COMMUNITY: A New Order Online Tribute

Various Artists (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 2004)
• Original Release Date: June 1, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Retroforward
• ASIN: B0002E0QJ4
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,139,398 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sooner than you think - kREMLIN

2. Procession - Captain Black

3. Thieves Like Us - Evaluna

4. Face Up - Labster

5. Transmission - Project Wintermute

6. True Faith - Unfaith

7. Some Distant Memory - Cloudless

8. Heart and Soul - The Slightlynarrow Soundsystem

9. In A Lonely Place - C Bentley

10. Bizarre Love Triangle - Dance Upon Nothing

11. The Perfect Kiss - International

12. Dreams Never End - Flight

13. Dead Souls - Spiral of Silence

14. 586 - La Fin De Tout

15. We All Stand - The Minus One

16. Angel Dust - almanso

Editorial Reviews

Almost a year ago, designer Mike Nguyen (USA), musician Alejo Parella (Argentina) and webmaster of neworderonline Nicolas LeBlanc (Canada) - all long standing fans of the English band New Order - had the idea of creating a CD as a tribute to Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephan Morris, Gillian Gilbert and Ian Curtis. The members of the legendary New Order and Joy Division.

So, using the vehicle of neworderonline.com – the most popular New Order website on the internet – they ran a competition for other fans to submit their own cover versions of classic New Order tracks and a few from the band’s side projects.

This kind of compilation CD has been attempted before, yes, but not on the same kind of scale and with the same degree of talent and determination – not to mention the incredible effort by so many different from all corners of the world. Musicians responded from many x different countries across the globe. Not one of these bands had met before ‘in person’ and for many, this was their first contact with the producers of the CD.

As it turned out, this was a mammoth, time consuming undertaking - involving rehearsals, bands booking studio time, submissions by bands, collation of those submissions, fans voting on those submissions, working on designs, applying for publishing and reproduction rights, mastering, printing, and finally distribution of the CD.

Every track on the CD was voted for by subscribers to neworderonline.com, with an elimination round for each batch of tracks, so this CD is truly a representation of the tastes of New Order fans across the world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an excellent achievement, June 24, 2004

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"jamtart25" (the Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: COMMUNITY: A New Order Online Tribute (Audio CD)

Having followed this project from the start, I am full of praise for the three amigos who started the whole thing. Coordinating a worldwide project like this can't have been easy and having now seen and listened to the end result, it's hats off to them!
The artwork is professionally done, the flags especially are a nice touch.
Not all the songs will please everyone, but on average I think this is a good representation of New Order's catalogue together with some fine Joy Division tracks, and should be appreciated by most fans, together with the Community EP.

Personal favourites are Project Wintermute's Transmission, Labster's Face Up, Kremlin's Sooner Than You Think, and Flight's Dreams Never End.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In Good Order, June 18, 2004

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Mr. William J. Davies "vampyre21_uk" (Liverpool) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: COMMUNITY: A New Order Online Tribute (Audio CD)

As a fan of both New Order and Joy Division I looked forward to hearing this cd.

Great cd. Some wonderful performances and not a bad track out of all of them.All of the tracks are treated with the respect real fans of the band would wish to see.

Highlights for me were Kremelin, Evaluna, Flight and especially the C Bentley track.

A must for all New Order/ Joy Division fans.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Putting the Joy back into Joy Division, June 18, 2004

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Donny B (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: COMMUNITY: A New Order Online Tribute (Audio CD)

When I first heard about this album I was VERY usnsure.

You know, the usual tribute CD's are pretty poor, with one good cover on it.

This, however is different. From the opening note, to the 'secret' ending this album just oozes class.

There is something here for everyone. Synth based tracks for the techno orderites to guitar based tracks for the JD heads. There are many different styles and takes on the album, from the emptiness of Thieves like us to the full on power of Dead Souls.

It's very hard to pin down favourites but the perfect kiss or dreams never end would set the level of the bar.

Hope there will be a Community II

Donny