Alex and I run in similar Facebook circles, and these lists are always subjective...

That said, swap Thieves Like Us for Age of Consent and 1963 for Ceremony, then reshuffle the top ten. No quibbles from me.

I've been working on a cover of This Time Of Night for a while. I took that brilliant middle 8 with the piano and strings and built a new intro, the way the band themselves reworked Subculture for the MIF and current gigs.

I even got an English friend who lives here in SF to record Jeffrey Bernard's excised vocal sample "I'm one of the few people who live what's called a low life."

I know it’s one person’s point of view but...

Ceremony only at number 13?

Piffle.

In the words of Confucious, fuck that.

Possibly. Still cool though. She makes stage fright look cool.

Just as an aside, does anyone know exactly where the band got the sample of this from?
I've always wanted to hear it in context. I've tried to find it on several occasions, but with no luck.



Hmm, just had the idea to search the BBC Genome site and see if there were any programmes about Mr Bernard around the time of 'Low Life' being recorded.
I found this, broadcast on 21/03/85, which seems a possible match:

https://genome.ch.bbc.co...09bb4719948c5cadc7116e43

Now to try and find a copy.

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Are you covided?

I would like to apologise for yesterday's post, in which I insinuated New Order milked Blue Monday. Let us not forget that the follow-up was Confusion, Confusion Rough Mix, Confusion Instumental, Confusion Beats, Confusion 7" edit, Confusion video edit, Confusion 87 Substance rerecording, Confusion 87 CD dub, Confusion (Alternative Mix), Confusion (Essential Mix), Confusion (Trip 1-Ambient Confusion), Confusion (Accapella), Confusion (Con-om-fus-ars-ion Mix), Confusion (Confused Ooh-Wee Dub), Confusion Larry Tee's Electroclash Mix (New & Old Vocals), Larry Tee's Electroclash Mix Edit (New Vocals), Koma & Bones Vocal Version (Old Vocals), Koma & Bones Version (New Vocals), Koma & Bones Remix (New Vocals), Koma & Bones Vocal Mix, Koma & Bones Dub (07:54), Outputs Nu-Rocktro Version (Old Vocals), Outputs Nu-Rocktro Version (New Vocals), Outputs Nu-Rocktro Version Edit (New Vocals), Arthur Baker 2002 Version (Old Vocals), Arthur Baker 2002 Version Edit (Old Vocals), Arthur Baker 2002 Version Edit (New Vocals), Arthur Baker 2002 Instrumental, Asto Dazed Mix (Old Vocals), Asto Dazed Mix Edit (Old Vocals), Acapella & Parts (Old Vocals), Acapella (Old Vocals) (01:47).
How could I have been so cynical? The Beatles of electro.

It's a fair point, so much so that it was worth making it twice, making a third time would be pushing it though.

I'm genuinely surprised Monkhouse hasn't responded. I used the word "coming" and everything!

I think the original 7” and 12” were the same.

It was only the re-recorded 12” which was different.

So, two versions, not including things like the Western Works demo.

Never been that mad about the re-recorded version of Ceremony, the one with Gillian that ended up on Substance. Always thought the first version that was on the 7 inch and 12 inch was/is magnificent.Really majestic and powerful. The second version, the re-recorded one for me was always a bit weak and lifeless. Could never understand why people prefer the re-recorded version but each to their own eh

I’ve even read some people saying they can’t tell the difference between the first version and the second version. WTF? Baffling how anybody couldn’t tell the difference.

Couldn’t believe my ears when I first bought Substance in 1987 and upon the needle hitting the vinyl the re-recorded version kicked in.Was pretty disappointed they’d put that version on Substance but yeah maybe it was the thing about it including Gillian so that’s why they did put it on .Has to be the only reason.

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