New Order- The Village REACTION & REVIEW

[@mrjimifletcher]

This is one of the quintessential New Order songs - it's so recognisably them, and it plays to their strengths beautifully. Everything clicks, everything works, everyone's on top form - I love the way it cuts directly into the next track too.

[@davidchaplain6748]

New Order ruled the clubs back in the day. Extended remixes went on for hours. DJs still mix this stuff in.

[@jameshowell1512]

An underrated track. Ive been listening to this album since i was a kid. Its still excellent imo. The first two album's are the ones for me. 👍

[@jpskhale2425]

They have always maintained that duality. Another example is Sunrise from the album Low-life, which is closer to Joy Division, although there are more examples like Weirdo, which is also somewhat reminiscent of The Cure.

[@trumpsta4759]

Sunrise is close to my favourite track of all time.

[@Grizazzle]

Great song from a great album!

[@AriadneJC]

This whole album takes me straight to my Happy Place whenever I hear any track from it (particularly the very final track). But best is to listen to the whole album all the way through in one sitting. It works, it all works.

[@Cires789]

Always loved the synth bass on this track.

[@sphericalharmony1603]

To me, this was very reminiscent of the Cure. I could easily imagine Robert Smith singing it.

[@HippoYnYGlaw]

maybe that's why I can't seem to warm to it... like a niggly feeling of not belonging to "that scene" type of thing... it's bothered me most of my life...like a fish out of water...but that hook bass is wonderful isn't it?... although a trifle too familiar maybe?

[@josiepkat]

Beautiful reaction. You're very on point here. Moody is a good word for them and why they appealed to teens and twenties in the 80s and 90s. I have this album in my itunes but still have never listened to the whole thing. I tend to defer to my Best of New Order disc A LOT. Agreed that this is a song that's unmistakably New Order sounding. I look forward to hearing some more tracks of this album on the channel (Age of Consent and Blue Monday I know well - the rest of the album not as much). You might really be ready for some Laurie Anderson. Sharkey's Day, or Language is a Virus. She's a performance artist so anything from Home of the Brave album you might want to consider a clip from the film Home of the Brave if its available. She created many of her own electronic instruments. ;)

[@rickyorellana6408]

Hello, JP! Great New Order track from a great album. 😃

[@a.k.1740]

Although there is an obvious link with their previous band, at no point does 'The Village' remind me of Joy Division. You should listen to New Order's debut album Movement and their first series of singles ("Ceremony"/"In a Lonely Place", "Procession"/"Everything's Gone Green", "Cries and Whispers"/"Mesh") because it's definitely... closer! (no pun intended😉). Apart from that, I'm not moved by this piece of electro synth-pop. I find that in the same genre, New Order did much better previously with 'Hurt' (B-side of the 12" 'Temptation'... which, on the other hand, doesn't thrill me that much, unlike its B-side).

[@Chapelwood]

I love this song.. so unusual in the time it was released.

[@michaelfrank2266]

An inoffensive tune to go with my breakfast : D

[@lucianoteixeira7993]

Thank you for continuing to react to this great New Order album. For me it's really a good track, a high point from this album. A bit underrated, but much better than the excessively long next track, 586, which should have been replaced by the classic non-album single Blue Monday (in fact, 586 seems like an alternative version, worse in my opinion, of Blue Monday).

[@Chapelwood]

This album released May 2, 1983.. think about what was in the top 40 lists at that time..

[@essaifaune2]

Try also 'Fine Time' LP single by New Order (not the maxi version), with a wonderfull ecstasy pink yellow flood on the cover, so ironic when you know the story of the Hacienda...

[@rosenfield10]

All those years ago, you reacted to New Order "All Day Long" for me, and you seemed unsure about it. You should relisten to it. ❤

[@glibmedley2314]

One of those bands I played the hell out of back in the 80s that I then lost all interest in, the one exception being the track Procession, where Hook is probably doing lead vocal, not the pipsqueak guitarist. Maybe the last time they worked with the Joy Division producer. Masterpiece

[@a.k.1740]

In terms of release, it was on the 12" of "Everything's Gone Green" (with "Cries and Whispers" and "Mesh" as B-sides) that Martin Hannett produced New Order for the very last time, but given that "Everything's Gone Green" had already appeared as a B-side to the "Procession" single two months earlier, I wonder if these four tracks weren't recorded at the same time...!

[@HippoYnYGlaw]

i love whodunnit by dem G boys this is just as repetitive but i found it glum and a bit distressing -strangled cat vibes. I like a lot of their singles - polished - and a few album tracks from different eras of my student and younger days... isn't it weird how different people react differently to the same piece of music? peace

[@kenl2091]

Interesting how your viewers seem to rate early New Order higher than the later stuff. I fully concur! I was prepared to accept it at the time but it's even more obvious now - Bernard Sumner is no singer. The real talents in the band were Hook (bass) and Morris (drums etc.) Obviously they needed a vocalist after the loss of Ian Curtis and maybe thought that they should do a 'Genesis' but, looking back, Bernard Sumner is no Phil Collins (he's probably quite glad of that!)

[@AriadneJC]

I don't know... I quite like the last few albums, with some absolutely brilliant tracks on them. Not consistently great like this one, but still some good highlights. But never mention "Republic", okay? That whole 90s thing? Yeah, let's not.

[@daviddeath6029]

This is there best album imo and Bernard is on it so your comment makes little sense. But I do agree that after technique Bernard decided to become to poppy and basically destroyed new order.

[@Chapelwood]

I think of Brotherhood as the last true New Order album (as a cohesive unit). The division of Peter Hook and the rest of the band increased around Technique if you read Peter and Bernard's books.. just normal bickering and Peter feeling pushed out.. I was shocked Peter still laid down some great baselines on Technique, and they were kept.. because he was mainly going into the studio alone playing over the tracks. The bass lines were definitely mixed lower to have a lesser impact than previous albums, but if you isolate them a higher mix would have enhanced that Technique album. It's also the album some idiot in the record industry convinced Bernard to smooth out his vocals.. that eliminated another trademark New Order sound. Glad that industry guy never got to Robert Smith.