We need a Lost Complete.

Come on, Michael. Even you must have something positive to say about this piece of news.

You're always complaining that they're stuck in the past and there's no new material. Well, here you go.
(OK, I know the track's five years old, but beggars can't be choosers! )

And, yeah, 'Lost Complete' would be great, but seems unlikely. One or two outtakes seems like the most we'll get, based on the glacial pace of New Order.

Still, reasons to be cheerful. A Covid-19 silver lining...

I generally find there's a reason songs don't see the light of day

What's the differencence between positivity and my mother's legs? Positivity isn't always spread.

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Yep. Me too! I'm really interested to hear it. Hopefully we won't have to wait for too much longer to hear it.

Just listened to the headstock stream. Good interviews with Steve and Bernard (enjoyed Mark reeder interview as well) and Bernard confirmed there is an original which he has remixed and so has Steve, sounds like a 12” release to me. There was no bad tracks imo on Music Complete so I have high hopes for this song.

Lost Sirens wasn't actually all that bad... it's just they'd been arguing about it for so long that once a release was finally agreed upon the material promptly drowned under the weight of expectation.

I listened to it the other day and at least 4-5 of the tracks are pretty solid; even the ITYS remix is preferable to the album version to these ears and "I've Got A Feeling" manages to be more melodic than the majority of Get Ready. "Recoil" is definitely an underrated gem.

The live shows are great and all but a certain predictability has developed with them and it has been over 5 years since Music Complete, which was arguably a critical and commercial success.

I was a bit perplexed as each year began passing with nothing new mooted as MC was the perfect springboard.

Anyway... very much looking forward to hearing anything new. "Keep it coming"...

Saw Thieves Like Us in Sydney a couple of years ago. With an orchestra. Anything else from this point forward is just gravy.

One 'new' track in five years? That's four more than usual. Shame it wasn't used as a Bside instead of yet another barrage of mixes. I didn't bother this time, partly cos I'm no longer an obsessive, buy mainly because after London It was Once bitten etc.
Lost Sirens? With Hellbent as a fanfare, I wasn't expecting much. And we didn't get much, except I'll stay with you. Recoil doesn't even sound finished.

Yeah - looks like it was only free for a short while.

I can't remember exactly what was said in the article.
However, between that article, another one I read somewhere and the interview with Bernard in the live stream last week, he basically said:

1) It's a remnant from Music Complete;
2) It's called 'Be A Rebel';
3) He's mixing it;
4) It sounds 'really good' (which bodes well but, then again, he's hardly likely to say 'it's a bit shit' );
5) Both him and Steve are going to do separate remixes of Bernard's mix.

That was about it. No more info.

As regards whether the name "bodes very badly", I wouldn't worry about it.
'Mr Disco', 'Dream Attack' and 'Tutti Frutti' are all fairly bad names, but great tracks.

But you do make a valid point about the track being a five-year old remnant, rescued from the bin. How good can it be?

I'll reserve judgement though. It could be excellent.
If you think about it, having only that track to focus their efforts on, there's a reasonable chance that they'll make sure it sounds pretty damn good.

Any 'new' material, as far as I'm concerned, is worth getting (moderately and modestly) excited about.

You can still see the live chat with Bernard here:

https://www.twitch.tv/vi...r=archives&sort=time

He mentions the new track at about 2 hours 6 minutes in.

Not sure if you need a Twitch account or not to view it.

Of course, what's so typically New Order about all this is that five years after releasing an album called Music Complete they then stick out an extra track from it.