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1 Dreams Never End
2 Procession
3 Age of Consent
4 Blue Monday
5 The Perfect Kiss
6 Salvation Theme
7 Bizarre Love Triangle
8 1963
9 Round & Round
10 Don’t Do It

Rhino Reissues a decade of New Order

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After forming in 1980, New Order went on to develop a groundbreaking sound that mixed synthesizer-driven pop with electronic dance beats on a series of acclaimed and influential albums. The band – Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert – released a total of five albums during the ’80s that helped blaze a trail for the alternative music movement that would peak a decade later.

Rhino pays tribute to these musical pioneers with Collector’s Editions of the band’s first five albums: MOVEMENT, POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES, LOW-LIFE, BROTHERHOOD and TECHNIQUE. On November 11, 2008, all five will be available at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a list price of $24.98.

Each will be reissued as a double-disc that contains a remastered version of the original Factory Records recording on the first disc, along with a bonus disc that collects the band’s numerous non-album singles, b-sides and remixes.

After the tragic death of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, the band’s surviving members, Sumner, Hook and Morris, founded New Order with Gilbert and released its darkly melodic debut, MOVEMENT (1981). The album’s eight songs show the band moving away from the past and embracing a new sound on “Truth,” “Denial” and the opening track, “Dreams Never End.” Among the bonus disc highlights is “Ceremony,” a song written by Joy Division but never recorded in the studio that New Order recorded as its first single. Also included are later singles (”Temptation” and “Everything’s Gone Green”) that foreshadow the band’s more dance-oriented direction.

New Order found its voice on the group’s sophomore effort, POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES (1983). Featuring the original eight songs on the British release, the first disc offers exceptional dance-pop with “Your Silent Face” and “Age Of Consent.” The bonus disc includes “Blue Monday”
and its b-side “The Beach,” which were released exclusively as a single in the U.K., but included on the U.S. version of Power, Corruption & Lies. The single became the best-selling, independently released 12″ single of all time in the U.K.

The group achieved a high-water mark with its third release LOW-LIFE (1985), an eight-song album that perfected New Order’s cutting-edge electronic sound with the singles “The Perfect Kiss” and “Sub-Culture.” The bonus disc contains songs the band contributed to the popular film
Pretty In Pink, including “Shellshock” (from the soundtrack) as well as an instrumental version of the album track “Elegia” that was heard in the film, but not on the soundtrack.

The band returned a year later with BROTHERHOOD (1986), an album highlighted by the brilliant single “Bizarre Love Triangle” along with the fan favorite “Weirdo” and the ballad “All Day Long.” The bonus disc offers the 12″ single versions of “Touched By The Hand Of God” and
“Bizarre Love Triangle” as well as two remixes of “True Faith”; its b-side “1963″; and a new version of “Blue Monday” released in 1988.

New Order closed the decade with TECHNIQUE (1989), a nine-song album influenced by the exploding popularity of the acid house scene in Great Britain. Debuting at #1 in the U.K., the album delivered the singles “Run,” “Fine Time” and “Round & Round” as well as “Vanishing Point,” a song later used as the theme for a popular British television show. The bonus disc features the 12″ single “World In Motion,” the official song of the English national football team in 1990’s World Cup competition. Also featured is “Fine Line,” an instrumental version of the album track “Fine Time,” as well as b-sides “Best & Marsh” and “MTO.”

Track List:

MOVEMENT

Disc One

1. “Dreams Never End”
2. “Truth”
3. “Senses”
4. “Chosen Time”
5. “I.C.B.”
6. “The Him”
7. “Doubts Even Here”
8. “Denial”

Disc Two

1. “Ceremony” – 12″ Version
2. “Temptation” – 12″ Version
3. “In A Lonely Place” – 7″ Version
4. “Everything’s Gone Green” – 12″ Version 5. “Procession” – 7″ Version
6. “Cries and Whispers”
7. “Hurt” – 12″ Version
8. “Mesh”- 12″ Version
9. “Ceremony” – Alternate Version
10. “Temptation” – Alternate 12″ Version

POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES

Disc One

1. “Age Of Consent”
2. “We All Stand”
3. “The Village”
4. “5 8 6″
5. “Your Silent Face”
6. “Ultraviolence”
7. “Ecstacy”
8. “Leave Me Alone”

Disc Two

1. “Blue Monday” – 12″ Version
2. “The Beach” – 12″ Version
3. “Confusion” – 12″ Version
4. “Thieves Like Us” – 12″ Version
5. “Lonesome Tonight” – 12″ Version
6. “Murder” – 12″ Version
7. “Thieves Like Us” – Instrumental
8. “Confusion” – Instrumental

LOW-LIFE

Disc One

1. “Love Vigilantes”
2. “The Perfect Kiss”
3. “This Time Of Night”
4. “Sunrise”
5. “Elegia”
6. “Sooner Than You Think”
7. “Sub-Culture”
8. “Face Up”

Disc Two

1. “The Perfect Kiss” – 12″ Version
2. “Sub-Culture” – 12″ Version
3. “Shellshock” – John Robie Remix, 12″ Version 4. “Shame Of The Nation”
5. “Elegia”
6. “Lets Go (From Salvation)”
7. “Salvation Theme”
8. “Dub Vulture”

BROTHERHOOD

Disc One

1. “Paradise”
2. “Weirdo”
3. “As It Was When It Was”
4. “Broken Promise”
5. “Way Of Life”
6. “Bizarre Love Triangle”
7. “All Day Long”
8. “Angel Dust”
9. “Every Little Counts”
10. “State Of The Nation”

Disc Two

1. “Bizarre Love Triangle” – 12″ Version 2. “1963″ – 12″ Version 3.
“True Faith” – Shep Pettibone Remix, 12″ Version 4. “Touched By The Hand
Of God” – 12″ Version 5. “Blue Monday ‘88″
6. “Evil Dust”
7. “True Faith” – True Dub
8. “Beach Buggy”

TECHNIQUE

Disc One

1. “Fine Time”
2. “All The Way”
3. “Love Less”
4. “Round & Round”
5. “Guilty Partner”
6. “Run”
7. “Mr. Disco”
8. “Vanishing Point”
9. “Dream Attack”

Disc Two

1. “Don’t Do It” – 12″ Version
2. “Fine Line” – 12″ Version
3. “Round and Round” – 12″ Version
4. “Best & Marsh” – 12″ Version
5. “Run 2″ – 12″ Version
6. “MTO”
7. “Fine Time” – Silk Mix
8. “Vanishing Point” – Instrumental, 12″ Version 9. “World In Motion” -
Cabinieri Mix, 12″ Version

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New Order Live in Glasgow DVD Includes Highlights from 2006 Glasgow Concerts, Including Rare Performances of Joy Division Songs, Plus a Bonus DVD Featuring Unreleased Footage From the Band’s Personal Archives, Spotlighting Shows from 1981-2006.

Available June 24, 2008 From Warner/Rhino.

After sitting out much of the late ’90s, New Order came back in a big way in 2001 with Get Ready. On tour for the band’s 2005 follow-up, Waiting For The Sirens’ Call, the influential synth-pop group made a rare two-night stand at Glasgow’s Carling Academy in October 2006. The celebratory shows were filmed, capturing songs that span the band’s extraordinary career, including several rare performances of Joy Division favorites. Rhino highlights the very best moments from the shows with LIVE IN GLASGOW.

The collection also contains a bonus disc of unreleased footage from the band’s personal archives, including classic live performances filmed between 1981 and 2006. On June 24, this two-disc DVD set will be available from Rhino at all physical outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $19.99.

Featuring 5.1 Surround Sound, LIVE IN GLASGOW highlights songs from New Order’s entire career, from the band’s first single “Ceremony” and its biggest hits: “Blue Monday,” “Temptation” and “Bizarre Love Triangle,” to a trio of Joy Division classics: “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” “Transmission” and “Shadowplay.”

Interspersed with the live footage are short interviews with the three band members, filmed exclusively for this DVD. This release follows hot on the heels of the acclaimed Joy Division documentary, biopic Control and the recent Best Of Joy Division release from Rhino.

The bonus DVD is a treasure trove for the New Order’s longtime fans, containing tracks selected from the band’s archive by its drummer, Stephen Morris. Favoring shows from the band’s first decade, the collection includes performances from eight different concerts, including six songs recorded at festivals in 1981 – just a year after the untimely death of Joy Division singer, Ian Curtis. Three tracks — “Senses,” “Procession” and “The Him” — are taken from New Order’s first appearance at the Glastonbury Festival.

Four more concerts from the ’80s are represented on the bonus disc, such as “Ultraviolence” from Rome in 1982; “Everything’s Gone Green” from the following year in Cork; seven songs from New Order’s 1985 shows in Rotterdam and Toronto, including “The Village,” “Age of Consent” and “Temptation”; as well as “Dream Attack” and “1963″ from the band’s 1989 stop at Shoreline. The bonus disc concludes with a pair of songs from the band’s stunning headlining appearance at Hyde Park in 2006, including “Run Wild” and Joy Division’s “She’s Lost Control.”

In 1980, New Order rose from the ashes of Joy Division — one of the most important British bands of all time. In the face of adversity, and against all odds, New Order went on to release eight seminal, era-defining albums.

LIVE IN GLASGOW

DVD Track Listing:

Disc 1

1. “Crystal”
2. “Turn”
3. “True Faith”
4. “Regret”
5. “Ceremony”
6. “Who’s Joe”
7. “These Days”
8. “Krafty”
9. “Waiting For The Sirens Call”
10. “Your Silent Face”
11. “Guilt Is A Useless Emotion”
12. “Bizarre Love Triangle”
13. “Temptation”
14. “Perfect Kiss”
15. “Blue Monday”
16. “Transmission”
17. “Shadowplay”
18. “Love Will Tear Us Apart”

Disc 2

Celebration 1981

1. “Ceremony”
2. “I.C.B.”
3. ” Chosen Time”
Glastonbury 1981
4. “Senses”
5. “Procession”
6. “The Him”
Rome 1982
7. “Ultraviolence”
8. “Hurt”
Cork 1983
9. “Leave Me Alone”
10. “Everything’s Gone Green”
Rotterdam 1985
11. “Sunrise”
12. “As It Is When It Was”
13. “The Village”
14. “This Time Of Night”
Toronto 1985
15. “We All Stand”
16. “Age Of Consent”
17. “Temptation”
Shoreline, Bay Area 1989
18. “Dream Attack”
19. “1963″
Hyde Park, London, 2006
20. “Run Wild”
21. “She’s Lost Control”

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While the early 80’s is now a quarter of a century ago: the style, the sounds, the fashion pioneered by the fringe artists of the 80’s has never been so relevant to modern day life and music.

The Klaxons, CSS, New Young Pony Club, Calvin Harris are all artists who are heavily influenced by periphery 80s artists. Many a feel good album with the cheesy tunes of the 80s has been released but never something as razor sharp and stylish as ‘The Edge Of The Eighties’.

Now for the first time Sony BMG is proud to announce the release of an 80’s compilation with an ‘edgier’, fresher and cooler tracklisting. ‘The Edge Of The Eighties’ – highlighting some of the artists and tracks that may not be as familiar, but still defined the times, is set for UK release on 31st March, 2008.

Featuring fierce tracks from Ultravox “Vienna”, Visage “Fade To Gray”, New Order “Temptation”, Pretenders “Talk Of The Town”, The Associates “Party Fears Two”, Propaganda “Duel”, The Cure “The Walk” and Psychedelic Furs “Love My Way”.

If that isn’t enough this triple CD compilation also includes tracks from legends Adam & The Ants and superstar David Bowie. Many of these tracks have only previously been available on vinyl and now can all be found together on this excellent retrospective of the niche 80s bands that shaped a generation.

The Edge Of The Eighties track list (Provisional):

CD1

1. Ultravox – Vienna
2. Visage – Fade To Grey
3. Soft Cell – Torch
4. Passions – I’m In Love With A German Filmstar
5. Japan – Quiet Life
6. Landscape – Einstein A Go-Go
7. Simple Minds – Glittering Prize
8. Adam & The Ants – Dog Eat Dog
9. Bow Wow Wow – Go Wild In The Country
10. Altered Images – Don’t Talk To Me About Love
11. Fiction Factory – Feels Like Heaven
12. Furniture – Brilliant Mind
13. Lotus Eaters – The First Picture Of You
14. David Sylvian – Red Guitar
15. Associates – Party Fears Two
16. ABC – That Was Then…
17. Haysi Fantayzee – John Wayne Is Big Leggy
18. Haircut 100 – Favourite Shirts

CD2

1. New Order – Temptation
2. Propaganda – Duel
3. Swansway – Soul Train
4. Joy Division – Atmosphere
5. Cocteau Twins – Pearly Dewrdrops’ Drops
6. Mobiles – Drowning In Berlin
7. Pretenders – Talk Of The Town
8. Susan Fassbender – Twilight Cafe
9. Art Of Noise – Beatbox
10. SPK – Metal Dance **
11. A Flock Of Seagulls – I Ran
12. Tears For Fears – Pale Shelter
13. Blue Zoo – Cry Boy Cry
14. B-Movie – Remembrance Day
15. Thompson Twins – In The Name Of Love
16. Blancmange – Living On The Ceiling
17. Men Without Hats – Safety Dance
18. H20 – I Dream To Sleep

CD3

1. Siouxsie & The Banshees – Dear Prudence
2. The Cure – The Walk
3. Scritti Politti – Absolute
4. Talk Talk – It’s My Life
5. Japan – Life In Tokyo
6. David Bowie – Up The Hill Backwards
7. Devo – Whip It
8. Our Daughters Wedding – Lawnchairs
9. Bauhaus – Kick In The Eye
10. Spear Of Destiny – Liberator
11. Echo & The Bunnymen – The Back Of Love
12. Bow Wow Wow – Chihuahua
13. Dead Or Alive – That’s The Way (I Like It)
14. Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way
15. Stranglers – European Female
16. Telex – Moskow Diskow
17. Laurie Anderson – O Superman

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