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fingertrouble) wrote2010-08-26 12:24 am
fingertrouble) wrote2010-08-26 12:24 am
Music 30 #11 — A song from your favorite band
Hmm well you can guess what's coming here...and if you follow Jeb50poundnote AND me, lucky person you get New Order in stereo - but I'll post something you might not have heard.
New Order - Turn the Heater On (Peel Session)
One of my favourite NO songs and it isn't even off an album or studio release, it's also a cover (nicely linking to Jeb's post) of Keith Hudson and unusually it's reggae, and off the first Peel Sessions LP (the bronze/gold one I think - they both had metallic ink covers, one bronze/gold the other silver - I have this on 12" like the vid, and original CD singles for both, I might have the other 12" too...originally they were 2x12" LPs on Peel's record label Strange Fruit.
As Jeb pointed out, New Order covers were rare, and them doing reggae apart from this, never. But I loved this when I first heard it on that 12" many years ago, and still love it. It keeps the reggae feel but also the echoing Martin 'Zero' Hannett style production, even though by then he wasn't around. Whereas dub reggae tends to go for warmth and bass, this seems to go to the chilly empty dark side and even to my ears relates back to Joy Division.
50poundnote AND me, lucky person you get New Order in stereo - but I'll post something you might not have heard.New Order - Turn the Heater On (Peel Session)
One of my favourite NO songs and it isn't even off an album or studio release, it's also a cover (nicely linking to Jeb's post) of Keith Hudson and unusually it's reggae, and off the first Peel Sessions LP (the bronze/gold one I think - they both had metallic ink covers, one bronze/gold the other silver - I have this on 12" like the vid, and original CD singles for both, I might have the other 12" too...originally they were 2x12" LPs on Peel's record label Strange Fruit.
As Jeb pointed out, New Order covers were rare, and them doing reggae apart from this, never. But I loved this when I first heard it on that 12" many years ago, and still love it. It keeps the reggae feel but also the echoing Martin 'Zero' Hannett style production, even though by then he wasn't around. Whereas dub reggae tends to go for warmth and bass, this seems to go to the chilly empty dark side and even to my ears relates back to Joy Division.