| Movement | 
 enlarge | Artist: New Order
Label: Qwest / Wea
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 40400
Format: Original Recording Reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 45089
UPC: 936245089220
EAN: 0093624508922
ASIN: B000002MGT
Release Date: November 3, 1992
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| Tracks:
| • | Dreams Never End - New Order, Morris, Stephen | | • | Truth | | • | Senses | | • | Chosen Time | | • | I.C.B. | | • | The Him | | • | Doubts Even Here | | • | Denial |
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Amazon.com essential recording
This is New Order's debut in name only, with the ghost of Ian Curtis still hanging heavily over his grieving Joy Division bandmates. It would take them one more step, to the brilliant Power, Corruption and Lies, to really assert their own power. Movement, then, is the sound of guitarist Bernard Sumner, percussionist Stephen Morris, and innovative bassist Peter Hook building a bridge from JD's Sturm und Drang drone to New Order's considerably brighter dance pop. It's an interesting bridge to cross though, peppered with dark highlights like the almost poppy "Dreams Never End," the blip-blooping electro chaos of the Pere Ubu-influenced "ICB," and "The Him," with its rhythmic echoes of JD's "Atrocity Exhibition." --Michael Ruby
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 Ghosts November 4, 2003
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
They might have goofed in front-loading their debut with the sprightly, catchy 'Dreams Never End'- -the rest of the album is pretty dour after such an auspicious beginning. It seems they couldn't make up their collective mind as to direction. Hence 'Dreams', which sounds like a hit single and, remarkably, like nothing in the Joy Division canon; the haunting 'Doubts Even Here', ostensibly the sequel to both 'Atmosphere' and 'In A Lonely Place'; and the sequencer-driven 'Chosen Time' which anticipates the follow-up POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES and the direction the band would pursue throughout the 80s. Not surprising, really, as much of the material was probably written as Joy Division while Ian Curtis was alive and had to be finished without him. ('Ceremony', the debut single, was performed live with Curtis on JD's STILL.) A hint of cynicism concerning the band's audience pervades the album as well, though - - the vocals are treated in more than a few spots so as to mimic Curtis, most notably on 'Dreams Never End' and 'Doubts Even Here' in which Ian's ghost seemingly performs (it's actually Peter Hook). The band was definitely haunted by Curtis: his absence permeates the album. There are some great moments, to be sure - - aside from 'Dreams Never End', 'ICB' lopes merrily along and manages to transcend its own weight with its whoopy synth calls and ascending progression. And 'Doubts Even Here' is darkly beautiful. It's also rather aptly titled- -IS that Curtis? It isn't, but it's easy to imagine it isn't Hook, either. That's the thing about ghosts. They're there but they're not.
 Ghostly June 12, 2000
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
An odd debut for a band born in misery, this is clearly the sound of a band struggling to reconcile their flippant good humour with the need to appear depressed. Musically, it sounds like a higher-tech, dancier Joy Divison. The production is astonishing, and very similar to that of 'Low-Life' several years later - being both rocky and dancey at the same time, it's years ahead of other bands. Lyrically it's impossible to judge - perhaps due to nervousness, Bernard Sumner's vocals are buried deeply in the mix (as are those of Peter Hook and Gillian Gilbert, who also appear vocally). The fragments that stand out seem as if they were penned by Ian Curtis, and indeed their contemporary singles, not included here, were. The doom-laden atmosphere seems out-of-place for a band who, a year or two later, had firmly discovered dance music. As a New Order album it's odd - only the first song sounds recognisably 'New Order' (both 'Power, Corruption and Lies' and 'Low-Life' had very similar opening tracks, probably coincidentally). The rest of it veers from obvious Joy Division-isms (ICB uses the same drum pattern as one of the songs on 'Closer') and something stranger. 'Doubts Even Here' sounds a bit like Laibach, for example, with a martial beat and simple Mellotron chord sequence. All-in-all it's not bad as an instrumental album of Joy-Division esque rock, but 'Power, Corruption and Lies' is probably a better starting-point for a New Order collection.
 Dreams Roll On April 12, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was a huge fan of Joy Division and Public Image Limited in that time, and still love them. That said. I am a New Order fan. I was of the few in San Francisco that saw them at the I-Beam on the first sans Ian tour. They were touching. That said.
Strip them of their history and take this album as it is for the time it was released and even today, and still it holds as a very good set of songs about stretching across a blackened musical landscape of minor chords and sketchy guitar with guilt ridden vocals and the occasional dance-trippy melodies. Movement is a musical statement. It shows the now and the where to go of the later masterpiece, Power, Corruption And Lies. Movement is a gloomy record, but that's ok, the dark wave really did rejoice in it's melancholy and of course in it's layered sounds. Put this album next to PIL Metal BOX and Echo and the Bunneymens Heaven Up Here and you have a couple of dreamy hours into the netherlands of what was to become of Manchester and American Brit rock idolators. Great stuff, and a wonderful clarion call to what was to become the makings of the greatest dance single of all time from the darkness of Dreams Never End: Blue Monday. After the regrettabel suicide of Ian Curtis, who I hope has found some new incarntion better fitted to his damaged soul, New Order lifted spirits rathers than dampened them.
A sonic bridge, if you will June 29, 2000
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
"Movement" provides the link between the gloom of Ian Curtis and Joy Division and the dance floor bohemoths the band was destined to become. As such, it is really only of interest to most ardent fans, being not nearly as gloomy as the former band nor as danceable as they were later to become. You might call it a period of transition.
 Hook? August 10, 2004
5 out of 16 found this review helpful
Everyone knows the story, Curtis kills himself, Joy Division crumbles and reforms as New Order and their guitarist Bernard Sumner takes lead vocals and they pick up some hot chick to play guitar for them. This album sort of picks up where Closer left off, except it's a far cry quality wise. The funny thing about this album is that the two songs sung by bassist Peter Hook are the best of the album, they are "Dreams Never End" and "Doubts Even Here". This may be because Hook is better at mimicking than Sumner is, but it's probably because they're the most catchy. Sumner's vocals are pretty weak, shoddy attempt to do an Ian Curtis impression, the singer of A Certain Ratio is more convincing than this. Part of what made Curtis's depressing, angsty songs work because he was a great songwriter, New Order trying to mimick Curtis's writing style is not going to create masterful songs, as shown on this album. The two songs I mentioned previously are very good though, definately among New Order's best. Except for "I.C.B" and the two tracks the rest of the tracks are pretty much shoddy. What's funny is at this time they had already released superior songs on singles such as "In A Lonely Place" and the amazing "Ceremony", so why not put them on the album, who knows? New Order were showing some promise on this album, and things would get a whole lot better.
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