Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Dreams Never End
2. Truth
3. Senses
4. Chosen Time
5. I.C.B
6. The Him
7. Doubts Even Here
8. Denial

Disc 2:

1. Ceremony
2. Temptation
3. In A Lonely Place
4. Everything's Gone Green
5. Procession
6. Mesh
7. Hurt
8. Cries And Whispers
9. Ceremony (Alt. Version)
10. Temptation (12\x{201d} Mix)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10603 in Music
• Released on: 2008-06-15
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .28 pounds

CD Description
After the tragic suicide of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, the band restructured. Guitarist Bernard Sumner, whose gift for combining the melodic with the hypnotic had been the band's cornerstone, stepped up to the microphone. The resulting debut MOVEMENT finds the group taking a brave step away from its unfortunate past. Preserved are Joy Division's dark edges--Sumner's guitar attack swerves deftly between funereal repetition and noisy bursts, while bassist Peter Hook continues to explore his instrument's upper registers. From the slow, deliberate build and melodic interplay of its opening moment, the mid-tempo "Dreams never End", MOVEMENT boldly states the band's more experimental, slightly less emotionally turgid agenda. That Sumner is trapped under the influence of Curtis is undeniable--at times, the resemblance is alarming, but MOVEMENT is the sound of Sumner finding his voice. The spacey synth-pop of "The Him" foreshadows the sound New Order was to slowly develop, as Sumner became more comfortable with the upper reaches of his vocal range. Dynamic play abounds--the existentialist drone of "Truth" gives way to a crushing, chaotic guitar wail, while the intense, revealingly named "Doubts Even Here" slowly erupts beneath a disturbing double-vocal, stressing the burgeoning diversity of this legendary band in the making.

Customer Reviews

Who says "Movement" is New Order's worst LP? I certainly don't!
Just look at the bonus disc - it contains some of their strongest-ever songs: "Everything's Gone Green", "Procession", "Temptation", "Hurt" - "Hurt", for ****'s sake, where did THAT come from? When did you EVER hear music like that? PIL's "Metal Box" maybe? Talk about (to paraphrase Sounds, or was it NME?) people sitting on sofas in the rain wondering where this music came from! It's as though (with disc 2) Rhino have unearthed a lost classic New Order LP (except that you've heard all the songs before).

Anyway, you try following up the best LP ever made (Closer) after your lead singer's just died and see how you get on.

Plus...the rare alternate version of "Ceremony" AND the half-hearted packaging of the London CD edition dispensed with.

Why would anyone not buy this?

A forgotten classic
This a great album , try not to think "Joy Division" when listening to it and enjoy it for what it is. Standouts - The Him, Truth, Chosen Time (almost a happy song !) and of course Dreams Never End. In my opinion their 2nd best after PCandL , the singles and B sides from this time are also excellent - Procession , ETGG , Mesh , Hurt etc sound wonderful still. Why moan about the sequencing when its a pretty simple to play the tracks in any order you wish ?

Tattered legacy
Trust New Order eh? Such an amazing back catalogue of ingenuity, joy, feeling, and innovation. And with these reissues, the chance to draw a line under their amazing career after their acrimonious split last year.

And what do we get? A lazy, clumsy, set of reissues that offer neither satisfactory remastered versions or a bonus disc of rarities nicely captured in one place. Even the sleeve notes are cheap and don't tell the whole story. The bonus discs contain tracks recorded straight from vinyl - can you believe that?

Compare with the Pet Shop Boys or Depeche Mode reissues, and weep!