New Order

[Les Biehn]

Best band ever? I reckon.

 

[Old Greg]

No. Not even as good as Joy Div.

 

[Mellotron]

Agreed with Old Greg.

Like a painfully tame shadow of Joy Division.

 

[Les Biehn]

No. Not even as good as Joy Div.

I welcome other view points. Even if they are wrong.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

No. Great band, though.

 

[Beach Hut]

Superb band except live

 

[Meade's Ball]

No chance, Cheesewright.
They are an alright pop band with a decent history, but are fronted by an out-of-tune muffler.
Not rubbish, but don't outrageously tickle my fancy.
Give me something more freezingly tender or mercilessly savage any day.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I think Meades Ball has nailed it there. Couple of good tunes but not exactly premier league.

 

[Mellotron]

Peter Hook is a bass legend though.

 

[phil1977]

Joy Division were far superior imo. Never really liked Barney Sumner's voice for some reason.

 

[REDLAND]

No chance, Cheesewright.
but are fronted by an out-of-tune muffler.

Ian Curtis had one of the worst voices I think Ive ever had a lead singer have, all part of the great Joy division sound mind but not a reason to put New Order down who were pretty great at the start as well ...

 

[Mellotron]

See I reckon New Order had more good SONGS than Joy Division, but I still much prefer JD. Why?

Because Joy Division was all about a mood, an atmosphere, that just seemed quite alien at the time and has now become massively influential, more influential than New Order.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Made some great records but have been poor on the occassions that I have seen them live. Saw them once when Technique had just come out and really wanted them to be good but it wasnt to be.

 

[Pavilionaire]

New Order much better than gloomy Joy Division.

For me Queen have to be the best band ever.

 

[Cian]

Great recording act.
Terrible live, but I'd still go through hoops to see them again...

 

[fatfingers]

Not the greatest , but one of my faves

also like The Jam , UB40 , Simple Minds , Happy Mondays , The Stone Roses , The Charlatans , Oasis , The Verve , Starsailor etc , all of which are/were better live than Neworder. Still they had a place in my youth and teenage years

 

[wigman]

They are an ok band but are shit when watching in the flesh.

 

[bhafc99]

They are an ok band but are shit when watching in the flesh.

Might have been recently, but I saw them at least half dozen times in the late 80s/v.early 90s and they were great.

 

[bright1064]

For me Queen have to be the best band ever.

Ditto that

 

[graz126]

joy division are were better than new order, so were the smiths, the stone rose and the kings of leon plus many other bands, but new order are still very good.