samedi 16 août 2008

New Order

Un document exceptionnel visible sur You Tube : New order en live à la radio BBC1 en 1984 (voir post ci-dessus)


Pendant les qq. minutes de la vidéo, les membres de New Order sont les plus belles personnes du monde, appliqués, concentrés, séparés chacun de leur coté (comme la mise en scène le montre ici) mais ensemble dans un espace autre que celui du studio réel et physique, celui du son : ailleurs.



Chaque instrument a sa place dans l'espace sonore très bien partagé de ce groupe. On assiste à un miracle d'humilité et de puissance. Humilité de la place bien définie que chacun respecte, au profit d'une chose qui les dépasse tous individuellement qui est : une CHANSON. Ici, quatre anglais, sans doute plutot beaufs, du Nord, trouvent ensemble à réaliser qq chose de grand, de singulier, tout en restant et en admirant au plus haut point le format de la chanson pop.


Marriant Kraftwerk et le krautrock des 70's avec la tradition de la pop song pour ados des années 50, ils ajoutent cette mélancolie inimitable qui leur est propre dans leur composition et plus particulièrement dans le chant. Dans ce film d'une grande qualité de prise de vue, attentif et sobre, (absolument pas comme on filme la musique en train de se faire aujourd'hui) on est témoin qu'une forme si anecdotique qu'une pop song peut offrir a des humains l'occasion de donner, d'exprimer de multiples sentiments, plus ou moins contradictoires : mélancolie, rage, libido, ennui, SIMULTANEMENT.


Ils jouent des contines, des lullabies (des berceuses) très scolaires, presque trop faciles mais jouées avec une telle sobriété, une retenue digne d'un écolier interprétant du mozart au violon pour la fête de Noel.; On est a un moment de la pop musique où il n'est plus besoin d'apparaitre comme des robots quand on joue du synthé et des machines, ni de se vanter de ses synthés (style Eno ou JM Jarre). le robot est en soi et peut s'habiller en short, détendu.
La Puissance de leur énergie est aussi la preuve que très vite (vers 1966) le rock en tant que tel est impossible, qu'il s'est enfoui dans les corps et que les corps l'ont fait passer sous d'autres habits, d'autres formes et d'autres sons : des boîtes à rythmes, des synthés idiots et sautillants (donc totalement punk), une guitare rythmique et une ligne de basse ondulante sans fin...



Un document très beau : les notes de pochettes de disque publiées sur la compilation de New Order :

New Order should never have been called New Order.

Bernard Sumner should never have been a lead singer.

Joy Division's survivors should never have made dance music.

New Order should never have composed the best selling 12 inch record of ail times.

New Order should never have disguised themselves as hard rockers for the Touched by the Hand of God vidéo.

US kids addicted to MTV should never have taken it for granted.

New Order should never have earnt a lot of money, only to be bankrupted because of the Hacienda, their club in Manchester.

The Hacienda should never have opened.

The Hacienda should never have closed.

New Order never properly signed with Tony Wilson from Factory Records but followed ail the label's history, from the punk débuts to the Acid House ending.

New Order should never have signed in the US of A on Q West, Quincy Jones' soûl music label, but Quincy thought that it was "the best Brit band ! Much better than the Sex Pistols !".

Suppose New Order hadn't written Blue Monday, Neil Tennant would have never founded the Pet Shop Boys. He would still be a journalist.

New Order don't use make up like The Cure, don't dress up like Depeche Mode and don't have haircuts like the Human League.

New Order are a serious band, but they weren't afraid to compose the officiai British anthem for the World Cup 1990.

England should never have lost this World Cup. Any World Cup.

New Order can be outrageously cold like hard dance. Never narrow minded.

New Order doesn't dance, but really likes it anyway.

They stood there, without saying a word to their audience. It was cool.

Nowadays they spend most of their time talking & doing encores every night. It's cool.

New Order is a weird band : Peter Hook has a strange way to hold his bass, Steven to use his drums, Barney to dance and Gillian to, uh, well Gillian you know.

If lan Curtis hadn't commited suicide, New Order would have never existed.

If New Order hadn't played in New-York, they would have never discovered Larry Levan's Paradise Garage and John Jellybean Benitez's Fun House.

They would never have worked with Shep Pettibone, Arthur Baker, John Robie or Steve Silk Hurley.

And the history of House music wouldn't have been the same.




If Peter Hook hadn't produced Made of Stone, there would never have been a Stone Roses' phenomena.

If Bernard hadn't produced Freaky Dancin', there would never have been a Happy Mondays' phenomena.

Without the Roses or the Mondays, no Madchester.

New Order refused to mime on tvs. Imposed their own conditions. And it wasn't for fun.
New Order never showed their faces on record covers. Except for once.

And it was big.

Pré House incognito, effective anti star System.

No poses, only attitude.

The true punks do dance music.

The techno génération is still running 20 years after Blue Monday.

New Order were still running after Lou Reed... when they finally found out about Donna Summer.

Yeah, and one last thing, New Order should never have shot their Regret video with David
Hasselhoff and Pamela Andersen.

On the beach.

During Spring Break.

With Californians all over.

Real ones.

No, not that.

New Order never do anything thing like anybody else.

A chronological "best of" is supposed to explain a logical route.

Not with them.

You will only find a natural gift for Anarchy.

Really, New Order should have been called New Order.

And definitively should never have been the best band on earth.

David Blot, September 2002

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