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moondweller
The John Peel Sessions is, like, ten times better than this one from Power, Corruption & Lies.
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KingFahtah
I would walk three miles and I walk three more just to be the man who walked six miles not to hear this song again
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RandallBoggs
I've been listening to New Order for over 20 years (one of my favs) and still can't decide if I like this song.
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ctd55
Man, is this exercise in inertia and lethargy ever a buzzkill in the aftermath of "Age of Consent," with its delirious motion and energy. Denying everything "Age of Consent" had to offer--viz. energy, uplift, drive--the song leaves us in a morass of weary melancholia. Take the repeated lyrical phrases, for instance: "Life goes on and on," "forever to be still," "three miles to go," "at the end of the road"--it's all pointless waiting "in this real life fantasy," where the narrator never manages progress, and seems no more motivated to reach his destination than when he began. It's hard to blame him, though, as the torpid tempo of this music wouldn't keep anyone going for long. Yet the song refuses to die out, sluggishly marching us through fives minutes of false endings. What can you say? There's a valuable theoretical insight here, I suppose: that electronica needn't be all bubbly pop or sprightly rock. But eh, I don't have to like it their way of getting that point across.
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