Power, Corruption & Lies (collectors edition 2CD remastered)

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studio album
First released:
May 1983

Overview Edit

Power, Corruption & Lies is the second album by New Order, released in May 1983. The album is more electronic-based than previous albums, with heavy use of synthesizers. In 1989, it was ranked #94 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.

In 2008 the album was re-released in a Collector's Edition with a bonus disc.

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This particular version Edit

Version description:
collectors edition 2CD remastered
Record label:
unknown
Catalog number:
9 25308-2
Release dates:
  • Nov 11 2008

Genres

Dance, Indie, New Wave, Post-punk, Rock, Alternative, Classic Rock, Electronic. Vote on Genres

What do Amazon.com customers think?

5 stars the perfect mix
Whenever someone complains that electronic music is totally void of warmth or realism, I just point to this album. New Order play electronic music with the urgent and manic shifts of rock. Bernards vocals are earnest yet detatched, with guitar work that is jagged, random and sparse; Gillian and Stephen's percussion and synth sequences are both lively and rigid, an up-beat/down-march; Peter's basslines are fluid yet kinetic. This is a work of ironic friction. The warmth and humanity flow thru the…
Written by Philippe Landry
1 stars Loaded with errors
The MUSIC on these New Order reissues get a 5/5, easily. However, there were far too many egregious mistakes made in the creation of the discs themselves to give them a pass. Only the first discs were re-mastered though they still have some problems, it is the bonus discs that are an absolute mess.

Warner Music/Rhino know about these problems, but there is yet no word on any forthcoming fixes. So I'd hold off until these issues are addressed.

Noted below are the specific problems with the PC&L…
Written by paul "slop"

Track listing Edit

  • CD 1 : Power Corruption & Lies (2 CD Collector's Edition)

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    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Age of Consent
    ?:??
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    2
    We All Stand
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    3
    The Village
    ?:??
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    4
    586
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    5
    Your Silent Face
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    6
    Ultraviolence
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    7
    Ecstacy
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    8
    Leave Me Alone
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
  • unknown format 2 : Power Corruption & Lies (2 CD Collector's Edition)

    format:
    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Blue Monday [*]
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    2
    The Beach [*]
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    3
    Confusion [*]
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    4
    Thieves Like Us [*]
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    5
    Lonesome Tonight [*]
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    6
    Murder [*]
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    7
    Thieves Like Us [*][Instrumental]
    ?:??
    Play Buy track
    8
    Confusion [*][Instrumental]
    ?:??
    Play Buy track

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Other versions Edit

Power, Corruption & Lies 10 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Qwest / Wea
catalog number: 25308
release dates: May 1983 in United States
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Power, Corruption & Lies 8 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Qwest / Wea
catalog number: 25308
release dates: May 1983 in United Kingdom
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Power, Corruption & Lies 8 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: 25308
release dates: Oct 25 1990
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Power, Corruption & Lies 10 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Qwest / Wea
catalog number: 25308
release dates: Oct 25 1990
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Power, Corruption & Lies 10 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Jan 13 2008
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