New Order "Mesh"

From the 1981 original Everything's Gone Green 12" vinyl "semi-EP".
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUw39VtxVc&feature=channel_page&fmt=18

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[pessimystica]

why didn't this & the so-called "Cries & Whispers" (which to ME has always been "Mesh", heh) make it to the actual Movement album? Movement is so short as it is... I think i'm just gonna add these 2 tracks as well as the 1st 2 tracks on NO - Substance (disc 2) to my Movement playlist ;-)

[roddy76to86]

@pessimystica

When it came to organisation Factory Records were a shambles. Unless any of the member's of New Order can remember, the reasoning for all of this will have probably have only been known by the late, great Tony Wilson. A shame he didn't do a business management course before forming Factory Records...but things just weren't done like that back then. Joy Division's contract was supposedly written on a beer mat in a pub with Tony Wilsons blood. Nobody had a pen.

[litlgrey]

It infuriates me no end that they didn't pursue this tough, ethereal direction! it was left to eighteen million other bands to pick up the slack of what they could have done, which they abandoned for the club pop bilge that NO band should EVER have done.

[roddy76to86]

@litlgrey

I feel the same way. But after losing Ian Curtis and producing the incredible quantity of material they did with Joy Division, I simply think they needed to go in another direction. And remember it wasn't "club pop bilge" at the time, it was completely original. New Order have been copied so much it now sounds like that.

[liquidxxd]

check discogs, it says this

Cat# is found on B-side label only.

Rear sleeve erroneously mentions track B1 as Mesh and track B2 as Cries And Whispers.

same thing with the cd single release of this

[roddy76to86]

@liquidxxd

I've given up on this long ago.

[Eightball69]

Ha! Very nearly 30 years old and still as fresh as a daisy. That's the great thing about bands like New Order - the music never sounds 'of its time' because it never was 'of its time' - it was always way beyond that....

[glynnboo71]

great track...hints of joy division in the backround.........its mint!and stands the test of time!

[unfamous13]

totally getting hints of the song Warsaw. Ha ha. Both songs are amazing

[ronaldvanderkleij]

For me one of the best tracks of NO.

[g4alien]

@roddy76to86

It's worth underscoring the influence of their then Producer, Martin Hannett. After Marty walked out and subsequently sued Factory, New Order became their own production outfit. Hence the change in musical stylings.

[g4alien]

@pessimystica

I believe the two tracks you would have liked to have been included on 'Movement' were recorded a few months after the albums release. CLOSER to 1982 if you'll excuse the pun.

[Mancheguache]

I love the hiss of vinyl at the start

[Mancheguache]

Hope and desire the antique sea Hopes and fears are All we ever see We made a contract In a field of snow A single release now And he's saying Out of the woods and trees Across the rain From out of the nighttime Somebody screams

He's on his way somewhere All like he's been nowhere I don't know

Nobody knows