New Order - This Time Of Night

[cesaregomix]

NEW ORDER - one of my first bands, and one of the best for me (the cure - depeche mode - new order)

[spillandambience]

perfect for rotten hum drummery like ...cleaning the house lol!! love em!! <3 long tiiime

[350125GOW]

"this next songs called pumped full of drugs" barney

[kapry67]

i know this song since so many years....and it s always the same effect...great great rock song...and probably one of the ten greatest band i know.

[molonlave2010]

now that is a great old school hit

[depechemodevilla]

Great song and sound.

[BigAbdi]

The fourth "without you" in the second chorus sounds insanely good. My heart melts every time I hear that.

[Letalone]

@BigAbdi yes!!!

[BigAbdi]

@Letalone Haha I'm glad someone else feels the same way! Actually all of the "without you"'s are good from the fourth one on #SWAG #SYNTHS

[TeknoTim2002]

This song is one of New Order's best from the Eighties, which automatically makes it one of the best tracks overall from that decade; it merges post punk, new wave, new romantics, techno, dark wave and college rock. The only reason it never became as familiar as Perfect Kiss or Subculture is it's not a dance song (so little club play) and radio sucked then as it has ever since, and this was after MTV went commercial chasing dollars instead of innovation and quality.

[Letalone]

@TeknoTim2002 I agrre, this is one of New Orders better songs of the era; but radio at the time sucked and mtv...well, what more need we say. But I heard this plenty of times at the clubs and I'll tell yo I made the dance floor my bitch when the dj played this. But most of the clubs I went to made it a point to contrast the 'alterative' stations at the time in regards to what they should be playing...of course thats probably an easy statment to make. In any case this song does kick ass!!

[9lorac]

love this band but love the cure a little more

[RaffJaxon]

@9lorac I am right there with you :)

[baboon2525]

And while the sound may borrow from the Cure (and, er, they ripped off JD wholesale, like everyone else in 'goth'), the Cure could never produce anything close to this (though they're quite a good band).

[LegRoom3]

@baboon2525 its very like the stuff the cure did on pornography and seventeen seconds

[baboon2525]

Have to say this gets my vote for best New Order song ever. Dark as fuck - they should have pursued this direction a little more.

[franzsapka]

Very very very beautiful and equally sad...

[ml2001]

at 1.57 the piano medley is too beautiful.

[goatboy91587]

@ml2001 I agree. It's even more stunning in the live version.

[melibita]

likelikelike

[spirodds]

one of their best

[fassaalbrecht]

Bernard Sumner can't sing. And yet his vocals somehow make this song genius.

[bleah678]

bit of a cure rip-off

[handsomedevil98]

@bleah678 The cure ripped off their first band Joy Division! so its only fair they steal back!

[nikbear]

One of the best ever!!!!!

[icrushgators]

WOW! cannot believe you have this one! Awesome

[iamtahoe]

Fuck I was cool way back in 1985 listening to this on Sony headphones in my trench coat in the rain......... loving life...... lowlife.

[MrDevlar]

"RIFTS" invented the signatue of the unique NW sound this track tip top example...

Dev Bristol UK

[noveltyme]

This is one of the best LowLife songs and nobody really lives or loves it the way it should be. Some of Barneys best lyrics and the instruments are slowly evolving together. Whatever rhymes but man......this could have been a Skinny Puppy song and made me laugh my ass off.

[soulti76]

Brilliant! Just Brilliant!!!

[NEEJER]

Too right it is my man!!!

[mfcr96]

This one and "Sunrise" are the best tunes from this album.

[veridical1]

The New Order "band" on this image was packaged with the album as a ribbon of transparent paper, remember seeing for the first time in '85 it was so innovative and one of a kind, probably worth a fortune now on Ebay...

[RobDeManc]

@veridical1 - Yeah I had it too but got rid of it when I got a CD

[Salfordbluemoon]

@veridical1 I've still got that on vinyl....mine's probably worth nowt though....it's been well played!!

[MsLilianDM]

...so (new) romantic!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Letalone]

I prolly wouldn't have made it through 17 without this song.

[RobDeManc]

This song defines my mood at the moment.

[fieldmarshalhough]

does anyone else turn it up really high so they can hear jeffrey bernard at the start?

[RobDeManc]

Yeah I would if my volume turned up enough.

[OskaRusty]

@fieldmarshalhough - yeah what does he say - I get " Im one of the few people who...." whats next??

[fieldmarshalhough]

@OskaRusty - Apparently it's "I'm one of the few people who lives what's called the low life"... not that I can really hear it...

[goatboy91587]

@fieldmarshalhough I do, but my earbuds can actually pick it up even if the volume isn't cranked :)

[krayzieboy]

"I'm one of the few people who live what's called the low life..."

[kolos2006]

@fieldmarshalhough

I did.

[anglophiledave]

@fieldmarshalhough

yes. yes I do!

[goatboy91587]

@fieldmarshalhough All the time :)

[haroldz2323]

@fieldmarshalhough is that who is doing the little talking i often wondered if that was just effect or happy accident.

[indiebird12]

one of my Top 5 favorite bands of all time!

this is probably their best album with movement second then technique.

[austrailianpirate]

what the crap you talkin bout man? There still are very few bands today. In fact, music is like nothing now, thanks to us, lol.

[dobsondale]

none !!!!!!! i agree !!!!!!!

[quinnpeter344]

why do you preach ( utter bollocks)!! ?? Who gives a shit about your views, if New Order are so shit and sick, then why are you on this page?

[PatrickIngham21]

when he said the instrumentals are sick, i think he meant they are "good", sick is modern slang for something that is good.

As for his views on the vocals, sure they are not the best but im glad they carried on after ian died.

[RobDeManc]

The 80's would have been shit to go through in your 20's. I was a teenager back then and believe me it was a shit decade. New Order were one of the few good bands back then.

[handsomedevil98]

@RobDeManc & THE SMITHS/THE STONE ROSES who just come right at the end, but ohh I Loved the PET SHOP BOYS back the to lol!!

[RobDeManc]

Yeah pet shop boys were definately credible back in the 80's.

[pokotaurus]

Sad comment, sure Smiths were good, but why write that here? No always did Rock and always Will ROC, no matter they split

[MrArtVanderlay]

Profoundly shite.......thank fuck the Smiths were around at the same time, as an antidote to this turgid, meaningless dross.

[TheShamtube]

fuck off lazza u know sweet fuck all ya trolling bastard.

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[ActivistOne472]

This band always creeped me out.

[gaze2shoe]

So happy to see that other people feel the same: "This Time of Night" has been my favourite song song ever since "Low Life" came out. Virtually unknown, what a shame...

[may301985]

good song totally 80s to dance and think

[MadVinylist]

this song is late night bliss

[sdbrum]

My favorite track off my favorite N.O. album-I played this album to death when I was at San Diego State back in '85!!!!!

So haunting!!!

A beautiful song about obsession...and unrequited love.

[yuritech007]

I still have this album, it cost me my allowances back then but it still is my favorite piece of record.

[SebastianSolorzano]

I would have done just the same if I had been a teenager in the 80's (I was born in '88) You spend your money just right, this whole album is priceless, so your inversion was worth it.

[RecklessYouth333]

'88? Your taste in music is automatically better than everyone your age. I was born in '84 and thought me and my brother were alone in our undying love for 80's New Wave and Synth Pop. Thats fucking awesome.

[revokdaryl1]

Yeah man, I was born in '86, though I wish I was born in 1960 so I could've gone through the 80's in my twenties, lol. 80's music is my favourite by far.

[41htdex]

i like to smoke weed and cruise and listen to some cool new wave making a compilation now for my drive.

[dobsondale]

be carefull someone grassed me up at traffic lights doing that and i had to spend ages in a fucking cell !!!

[TranceKontrol]

One of my all time favorites!  I was a freshmen at a large university and remember requesting this every time I hit the club. I love the beginning.

[evildust86]

intro: "i'm one of the few people, who live in what's called "the low-life...'"

[dragoon84]

One of New Order's best songs, a massively underrated 80's song. When I think of 80's music, I think of New Order, and specifically, this song.

[SebastianSolorzano]

Wow, I think we're like twin-minded. That is exactly what I think. In fact I feel like I might as well have written you comment. Couldn't agree more with what you wrote.

[itskyb]

Just a great tune...

[joaocrespo17]

excellent indeed !

[SebastianSolorzano]

EXCELLENT IN-DEED!! An underrated and forgotten classic.

[ml2001]

a VERY VERY VERY VERY UNDER-RATED song... me too. Love this to death.

[SebastianSolorzano]

Ridiculously underrated to all extents. As good as this is, it ought to be banging in everybody's head.

[joydivisionlwtua]

awesome classic NO track.

[SebastianSolorzano]

You have your head just right. This is more than a track, it is a classic. (Sadly) an practically unknown classic.

[cresshead]

excellent song from new order

[KingRalf00]

i love this song to death. its pure 80s delight.

[shakers1970]

best song/group ever, reminds me of top times at the hacienda

[mulletinatransam]

original title, "pumped full of drugs"

5 stars.

[iefief]

new order's masterpiece...

[docterjoy]

I remember hearing this on the radio a long time ago!!!! <3

[shakers1970]

it doesnt get any better, the best song new order sung