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"State of the Nation" Single by New Order; from the album Brotherhood (CD only) B-side "Shame of the Nation" Released: 15 September 1986: Recorded: 1986: Length: 6: 32 (12"), 3:27 (7") Label: Factory - FAC 153: Songwriter(s) Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner [1] Producer(s) New Order: New Order singles chronology "
Brotherhood saw the band further exploring their mix of post-punk and electronic styles, with the track listing being conceptually divided into "disco and rock sides". [3] [4] Stephen Morris stated that the album "was kind of done in a schizophrenic mood that we were trying to do one side synthesizers and one side guitars", which he retrospectively stated "didn't quite work".
The music of "Love Vigilantes" forgoes most of the electronics that otherwise define New Order's typical sound. [4] After an opening of four hits on a snare drum, the music is built around multiple hooks, starting with the intro theme, which Spin magazine called "Beatlesque", [7] played by Sumner on a melodica followed by his acoustic guitar riff which repeats throughout the song. [3]
The Best of New Order (stylised as (the best of) NewOrder) is a greatest hits album by English band New Order.It was released in the United Kingdom on 21 November 1994 by London Records and, with a different track listing, in the United States on 14 March 1995 by Qwest Records and Warner Bros. Records. [1]
The ukulele (/ ˌ juː k ə ˈ l eɪ l i / ooh-kə-LAY-lee; from Hawaiian: ʻukulele [ˈʔukuˈlɛlɛ]), also called a uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. It generally employs four nylon strings. [1] [2] [3] The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and construction ...
"Thieves Like Us" is the seventh single by the British rock band New Order, released in April 1984 by Factory Records, catalogue number FAC 103. It is named after the 1974 film Thieves Like Us , directed by Robert Altman .
The limitations of the ukulele causes the orchestra to think creatively about how to cover a musical piece, popular tunes are broken down to their constituent parts and then with each musician sticking a distinct part, the combination of different soprano, tenor, baritone and bass registers of ukuleles are used (with separate members playing ...
The song is about New Order's then-souring relationship with Tony Wilson, the owner of Factory Records, which was the band's label at the time.On the documentary "New Order Story", Bernard Sumner discusses that he did not originally intend the song to be about Tony Wilson and the tension between Wilson and the group, but Sumner admits that growing tension between the two men ultimately was ...