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Music : Low-Life (2 CD Collector's Edition)
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List Price: $24.98Amazon.com's Price: $19.99 You Save: $4.99 (20%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227988630
Format: Collector's Edition, Original recording remastered
Label: Rhino
Manufacturer: Rhino
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Rhino
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Studio: Rhino
Sales Rank: 3310
MPN: 516184
Disc 1:- Love Vigilantes
- The Perfect Kiss
- This Time of Night
- Sunrise
- Elegia
- Sooner Than You Think
- Sub-Culture
- Face Up
Disc 2:- The Perfect Kiss
- Sub-Culture
- Shellshock
- Shame of the Nation
- Elegia
- Let's Go
- Salvation Theme
- Dub Vulture
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Editorial Review:
Album Description:
Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1985 album from the Manchester quartet, one of the most successful and consistent bands of the '80s and beyond. After the suicide of vocalist, Ian Curtis, the three surviving members of Joy Division regrouped under the band name New Order, adding Gillian Gilbert on keyboards. The rest, as they say, is history. Disc One in this package contains the original album in its digitally remastered glory. Disc Two is filled with eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. This is as great as it gets! Rhino UK. 2008.
Amazon.com essential recording:
With the 1985 release of Low Life, New Order put forth their most commercially accessible effort to date. While some of the dark-wave drippings of their Joy Division roots are evident, high energy progressions, which would carry them for years to come, began to emerge here. Hits like "Perfect Kiss" and "Sub-Culture," with their synth hooks, club-stomping accents, and visceral lyrics, helped bridge the gap for growing synth-pop audiences who bolstered their success. Other refined techniques on the album became standard New Order conventions: sweeping analogue rolls, live and sequenced drum percussion, tight bass melodies, and edgy guitar leads. Sustained by a peerless level of emotional involvement, the vocals and lyrics further entice the listener with the obliquely nuanced style of Bernard Sumner. Standing the test of time, this release is a must-have in order to understand the origins of introspective pop-wave culture. --Lucas Hilbert
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
See the two newest reviews (other than this one). The consensus seems to be that there is a major but quick flaw on the first disc and many problems on the bonus discs.
Rating:  -
This is one of my favorite albums of all time but I have to jump in on the remastering issues. I just bought this yesterday and I have the same flaw on the song Sunrise that the previous reviewer reported. I'll take his word for the exact time of the flaw but there is definitely a remarkable volume drop in the right channel in the middle of the song. The right channel corrects itself pretty quickly but when I heard it I thought something was wrong with my CD player. This is a very noticeable ... Read More
Rating:  -
Attention buyers, the negative hype is surrounding the UK edition released in September. Rhino cleaned up the problems. In fact, I think disc 2 sounds AMAZING! I hear NONE of the problems stated in the prior review. I think that review is based on the UK edition, not this one. YAY!
Rating: -
The MUSIC on these New Order reissues get a 5/5, easily. However, there were far too many egregious mistakes made in the creation of the discs themselves to give them a pass. Only the first discs were re-mastered though they still have some problems, it is the bonus discs that are an absolute mess.
Warner Music/Rhino know about these problems, but there is yet no word on any forthcoming fixes. So I'd hold off until these issues are addressed.
Noted below are the specific ... Read More
Rating:  -
For those fans more into New Order's 80's techno-brit-pop sound, I suppose "Low-Life" might be a favorite. To me though, the band really came into its own with the lusher and more layered sounds of "Republic," "Get Ready," and "Waiting for the Sirens' Call," N.O.'s last three albums. While "Sub-Culture" is certainly one of their dance classics, it really doesn't have the resonance of "Age of Consent" or "Blue Monday." "Love Vigilantes" and "Perfect Kiss" are certainly fun, but hardly stand out. The ... Read More
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