New Order - 60 Miles An Hour (UK CD singles 1 & 2)

60 MILES AN HOUR: the edit
The song of course is the same of Get Ready, of which you can still find the review on this site,only the intro and the final are cut off. I still think there would have been better songs for the second single on the album, like Turn My Way, but this is very good anyway, and we have another great funny video (which should be available on a DVD release). A New Order fan is a scientist dressed in bearsuit happily singing along to the song on the car stereo and gives a passage to an unimpressed girl before being attacked by the dog of a forestal gard who mistakes him for an actual bear. Ehm, it does make sense when you see it, and it's very different from the standard boring videos you'll see nowadays on TV. :-)

SABOTAGE
This is the gem of the single (on CD1). The working title was Run This River Dry. Another hidden great song from New Order, just like with Behind Closed Doors on the Crystal release! Get Ready would have been even better than it already is with these two songs. After a positive verse on a great electronic base the song becomes wonderfully melancholic all of a sudden in the chorus. There are excellent parts of guitar, bass and female vocals, but most of all the touching extraordinary keyboard which recalls the best Brian Eno in the final.

THE REMIXES

60 Miles An Hour

Since it's a very guitar based rock song it's not so easy to remix, that maybe explain the only remix we have is on CD2 from the successful French group Supermen Lovers, who in fact keep only the vocals and paste them on a weird electro base. Not bad, but I think better remixes have been circulating on the Internet.

Someone Like You

This is one of the best songs on Get Ready and probably there's been the idea of a single release, anyway here we have these remixes (maybe since it's probably more remixable than 60 MPH). The best of them is Funk D'Void on CD1: a great treatment of the filtered guitar, beautiful keyboard chords, then a great dub base and spooky vocal echoes. James Holden Heavy Dub is the best thing on CD2 and it's, well, heavy, with great effects on vocals and a nice trance interlude. The Futureshock Vocal Mix is also very powerful (this song has inspired very strong and intense mixes, no lightweight), nice samples of guitar and vocals (though the filter on Bernard is trembling a bit too much) on a heavy base.