pick the songs you think will be singles after restless:

tutti frutti - seems certain
people on the highline
plastic
unlearn this hatred
singularity

*TECHNICALLY
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what i should have said, by 'singles', are separate releases, either physical or digital or both,
that have extra mixes, or versions of the song (and not just the album version or edit).

so something like 'restless', as a cd-single, 12 inch, and digital release would qualify.




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Edited by user 04 October 2015 11:07:36(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I think you left out some important songs.

My first choice is academic, but I don't think it will happen.

But also unlearn this hatred should be a single, as the chorus is very catchy. But at least it should be a club single like guilt is a useless emotion, and someone like you were.

And superheated is very catchy and radio friendly. It might help the Killers out as well.

They should release a single near christmas.Which one though? Tutti Frutti would make the works party or any christmas/new year party go with a lot of fun whereas Superheated would have that schmaltzy, sentimental and warm christmas thing lol


No , seriously, Superheated is a sure fire radio friendly hit waiting to happen and would give both New Order and The Killers a rise in exposure.

Unlearn This Hatred
or
Academic

but most likely it will be Singularity or Plastic...

Nothing but a Fool - for the sake of feeding a wider variety of tastes.

Academic - for me. With a big fat B side that is another new track.

Does it matter? They're all singles these days.

yes think this is a fair point, what exactly is a single. as virtually all singles are downloaded then its just an album track, so I gues we are saying what would be a good promo for the album. id like tutti frutti or people on the clothes line. i had a dream about a video for cloths line where hundreds of people in a line where dancing in sequence and then at teh end it paned out and they where all very high up

Just to show how wrong the world is I've been reading Wikipedia and according to that New Order released Plastic as the second single from Music Complete on the 16th September. Of course, there is no actual physical single to buy, no b-sides, extra tracks or remixes. Tracks just appear.

See? There's no such thing as singles now or, as someone else put it, they're all singles now.

Wank (the system, not the music or the band)

Edited by user 30 September 2015 06:00:13(UTC)  | Reason: Overly grumpy

Just to shake things up a little, the band should release "Stray Dog". It would be a typical New Order "two-fingers-to-the-world" gesture. If, by some miracle, mainstream radio stations would play it, the song would scare and confuse all those by-the-numbers DJs who couldn't put a radio show together without the same sanitised playlist of folk-based shite that passes as pop today!

As Coop says, singles don't matter any more since we can't actually purchase a CD with B-sides or remixes. A real shame.

Tutti Frutti
People on the Highline
Superheated
The Game

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Restless did a great job of saying “New Order are back… nothing has changed”, and I reckon the next few singles should offer all of the following…

- make everyone like the song from bar one, without even knowing it's New Order
- make old people say “I can't believe New Order now sound like this”
- make people say… “everything has changed… and I might even prefer the New New Order”
- be ripe for huge brilliant proper remixes
- be worth remixing, rather than being remixed for the sake of it

Yes, Singularity is probably a better song than those above… but then, it grabs the heart of every New Order fan. Would probably be ignored by everyone else.

Unlearn this Hatred? Brilliant, but not sure up it would have wider appeal, and it doesn't need a remix… except perhaps to be the same but longer.

If you are bored enough, this is what constitutes a single:

http://www.officialchart...art-rules-march-2015.pdf

Tutti frutti will be bigger than blue monday

Am i the only one who hears Nothing But A Fool as the big killer chorus quintessential New Order single??

It doesn't seem to get mentioned too much in the reviews either, but for me it's the best song on there

But back to the question - it's pretty awesome that almost every song could be a hit single (in the old-fashioned sense)

Apart from Stray Dog - which if it didn't have Iggy on it, would have been a Player In The League style throwaway instrumental b-side

Compared to Republic which starts with one killer single, and then feels like they sequenced the rest of the album in order of how bad the songs got