One of the best New Order compilations on the market is getting even better.
Warner Music is reissuing the band's Singles in a remastered and updated version, to be released almost 11 years after its first release as a 2CD or 4LP set. The collection, which originally collected the band's A-sides from 1981 to 2005, adds one more track: "I'll Stay with You," from the 2013 collection Lost Sirens, which featured outtakes from 2005's Waiting for the Sirens' Call. (Lost Sirens also featured the last studio work with original bassist Peter Hook, who departed the group in 2007.)
But the new Singles is more than a slightly expanded edition--it corrects several of the biggest criticisms against the set. Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road, who oversaw The Smiths'Complete box set for Rhino), has newly remastered all 32 tracks "sourced from high quality transfers," improving the much-derided loudness and compression of the original set. Additionally, seven of the tracks are presented in their proper single edits or mixes, which had not occurred on the original edition.
Warner's press release bills the new Singles as "a considerable upgrade on the previous version of the album," and based on the info they're giving, they may be right. Fans can find out when Singles is reissued on September 9.
The revised track list and pre-order links can be found below!
New Order, Singles (originally released as London Records 25646 2690 2 (U.K.)/Rhino R2 73304 (U.S.), 2005)
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Vinyl: Amazon U.S. TBD / Amazon U.K.
Disc 1
- Ceremony
- Procession
- Everything's Gone Green (7" Version)
- Temptation (Original 7" Version)
- Blue Monday
- Confusion (U.K. 7" Promo Edit) *
- Thieves Like Us (7" Promo Edit)
- The Perfect Kiss (7" Edit) *
- Sub-Culture (7" Version)
- Shellshock (7" Edit)
- State of the Nation (7" Edit)
- Bizarre Love Triangle (7" Remix Edit) *
- True Faith (7" Edit) *
- Touched by the Hand of God (7" Edit)
- Blue Monday 88 (7" Version)
Disc 2
- Fine Time (7" Version)
- Round and Round (7" Version)
- Run 2 (7" Remix Edit) *
- World in Motion
- Regret
- Ruined in a Day (Radio Edit)
- World (The Price of Love) (Radio Edit)
- Spooky (Minimix) *
- Nineteen63 (Arthur Baker Radio Remix) *
- Crystal (Radio Edit)
- 60 Miles An Hour (Radio Edit)
- Here to Stay (Radio Edit)
- Krafty (Single Edit)
- Jetstream (Radio Edit)
- Waiting for the Sirens' Call (Rich Costey Radio Version)
- Turn (Stephen Street Edit)
- I'll Stay with You **
* indicates corrected single edit/mix
** not on original release
Disc 1, Track 1 from Factory single FAC 33, 1981
Disc 1, Track 2 from Factory single FAC 53, 1981
Disc 1, Track 3 from Factory Benelux single FBN 8, 1981
Disc 1, Track 4 from Factory single FAC 63, 1982
Disc 1, Track 5 from Factory single FAC 73, 1983
Disc 1, Track 6 from Factory single FAC 93, 1983
Disc 1, Track 7 from Factory single FAC 103, 1984
Original versions of Disc 1, Tracks 8-9 from Low-Life (Factory FACT 100, 1985)
Original version of Disc 1, Track 10 from Pretty in Pink: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (A&M, 1986)
Original versions of Disc 1, Tracks 11-12 from Brotherhood (Factory FACT 150, 1986)
Original version of Disc 1, Track 13 from Substance (Factory, 1987)
Original version of Disc 1, Track 14 from Salvation! Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Factory Benelux, 1988)
Original version of Disc 1, Track 15 from Factory single FAC 73R, 1988
Original versions of Disc 2, Tracks 1-3 from Technique (Factory FACT 275, 1989)
Disc 2, Track 4 from Factory single FAC 293, 1990
Original versions of Disc 2, Tracks 5-8 from Republic (London, 1993)
Original version of Disc 2, Track 9 from The Best of New Order (London, 1994)
Original versions of Disc 2, Tracks 10-11 from Get Ready (London, 2001)
Original version of Disc 2, Track 12 from 24 Hour Party People: Music from the Motion Picture (FFRR, 2002)
Original versions of Disc 2, Tracks 13-16 from Waiting for the Sirens' Call (London, 2005)
Disc 2, Track 17 from Lost Sirens (Rhino, 2013)
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