New Order: Substance 1987 (2LP, remastered) [WARNER]

Why you'll love it

Substance gathers the 12-inch versions of every New Order single up to 1987, from "Ceremony" to "True Faith," and sold over a million copies. It's New Order's most popular and acclaimed album, remastered here on 2LP.

This edition

• 2LP set, 12 tracks
• 2023 remastered reissue
• Warner pressing

About the album

New Order has the distinction of never having contributed a truly bad record to its studio discography over decades of on-and-off activity as a band, but if you had to choose just one artifact as a monument to the UK dance-pop outfit's greatness, the early singles compilation Substance 1987 is the way to go. Substance gathers together the extended 12-inch versions of all of New Order's pre-1987 singles, covering a lot of ground from the Joy Division-shrouded "Ceremony" and "Everything's Gone Green" to the groundbreaking electro-smashes "Blue Monday" and "Confusion" to utterly ace latter-years pop hits such as "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "True Faith," the one "new" cut here and still one of the band's most ageless tunes.

These are all ageless tunes, though, which is why Substance 1987 remains the definitive New Order collection. If you wanna know what makes New Order tick, it's all right here. If you wanna know why New Order is considered a legendary bridge between post-punk and modern electronic dance music, it's all right here. If you want 12 of New Order's absolute best songs at your fingertips, arranged in the order of their creation, they're all right here.

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Tracklist

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On Warner, a remastered reissue of the 1987 compilation.