"Such A Good Thing" is the song every New Order skeptic should hear

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If the Beatles and Lou Reed had a love child, and it was adopted by New Order...angels would sing in the heavens and the Cocteau Twins would be jealous. And I maintain that is what has occured with New Order's "Such A Good Thing", the b-side to a 2002 re-release of the "World In Motion" single.

I need to understand why this song beats every single other track they've done since reforming. But I can't explain it. And I've played it enough times now to be past any skeptic scrutiny. I give up. My fascination with it has not waned. If they did a whole album of songs that good, the universe would explode.

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

this makes me wanna buy it - i like a ew electronic b-sides

― neil lowe, Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

this makes me wanna buy it - i like a ew electronic b-sides
forgoto to ask - can u share it on win mx , post a link,open a yahoo group,email it.

― neil lowe, Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

if they made an album full of songs like this you would probably think it was boring.

― That One Guy (That One Guy), Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was by That Petrol Emotion.

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

yeah this song is pretyt great.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 5 June 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

if they made an album full of songs like this you would probably think it was boring.

What makes you so sure of this?

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 June 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Besides I said "as good as this" not "like this".

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 June 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

so "Such a Good Thing" is actually Such a Good Thing?

That's funny

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Sunday, 5 June 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

No, I quite like Such a Good Thing in the same way that I quite like Player in the League, but Here to Stay is by far the best New Order have achieved since they returned (i.e. from 2001 onwards). I still remember how excited I felt hearing for the first time over the closing credits of 24 Hour Party People and how I made my girlfriend stay in the cinema to the very end of the credits just so I could hear all of it. It made me wish that New Order had recorded an entire album with the Chemical Borthers rather than just the one song.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 5 June 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

why was "out of control" by the chemical brothers not called "out of control" by the chemical brothers feat bernard summer ?

― heter pook, Sunday, 5 June 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

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