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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent evolution of a great band, November 6, 2005
I disagree with the previous review and I really have grown to like WFTSC. Actually, I think the lyrics are very good on this CD. I listened to NO 20 years ago, and I appreciate how the band has evolved and grown up (along with myself). We're all 20 years older since then and I give NO great credit for not trying to just re-hash an earlier era like so many bands.
Perfect Kiss and Confusion were fantastic songs in their day - and still timelessly hold their own. But the Summer of Love was 20 years ago. Ian Curtis died 25 years ago. And 1963 was...
Get this CD if you're a NO fan. It's a solid work in my opinion with no "filler".
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Work In Years, December 10, 2005
I will admit to being a hardcore New Order fan, so anyone reading this should go in knowing that -- there's not a lot I don't like about them, have just about everything they've ever done, CD singles, bootlegs, live, you name.
Having said that, I have to admit I thought their last few albums have been a touch weak -- though I loved "Regret," the rest of the album was, well, uneven. Republic needed something, and the Soccer thing was okay, but not up to them. Crystal? Well, again, okay.
Again, my favorite NO album is Technique, probably a contrarian view to the Blue Monday folks, or the Substance - post JD crowd. But it hangs together as an album quite well. Hence, after a lot of verbiage, I can say I was extremely pleased by "Waiting for the Sirens Call." It's not old New Order, it's just New Order and a whole lot of talent -- Barney's voice is as it is, not the range of Mariah Carey, thank God, but it has so much character I really like, maybe it's presumptuous of an American to say, but it sounds like Manchester working folks.
The songs are catchy, though not quite pop, and maybe it's just me, but I love the lyrics -- "writing songs on your computer," evidently some others don't like that, I think it's self-consciously ironic and sardonic, even a bit self-deprecating.
My only quibble is that the weakest song on the album comes first -- the whole "Joe" effort was more a B-side work and should have been left to a CD-Single, the album would have been better without it.
I do hope this isn't their swan song, they don't really churn out the albums like some other bands, though they all have side-projects, which keep some folks going (Love'em all actually).
One last thought -- Hook's innovative bass sometimes is a little strong in the mix, but it really has held up over time, I'm surprised he hasn't been copied more, and of course the NO synth, though maybe influenced heavily by Kraftwerk, was really a new thing back then and they probably helped create everything from Electronica to Drums and Bass to Techno and Technometal.
Not a bad decades work for a band.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
NOT BAD, March 25, 2006
This would make a good workout tape to get the heart going. I agree with reviewer "BUZZ" that the lyrics are sometimes nonsensical and silly. The music is very interesting.
I get the same feeling listening to this fresh stuff as I did when I heard REM for the first time live in Madison 20 years ago. It has a freshness much like Morrisey's latest.
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