Compiling all of New Order’s giant singles that had been released up til that point, Substance is an absolutely monstrous collection of tunes. Want Blue Monday? You got it! Need classic singles The Perfect Kiss, Bizarre Love Triangle, and the band’s debut single release Ceremony? They’re all present and accounted for! As a special bonus treat, the band are reissuing three of their classic 12” singles, Blue Monday ‘88, True Faith Remix, and the original True Faith. All good news, nay, great news! Flying Out
Originally released via the legendary Factory Records, Substance compiled all of the band's singles to that point in their 12” versions, and specially new recorded versions of "Temptation" and "Confusion". The album also included the biggest selling 12” single of all time, "Blue Monday", alongside other classic singles "The Perfect Kiss", "Bizarre Love Triangle" and the band’s debut single release "Ceremony".
The album is the band’s biggest selling to date, with over one million copies sold, going platinum in the UK with a Top 5 hit in "True Faith" which was accompanied by the seminal video, directed by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé.
Vinyl 2LP Tracklisting
Side 1
- Ceremony
- Everything’s Gone Green
- Temptation 87
- Blue Monday
- Confusion 87
- Thieves Like Us
- The Perfect Kiss
- Sub-culture
- Shellshock
- State Of The Nation
- Bizarre Love Triangle
- True Faith
2CD Tracklisting
- Ceremony
- Everything’s Gone Green
- Temptation 87
- Blue Monday
- Confusion 87
- Thieves Like Us
- The Perfect Kiss
- Sub-Culture
- Shellshock
- State Of The Nation
- Bizarre Love Triangle
- True Faith
- In A Lonely Place
- Procession
- Cries And Whispers
- Hurt
- The Beach
- Confused Instrumental
- Lonesome Tonight
- Murder
- Thieves Like Us Instrumental
- Kiss Of Death
- Shame Of The Nation
- 1963
4CD Tracklisting
- Ceremony
- Everything’s Gone Green
- Temptation 87
- Blue Monday
- Confusion 87
- Thieves Like Us
- The Perfect Kiss
- Sub-Culture
- Shellshock
- State Of The Nation
- Bizarre Love Triangle
- True Faith
- In A Lonely Place
- Procession
- Cries And Whispers
- Hurt
- The Beach
- Confused Instrumental
- Lonesome Tonight
- Murder
- Thieves Like Us Instrumental
- Kiss Of Death
- Shame Of The Nation
- 1963
- Ceremony (Original)
- Mesh
- Temptation (12”)
- Confusion (Original 12”)
- Dub Vulture
- Shellcock
- Bizarre Dub Triangle
- True Dub
- Confusion (Dub 87)
- True Faith (Remix)
- Live from Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, California 1987
- Ceremony
- Everything’s Gone Green
- Temptation 87
- Blue Monday
- Confusion 87
- Thieves Like Us
- The Perfect Kiss
- Sub-culture
- Shellshock
- State Of The Nation
- Bizarre Love Triangle
- True Faith