Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Fine Time (LP Version)
2. Temptation
3. True Faith
4. The Perfect Kiss
5. Ceremony
6. Regret
7. Crystal
8. Bizarre Love Triangle (Album Version)
9. Confusion
10. Round And Round
11. Blue Monday
12. Brutal
13. Slow Jam
14. Everyone Everywhere

Disc 2:

1. Elegia
2. In A Lonely Place
3. Procession
4. Your Silent Face
5. Sunrise
6. Let's Go [Nothing For Me] (Album Version)
7. Broken Promise
8. Dreams Never End
9. Mesh (AKA 'Cries and Whispers')
10. All Day Long
11. Sooner Than You Think
12. Leave Me Alone
13. Lonesome Tonight
14. Every Little Counts
15. Run Wild

Disc 3:

1. Confusion
2. Paradise
3. Regret
4. Bizarre Love Triangle
5. Shellshock
6. Fine Time
7. 1963 '95
8. Touched By The Hand Of God (Album Version)
9. Everything's Gone Green
10. Blue Monday
11. World In Motion
12. Here To Stay
13. Crystal

Disc 4:

1. Ceremony
2. Procession
3. Everything's Gone Green
4. In A Lonely Place
5. Age Of Consent
6. Elegia
7. The Perfect Kiss
8. Fine Time
9. World
10. Regret
11. As It Is When It Was
12. Intermission by Alan Wise (NO MUSIC CONTENT)
13. Crystal
14. Turn My Way
15. Temptation

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52542 in Music
• Released on: 2003-01-21
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Limited Edition, Best of, Box set

From Amazon.com
If there was a certain irony to the surviving members of Joy Division recasting the angst-ridden muse of band founder/suicide victim Ian Curtis as New Order's often catchy melodic synth-pop, there's ample evidence on this compelling four-disc retrospective to suggest that Curtis's troubled spirit and dark sense of humor continued to haunt his influential musical progeny long after his passing. Crucially, the band has foresworn strict historical autobiography here for a more Rashomon-like approach, allowing four outsiders to compile the anthology's component discs. The resulting four chapters focus on distinct, well-defined facets of the band's music: journalists Miranda Sawyer and John McReady serve up the hits-oriented "Pop" and moody, album-cut and B-side centered "Fan" discs, respectively, while Manchester DJ and Factory Records A&R man Mike Pickering presents a baker's dozen of the band's pioneering club mixes (six previously unavailable in the U.S.) on the "Club" disc and Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie culls together the ultimate, career-spanning N.O. concert set from a trove of unreleased soundboard recordings on "Live." Band members weigh in throughout the set's artful, straightforward liner notes with often sardonic track-by-track commentary, but it's the outside-in viewpoint that makes this such a worthy companion to Joy Division's similarly scaled Heart and Soul anthology. --Jerry McCulley

Chronique amazon.fr
Peu de groupes auraient pu se remettre de la disparition d'une figure emblématique comme l'était Ian Curtis. C'est ce que sont parvenus à faire les membres survivants de Joy Division au fil de l'épopée New Order, amorcée dans la douleur fin 1980. Mieux, tout en pérennisant l'œuvre sombre de Joy Division et la passion tardive de Curtis pour Kraftwerk, la formation a su se réinventer, rénovant par là même la grammaire musicale dans son ensemble. Sans "Everything's Gone Green" (1981) et le fondateur "Blue Monday" (1983), c'est toute la scène électronique des vingt dernières années qui se serait sentie orpheline. Ce somptueux coffret achèvera de convaincre les incrédules. Parole aux fans, le menu a été concocté par des admirateurs et proches de New Order. Résultat : quatre CD qui rendent parfaitement compte des facettes changeantes du groupe et s'articulent de la manière suivante : une sélection forcément tonitruante de singles, une collection de faces-B et de titres d'albums, un disque entier de remixes et enfin des morceaux live provenant de bandes amassées depuis vingt ans (à la qualité sonore variable). De quoi définitivement asseoir New Order comme l'ultime symbole d'un crossover pop-rock-electro brillamment réussi. New Order méritait un hommage tout particulier. C'est chose faite avec ce Retro. --Fabrice Privé

Album Description
Comprehensive four-CD box set from Mancunian dance music pioneers compiled by four high profile fans, journalists Miranda Sawyer & John McReady, former Hacienda DJ Mike Pickering & Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie. What it amounts to is a greatest hits disc, an early years set, a collection of dance remixes & a live album. Features several rarities, making it very attractive to collectors. The limited edition includes 72 page booklet with exclusive photos and a fifth bonus disc with nine tracks, 'Temptation '98', 'Transmission' (Live), 'Such A Good Thing', 'Theme From 'Best & Marsh'', 'Let's Go' (Instrumental), 'True Faith' (Pink Noise Morel Edit), 'Run Wild' (Steve Osborne Original Mix), 'The Perfect Kiss' (Live take recorded at video shoot), & 'Elegia' (17 minute Full Version), while supplies last. Digi-book (approx. 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 3/4) London. 2002.