I like Hellbent from total much better, the Total version is re-edited and beefed up and sounds much better than the lost sirens version. Extra things here and there in the Total version makes it sound better.

So, who mixed Hellbent for Total, and why didn't they "finish" this release for us? Politics?

They'll really be scraping the barrel if they tour 'Lost Sirens' (a bunch of out takes), They could call the tour 'LOST MORALS' or even LOST BIROS - that's a popular thread

Just to go against the last post, I'm glad these songs have made the light of day. Early days but they this bunch of tracks sound more fresh than the wftsc ones (which I just can't bear to listen to nowadays except turn, giaua and hnwyd.

It showcases more of their talent and even these "lesser" tracks sound so much better than a lot of poop that other bands have produced the same timeframe. While the lyrics are pretty naff "and when the dusk come howl at your door?", Barnes vocals are far better than what emerges on wftsc.

I'd take more of the same anyway. Barney has a great ear for a decent vocal
Melody.

Another review


http://www.heraldscotland.com/a...st-sirens-rhino.19930655

I'm still enjoying the songs. A lot.

I (pre)ordered my Vinyl + CD on Sunday night with super saver delivery and I got an email today saying it will arrive this Saturday 19th.

That's going to rural Scotland as well so not sure what's happened to yours, Johnny!

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Ordered mine from T'amazon last week and it was delivered 2 days later!
The fuckwit idiots tried to "shoehorn" the LP into packaging that was far too small and thus damaged it in the process! Sent it back for a full refund!
In the meantime i ordered it on MP3 from T'amazon and theyve even fucked that up! downloaded it to
my "cloud" but it wont let me download it to my lappy! useless fuckwit bastards!
And they say technology is the "future" i beg to differ......

New Order are my favourite band, and always have been/will be. I think I may be very lucky in that I love them from Movement to Lost Sirens, and probably beyond, fingers crossed for that new New Order album!
It seems like a common attitude on these forums to suggest that somehow the Factory NO were the be all and end all and that the band hasn't made anything worthwile since Technique, admittabley their best album, certainly nothing to compare with the great Factory classics.. But for me, that criminally ignores some of the best songs NO have EVER created, imoho of course! Regret, World, Liar, Brutal, Crystal, Vicious Circle, Here to Stay, Krafty, Who's Joe, Waiting for the Siren's Call and Turn. For me, these latter four in particular easily rank alongside anything produced in the 80s. This is the sound of a band growing and developing and not staying the same, ever.
Now we have the Lost Sirens, and what a lost album this would have been. These are no worthless outtakes, on my first listen to 'I'll Stay With You' I fell in love instantly, and could even sing along by the end, to me that is a sure sign of classic-dom, or whatever! Crystal, Who's Joe, Lost all had the same effect. What I find particularly pleasing about this 'album' (and I think in years to come we will come to see it as the 9th studio album, as it should have been, after all its not that unusual for NO to put out 8 track albums then, is it?) is that after a few listens there are NO (scuse the pun) crap tracks!
Yes, I love NO, but even I know that Slow Jam, Rock the Shack, Jetstream and Working Overtime are rubbish and embarrasing. Sugarcane and Recoil are slow burners, but now seem as familiar as Hellbent, which btw I think is FAR superior here than on Total, I dunno why, and I can't put my finger on it, but that's what I think! I can hear Hooky's bass all over this thing, so I don't know where the idea that its being buried is coming from, it certainly isn't on I'll Stay With You and I've Got A Feeling. Californian grass is lovely and I have paired it with Dracula's Castle on my own Sirens, as that's another song I feel gets a bad rap when in fact its a gem. Shake it Up scared me when I saw the title, and sure enough when the song itself starts horrible memories of Shack and Overtime srang to mind.. I couldn't have been more wrong! Shake it Up is how NO should do this type of rocking out song, the synths are amazing, and the chorus is so catchy, and I've seen the other comments here reminding people of Confusion, spot on! Not a huge fan of the original I Told You So, just a good album track I thought, nothing else. The remix however has completely turned that opinion on its head! What a great piece, and the perfect last track on my own Sirens, which, seeing as we all like lists and the like, is here for your perusal..

Who's Joe?
I'll Stay With You
Waiting For The Siren's Call
Sugarcane
Krafty
Californian Grass
Dracula's Castle
Hellbent
Shake It Up
Guilt Is A Useless Emotion
I've Got a Feeling
Turn
I Told You So [lost sirens mix]

Nice piece Antoz :)

I'm in the USA, and with the street date as 01/22 Amazon says I should get mine by 01/25. DAGGIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've resisted streaming it. I think I can hold out.

I was most pleasantly surprised by this version of I Told You So, when I read it was a remix I thought they were going to up the cod-reggae by adding coconut shells banging together or summat but the Lost Sirens mix is superb.

Which begs the question why put that awful one on WFTSC?