Retro (New Order album)

Infobox Album
Name = Retro
Type = box
Artist = New Order

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Released = start date|2002|12|9
Recorded = 1981–2002
Genre = Rock, house, synthpop
Length = 359:06 (five-disc version)
Label = London
Producer = New Order, Martin Hannett, John Robie, Stephen Hague, Steven Osbourne
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:grkciklsbb59 link]
*BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/music/2002/12/09/new_order_retro.shtml 12/9/02]
*"NME" (7/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/new-order/6895 link]
*Pitchfork (4.8/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/20359/New_Order_Retro_box_set 1/24/03]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/neworder/albums/album/272812/review/5947030/retro 1/3/03]
*"Stylus" (B-) [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=752 9/1/03]
Last album = "International" (2002)
This album = "Retro" (2002)
Next album = "Waiting for the Sirens' Call" (2005)

"Retro" is a 2002 box set of music by the English band New Order. It comprises four themed CDs. In the UK, initial quantities came with a fifth disc which featured rare tracks.

History

The box set was released as a compromise. The band's manager, Rob Gretton, had originally envisioned a box set called "Recycle", which would feature all the singles New Order had released, one single per CD, in a grand 20 CD box.

Gretton's vision of "Recycle" would feature every recorded version of every New Order track as well as unreleased material, making it the holy grail for New Order fans. However, London Records deemed this as too excessive, and the idea was shelved. New Order released "Get Ready" in 2001 and a year later "Retro" surfaced.

The CDs each have a particular theme: "Pop", "Fan", "Club" and "Live". Each one was selected by a friend of the band.

Track listing

All songs written by New Order, except where noted.

Disc one: "Pop"

Selected by Miranda Sawyer; journalist.

#"Fine Time" (from "Technique") – 4:42
#"Temptation" (from 12" single Fac63) – 8:42
#"True Faith" (from "Substance") – 5:53
#"The Perfect Kiss" (from "Low-Life") – 4:49
#"Ceremony" (Joy Division) (from 12" single Fac33) – 4:24
#"Regret" (from "Republic") – 4:08
#"Crystal" (from "Get Ready") – 6:49
#"Bizarre Love Triangle" (from "Brotherhood") – 4:21
#"Confusion" (from 12" single Fac93) – 8:13
#"Round and Round" (from "Technique") – 4:31
#"Blue Monday" (from 12" single Fac73) – 7:28
#"Brutal" (from "The Beach" Motion Picture Soundtrack) – 4:49
#"Slow Jam" (from "Get Ready") – 4:52
#"Everyone Everywhere" (from "Republic") – 4:25

Disc two: "Fan"

Selected by John McCready; music journalist.

#"Elegia" (from "Low-Life") – 4:55
#"In a Lonely Place" (Joy Division) (from 12" single Fac33) – 6:15
#"Procession" (from 12" single Fac63) – 4:28
#"Your Silent Face" (from "Power, Corruption & Lies") – 5:59
#"Sunrise" (from "Low-Life") – 6:00
#"Let's Go" – 3:53
#"Broken Promise" (from "Brotherhood") – 3:45
#"Dreams Never End" (from "Movement") – 3:12
#"Cries and Whispers" (from "Everything's Gone Green"; single FBNL 8) – 3:25
#"All Day Long" (from "Brotherhood") – 5:10
#"Sooner Than You Think" (from "Low-Life") – 5:12
#"Leave Me Alone" (from "Power, Corruption & Lies") – 4:39
#"Lonesome Tonight" (from 12" single Fac103) – 5:11
#"Every Little Counts" (from "Brotherhood") – 4:28
#"Run Wild" (from "Get Ready") – 3:56

Disc three: "Club"

Selected by Mike Pickering; DJ.

#"Confusion" (Koma & Bones vocal mix, with Bernard's new vocal) – 6:01
#"Paradise" (Robert Racic mix) – 6:40
#"Regret" (Sabres Slow 'n' Low mix) – 6:42
#"Bizarre Love Triangle" (Shep Pettibone extended remix) – 6:42
#"Shell Shock" (John Robie mix) – 6:28
#"Fine Time" (Steve 'Silk' Hurley mix) – 6:16
#"1963" ('95 Arthur Baker mix) – 5:04
#"Touched by the Hand of God" (original version) – 3:42
#"Everything's Gone Green" (original) – 5:31
#"Blue Monday" (Jam & Spoon Manuela mix) – 6:39
#"World in Motion" (Subbuteo mix, Pickering/Parke mix) – 5:08
#"Here to Stay" (extended instrumental, Chemical Brothers remix) – 5:55
#"Crystal" (Lee Coombs remix) – 7:03

Disc four: "Live"

Selected by Bobby Gillespie; vocalist from Primal Scream.

#"Ceremony" (Joy Division) (Studio 54, Barcelona, 7 July 1984) – 4:49
#"Procession" (Polytechnic of Central London, 6 December 1985) – 3:34
#"Everything's Gone Green" (Recreation Centre, Kingston-upon-Thames, Tolworth, London 12 March 1983) – 5:09
#"In a Lonely Place" (Joy Division) (Glastonbury Festival, 20/06/81) – 5:37
#"Age of Consent" (Spectrum Arena, Warrington, 1 March 1986) – 5:02
#"Elegia" (Glastonbury Festival, 19 June 1987) – 4:46
#"The Perfect Kiss" (Glastonbury Festival, 19 June 1987) – 9:43
#"Fine Time" (claims to be from Hoffman Estates, Chicago, 30 June 1989 but is really Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 5 July 1989) – 5:04
#"World" (Starplex Amphitheatre, Dallas, 21 July 1993) – 4:46
#"Regret" (Reading Festival, 31 August 1993) – 4:02
#"As It Is When It Was" (Reading Festival, 31 August 1993) – 3:48
#"Intermission by Alan Wise" (Olympia, Paris, 12 November 2001) – 1:20
#"Crystal" (Big Day Out, Gold Coast, 20 January 2002) – 6:51
#"Turn My Way" (Olympia, Liverpool, 18 July 2001) – 4:57
#"Temptation" (Academy, Brixton, 10 October 2001) – 7:47

Disc five : "Bonus" (Limited Edition CD)

#"Temptation '98" – 4:08
#"Transmission" (live) – 4:01
#"Such a Good Thing" (from "World in Motion" re-release) – 4:08
#"Theme from "Best & Marsh"" – 4:26
#"Let's Go" (extract from Instrumental used on "Salvation" motion picture soundtrack) – 2:03
#"True Faith" (Pink Noise Morel edit) – 4:29
#"Run Wild" (Steve Osborne original mix) – 4:13
#"The Perfect Kiss" (live take recorded at video shoot) – 9:56
#"Elegia" (full version) – 17:30