A list of working titles for New Order songs/albums.
UPDATE: Colin Smith has done a tremendous job in researching many more working titles, and has provided me a spreadsheet with this,
which I link to here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a9tqW0WevZOkBFvlAA-JWiqfKMPTbT_haeeobka1IHc/edit?usp=sharing
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Little Boy -> In A Lonely Place Death Rattle -> Chosen Time (I've seen these Little Dead -> Denial reversed) The Hymn -> The Him (through mid '81) Tiny Tim -> Doubts Even Here Taboo #7 -> Temptation Cramp -> Hurt How Does It Feel -> Power, Corruption & Lies (LP) Hacienda -> Video 586 -> 5-8-6 [7] Video 586 -> 5-8-6 KW1 -> Your Silent Face Who Killed The Irisn -> Who Killed My Father -> Ultraviolence Who Killed My Father -> Ultraviolence [8] Only The Lonely -> Ecstasy The Beach -> Blue Monday [10] Family Affair -> Sooner Than You Think Pumped Full Of Drugs -> This Time Of Night [9] Things We Do -> As It Is When It Was Broken Promises -> Broken Promise
Technique's "ones", see http://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/archive/showartefact.php?aid=1864&bid=693
The Balaeric One -> Fine Time Much Too Young -> Fine Time (merged with MTO) Much Too Old -> MTO [1] Gillian's Acoustic One -> Dream Attack Housey One -> Vanishing Point VU One -> Run 8 Track No 1 -> Guilty Partner 8 Track No 2 -> All The Way Funky One -> Round & Round Acoustic One -> Loveless MT One -> All The Way (probably not MTO) Dreamy One -> Don't Do It The Empty One -> MTO Square One -> Best & Marsh
Thanks to Michael Monkhouse for Republic ones:
Regret was always known as "Regret".
Carry On New Order -> Republic Heavy Oboe One -> Times Change Identify -> Liar Backwards -> World Seagull -> Ruined in a Day Shedded -> Special Big Choir DJ -> Times Change Gillian's G String -> Everyone Everywhere Chemical One -> Special (not Chemical!) Desperate -> Young Offender Shoot to Kill -> World Ick one -> Vicious Cycle (according to Dennis Rimmer's review) Spooky One -> Spooky 16th of 19th -> maybe a musical reference like 586, so an instrumental (Avalanche, VC) Big Chord -> Ruined In A Day Techno One -> World Techno 2 -> Spooky (check out https://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/artefact/16272/NEW_ORDER_PRESS_ARTICLE_1993- 13-track album, with a track listing that includes Techno 2 but not Spooky) White Diamond -> Avalanche Moderation -> Liar
For Get Ready
Dream On -> Nothing's Gonna Change -> Close Range Field -> Player In The League Freefall -> Someone Like You Full Circle -> Run Wild Run Wild -> Primitive Notion Run This River Dry -> Sabotage [6] Shipwreck (Of A Broken Man) -> Turn My way
For WFTSC (thanks to 'perspexorange'):
Lordsy -> Who's Joe Road To Ruin -> Hey Now What You Doing Pop 1 -> Morning, Night & Day Minidisc 2 -> Dracula's Castle Jet -> Jetstream Fast Synth -> Guilt Is A Useless Emotion
These are some of the titles bootleggers have given certain songs prior to their official release.
New Guitar One -> Skullcrusher Solitude -> Skullcrusher Aleph -> Sooner Than You Think Obsession -> Face Up The Japanese One -> Face Up Sustenance -> Sunrise 24 Hours Part II -> Sunrise Things We Do -> As It Is When It Was
These comprise "joke titles" that were given out live by Barney or Hooky(*)
We Wanted Line -> Walked In Line [10] Old Home -> Confusion [2] Black Heart -> Skullcrusher [*] I've Got A Cock Like The M1 -> The Perfect Kiss Bullet In My Ear -> As It Is When It Was [3] Princess Dead -> Weirdo [4] I Don't Care -> Let's Go [5] I Got A Wank Off A Girl With A Spotty Back -> Touched By The Hand Of God
[1] Al Jarvis is fairly certain MTO actually stands for 'Mid Tempo One' I tend to agree with him, but I like the contrast in titles between 'Much Too Old' and the 'Much Too Young' line in Fine Time.
[2] According to 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', this happened 26 APR 83 Sir Francis Xavier Hall - Dublin Ireland. I'll need to confirm this.
[3] As It Is When It Was was introduced as 'Bullet In My Ear' on the mystery 85 "AU/NZ" gig (now believed to be Fox Theatre, Atlanta, on 11 AUG 85, but Al Jarvis says 'Things We Do' was the proper bootleg "working title". I've listed both.
[4] 06 OCT 86 Royal Albert Hall - London. Song was "dedicated" to Princess Di. (get it?)
[5] Yes, this was later given to a BLT instrumental remix, but it appeared as a title during live performances, I believe. I'm actually not so sure of this now, but it's likely that Bernard did give out the title as "I Don't Care" at least once. I'll try to track this down.
[6] Actually, this one started out as "Sabotage", got renamed to "Run This River Dry", and was renamed back, as best as I've ever been able to determine.
[7] "'Prime 586', (which was listed before [Ed.]) was a Mark Johnson invention as he was approaching his book deadline in late 1983... The master tape I had from Rob has the track as 'Hacienda' but after speaking with Rob, Steve, and Bernard at the Blackpool gig in 82 we decided 'Video 586' as the title; MJ was in such a state with his info as it went to press that he didn't get round to correcting it."
Information courtesy of JW.
[8] According to JW, "the first title of Ultraviolence was "Who Killed the Irish" before it became "Who Killed My Father", it went through a rapid development in the March 82 gigs in Leeds/Hull/Newcastle"
Information courtesy of CM from .pt.
[9] Pumped Full Of Drugs was released as Video (VHS) in 1986. Recorded Live in May, 2 in the Shinjuku Koseinankin Hall, Tokyo. The videotape cover only displays PFD* 177 (Fact 177) as the title. The asterisk is explained below as "Pumped Full of Drugs", which was encored here.
[10] "Blue Monday" was labeled "The Beach" during the studio recordings. At the end, The Beach become the B-side of Blue Monday.