Originally Posted by: Michael Monkhouse My personal favourite was tracking down Lionrock's 3rd 1963 mix on 12", only to find that it, too, had fuck all to do with the song.
This made me laugh. Thanks Michael. I feel your pain and had similar concerns myself.
1993-95 is a drab period in NO history.
Putting ‘Republic’ to one side (which does have a few bright moments), there’s very little decent ‘extra’ material from the period.
In my opinion, the only things that spring to mind are:
‘Vicious Circle’ (reasonable b-side);
‘Let’s Go’ (a pretty great bonus track);
The New Order mix of ‘Regret’;
the Arthur Baker remix of 1963 (not as good as the original but still interesting, especially with the ‘new’ basslines).
There’s a handful of other remixes (Perfecto mixes of ‘True Faith’ and ‘World’, Ambient and Reunited remixes of ‘Ruined In A Day’, Hardfloor mix of BM95 plus maybe a couple of others) that are pretty good.
But most of the rest of the stuff was gumpf; nothing to do with the band.
The mixes of ‘Regret’ were mostly bad. The ‘1963’ and ‘Ruined In A Day’ mixes were just dreadful (excepting those ones mentioned above).
And don’t get me started on those ‘(rest of)’ remixes. Much like Michael had with the Lionrock remixes, I felt massively ripped off buying different formats just to get different remixes, only to find they were all shit.