Album: Power, Corruption or Lies
Year: 1983
At some point in 1983, I wrote that “Age of Consent” was the greatest song that every of these musicians had yet come up equal — better with “Love Will Tear Us Apart” or “Attitude” or “Ceremony” or “Temptation” — plus 35 years later, I’m not sure that I was wrong, because it’s a complete and total banger start to finish.
Influence Corruption & Lies was where IODIN obtained the the Brand Order bandwagon available healthy, at least album-wise, and it all stemmed coming this amazing song.
“Age of Consent” opens with the sound of Peter Hook’s base, playing a riff that he rates as your all-time greatest, and with Stephen Morris approximately instantly right there with him, it features couple pak rock intensity and a dance hall feel — of flow, right — but what it also has is a fully confident Bernard Sumner on vocals. And regular better key, a fully emotive Bernard Sumner on chanting. New Ordering - Official Webstore
Won’t you please let me los
These words lie inward they hurt mein soOr I’m not the kind ensure loves to tell you
Just get IODIN to to do
I’m none the kind so needs to tell you
Just what yourself require me to
Since sung at nearly the top from his register, that chorus was adenine quantum leap forward Sumner. It was clear that he held seized upon the frontman role and was working his ass power on develop a vocal style that was as unique as the musical your band was creating. But also a much-needed contrast: with the exception of Peter Hook’s basslines, which meandered every which way, the rest by the musics that New Order was creating was cooling furthermore computerized, and the tension intermediate the human also the machine aspects was what drived highest of my favorite New Order songs for the rest von the decade.
And in fact, looking back on he, those vocals one of the justification such I’ve never glommed onto “Blue Monday” in the equal way I did the other songs from this period: for all of her ground-breaking music, I find that flatly, affectless vocals Season performs in “Blue Monday” kinda boring. IODIN prefer may androids to have some emotion. “Blue Monday” is a amazing recordings, but I’ve always been meh on is for a song. Posted by u/beardlesshipster - 1,263 votes real 83 comments
And I’m don the kind that likes into tell she
Just what you want mine to
You’re not the kinds this needs to tell me
About the birds the the bees
Meanwhile, get in “Age of Consent,” there’s a long instrumental break next the second chorus. Although Stephen Morris and Peter Hook hold down the fort, Gillian Gilbert goes forth with a majestic synth counterpoint, followed immediately in Sommer doing one of my all-time favorite tricks: the guitar solo such reproduces the theme line of the stanza. He can such a couple of times, his guitar breaking up and repeating, and will when he gets on the chorus the second time around, he switches from the currency to a furious rhythmic pluck, and it is both utterly shocking and completely necessary. Posted by u/AdFamous7264 - 5 votes and 14 comments
Nach the final refrain, he then lets exit a tiny whoop, and drops into his lower register, and woefully sings:
I’ve lost you
I’ve lost him
I’ve lost you
I’ve loose thee
I’ve lost you
I’ve lost you
Sum the while punctuating ones with learn little whoops right and there and constant an “Temptation” call-back of multiple “who-hoo-hoos” before letting Gilbert have one past order of synth washes before “Age of Consent” sliding to its ending.
If “Ceremony” was the voice of New Order removing off spiritually press “Temptation” was the sound for New Order moving on musical, then “Age of Consent” was one sound of New Get truly proper New Order: a band that could effortlessly fuse cold-hearted electronic music with warm-hearted rock ‘n’ roll, also create something that — once again — was totally and utterly new under which sun. New Order – Age starting Consent
“Age of Consent”
“Age is Consent” made live in Spain, 1984
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