History Music / SubstanceNewOrderAlbum

* AlternativeDance: The album acts as an abridged history of the genre's formation, focusing on the band that [[TropeMaker invented]] and helped [[TropeCodifier codify]] it.

''Substance'' is a compilation album by English AlternativeDance group Music/NewOrder, released in 1987. Released as a stopgap during the interim between 1986's ''Music/{{Brotherhood}}'' and 1989's ''Music/{{Technique}}'', specifically while the band were touring North America, the album compiles every 12" single released by New Order from their formation up until around the first half of 1987 ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg plus "Procession"]], which is included on CD and cassette copies despite having only ever seen release as a 7" single).

* DownerEnding: The CD, DAT, and digital versions of the album close out with "1963", a melancholic song about uxoricide.

!!Tracklist (taken from cassette versions outside the US):

* VanillaEdition: LP and U.S. cassette copies only include the A-side portion of the album, likely due to cost issues, as the total collection of 12" A-sides already covers two [=LPs=]. Releases on all other formats add in the B-sides as well, plus "Procession" (which was only ever released as a 7" single) and "Murder" (which was initially a Belgium-only release); non-US cassette versions go an extra mile and include several more B-sides not featured on CD or DAT copies.

!!Tracklist (taken from the cassette version):

* StupidStatementDanceMix: "Confusion Instrumental" and especially "Kiss of Death" chop and screw fragments of Bernard Sumner's vocals from their respective A-sides ("Confusion" and "The Perfect Kiss").

* VanillaEdition: LP and U.S. cassette copies only include the A-side portion of the album, likely due to cost issues, as the total collection of 12" A-sides already covers two [=LPs=]. Releases on all other formats add in the B-sides as well, plus "Procession" (which was only ever released as a 7" single) and "Murder" (which was initially a Belgium-only release); cassette versions go an extra mile and include several more B-sides not featured on CD or DAT copies.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the second verse of "The Perfect Kiss", the narrator bemoans how "tonight I should have stayed at home, playing with my pleasure zone." "Kiss of Death" takes this further by including samples of a woman moaning.

* TheImmodestOrgasm: A repeated sample of a woman loudly moaning appears midway through "Kiss of Death", tying in with the line from "The Perfect Kiss" about [[ADateWithRosiePalms "playing with my pleasure zone."]]

* UnusualEuphemism: "The Perfect Kiss" idiosyncratically describes ADateWithRosiePalms as "playing with my pleasure zone."

* TakeAThirdOption: Most countries either released the A-Sides portion on a single cassette or a double-cassette release with the B-sides portion. The Canadian branch of Factory, distributed by [[Creator/PolydorRecords PolyGram]], issued the B-sides portion as a separate cassette titled ''Substance Sides'' with artwork adapted from the "True Faith" single cover.

# "Temptation" (6:59)

# "Confusion" (4:43)

** "Temptation" and "Confusion" are both re-recorded, running significantly shorter than the original 12" releases. The re-recording of "Temptation" combines elements of the radically different 7" and 12" versions from 1982, while "Confusion" is a flat-out SpeedyTechnoRemake.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The 2005 ''Singles'' compilation seems intended to be one to ''Substance'' as the latter is now out of print (at least on physical formats). ''Singles'' is another 2-disc compilation, but focuses on the band's 7-inch releases and also covers the band's post-1987 singles, while using original versions instead of re-recordings. Its cover art is also a CallBack to that of the "True Faith" single, featuring the leaf's skeleton atop a white background instead of blue.

* StudioChatter: "Confusion" ends with a mix of this and {{corpsing}}, with the band playfully arguing over the outro for a few seconds.

* {{Corpsing}}: The re-recorded "Confusion" ends with the band cracking up over the outro, segueing into a small bit of StudioChatter.

** "Thieves Like Us" derives its title from [[Film/ThievesLikeUs the 1974 film of the same name]].

In addition to collecting the band's 12" A-sides and B-sides, ''Substance'' also includes two new songs: "True Faith" and "1963", recorded specifically for this album and produced by Music/PetShopBoys and Music/{{Erasure}} collaborator Stephen Hague. The songs were released together as a 7" and 12" single earlier in 1987 to promote the album, with "True Faith" as the A-side and "1963" as the B-side. Because of this, the songs exist in a weird state of being both non-album singles (as they were never included on an actual studio album) and an album single (as they were written for and released to promote ''Substance''). The single reached no. 4 on the British pop charts and proved to be their mainstream BreakthroughHit in the U.S. (having already broken through on the dance charts with "Bizarre Love Triangle" the previous year), reaching the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time as the song's SurrealMusicVideo became an Creator/{{MTV}} hit. The hit single propelled the album to platinum status, the band's first certification in that country.

As LP sales were gradually declining throughout the 80's, the album becomes New Order's first product to de-prioritize the format. Not only do the CD and cassette releases manage to squeeze all of the band's 12" singles onto one disc/tape, something that required two records for the LP release, but they also add in a second disc/tape devoted to the B-sides of the included singles and then some, with a few more B-sides present on cassette than on CD, though cassette releases in some countries only contained the first cassette. Due to the limited capacity of physical media back in the day, a good amount of tracks were edited down to fit a shorter length, with "Temptation" and "Confusion" being outright re-recorded from the ground-up. As non-album singles were still pretty common in the U.K. at the time, this was the first stateside appearance for many of these tracks, though some were previously released on the band's studio albums in substantially different forms, no pun intended.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Present on the A-sides and B-sides that predate "Temptation" and "Hurt". These songs were written prior to the band's GenreShift to AlternativeDance, during a time when they were simply hoping to continue what they had started as Music/JoyDivision, only this time without [[AuthorExistenceFailure the late]] Ian Curtis. The songs also have much more emphasis on EchoingAcoustics, due to them being produced by Joy Division producer Martin Hannett.

* SurrealMusicVideo: The video for "True Faith", courtesy of French choreographer Philippe Decouflé; alongside the video for the Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy" from two years later, this was one of the only two music videos he directed over the course of his career, and both make prominent use of people in bizarre costumes performing avant-garde routines.

** "Kiss of Death" features synth hits at the end of the intro that jump between each channel; these same hits were also used in the ''Music/LowLife'' version of "The Perfect Kiss".

** Many of the tracks on the second unit are alternate mixes of songs from unit one, made for 12"-wielding [=DJs=] to flip between in clubs. Most of these alternate mixes are {{instrumentals}}, though "Shame of the Nation" is outright an alternate take of "State of the Nation".

''Substance'' is a compilation album by English AlternativeDance group Music/NewOrder, released in 1987. Released as a stopgap during the interim between 1986's ''Music/{{Brotherhood}}'' and 1989's ''Music/{{Technique}}'', specifically while the band were touring North America, the album compiles every 12" single released by New Order from their formation up until around the first half of 1987 ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg plus "Procession"]], which is included on CD and cassette copies despite having only ever seen release as a 7" single). As LP sales were gradually declining throughout the 80's, the album becomes New Order's first product to de-prioritize the format. Not only do the CD and cassette releases manage to squeeze all of the band's 12" singles onto one disc/tape, something that required two records for the LP release, but they also add in a second disc/tape devoted to the B-sides of the included singles and then some, with a few more B-sides present on cassette than on CD, though cassette releases in some countries only contained the first cassette. Due to the limited capacity of physical media back in the day, a good amount of tracks were edited down to fit a shorter length, with "Temptation" and "Confusion" being outright re-recorded from the ground-up. As non-album singles were still pretty common in the U.K. at the time, this was the first stateside appearance for many of these tracks, though some were previously released on the band's studio albums in substantially different forms, no pun intended.