.

It is worth noting that WFTSC (Single) was release to promote the Singles compilation and NOT the parent album of the same name - how very New Order

My "5 Tracks" copy definitely has a few skips, not loads but enough to be noticeable on the odd track. I believe some copies got away without any but some clearly didn't. I have various other promos from this era and they're riddled with audio issues whether it be 4 seconds of silence at the beginning of the track to skips and jolts half-way through. If you imagine the average record company PC back in the early-to-mid 2000s furiously burning CDrs then it's not so hard to imagine all promos were not created equal. As you probably know, silver pressed CDs tend to be more reliable.

Perhaps it was a digital mastering style of the time but the both the WFTSC Planet Funk mixes and the BLT Richard X mixes sound "watery" and always have done. You hear a cymbal crash on them and it doesn't register much treble. They both sound a bit like 160kbps MP3s. Mind you, 2005 was the middle of the "loudness wars" of which WFTSC (the album) was a unfortunately fatal casualty. The album version of "I Told You So" sounds incredibly odd. It's not what I would call a good "sounding" album and the 2015 remaster didn't make up much ground. I suspect if there is ever the will (or money) that album will have to be redone from the ground up. It's just so.... loud.



Yep, completely agreed. A really good remix which was bafflingly banished to promo-only and not deemed worthy by the label for a commercial release.

I always found it amusing the band "played" both BLT and WFTSC in the style of these remixes but neither were (properly) commercially available to buy.

Imagine those fans walking out of those gigs going "loved that track, I really want to download/stream it" and not being able to find the mix?

Bizarre (no pun).

Has anyone got the full length Martin Buttrich remix:

https://www.discogs.com/Martin-Buttrich-Remix-Showreel/release/1606974

If you don't have it Mr Z, what chance the rest of us?! Or maybe you do...



I posted the individual track to the "What Are You Listening To Now" thread about four months ago. I think it had just been uploaded to YT for the first time.