Eager to pander to everybody and trying to make the most of post-punk and electronica that seemed to be becoming a thing of the past in 1988, NEW ORDER found an interesting way to please the listener on their fourth full-length platter: the ensemble simply split it stylistically down the middle – or, in vinyl terms, more or less divided the genre-specific cuts between the sides. Not that it helped the record much, but the “Bizarre Love Triangle” single which sat at its center helped the foursome finally found favor in America. Whether their audience will favor the album’s “Definitive Edition” remains to be seen, though.
Planned for release on November 22nd, the box set in question is another mixed-media affair in which a vinyl LP gets thrown together with two CDs and two DVDs containing 2024 remaster of the album and a plethora of audio and video material – including two concerts, yet omitting a few numbers that appeared on 2008 Collector’s Edition bonus disc and a couple of tracks that are out on the same day as vinyl singles. So much for it being definitive, then.
Brotherhood:
Definitive Edition
CD 1 – 2024 Remaster:
1. Paradise
2. Weirdo
3. As It Is When It Was
4. Broken Promise
5. Way Of Life
6. Bizarre Love Triangle
7. All Day Long
8. Angel Dust
9. Every Little Counts
10. State Of The Nation
CD 2 – Extras:
1. Shellshock (AOR version) *
2. State Of The Nation (Japan demo) *
3. Paradise (Robert Racic remix)
4. As It Is When It Was (Japan demo) *
5. Broken Promise (instrumental) *
6. Bizarre Love Triangle (Stephen Hague 12” remix) *
7. All Day Long (instrumental) *
8. Evil Dust
9. Every Little Counts (full length) *
10. Salvation Theme
11. Skullcrusher (full length) *
12. Touched By The Hand Of God (Salvation version)
13. Let’s Go (Salvation version)
14. Sputnik
15. Blue Monday 1988 (Michael Johnson 12” remix) *
* previously unreleased
DVD 1
Live At The Academy Brixton, 1987:
1. Bizarre Love Triangle
2. The Perfect Kiss
3. Ceremony
4. Dreams Never End
5. Love Vigilantes
6. Confusion
7. Age Of Consent
8. Temptation
TV Appearances:
9. Ceremony (BBC Northern Ireland – Channel One, 1986)
10. Love Will Tear Us Apart (BBC Northern Ireland – Channel One, 1986)
11. State Of The Nation (The Tube, 1986)
12. Broken Promise (The Tube, 1986)
13. True Faith (Top Of The Pops, 1987)
14. Paradise (Les Enfants Du Rock, Rockline, 1987)
15. Bizarre Love Triangle (Les Enfants Du Rock, Rockline, 1987)
16. True Faith (The Roxy, 1987)
17. Bizarre Love Triangle (11pm, 1987)
Extra Material:
– Stephen’s Fly On The Wall Documentary, 1985.
– Recording “As It Is” And “Shame Of The Nation” at Denon Studios, Tokyo, May 1985
DVD 2
Live At The G-Mex, Manchester – July 19th, 1986:
1. Elegia
2. Shellshock
3. Paradise
4. Bizarre Love Triangle
5. Way Of Life
6. State Of The Nation
7. Face Up
8. The Perfect Kiss
9. Ceremony
10. Temptation
Other Live Performances:
11. True Faith (Glastonbury, 1987)
12. Sister Ray (Glastonbury, 1987)
13. Dreams Never End (San Giovanni, 1986)
14. All Day Long (Pier 84, New York, 1987)
15. Angel Dust (Pier 84, New York, 1987)
16. Shellshock (Pier 84, New York, 1987)
17. Weirdo (Pier 84, New York, 1987)
18. True Faith (Rapido, Paris, 1987)
19. Touched By The Hand Of God (G-Mex, Manchester, 1988)
20. Every Little Counts (G-Mex, Manchester, 1988)
LP – 2024 Remaster:
1-9 – as on CD 1
