New Order’s third album Low-life is their most evenly brilliant effort to date. While Power, Corruption and Lies featured extraordinary highlights such as “Age of Consent”, “586”, “The Village” and “Your Silent Face” it also suffers from containing New Order’s only virtually unlistenable song “We All Stand”. Low-life, by contrast, features solid techno-rock from beginning ...
As I have indicated at various times in various articles published here, my favorite rock band is the Manchester quartet that rose from the ashes of Joy Division. Upon the suicide of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, the remaining members recruited keyboardist Gillian Gilbert and rechristened themselves New Order. What followed was the transformation ...
New Order began life as Joy Division, which was a band notorious for its dark music and dark lyrics. Then, on May 18, 1980, the singer of Joy Division, Ian Curtis, hanged himself. At the time of Curtis’ suicide Joy Division was about to embark on its first American tour and had released the song ...
New Order’s follow-up to their masterpiece Low-life album was Brotherhood. Brotherhood has the reputation for being the most schizophrenic of New Order’s albums. When it was first released on vinyl, side one featured more guitar heavy songs than were found on any of the previous three New Order albums. On the other hand, side two ...
Who They Are The Amish are a group of people who live simply and abide by church teachings. Born out of the Anabaptist movement, the Amish were formed in 1693 when Swiss Anabaptist leader Jakob Amman felt the church leaders were not holding steadfast to the separation from the world. He instilled a stricter code ...
New Order was a major force in the early 1980’s dance/club scene. Born from the ashes from Joy Division, New Order has always done things their own way. While the band New Order is no longer together due to personal infighting amongst its members, still their legacy lives on. On March 9, 2010 there was ...