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| The Best of New Order | 
 enlarge | Artist: New Order
Label: Qwest / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 5972
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 45794
UPC: 093624579427
EAN: 0093624579427
ASIN: B000002MVM
Release Date: March 14, 1995
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| Customer Reviews:
 Horribly disappointing August 6, 1999
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This album leaves off too many hits to qualify as the Best of New Order. The 3 good tracks here "Blue Monday", "1963" and "True Faith" are all remixes that aren't as good as the originals. Why did they bother releasing this? Where's "Temptation"? Or "Ceremony", "Everything's Gone Green", "Confusion", or "State of the Nation"? And for shame for not including "Perfect Kiss", one of the best dance songs of the '80's. If you are a New Order fanatic and need all of their material, then I might suggest picking this up. Everyone else, don't waste your money. Go out and buy "Substance." It may cost a little more, but the quality of the material there is worth it.
 the rest of.. May 4, 2004
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
this album doesn't even remotely do this band justice. The renditions of the songs they have selected are often weaker(i.e perfect kiss,blue monday,bizarre love triangle), because these are the radio versions, but no one is a buying the cd because they want the radio dammit, they want the best of new order. bottom line: great band, but this disc is waste of time. check out substance instead and wait patiently until someone actually compiles a real best of collection. Also note this album completely neglect power corruption, and lies, my favourite new order album and the turning point in their career.
Good music, bad song selection March 1, 2000
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
To me, this CD could have been a lot better.The music is all great, no doubt about it, but the song selection leaves a lot to be desired. Basically, Substance 1987 is New Order's "Best Of - Part 1" and this disc is "Part 2". The problem is, they only released two albums between Substance and this disc, and close to half of each of those is here. Basically, this disc scores points for including some of the noteworthy stuff that was done before, but left off of, Substance - Let's Go, Age of Consent, Love Vigalantees, Dreams Never End, and for a couple of otherwise hard to get tracks (Blue Monday 88 and Touched by the Hand of God). Where it tanks is by including half of Technique, a third of Republic and a couple of "remixes" that sound completely like pre-existing versions from Substance (True Faith '94 and 1963 '95). No doubt, one or two tracks from Technique and one or two from Republic should be included in any "Best of" New Order collection, but there are four from the former and three from the latter. Some of these should have been replaced with other stuff off of Low Life, PCL, or Movement while still avoiding overlap with Substance. Unfortunately, this was not the case.
 The Best of New Order? Not Exactly. December 18, 2001
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
Putting together a single disc anthology of the best of New Order would be a difficult undertaking in any circumstances. The band had no easily identifiable hits, and many of their most popular songs were dance mixes (like "Bizare Love Triange") radically different from the original versions that appeared on the original albums.Having said all of that, "The Best of New Order" is still a strangely programmed attempt. One of their most popular dance tracks, "Blue Monday" is not even included. Also left out are other first rate songs like "Love Vigilantes" and "All Day Long." And yet, strangely, the CD contains three tracks from their last and weakest CD (before their recent reunion) "Republic." Other oddities are included, like an updated version of the rare track "1963" from the B-sides disc of "Substance" and the previous non-CD released "Touched by the Hand of God," which is not one of their better songs. Overall, this best of collection shows only intermittantly what made New Order the best-ever synthesizer rock band. Ardent fans may want it to fill in some missing gaps. But casual fans will be disserved by it. They should go with the far superior anthology "Substance" instead.
Disappointment January 1, 2002
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
I picked this up, listened to it, and promptly sold it back to the local record shop. I've been a New Order fan since 1980, and have seen them too many times to mention here, but this is a very dyslexic and weak compilation. While it's true that Dreams Never End always makes me smile, most of this cd doesn't! The remixes focus on alot of forgettable items that should not be on "The Best of" cd for these folks. Save time and effort and take yourself over to the next rack and pick up Substance to get a fuller, more colourful array of their portfolio. They should have included more material from the first 4 albums on this cd rather than focusing on clearly boring material that came out later.
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