Track Listing

1. Sink Or Swim
2. Twist Of Fate
3. Summer Days
4. This Is Home
5. Running Out Of Luck
6. Dynamo
7. Poisonous Intent
8. These Changes
9. Walk On Silver Water
10. Shine Like The Sun
11. Runaway
12. Head Into Tomorrow
13. Falling Trees
14. Split The Atom

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1931 in Music
• Released on: 2009-10-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
Put together in 2007 by former Joy Divison/New Order memberBernard Sumner with the help of Phil Cunningham and Jake Evans, Bad Lieutenant spent over a year writing, recording andmixing this, their 2009 debut album 'Never Cry Another Tear'. The album's mix of jangly indie pop and electronica recalls his work with Electronic and New Order while the additionof Blur bassist Alex James on various tracks - as well as drummer and long time collaborator Stephen Morris - fleshes out the sound. The lead single 'Sink Or Swim' is featured.

Customer Reviews

Let's Pretend ....
Let's play a game.

Let's pretend for a little while that we know nothing at all about the
remarkable lineage of this fine ensemble's illustrious main protagonists.

Difficult I know but the suspension of knowledge and prior expectations
can sometimes reap rich rewards. No more so than with Bad Lieutenant's
new album 'Never Cry Another Tear'. It is a revelation.

This is not just a good album, it is a great album in every way.
The fourteen songs in this collection are among the very best
you will hear this year.

In no particular order and without reference to specific individual
contributions, stand-out tracks would have to include 'Twist Of Fate',
an ecstatically rich composition with a strong central melody and glowing
supporting harmonies, all contained within a strong driving rhythmic
framework. Perfectly conceived and performed.

The chiming chords and elastic bass of 'This Is Home' support another
uplifting sonic experience. The simple construction of the song
has much to do with its big impact.

In other hands 'Running Out Of Luck' might well have been a tad
brittle and twee. Here, however, incipient sentimentality is transcended
to deliver a truly heart-warming highlight. It is an alluring tune.
Songwriting of the very highest order.

Uncluttered simplicity is maintained throughout the project.
The economy of purpose and vision serves the material well.

'These Changes' is a slower-paced eco-anthem which wears its
heart on its sleeve. The lyrical sentiment is strong without
ever drifting into bathos.

'Shine Like The Sun' does just what it says on the tin.
A shiny, sparkly no-frills piece of warm-fuzzy perfection.
Endearingly naive but very much alive.

So too 'Runaway'. A little voice in my ear whispers that it
really shouldn't work. It is perilously close to the edge of
something which could have been insufferably bland but these
fine musicians manage to drag it back from the brink and breathe
warm life into its lungs. It is lovely song and the world could
do with a little loveliness now and again !

'Head Into Tomorrow' is nothing less than glorious.

For those too young to remember and for those too old to care
there is everything to gain from listening to this wonderful album.
Music really doesn't get much better.

Essential.

Bad Lieutenant: Not New Order. Not a Harvey Keitel movie. Not bad at all
Bernard Sumner and New Order bandmates Steve Morris and Phil Cunningham return sans bassist Peter Hook (following the seemingly bitter and irrevocable 2007 New Order breakup) but with the additions of Alex James (Blur) and Jake Evans (Rambo and Leroy) as Bad Lieutenant. Hook let it be know that he didn't want the New Order moniker used without him involved and Sumner took the new band name from that old Keitel movie when he saw it playing at former Electronic partner Johny Marr's house.

The new album sounds a little bit like a blast from the New Order past ("without the bass," as Hook has observed). In a good way, it's also bit like Electronic. Reading the track list, you might think someone had raided Paul Weller's wastebasket during the Wild Wood recordings. And so what? As Sumner sings on Summer Days: "1993 was a special time for me."

Don't expect anything too new or different. "Head Into Tomorrow," sports not only a Weller-esque title, but an Oasis-like delivery from the band's second vocalist Jake Evans.

But for new New Order fans, especially those who can't wait to hear Sumner singing again, NEVER CRY ANOTHER TEAR may cause a few happy tears to be spilled.

Best Bernard Sumner release since technique
I loved New Order, I mean REALLY loved New Order - quite simply the best band ever in my opinion. So i was gutted when they finally split but I needn't have worried as the split seems to have given Bernard a new lease of life and with his new project Bad Lieutenant he has delivered his best album since Technique.
Less keyboards and more lush guitars give the album a sumptious troubadour feel, and first single "Sink or Swim" is the Bernard at his songwriting best!"Twist of Fate" is surely destined to become a classic also. Newcomer Jake adds lead vocals to a few songs on the album to great effect - all in all a real return to form