Ad

New OrderPower, Corruption & Lies

Label:Factory – FACT 75
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:UK
Released:
Genre:Electronic, Rock
Style:New Wave, Synth-pop, Post-Punk

Tracklist

A1Age Of Consent
A2We All Stand
A3The Village
A45 8 6
B1Your Silent Face
B2Ultraviolence
B3Ecstasy
B4Leave Me Alone
Ad

Companies, etc.

Credits

Notes

Published by Bemusic 1983
A Factory Record.

Runouts are etched except the Strawberry stamp.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, variation 1): FACT-75-A-1 MT.6 STRAWBERRY G3
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, variation 1): FACT-75-B-1 G3 MT.6 STRAWBERRY WHERE's MURDER?
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, variation 2): FACT-75-A-1 MT.1 STRAWBERRY
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, variation 2): FACT-75-B-1 MT.1 STRAWBERRY WHERE's MURDER?
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, variation 3): FACT-75-A-1 MT.5 STRAWBERRY G2
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, variation 3): FACT-75-B-1 MT.5 STRAWBERRY G2 WHERE's MURDER?
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, variation 4): FACT-75-A-1 MT.6 STRAWBERRY G3
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, variation 4): FACT-75-B-1 MT.5 STRAWBERRY G2 WHERE's MURDER?
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, variation 5): FACT-75-A-1 MT.4 STRAWBERRY
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, variation 5): FACT-75-B-1 MT.4 STRAWBERRY WHERE's MURDER?
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, variation 6): FACT-75-A-1 MT 4 STRAWBERRY
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, variation 6): FACT-75-B-1 MT.8 STRAWBERRY WHERE's MURDER?
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, variation 7): FACT-75-A-1 MT.7 STRAWBERRY
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, variation 7): FACT-75-B-1 MT.5 STRAWBERRY G2 WHERE's MURDER?
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, variation 8): FACT-75-A-1 MT.1 STRAWBERRY
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, variation 8): FACT-75-B-1 MT.4 STRAWBERRY WHERE's MURDER?
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, variation 9): FACT-75-A-1 MT 8 STRAWBERRY
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, variation 9): FACT-75-B-1 MT.8 STRAWBERRY WHERE's MURDER?
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A, variation 10): FACT-75-A-1 MT. STRAWBERRY G1
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B, variation 10): FACT-75-B-1 MT. STRAWBERRY WHERE's MURDER? G1

Other Versions (5 of 155)

View All
Title (Format)LabelCat#CountryYear
Power, Corruption & Lies (Cassette, Album, CrO2)Factory (US), Factory (US)Factus 12C, Factus 12 CUS1983
Power, Corruption & Lies (LP, Album)Factory, FactoryFACT 75, VR 22569Netherlands1983
Power, Corruption & Lies (LP, Album)Factory (US)FACTUS 12US1983
Power, Corruption And Lies (LP, Album, Black Labels)FactoryFACD 11Canada1983
Power, Corruption & Lies (LP, Album, Stereo, Die-Cut Sleeve)Base Record, Factory, Base Record, FactoryFACT 75, FACT SEVENTY FIVEItaly1983

Recommendations

Reviews

  • Drapaka's avatar
    Drapaka
    Edited 7 months ago
    Anyone also finds this pressing very quiet? I bought it recently and amongst all of my records that's the quietest one!
    • beautyenedecay's avatar
      My favourite album of all time. Something about that track named leave me alone, it is just so good, never tire of that track or this album as a whole even after all these years. First pirated in 1986 but since bought many times on Vinyl, CD, most recently on silver vinyl. Probably a box set to follow after the recent news of the Movement one.
      • 808-MAN's avatar
        808-MAN
        Edited 5 years ago
        I think Power,Corruption & Lies is New Orders best album by far followed by Brotherhood. Managed to see them Live a few times and Your Silent Face always did it for me. Classic tune. Very underrated album, walks allover Substance etc.
        • zappa_crappa's avatar
          zappa_crappa
          The cover says Factus 12 but the record says Factus 10?
          • Crijevo's avatar
            Crijevo
            From the very bass intro of "Age Of Consent", there is a mark of a pleasant starting point for New Order, audibly pretending as if this is the actual debut album of theirs. And partially it may be true. Previously trapped in Martin Hannett's production mould, with "Power Corruption & Lies" New Order do not hide they're finally on their own, free and happy, maybe not entirely singing like a bird (Barney's struggling not to sing out of tune, cute though) but playing like a flock of happy birds to the core, demonstrating the maturity in their sound, song by song heading in different directions. The dark-ish trademark of Morris' drumming and Hooky's stabbing basslines remains intact, but here the structures are more polished and upbeat with a touch of jazz-noir ("We All Stand", which is also dangerously close to the "Advantage"-era Clock DVA) and techno moments ("586", "The Village", "Ultraviolence" and "Ecstasy" all deriving echoes of the group's smash hit "Blue Monday"). "Your Silent Face" is a sad piece with a Kraftwerk-pastiche (the synth melody pleasantly reminds of the latter's "Europe Endless" and "Franz Schubert", in fact possibly a deliberate reference - in "Blue Monday" (and also here, on "586" after a baffling jam-session introduction) they borrowed a bit from the Düsseldorf foursome's "Uranium"). The closing number "Leave Me Alone", melancholic but full of optimism, makes a full circle. Unlike the one-dimensionality of "Movement", "Power, Corruption & Lies" is a downright eclectic affair, conceptually stronger, with a confusing yet iconic sleeve - in Peter Saville's own words, a techno-floral collection, that damn well stood the test of time and in great response to the chosen motif of Fantin-Latour.
            • AWW's avatar
              AWW
              Perfect album. BD
              • ttooyyss's avatar
                ttooyyss
                How single-minded and boring I find this album...I can't tell. So am I with all the discography of the New Order. Well Blue Monday single was outstanding and they have some nice tracks but all the rest are extremely mindless. No fantasy, no technical progress almost at all. The singer a nice guy but is a bloody untalented and boring.... boring...boring...
                • Tb-303's avatar
                  Tb-303
                  As far as an early New Order album this one just hits the spot. You get some resemblance of joy Division still with the outbreak of an immerging New order just about ready to break out to the rest of the world. Such a classy and stand out job done in production that it's album cover basically goes completely perfect with the music. A flower in all it's beauty if it were to play instruments might just sound like this album.
                  • sicole's avatar
                    sicole
                    Edited 18 years ago
                    This is just wonderful. This is where New Order finally left behind the post-Joy Division sound of "Movement" and discovered something all their own.

                    Power, Corruption & Lies is revolutionary. Little like this existed at the time, and even now this LP has something different about it.

                    "Your Silent Face" is great, and "Ecstasy" is brilliant. The Peter Saville cover gives nothing away, which just adds to the album.

                    • oi.eh's avatar
                      oi.eh
                      Edited 19 years ago
                      What looks like a colour wheel on the sleeve back is actually a key to deciphering the codes on the sleeve edges of Blue Monday, Confusion and this release. The outer ring of the wheel represents every letter in the alphabet with the solid bars doubling as numbers 1-9. The solid light green strip pointing "north" represents the letter "A" (and 1) the solid yellow bar to the right is "B" (and 2)and so-on ending with the split bar of pink and yellow for "Z". The first four boxes on Power Corruption and Lies decode as FACT, the last is split into two for the numbers 7 and 5.

                      Release

                      For Sale on Discogs

                      Sell a copy

                      Statistics

                      Ad

                      Videos (6)

                      Edit
                      Ad
                      Ad