My Top 2000 Songs #1057: Dreams Never End

I have tremendous love for New Order's moody, haunting 1981 debut, Movement . It's always struck me as more of a Joy Division coda, a commemoration of the passing of JD frontman Ian Curtis, than as a proper New Order introduction. There are few hints of the more synth-pop direction the band would take afterwards, but the closest thing to a transitional song on the LP is "Dreams Never End." It takes a step further into New Order's dance-pop territory than the bulk of the record, a counterpart of s...
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