New Order - State Of The Nation

[currykevuk]

**2012 Update** Banditos Yankees is currently taking it like a good girl should.

[BanditosYankees]

Summer, 1987... girls galore... so many of them loved this music... I loved the girls, so by association, I loved this music. And today, of course I'm all kinds of nostalgic... more of the pussy than the songs really... They were so beautiful... Life was so beautiful... I was so freaking young... This music was so young... The whole world was one big beautiful pussy and this was the tune that rocked my lovely bed (s). Long live my New Order days!

[MrFrigs]

@PopCulture20 New Order liked to release singles that were totally seperate from any album. It didn't change until 2001. Most of the CD releases of albums added a handful of random singles to the tracklist, but originally "State of the Nation", "Blue Monday", etc were single-only. Substance is a compilation of all singles.

[UT4Bony]

Coooool<3. This is one of my favorite tunes in New Order. Even if time passes, their music never fades.

[katakisLives]

This is a really underrated New order classic!!!, intreasting that they had another song with a very similar title (shame of the nation)

[RobDeManc]

I think people thought this was too depressing in the 80's

[TheRealCritique]

just so you know, young people were split doen the middle in the 80s, the frat boy assholes who loved Reagan and the people who wanted to have nothing to do with their gayass pink, green, and yellow Lacoste shirts and cleancut bullshit. It was more an act of hatred of the mainstream than anything cogent, and it was depressing having idiots run the world, like it still is, but the music was better in the underground in the 80s, because unlike today, it wasnt calculated.

[RobDeManc]

Yeah underground music back then was pure and not contrived. New order always behaved in an anti-maintstream manner. They only released 12" singles upto 1987 which didn't do much to get them chart success.

[fassaalbrecht]

@katakisLives I think that this song, State of the Nation, was more for the dance scene than anything else, whilst Shame Of The Nation was more 'mainstream' (a word not easily applied to New Order).

[limpar69]

digging in youtube, there are gems like these

[thuggin83]

Yea I thought so because Brotherhood was tha

1st NO cd I bought and then I got Substance I love em all pretty much

[BlueMonday1988]

Hello!

You're right, this song was on Substance but it was on Brotherhood too as a bonus track, on the 1993 re-release version by London Records. ;-)

[PopCulture20]

@BlueMonday1988 actually this song never had an album that it belonged to. This song was released as a single & when this song became a hit, a lot of compilation albums such as ''Substance'' added the track to it list. Substance was not an official album with original material except ''True Faith''. It was a greatest hits album.

[matinism]

@BlueMonday1988 top[ tunes thou.. new order are tops.... b4 r.h,c,p

[docterjoy]

I thought this was on substance?

[RobDeManc]

Substance was an album compilation of their 12" singles from the 80's