Talk:New Order tracks which include the title in the lyrics

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Does it really make sense, to post post-comeback here, since nearly no songs with non-lyrics titles are being released anymore? I mean it was a special thing in the image of New Order before, but it doesn't seem so now, so those really are not that special anymore. Lofote 21:42, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Yeah, not a bad point. I'd say go ahead and remove it, but mention what you said here in the header or something. Folkor 04:44, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I would even suggest that singling out the in-lyrics titles was only meaningful prior to Republic, which features a previously unheard-of five songs with obvious titles (and "Liar" is nearly a sixth). It's a meaningful temporal distinction as well, as the band went on haitus and pursued side projects after Technique, except for World In Motion. (And, if I may editorialize, Republic is the beginning of New Order's "second half" which is marked by greater use of outside producers, much less musical experimentation, and much more literal and vapid lyric writing by Sumner. In other words, the not-as-good half.)

I have to say that while at one point the oddly-titled songs were an intriguing aspect of New Order's body of work, but that is of course no longer the case. Therefore, I think this is probably a better list for a fan site than Wikipedia, but if it must exist it all, I think a better title would be "New Order tracks prior to 1990 which include the title in the lyrics" with an introduction which explains that prior to 1990, New Order had the distinction of having only 10 songs out of 69 (a quick count which might be wrong) which whose titles are in the lyrics, which is quite unusual for a pop band, and that their post-1990 work generally has more conventional titles.

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