| New Order – True Faith Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Barney doesn't do drugs!? Ha ha. I think him wearing the 'Don't do drugs' T-shirt was obviously taking the piss. They spent £250k in Ibiza getting wrecked on E's when they should have been recording Technique and I saw Barney in the Hacienda years ago, smashed out of his face. If you're in any doubt, check out this interview: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8yH4h1Z6rcs&feature=related "I've smoken, spoken, smoken to him..." he's completely wasted. When they toured with the Sugarcubes and PIL, Johnny Rotten said 'that New Order take more fucking drugs than the Grateful Dead..." Hooky's also said that recording Republic was very painful, especially because they were taking so much cocaine at the time. With regards to the song, if the opening line isn't about coming up on an E, then I'm the queen of England: "I feel so extraordinary, something's got a hold on me, I get this feeling I'm in motion, a sudden sense of liberty" I guess the rest of the song is about his childhood, which he's always been very guarded about, even in the David Nolan biography he doesn't give much away. I've heard him say before (on Channel 4's 'Star Test' I think) that there's been a lot of illness in his family, he didn't know his dad and was mainly raised by his grandparents, surrounded by lots of WW2 memorabilia. |
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| New Order – All Day Long Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| yep, agree with Smokler. Barney's said it's one of the few songs he's written where the lyrics do actually mean something. | |
| New Order – Temptation Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is my favourite song of all time ever (well the 12" version!). It always sends a shiver down my spine when the guitars kick in. As it did to Barney too apparently, because Rob Gretton threw a snowball down his back while he was recording the vocals, hence some of the 'oohs'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temptation_(New_Order_song) Barney's said he'd taken half a tab of acid during the recording of the song and was trying to write a love song, but was out of it and the lyrics don't mean anything at all. |
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| New Order – Blue Monday Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's been well documented that the song is (in part at least) about the Falklands war and the sinking of the Belgrano. "I see a ship in the harbour..." Check out the original video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=niCfmQajoh0 |
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| New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Er, no it isn't. I've read in a couple of interviews with Barney and Carol Morley's documentary 'The alcohol Years' that while they were recording Low-Life in London, these two girl groupies (Carol Morley (sister of Paul Morley) and Debbie Turner) who they knew from Manchester, came down to London, stayed at their flat and ended up trashing the place. Barney wrote the lyrics about them. I don't know if that's because he and/or Hooky were sleeping with them. The girls were in a band called TOT: "TOT was a late 80s Manchester girl band - or a duo, to be exact - starring Debbie Turner on vocals and Carol Morley on various instruments. Debbie and Carol were well-known Hacienda regulars and got to know New Order and Andy Robinson, who was at the time chief engineer for New Order. New Order were asked if they could lend TOT some keyboards and drum machines to record a track, as they only had a crap beatbox and two guitars. New Order, being the nice guys they are, let them into their studio and Andy Robinson, being the nice guy that he is, helped produce it. (If the truth be known, he wrote most of the track). DFM eventually released it with the remixes. Although TOT produced their own badly-recorded cassettes and flogged them round Manchester, the track in question was their only proper vinyl release. New Order never spoke to the TOT duo afterwards, as they wrecked the flat they were renting out in London and were involved in some very bad alchohol-related shennanigans. Carol Morley is now a film maker and some of the outrageous behaviour that shocked the previously unshockable New Order is detailed in a DVD film called 'The Alchohol Years'. It may be available on the net somewhere." |
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| New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Er, no it isn't. I've read in a couple of interviews with Barney and Carol Morley's documentary 'The alcohol Years' that while they were recording Low-Life in London, these two girl groupies (Carol Morley (sister of Paul Morley) and Debbie Turner) who they knew from Manchester, came down to London, stayed at their flat and ended up trashing the place. Barney wrote the lyrics about them. I don't know if that's because he and/or Hooky were sleeping with them. The girls were in a band called TOT: "TOT was a late 80s Manchester girl band - or a duo, to be exact - starring Debbie Turner on vocals and Carol Morley on various instruments. Debbie and Carol were well-known Hacienda regulars and got to know New Order and Andy Robinson, who was at the time chief engineer for New Order. New Order were asked if they could lend TOT some keyboards and drum machines to record a track, as they only had a crap beatbox and two guitars. New Order, being the nice guys they are, let them into their studio and Andy Robinson, being the nice guy that he is, helped produce it. (If the truth be known, he wrote most of the track). DFM eventually released it with the remixes. Although TOT produced their own badly-recorded cassettes and flogged them round Manchester, the track in question was their only proper vinyl release. New Order never spoke to the TOT duo afterwards, as they wrecked the flat they were renting out in London and were involved in some very bad alchohol-related shennanigans. Carol Morley is now a film maker and some of the outrageous behaviour that shocked the previously unshockable New Order is detailed in a DVD film called 'The Alchohol Years'. It may be available on the net somewhere." |
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