One of New Order's most celebrated albums is getting expanded in October.
Rhino will issue a "Definitive Edition" of the band's sophomore release, 1983's Power, Corruption & Lies. The box will feature the album on CD and LP with the first-ever mastering from the original analog tapes; a bonus disc of unreleased session outtakes and the band's 1982 live set for John Peel's BBC radio program; and two DVDs offering three complete live shows, a host of additional concert clips and television appearances, and the band's tongue-in-cheek Channel 4 documentary Play At Home.
Following the formation of New Order from the ashes of post-punk outfit Joy Division (following frontman Ian Curtis' passing in 1980) and the release of debut album Movement in 1981 (itself expanded for a definitive box set last year), Power, Corruption & Lies marked a distinctive new direction for the band. Inspired by visits to American clubs and the founding of their label Factory Records' own nightspot, The Hacienda, the band (singer/guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, keyboardist Gillian Gilbert and drummer Stephen Morris) fully adopted electronic and dance styles on "Blue Monday," their first release of 1983.
With a pulsating four-on-the-floor beat and Sumner's distinctive low vocals, the track remains one of their best-known, reaching No. 9 on the U.K. singles chart and No. 5 on Billboard's dance surveys. (By several accounts, it is one of the best-selling 12" singles of all time.) Two more non-album singles from the period, "Confusion" and "Thieves Like Us," reached the U.K. Top 20; a Benelux-only single, "Murder," scraped the bottom of the country's chart. As for Power, Corruption & Lies, it's been hailed over time as one of the most notable dance-rock albums of its era, with retrospective placements on best-of-the-'80s album lists by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and Slant. It became the group's first of eight career Top 10 albums in England, and the album's Peter Saville-designed sleeve (utilizing a painting of roses by Henri Fantin-Latour) has appeared everywhere from Royal Mail stamps to fashion brand Supreme's 2013 collections.
The definitive Power, Corruption & Lies is due October 2; the same day, the band's four 1983-1984 12" singles will also be repressed. (As with the Movement deluxe campaign, those tracks - included on a 2008 reissue of the album - will not be available in the box set.) Pre-orders for all five products are below.
Power, Corruption & Lies: Definitive Edition (Rhino, 2020)
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CD1/LP: Remastered album (released as Factory FACT 75 (U.K.)/FACTUS 12 (U.S.), 1983)
- Age Of Consent
- We All Stand
- The Village
- 5 8 6
- Your Silent Face
- Ultraviolence
- Ecstacy
- Leave Me Alone
CD2: Extras (previously unreleased except 7-10, from The Peel Sessions - Strange Fruit SFPS 001 (U.K.), 1986)
- Age Of Consent (Writing Session Recording)
- The Village (Writing Session Recording)
- 5 8 6 (Writing Session Recording)
- Your Silent Face (Writing Session Recording)
- Ecstacy (Writing Session Recording)
- Leave Me Alone (Writing Session Recording)
- Turn The Heater On (John Peel Session - 6/1/1982)
- We All Stand (John Peel Session - 6/1/1982)
- Too Late (John Peel Session - 6/1/1982)
- 5 8 6 (John Peel Session - 6/1/1982)
- Too Late (Instrumental Rough Mix - John Peel Session Outtake)
- Thieves Like Us (New York Demo #1)
- Thieves Like Us (Writing Session Recording)
- Murder (Writing Session Recording)
- Blue Monday (Writing Session Recording)
- Blue Monday (Writing Session Recording #2)
- Blue Monday (Instrumental Outtake)
DVD 1
The Hacienda, Manchester, England - 6/26/1982
- In a Lonely Place
- Ultraviolence
- Denial
- The Village
- We All Stand
- Senses
- Chosen Time
- 5 8 6
- Temptation
- Everything's Gone Green
Rosehill Hotel, Kilkenny, Ireland - 4/24/1983
- We All Stand
- Leave Me Alone
- Denial
- The Village
- Temptation
- Confusion
- Age Of Consent
- Blue Monday
- Everything's Gone Green
- Ceremony
TV Sessions
- Blue Monday (Top Of The Pops - 3/31/1983)
- Confusion (Countdown - 1983)
- Age Of Consent (Switch - 1983)
- Blue Monday (Switch - 1983)
- Thieves Like Us (Top Of The Pops - 5/3/1984)
Extras
- Your Silent Face (The Hacienda, Manchester, England - 1/26/1983)
- 5 8 6 (The Hacienda, Manchester, England - 1/26/1983)
- We All Stand (Recreation Centre, Tolworth, England - 3/12/1983)
- Leave Me Alone (Recreation Centre, Tolworth, England - 3/12/1983)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart (Tower Ballroom, Birmingham, England - 5/9/1983)
- Ultraviolence (First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN - 6/29/1983)
- The Village (Uni-Mensa, Dusseldorf, Germany - 3/30/1984)
- Thieves Like Us (Alabamahalle, Munich, Germany - 4/5/1984)
- Blue Monday (Alabamahalle, Munich, Germany - 4/5/1984)
- Lonesome Tonight (Metropol, Berlin, Germany - 4/8/1984)
- Confusion (Metropol, Berlin, Germany - 4/8/1984)
DVD 2
- Play At Home - Channel 4 documentary, 1984
The Hacienda, Manchester, England - 7/20/1983
- Blue Monday
- Age Of Consent
- Lonesome Tonight
- Your Silent Face
- Leave Me Alone
- 5 8 6
- Denial
- Confusion
- Temptation
- Thieves Like Us
- In a Lonely Place
- Everything's Gone Green
Blue Monday b/w The Beach (released as Factory FAC 73 (U.K.)/FACTUS 10 (U.S.), 1983)
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Confusion / Confused Beats b/w Confusion (Instrumental) / Confusion (Rough Mix) (released as Factory FAC 93 (U.K.)/Streetwise SWRL 2213 (U.S.), 1983)
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Thieves Like Us b/w Lonesome Tonight (released as Factory FAC 103 (U.K.), 1984)
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Murder b/w Thieves Like Us (Instrumental) (released as Factory Benelux FBN 22, 1984)
Pat d'Uzine says
... but no "Video 5-8-6" (22'25") ?
Jeff Hitz says
It's actually on the digital files as the 18th track on disc 2.