In New Order's "Round and Round"'s club frenzy edifys us about internal madness. Doubts, vexations and depression swirl round and round in a cerebral jungle. The innocent has been cruelly gaslighted and left to piece together how someone could be capable of such callousness. ["Now you can't tell me what's going on/And that I am weak while you are strong/ What is it you need, that makes your heart bleed/Do you really know? 'Cause it doesn't show."] "What is it you need?" predates the "How much do you need?" from Music Complete's soaring "Restless". The people who chase material wealth are curiosities and vexing to New Order. Technique's previous song "Loveless" has the longing wondering line about working a lifetime for someone and them not even caring. This treatment can rip the innards out of you and New Order's song captures the mental state that goes along with that. [The picture you see is no portrait of me. It's too real to be shown to someone I don't know. And it's driving me wild. It makes me act like a child] Some of the great lines ever highlighting the maddening effects of cruelty. Back to square one, back to being a "child" and acting out. You thought you were all grown up and mature. A cruel person/act slices and cuts you down just like that. "Round and Round"'s madness is similar to "Mr. Disco"'s search through the club as "Loveless" longing and plangency parallel "Run". The high-pitched left ear right ear back-n-forth go-gos, fluttering rimshots, synth stabs, booming bounce and compression all swirl to give "Round & Round" the image of a person's brain all-consumed with millions of pinballing criss-crossing questions and vexations. A masterpiece song!
In New Order's "Round and Round"'s club frenzy edifys us about internal madness. Doubts, vexations and depression swirl round and round in a cerebral jungle. The innocent has been cruelly gaslighted and left to piece together how someone could be capable of such callousness. ["Now you can't tell me what's going on/And that I am weak while you are strong/ What is it you need, that makes your heart bleed/Do you really know? 'Cause it doesn't show."] "What is it you need?" predates the "How much do you need?" from Music Complete's soaring "Restless". The people who chase material wealth are curiosities and vexing to New Order. Technique's previous song "Loveless" has the longing wondering line about working a lifetime for someone and them not even caring. This treatment can rip the innards out of you and New Order's song captures the mental state that goes along with that. [The picture you see is no portrait of me. It's too real to be shown to someone I don't know. And it's driving me wild. It makes me act like a child] Some of the great lines ever highlighting the maddening effects of cruelty. Back to square one, back to being a "child" and acting out. You thought you were all grown up and mature. A cruel person/act slices and cuts you down just like that. "Round and Round"'s madness is similar to "Mr. Disco"'s search through the club as "Loveless" longing and plangency parallel "Run". The high-pitched left ear right ear back-n-forth go-gos, fluttering rimshots, synth stabs, booming bounce and compression all swirl to give "Round & Round" the image of a person's brain all-consumed with millions of pinballing criss-crossing questions and vexations. A masterpiece song!