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| Artist: New Order
Label: London
Category: Music
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 48085
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 685738195428
EAN: 0685738195428
ASIN: B00004RKIP
Release Date: April 10, 2000
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: All Brand New - Some Items Are Factory Sealed, Shipped within 24 hours from the UK
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| Tracks:
| • | Regret | | • | World | | • | Ruined In A Day | | • | Spooky | | • | Everyone Everywhere | | • | Young Offender | | • | Liar | | • | Chemical | | • | Times Change | | • | Special | | • | Avalanche |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Yesterday is gone September 1, 2008
Alex DaLarge (Utrecht)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For the instrumental break 1'19" to 1'35" on Young Offender.
For the lyrics. (AHW said Technique was Bernard Sumner's 'Blood On The Tracks' - he was wrong. Republic is. These are lyrics of estrangement that make Run sound like Leaving On A Jet Plane). I'd quote them here, but they don't work out of context, apart from Avalanche: "Free".
For the production. Everything that was lacking in Monaco and Electronic is brought back into play on Republic. Not to say that there couldn't be more, but there's no Raise The Gun World Pressure vibes here.
A record that tells its own story without yelling its credibility in the listener's ear. A masterpiece, a classic, genius. The sleeve design is rubbish though, it looks like the corporate design of Excremental Logistics PLC.
Republic = masterpiece.
"See them Van Gogh sunflowers? My three year old son could paint them. 3.50 mate, thanks. I had that Damien Hirst in me cab the other day. My three year old son couldn't construct a carbon skull, but he could paint one, innit"
"We're busy running out of time"
"For all the things I've never had, I'll commit the perfect crime"
"I have no time to sympathise"
"Free"
Just A Great Album July 4, 2008
Vitamino (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There's always a stink in the air when die-hard fanatical followers of a band attempt to control what is thought about the albums that the band release.
While those unfortunate few construct a melancholy legend within which to wallow us people who walk around in sunlight are able to make up our own minds.
Republic is a great album filled with great power and great songs.
This album is a collection of tracks that represent New Order at a particular point in time. It's the result of a logical progression and is a wholly successful release. The songwriting occasionally touches on perfection. This is as it should be. They worked very hard and they really got there.
The god-awful notion that people should attach some holy significance to the memory of Ian Curtis is weak and messianic. Joy Division and New Order were entertainers. No more, no less. Pay your money and you can hear them play.
There's nothing truly divine going on.
When there's a group of damp-trousered men who worship at the temple of types like Ian Curtis and Kurt Cobain, disregard their pathetic attempts to tell you what's cool.
This is great album. That's all you need to know.
So clear that nonsense away. Clear those silly fanatics away.
Make up your own mind.
 New Order have done better before and since November 2, 2005
chadwholovedme (Bristol, Uk)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
New Order makes an entire album with Stephen Hague. That sounds pretty amazing when you consider that together they created the amazing 'True Faith'. But since then, they screwed up the single version 'Round & Round', which is one of the best moments of their 1989 album 'Technique'. For some reason the Hague mix removed most the good bits (admittedly the intro of the 12inch version is great). So as with 'Round & Round', instead of a perfect collaboration the result are a bunch of flat recordings that are neither dance orientated nor rock enough. By rock I mean the guitar-based songs of 'Technique' and 'Brotherhood'.
It's still hard not to enjoy 'Republic'. 'World' is for the most part infectious and catchy, while 'Ruined in a Day' is probably the strongest song and a real bitter-sweet moment. 'Everyone Everywhere' and 'Young Offender' are pretty great too, and then 'Special': the penultimate track, is gorgeous and a real overlooked song. I for one don't like 'Regret', which is the albums most popular track and a big hit single. This is mainly because it has got a constant jangley tambourine sound, which irritates me, and some of Bernard Sumner's worst lyrics. This is ironic and a shame as overall the lyrics on 'Republic' are some of Sumner's best.
Surprisingly, remixes of each of the singles are all great improvements. They worth seeking out, such as the Perfecto remix of 'World', Fluke's three takes on 'Spooky', the K-Klass mix on 'Ruined in a Day', and even the groups own stripped down version of 'Regret'.
All in all 'Republic' is New Order in commercial territory, by no means sell out, but their least fascinating album, but any band that has balanced pop and dance so well on previous albums is worthy of praise, even if it's not such a memorable experience this time round.
Underrated November 24, 2004
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This LP comes in for a bit of undeserved flak from NO fans- mainly because it has very slick, commercial production, and because Hooky's bass is uncharacteristically absent throughout much of the set.
I personally don't think either of these factors are a problem- in fact, this is one of NO's best sounding albums- New Order's music has always needed good sound quality to do it justice (poor production let down both "Movement" and "Brotherhood"). Hague does a great production job for the most part, and the polished sound is perfectly complemented by Peter Saville's glossy sleeve artwork. The opening side, kicking off with the superb "Regret" and closing with the sparkling "Everyone Everywhere," is as good as anything in the band's back catalogue. If the album deserves criticism, its because of the second side, which is a little underwhelming- "Chemical" in particular, is best forgotten- but it's by no means unenjoyable. "Special" stands out as a perfect example of NO's melodic melancholia, and the instrumental "Avalanche" is an understated (and underrated) closer. Although it's often written off as sub-standard, it's a much better album than NO are given credit for. It would be easy to be seduced by its slick, commercial allure and pass it off as a superficial pop album, but no amount of sonic tweaking can disguise NO's brand of sombre, bittersweet melody, which is evident throughout, and this is what gives the record its punch. Instead of whingeing about how NO don't sound like Joy Division anymore, the listener ought to take the album on its own terms. (And anyway, at least its better than "Get Ready.")
Delivers a couple of great tracks August 18, 2001
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well it doesn't deliver what fans were waiting for but it still manages to keep hope and interest alive with a couple of brilliant tracks.'Regret' is simply superb, a great pop song. 'World' isn't spectacular but it does have its own charm and grows on you with every listen. While 'Special' is a hidden masterpiece. What a track, for only the second time on this album (Regret being the other one) Barney sings as if he really means it. All the traditional New Order elements are present in this song which automatically makes it great in my book! Worth buying, even though not their best it's head and shoulders above the Brit Rock crap that was starting to flood the market at that time.
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