Sunday, July 18, 2010

80s Jams #06: New Order "Temptation" (1982)

While New Order continued on an introspective track, even their saddest songs glimmered with more hope than most of Curtis' bleak and fatalistic pronouncements like "Love Will Tear Us Apart." On "Temptation," New Order sounds like Up With People comparatively. The end product sounds like Joy Division meets Donna Summer with a bit of the tunefulness of the Cure thrown in. Another of the song's major hooks comes in the way of an infectious singalong chorus. This would have been a shock to the band's old fans; Joy Division was not known for singalongs. -- Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:wzfexz80ldje

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