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Waiting For The Sirens' Call

New Order have nothing to regret. If they'd broken up when Ian Curtis died, they'd still be remembered as Joy Division. If they'd broken up after the 1982 single "Temptation," they'd be remembered for the most achingly emotional seven-and-a-half-minute New Wave disco twelve-inch of all time. If they...

2005 RS: 4of 5 Stars

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In short order, New Order combined dance music's physicality with postpunk guitar rock and pop songwriting. This innovation made New Order one of the most important rock bands of its era, and one of the most ripped-off. Indie rock copped the band's melodic, high-end bass sound, just-folks fashion sense, and disco revisionism. New Romantics admired its emotional inscrutability. Techno and hip-hop t...

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