A box for Black Paul.
Mar. 15th, 2005 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaI'm listening to New Order Substance, using the laptop as an oversized Walkman. Goddamn they sucked when they tried doing the funky New York dance act thing. "Confusion", "Shellshocked" and particularly "State Of The Nation", for which there is no hole deep enough. And this is the long version.
We had DSL until about 9:30pm. It was like we were in a one-room
Goodies episode, WAITING FOR THE END! The dialup was arranged
in time, though, so I reassembled the PC, found the phone cable (after only
one call to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
arkady to check I hadn't lent it to her), rejigged
the house network and rediscovered that trying to solve a problem on Windows
is much less time-efficient than simply rebooting. My net connection now
matches the speed of my laptop.
We also tried a new USB 2.0 card in both the Mac and redcountess' PC,
establishing that the card is fine (though it doesn't fit properly) and so the
2.5" disk or the disk enclosure is not working, established the same when we
applied external power to the enclosure and found the old 2.5" disk so we can test
further by swapping that in. And Arnie the cat (Six-Dinner Sid) came in for a cuddle.
I think the unemployed ennui has hit. I have applied for jobs last night and this lunchtime, I have sat around on IRC, I have read Slashdot, we have this much money left. It's nice to curl up to Liz all day, though.
It's been a highly productive day but it doesn't feel like one.
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:11 am (UTC)Btw, that Goodies episode is on the second DVD compilation (though you probably knew that).
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:15 am (UTC)The Australian 7" sucks for putting "State Of The Nation" on the flip, though.
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:27 am (UTC)Btw, are you acquainted with The Wake (the Factory one not the American derivagoth band)? I got their Harmony + Singles a while back and it's the closest thing to New Order having released a Movement/Power, Corruption & Lies part 2.
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:32 am (UTC)Your ears, they are of cloth!
I am indeed familiar with the Factory Wake, featuring Bobby Gillespie pre-JAMC. Specifically, like all the dud tracks on Movement, the album where New Order got to find out just how hard it was to be Joy Division copyists.
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:27 am (UTC)I recall those giddy days of artistic licence, where one merely needed to loop the drums, add a few orchestral synth stabs, and make stuttery noises with the backing vocals. For fiften minutes.
*NB some sarcasm supplied with this kit.
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 12:37 am (UTC)FWIW I quite like "Confusion".
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:35 pm (UTC)To be honest, I didn't like VNV Nation much upon first hearing them; the whole blood-and-honour war-anthem thing grated a bit. (I know that Joy Division played with fascist/militarist imagery a lot too, though they didn't bring it into their lyrics to the extent that VNV Nation do.)
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:16 am (UTC)BW, I played "Age of Consent" for the first time in ages a few days ago - now that really should have been a single...
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:20 am (UTC)They put "Age Of Consent" on Palatine talking about it as the single that should have been. They were still doing the no-singles-off-albums thing at that time. (The only reason "Perfect Kiss" was on Lowlife was that they needed one last track in a hurry, so quickly did a five-minute edit.)
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Date: 2005-03-16 01:10 am (UTC)Probably, I didn't actually buy a copy so didn't have one to flog!
They were still doing the no-singles-off-albums thing at that time.
Yes, at one time it was almost the done alternative thing not to have singles on albums, obviously Joy Division and early New Order are the prime examples of that but it happened with a lot of the early post-punk/goth groups too.
If you wanted the single... you bought the single.
And the album tracks were meant to be strong enough to stand up on their own.
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Date: 2005-03-16 03:20 am (UTC)Always thought "Your silent face" was the tune of choice from that LP, personally.. But "Age of Consent" was pretty good.
Hey reddragdiva... what did you think of True Faith?
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Date: 2005-03-16 10:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 10:20 am (UTC)Age of concent is good though. What do ya think of Krafty... more like dodgy in my book. I was hoping for a few decent remixes to liven it up, but it seems the CD single almost just repeats the same track 4 times...
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Date: 2005-03-16 10:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-16 11:08 am (UTC)I guess I'm the only person who thinks the third (and last) Electronic album rocked. Though i do think the second one sucked like everyone else thinks
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:06 pm (UTC)OTOH, I found Here To Stay to be a return to form, up there with True Faith and Touched By The Hand Of God. Mind you, it may have been a case of the Chemical Brothers showing New Order how to do New Order again.
Have you heard the new single, Krafty?
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:30 am (UTC)Ha. Told ya.
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:32 am (UTC)(I also have a few other similarly deprecated cards sitting around.)
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Date: 2005-03-16 12:33 am (UTC)Re: unemployed ennui
Date: 2005-03-16 02:40 am (UTC)Re: unemployed ennui
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Date: 2005-03-16 03:44 pm (UTC)Why must you lie?
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