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New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies Audio CD

A fair review of the New Order "Power, Corruption & Lies" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all New Order reviews here, or go back to the New Order tabs.

New Order Band: New Order
Title: Power, Corruption & Lies
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Age of Consent 2: We All Stand 3: Village 4: 586 5: Blue Monday 6: Your Silent Face 7: Ultraviolence 8: Ecstasy 9: Leave Me Alone 10: Beach

IT'S FIXED...and it's all great!!!
Well, I saw the new versions of the 5 Factory reissues of New Order's catalogue on London/Warner/Rhino at Boston's Newbury Comics. . you can tell the new versions, as they don't have the clear slipcases, just shrinkwrapped with the stickers on front and back, and they include a second booklet with the contents of all 5 reissues. . . so to try it out, get my feet wet so to speak, I bought "Power, Corruption & Lies", as it has the 12"s of both "Blue Monday" and "Thieves Like Us", as well as "Age Of Consent" and "Your Silent Face".

Kept my fingers crossed.

The album sounds great.

Kept my fingers crossed again.

Popped on Disc 2, Track 1, "Blue Monday". . . the verdict??? It sounds fantastic, the remastering, and most important??? NO ERRORS!!!!!!!!!!!! This should have happened back in November, 2008, but I guess better late than never, right??? The booklet's packaging is great, down to the fine details, the liner notes are great and a fun read, and the info booklet is great because you know what's in the other 4 reissues, what Factory releases they came from initially, and you can compare them with the boxset "Retro" and other titles you may have.

So I then just bought "Low Life". . . same thing, all great, even though the discs are reversed, like the label on Disc 1 should have gone on Disc 2 and vice versa. . . anybody else have this problem??? No biggie.

Will be buying the other 3 in time, and the 3 Joy Division deluxes. . . but any word on when/if deluxes of New Order's other 3 albums will happen: that of 1993's "Republic" with "Regret", 2001's "Get Ready" and 2005's "Waiting For The Siren's Call"??? If not, I'll buy the regulars, but I need to know, thanks.

In time. . . it's a green light on this corrected "PC&L". . . and "Low Life". . . buy it!!.


Classic...
The end result is 'Power, Corruption and Lies'; their best, most focussed, and most consistent album. After the lacklustre 'Movement', New Order slowly began to incorporate electronc elements into their sound over the next few years.

Part of the reason for its classic status is that there's really something for everyone here. About half of the album is dominated by the icy electronica that characterised their smash hit 'Blue Monday' ('5-8-6', 'Your Silent Face', 'Ultraviolence', 'Ecstacy'), but there are also nods to their Joy Division past on 'We All Stand' and 'Leave Me Alone', and to their poppier future on 'Age of Consent' and 'The Village'. And the different moods on the album (warm, reflective, unsettling and even sinister) added a human element to a style that was often perceived to be emotionless and distant.

Most elements of the typical New Order sound were in place by now. Peter Hook's bass, played at the upper end of its register, takes the lead role. Gillian Gilbert's keyboards are now warm and inviting. Stephen Morris easily adapts his Krautrock-based Joy Division drumming into dance beats. And while Bernard Sumner wasn't the greatest singer in the world, he shows some variation in his vocals, at different times sounding wistful, detached or intense.

The best part of this album is its consistency, which you can't always say about New Order albums. No song sounds weak or out of place, and the musicianship and lyrics are some of the strongest in the New Order catalogue. The band sound confident and assured, which is a welcome sign after struggling for a few years to develop their own sound.

Quite simply, a classic of the era.

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Caution DO NOT BUY THIS
DO NOT BUY the November 11, 2008 versions. These CD's have been in effect recalled for numerous sonic errors primarily on the second disks. Rhino has re-released them as of August 25, 2009. These are the corrected versions.


Glitches, Fades, etc per another Reviewer is not what it seems!
I am an avid music fan and collector of cd's. I'm not sure what Paul (slop) was listening to during his review of all the New Order Delux Edition discs stating numerous glitches with the bonus discs. I have all the delux recordings and have not heard the apparent clicks, buzzes, fades etc that he describes. My stereo sits to the right of me no more than 2 feet away while I'm at work, and I listened to these recordings closely. There was never anything that he described that distracted me or made me consider there was a glitch in the overall recording. So, I'm not quite sure what he was hearing? Dont let his review worry you about purchasing these excellent cd's.


Love, Love, Love...
The cover art is simple, and to the point. Although there are tiny, noticible clicks in some of the b-sides, this is a great collection. The remasters sound really good. I couldn't hear the problems mentioned without the chart of so-called errors listed in the first review. One thing to mention is that on the American release 586 does not drop any bass notes.
I love New Order.


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