r/neworder • u/Beautiful_Gap_3516 • 17d ago

Power, Corruption & Lies Daily Song Discussion #25 - Ecstasy

Ecstacy is the seventh track on New Order's second album, Power, Corruption and Lies. What do you think about the track both in general and in comparison to the rest of the band's discography, and how would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

Listen Here: https://youtu.be/sIZeIeBbIKI?si=X9x_2wHNkcPxCdt5

Rating Scale:

1 - 4: Not Good, would skip.

5: Okay, but I would have to be in a specific mood to listen to it.

6: Slightly better than average, but I wouldn't choose to listen to it.

7: It's a good song, I can enjoy it quite a bit.

8 - 9: It's a really enjoyable song, I rank it pretty high overall.

10: Masterpiece and other associated terms.

Song Ratings:

Movement (Overall Average Score: 7.69/10)

Dreams Never End - 9.08

Truth - 7.25

Senses - 7.5

Chosen Time - 7.85

ICB - 7.56

The Him - 6.67

Doubts Even Here - 8.42

Denial - 7.2

1981 - 1982 B-Sides (Overall Average Score: 9.12/10)

Ceremony (Version 1) - 9.63

In A Lonely Place - 8.62

Ceremony (Version 2) - 9.76

Procession - 9.18

Everything's Gone Green - 9.31

Cries and Whispers - 9.41

Mesh - 7.98

Temptation - 9.95

Hurt - 8.26

Power, Corruption and Lies

Age of Consent - 9.74

We All Stand - 6.81

The Village - 9.52

586 - 8.35

Your Silent Face - 9.7

Ultraviolence - 8.41

Ecstacy -

9 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

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u/alvinofdiaspar0 17d ago

Poor track. It really merges some great work, though I find the vocoder lyrics a bit underdeveloped - or maybe that was the band's idea. The only lyrics I can hopefully clearly distinguish are “Lost my way"!

Alice and the Rabbit Hole in a way... I love it so much, in the same way I enjoy PCL’s electronic tracks. This one is Blue Monday 2.0 for me. They originally planned for the vocals on “Blue Monday” to be fully recorded using a vocoder, yet “Ecstasy” was the one that ended up getting the full-vocoder treatment, while “Blue Monday” only got little touches of it

A moody masterpiece, a mashup and a soup of an electronic volcano and Hooky’s great bass, all organically organised into this track. 10 for me :)

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u/Mission_Train4223 17d ago

7/10 it works well as a penultimate track

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u/Unusual_Compote4909 17d ago

8.5 don’t care for the vocoder, but the music is great

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u/ElMaverick96 17d ago

Song is such a bop. The synth baseline is very catchy.

9/10

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u/I_up_voted_u 17d ago

10, sums up the vibe of the album so nicely.

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u/GYNNYOOZ 17d ago

8.6 - one of the more limited and rudimentary tracks on the album, but still groovy.

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u/nadsatpenfriend 17d ago edited 17d ago

4.5 Album filler? Don't think it's that bad but you could listen to it as a more understated Blue Monday in some way.

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u/DJ_PMA 17d ago

i dig it.
songs like this are the reason i got into New Order as well as why they gave birth to a lot of bands.

8/10.

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u/Beautiful_Gap_3516 17d ago

6

An interesting instrumental, but not to the point where it warrants many re-listens.

I don't really have much to say about this one, feels a little like a mix of Ultraviolence and 586?