New Order / Retro [Box Set]
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Artist New Order
Album Title: Retro [Box Set]
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Primary Genre Electronica/Dance: Synth Pop
Format CD (5)
Released 12/17/2002
Label London Records 90 Ltd.
Catalog No R2 73834
Bar Code No 0 8122-73834-2 8
Packaging Box Set (5 Disk)
Tracks
[disc 1: Miranda Sawyer "POP"]
1. Fine Time (4:42)
2. Temptation (8:42)
3. True Faith (5:53)
4. The Perfect Kiss (4:49)
5. Ceremony (4:24)
6. Regret (4:08)
7. Crystal (6:49)
8. Bizarre Love Triangle (4:21)
9. Confusion (8:13)
10. Round And Round (4:31)
11. Blue Monday (7:28)
12. Brutal (4:49)
13. Slow Jam (4:52)
14. Everyone Everywhere (4:25)
[disc 2: John McReady" FAN"]
1. Elegia (4:55)
2. In A Lonely Place (6:15)
3. Procession (4:28)
4. Your Silent Face (5:59)
5. Sunrise (6:00)
6. Let's Go (3:53)
7. Broken Promise (3:45)
8. Dreams Never End (3:12)
9. Cries And Whispers (3:25)
10. All Day Long (5:10)
11. Sooner Than You Think (5:12)
12. Leave Me Alone (4:39)
13. Lonesome Tonight (5:11)
14. Every Little Counts (4:28)
15. Run Wild (3:56)
[disc 3: Mike Pickering "CLUB"]
1. Confusion (Koma & Bones Mix) (6:01)
2. Paradise (Robert Racic Mix) (6:40)
3. Regret (Sabres Slow 'n' Low Mix) (6:42)
4. Bizarre Love Triangle (Shep Pettibone Mix) (6:42)
5. Shellshock (John Robbie Mix) (6:28)
6. Fine Time (Steve 'Silk' Hurley Mix) (6:16)
7. 1963 ('95 Arthur Baker Mix) (5:04)
8. Touched By The Hand Of God (Original Version) (3:42)
9. Everything's Gone Green (Original Version) (5:31)
10. Blue Monday (Jam & Spoon Manuela Mix) (6:39)
11. World In Motion (Subbuteo Mix) (5:08)
12. Here To Stay (Extended Instrumental) (5:55)
13. Crystal (Lee Coombs Remix) (7:03)
[disc 4: New Order / Bobby Gillespie"LIVE"]
1. Ceremony [Live At Studio 54, Barcelona] (4:49)
2. Procession [Live At Polytechnic Of Central London] (3:34)
3. Everything's Gone Green [Live At Tolworth Rec Centre, London] (5:09)
4. In A Lonely Place [Live At 1981 Glastonbury Festival] (5:37)
5. Age Of Consent [Live At Warrington Arena] (5:02)
6. Elegia [Live At 1987 Glastonbury Festival] (4:46)
7. The Perfect Kiss [Live At 1987 Glastonbury Festival] (9:43)
8. Fine Time [Live At Chicago Hoffman Estates] (5:04)
9. World (The Price Of Love) [Live At Dallas Starplex Arena] (4:46)
10. Regret [Live At 1993 Reading Festival] (4:02)
11. As It Is When It Was [Live At 1993 Reading Festival] (3:48)
12. Intermission By Alan Wise [Live At The Paris Olympia] (1:20)
13. Crystal [Live At 2002 Big Day Out] (6:51)
14. Turn My Way [Live At Olympia, Liverpool] (4:57)
15. Temptation [Live At 2002 Big Day Out] (7:47)
[disc 5: "BONUS)"]
1. Temptation '98 (4:08)
2. Transmission (4:01)
3. Such a Good Thing (4:08)
4. Theme from 'Best & Marsh' (4:26)
5. Let's Go (2:03)
6. True Faith (Pink Noise Moral edit) (4:28)
7. Run Wild (Steve Osborne Original Mix) (4:13)
8. The Parfect Kiss (live take recorded at video shoot) (9:56)
9. Elegia (full version) (17:34)
Date Acquired 02/10/2003
Personal Rating
Acquired from Rhino Records
Purchase Price 63.00

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Review by Sam Samuelson
Yet another New Order compilation? Add Retro to the dizzying stack of New Order compilations and best-ofs. Actually, it was the second comp to come out in the last half of 2002 (International was released in October and contains nearly every song that is on Retro). With that said, Retro is probably the most expansive and interesting New Order compilation since 1987's Substance. Keeping an eye and ear on the amazing Joy Division set Heart and Soul, Rhino stepped in to publish this box as well (that alone will give Retro a bit more credibility). The packaging is more or less identical to Heart and Soul's four-CD orientation and comes complete with its own Peter Saville-directed artwork and 70-plus-page booklet. Unlike the Joy Division set, Retro makes no attempt to create a comprehensive or complete look at New Order's expansive catalog. Rather, it is set up as an ultimate mix tape that might be made for someone's cousin who knows nothing of this band. And like a mix tape, everyone's track list would be different and would probably carry on a different mood. This one is curated by four individual selectors, and each disc carries on with a major theme. The first disc, "POP," is compiled by U.K. journalist Miranda Sawyer and contains all the major New Order favorites: "Blue Monday," "Bizarre Love Triangle," "Confusion," and a few minor surprises such as "Brutal" (featured on the Beach soundtrack). John McCready, journalist and Hacienda DJ, put together a "FAN" disc that contains some moodier album cuts like "Your Silent Face" and "Sooner Than You Think." Mike Pickering (M People, Hacienda DJ), selects New Order's dance-friendly material on the "CLUB" disc. Finally, Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) picks up some "LIVE" tracks -- which proves to nicely distill New Order's generally hit-or-miss concert performances. While Retro may not be a complete necessity ("Blue Monday" and "Bizarre Love Triangle" should never appear on another New Order disc), it does pull together into one spot enough rarities (nothing too impossible to find, though) and a rather entertaining track list for obsessives. For the uninitiated, Substance is probably still the best place to start. [A five-disc version was released on a strictly limited basis that held some harder-to-find tracks.]
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