socalhol
(Seattle) | | Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 16:50 | |
This from All Music:
Originally titled "KW1" (for "that Kraftwerk one," and the German synth explorers' influence is certainly highly felt), "Your Silent Face" is one of the key tracks on New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies. Musically, it's austere and gloriously chilly, a wash of synthesizers over electronic drums (Peter Hook's bassline doesn't even show up until the song is half over, and even then, it bows out after about 24 bars) with a melodica-like instrument wheezing out a hooky arpeggiated riff every so often. Lyrically, the song sounds like a deadpan parody of some of the late Ian Curtis' work, full of portentous imagery that just sort of tapers off without going anywhere in particular, capped off with the punchline "You've caught me at a bad time/So why don't you piss off?," proof that New Order's reputation as po-faced miserablists is largely unwarranted.
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drews
(London, Blighty) | | Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 16:31 | |
child-like recorder meshes with swirling synth meshes with dulcet voice meshes with angry lead bass: it shouldn't work but it does work, so so well
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hallogallo
(Raleigh, NC) | | Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 16:30 | |
There are certain "80s" songs that really appeal to me ... this is one of them.  |
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Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida) | | Posted: Mar 31, 2011 - 16:28 | |
rdo wrote:...I just died and went to heaven when RP played this song. There are so many rewards to listening to this station.
Dude! I always knew you were a big softie. Me, too. |
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meloman
(Warsaw, Poland) | | Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 04:47 | |
rdo wrote:I tried several internet Rock radio stations before I settled on RP and made a permanent home. This was the song that sealed that decision. I was always a big New Order fan before RP, but this was one song I had never heard (New Order must have the most fragmentary body of work of any post 1980 band). I just died and went to heaven when RP played this song. There are so many rewards to listening to this station.
I absolutely agree with the first and last sentence of your post. RP is the best! |
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sirdroseph
(Yes) | | Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 04:46 | |
This song rubs me the right way!  8! |
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MannAudioltd
(Worcester England) | | Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 04:43 | |
cmon Bill
How did you get into New Order it doesnt fit with the rest
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SuzG
(at my desk) | | Posted: Sep 23, 2010 - 13:29 | |
I tried. I did.
Just not for me. |
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BalesBub
(Boston) | | Posted: Sep 23, 2010 - 13:27 | |
Thrilled to hear this here. One of my favorite New Order songs, and why RP is so great.
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drews
(London, Blighty) | | Posted: Aug 22, 2010 - 13:15 | |
Synth music rarely got this good, this track ranks alongside the best that depeche mode, erasure or eurythmics ever released
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Art_Carnage
(DeepintheheartofTexas) | | Posted: Jul 21, 2010 - 14:16 | |
I'd like this a lot better if is sounded a lot less like the theme from "Knight Rider".
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thewiseking
(New York, New York) | | Posted: Jul 21, 2010 - 14:14 | |
certainly the most powerful thing these guys ever did. this succeeds as art.
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contractor07
(Ann Arbor Michigan) | | Posted: Jun 19, 2010 - 17:20 | |
Classic time frozen tune  |
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scrubbrush
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1983 owes us an apology for synths
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Apr 03, 2010 - 15:44 | |
I tried several internet Rock radio stations before I settled on RP and made a permanent home. This was the song that sealed that decision. I was always a big New Order fan before RP, but this was one song I had never heard (New Order must have the most fragmentary body of work of any post 1980 band). I just died and went to heaven when RP played this song. There are so many rewards to listening to this station.
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Hippostar
(Portland, OR) | | Posted: Mar 16, 2010 - 13:42 | |
This is the most inane thing I think I've heard in a long while. Did their five year old son write that synth part?
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tapatia1072
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Was this song in a movie? And if so, does anyone know which one? It seems like it's just on the edge of my recalling, but I can never seem to get it...
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DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | | Posted: Jan 12, 2010 - 12:56 | |
Definitely better than the usual New Oder stuff...
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WayUpNorth
(Down on the Farm) | | Posted: Nov 10, 2009 - 18:17 | |
burdell wrote:Nearly perfection. The goal of great music is to generate an emotional response in the listener. And for me, this does it everytime. Takes me to a wonderful place. Thank you.
Beautiful ... |
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df1489
(Lake Palestine, Tyler Tx) | | Posted: Nov 10, 2009 - 18:16 | |
rdo wrote:Had to stop what I was doing and just listen....
Amen... |
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Oct 10, 2009 - 06:11 | |
Had to stop what I was doing and just listen....
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burdell
(Atlanta, GA) | | Posted: Sep 08, 2009 - 17:38 | |
Nearly perfection. The goal of great music is to generate an emotional response in the listener. And for me, this does it everytime. Takes me to a wonderful place. Thank you.
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rcwsound
(St. Petersburg Florida) | | Posted: Jul 07, 2009 - 13:05 | |
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mybaldbird
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Gednabb wrote:has anyone else noticed that when the main tune "clarinet" sound comes in in the intro, it's ever-so-slightly flat?
And folks, yes it's dated, but so are Shakespeare and bellbottoms.
You have to appreciate things in their original context; not every tune is written to be a classic.
Nice song.
Yea, every time that "clarinet" comes in it irks me a little, pleasant tune otherwise. I was going to ask the same question, but wanted to see if anyone else noticed it too. |
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marcel
(some 10.000 km east of paradise) | | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 11:45 | |
Didn't really like 80's music in the 80's (of course, only generally speaking)... Can't say I changed my opinion...
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SweTex
(Swede living in Texas) | | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 11:44 | |
One of my favourite New Order songs. And another vinyl I left in Sweden...Aghhhhhhhhhhhhh
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 11:41 | |
Calling this Godlike still does not do it justice. 10 X 10 |
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fuh2
(salmon land) | | Posted: Mar 18, 2009 - 21:17 | |
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Darkmatter
(Back in Ye Olde Sweden) | | Posted: Feb 15, 2009 - 08:38 | |
narc wrote:Sumner is signing way off key. That's what kept me from enjoying New Order and Electronic (the band) although the synth and sequences are really good.  If you'd listen to the first New Order album (Movement), Bernard's singing is even worse off key than here. But when the music is as good as it gets, I can live with that. Besides, I consider it part of the charm with early New Order personally.  |
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esweazey73
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Jan 30, 2009 - 09:25 | |
Takes me back... keep going RP....
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