Click to return to Dave’s Music Database home page.

* Compilation *

Recorded: 1981-1987

Released: August 11, 1987


Rating: 4.526 (average of 11 ratings)


Genre: dance/electronica


Quotable: --


Album Tracks, Disc 1:

  1. Ceremony
  2. Everything’s Gone Green
  3. Temptation
  4. Blue Monday
  5. Confusion
  6. Thieves Like Us
  7. The Perfect Kiss
  8. Sub-Culture
  9. Shell Shock
  10. State of the Nation
  11. Bizarre Love Triangle
  12. True Faith


Album Tracks, Disc 2:

  1. In a Lonely Place
  2. Procession
  3. Cries and Whispers
  4. Hurt
  5. The Beach
  6. Confusion [instrumental]
  7. Lonesome Tonight
  8. Murder
  9. Thieves Like Us [instrumental]
  10. Kiss of Death
  11. Shame of the Nation
  12. 1963


Sales:

sales in U.S. only 1 million
sales in U.K. only - estimated 300,000
sales in all of Europe as determined by IFPI – click here to go to their site. --
sales worldwide - estimated 1.3 million


Peak:

peak on U.S. Billboard album chart 36
peak on U.K. album chart 3


Singles/Hit Songs:

  • Ceremony (3/14/81) #34 UK
  • Temptation (5/22/82) #29 UK
  • Blue Monday (3/19/83) #68 US, #3 UK
  • Confusion (9/3/83) #12 UK, #71 RB
  • Thieves Like Us (4/28/84) #18 UK
  • The Perfect Kiss (5/25/85) #46 UK
  • Sub-Culture (11/9/85) #63 UK
  • Shell Shock (5/29/86) #28 UK
  • State of the Nation (9/27/86) #30 UK
  • Bizarre Love Triangle (11/15/86) #98 US, #56 UK
  • True Faith (8/1/87) #32 US, #4 UK
  • 1963 (1/21/95) #21 UK


Substance
New Order
Review:
Substance is a double-disc set collecting New Order’s singles, including several songs that were never available on the group’s albums, at least in these versions. While there are a couple of re-recordings of earlier singles, most of Substance consists of 12" single mixes designed for danceclub play. Arguably, these 12" mixes represent New Order’s most groundbreaking and successful work, since they expanded the notion of what a rock & roll band, particularly an indie rock band, could do. Substance collects the best of their remixes, and in the process it showcases not only the group’s musical innovations, but also their songwriting prowess – Temptation, Blue Monday, Bizarre Love Triangle, and True Faith are some of the finest pop songs of the ‘80s. Although it is a double-disc set, Substance isn’t overly long. Instead it offers a perfect introduction to New Order, while providing collectors with an invaluable collection of singles” (Erlewine).


Review Source(s):


Last updated August 11, 2008.