Substance 1987

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Substance
Compilation by New Order
Released	1987
Recorded	Various
Genre	Indie rock
Length	2 hours 26 minutes 48 seconds (Factory two-CD release)
Label	Factory
Producer	New Order
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Substance a 1987 double album by New Order, grouping their best-known singles in their 12-inch versions, together with some songs that were previously unavailable. Some of this music could clearly be considered as part of the culture and symbolism of the 1980s. Some of the band's most well-known tracks ("Bizarre Love Triangle", "Blue Monday", "Confusion", "The Perfect Kiss", "Temptation", and the back then newly-released "True Faith") appear, and the double-CD and double-cassette versions also include the instrumental mixes. The collection was also released on Digital Audio Tape.

A video release of Substance appeared in 1989 on VHS; it was released on LaserDisc in Japan in 1991. The cover was generally the same as the audio release, except "1987" was replaced by "1989", and the Factory/Qwest release had a grey background, the Japanese VHS release, blue and the LaserDisc, turquoise. The video includes linking sequences which are animated to the accompaniment of instrumental sections from "The Happy One", an otherwise unreleased track from the Technique sessions.

It is rumoured that the compilation was brought about because Tony Wilson of New Order's record label, Factory Records wanted to listen to the singles in his car, which had just been fitted with a CD player.

Contents

1 Track listing (LP version) 2 Track listing (CD/DAT version) 3 Track listing (Cassette Version) 4 Video track listing

Track listing (LP version)

Disc 1:

1. "Ceremony"
2. "Everything's Gone Green"
3. "Temptation 87"
4. "Blue Monday"
5. "Confusion 87"
6. "Thieves Like Us"

Disc 2:

1. "The Perfect Kiss"
2. "Sub-culture"
3. "Shellshock"
4. "State of the Nation"
5. "Bizarre Love Triangle"
6. "True Faith"

Track listing (CD/DAT version)

Disc 1:

1. "Ceremony"
2. "Everything's Gone Green"
3. "Temptation 87"
4. "Blue Monday"
5. "Confusion 87"
6. "Thieves Like Us"
7. "The Perfect Kiss"
8. "Sub-culture"
9. "Shellshock"
10. "State of the Nation"
11. "Bizarre Love Triangle"
12. "True Faith"

Disc 2:

1. "In a Lonely Place"
2. "Procession"
3. "Cries and Whispers"
4. "Mesh"
5. "Hurt"
6. "The Beach"
7. "Confused Instrumental"
8. "Lonesome Tonight"
9. "Murder"
10. "Thieves Like Us (Instrumental)"
11. "Shame of the Nation"
12. "1963"

The Perfect Kiss is about 40 seconds shorter than on the LP version of Substance, due to time restraints.

Track listing (Cassette Version)

Tape 1:

1. "Ceremony"
2. "Everything's Gone Green"
3. "Temptation 87"
4. "Blue Monday"
5. "Confusion 87"
6. "Thieves Like Us"
7. "The Perfect Kiss"
8. "Sub-culture"
9. "Shellshock"
10. "State of the Nation"
11. "Bizarre Love Triangle"
12. "True Faith"

Tape 2:

1. "In a Lonely Place"
2. "Procession"
3. "Cries and Whispers"
4. "Mesh"
5. "Hurt"
6. "The Beach"
7. "Confused Instrumental"
8. "Lonesome Tonight"
9. "Murder"
10. "Thieves Like Us (Instrumental)"
11. "Kiss Of Death"
12. "Dub-vulture"*
13. "Shellcock"*
14. "Shame of the Nation"
15. "Bizarre Dub Triangle"*/**
16. "1963"
17. "True Dub"**

* Factory FACT 200C (2 cassettes) (UK, 1987)

** PolyGram 832 617-4 "Substance Sides" (cassette 2 only) (Canada, 1987)

Some releases only contain one of the cassettes - usually cassette 1.

Note: "Murder" (an instrumental single released in Benelux only) is before "The Perfect Kiss" on some versions. "Mesh" is also incorrectly labelled "Cries and Whispers" on some variations of the album.

Video track listing

1. "Confusion"
2. "The Perfect Kiss"
3. "Shellshock"
4. "Bizarre Love Triangle"
5. "True Faith"
6. "Touched by the Hand of God"
7. "Blue Monday 1988"

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