History Music / SubstanceNewOrderAlbum

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "The Perfect Kiss" includes a sampled interlude of frog croaks of all things, simply because Stephen Morris loved the recording and jumped at the chance to make use of it, as well as synthesized sheep bleats at the end of the double-LP and cassette versions. The bleating sheep sample would become an aural RunningGag in future New Order songs.

* LastNoteNightmare: "The Perfect Kiss" ends with a synthesized bang on LP and cassette, implied to be the narrator's friend [[DrivenToSuicide shooting himself dead.]]

*** "Sub-Culture", "Shellshock", and "Hurt" are all significantly edited down from their original running lengths, with "The Perfect Kiss" being an additional victim on CD and DAT copies, with this edit additionally carrying over to streaming services (which reuse the CD release's master). The full-length version of "The Perfect Kiss" wouldn't be included on a New Order CD release in its entirety until the 2008 collector's edition reissue of ''Music/LowLife''.

** The configuration of the A-sides on the main album and the B-sides on the extra disc/cassette is similar to fellow Manchester band Music/{{Buzzcocks}}' ''Singles Going Steady'' compilation, which employed a similar scheme on a single record, with the A-Sides on side "A" and the B-sides on side "B".

''Substance'' is a compilation album by 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). The album is also the band's first to not be focused primarily on the LP 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. 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 tracks were previously released on the albums in substantially different forms.

''Substance'' is a compilation album by 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). The album is also the band's first to not be focused primarily on the LP 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. 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.

* GratuitousPanning: The synth hits at the end of the intro for "The Perfect Kiss" and the isolated backing vocals on the last reprise of the chorus of "Bizarre Love Triangle".

This album is also notable for being one of only a small amount officially released on Digital Audio Tape (DAT) during the format's limited commercial lifespan before the record industry's freakout over potential piracy applications relegated it to professional use; the DAT release is a double-tape package and features the exact same tracklist per tape as the CD version does per disc. The CD tracklist would also be recycled when the album belatedly hit streaming services in September of 2020.

''Substance'' is a compilation album by Music/NewOrder, released in 1987. Released as a stopgap during the interim between 1986's ''Music/{{Brotherhood}}'' and 1989's ''Music/{{Technique}}'', 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). The album is also the band's first to not be focused primarily on the LP 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. 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.

* DownerEnding: With the sole exception of the LP release, most versions of the album close out with "1963", a melancholic song about uxoricide.

* DownerBeginning: The album opens with "Ceremony", a wistfully melancholic song that just so happened to be the last piece Music/JoyDivision ever rehearsed before Ian Curtis' 1980 suicide. The B-side portion itself takes things up a notch, opening with "In a Lonely Place", which was written and rehearsed around the same time as "Ceremony" and is even bleaker in tone both musically and lyrically, among other things including a verse about a hanging that seems frighteningly prescient in light of Curtis' death by the same method.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: On the cassette release, the A-sides tape sports a red label while the B-sides tape sports a blue label, tying in with the red and blue floral patterns found in the liner notes.

* SurrealMusicVideo: The video for "True Faith".

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Gillian Gilbert has backing vocals on "Procession" and "Confusion".

*** "Temptation" and "Confusion" are both re-recorded, running significantly shorter than the original 12" releases. The re-recording of "Temptation" incidentally seems to combine elements of the 7" and 12" versions from 1982, featuring the slick, thumping sound of the 7" version and the freeform EpicRocking experimentation of the 12" version (perhaps not coincidentally, both versions of the 1982 release were recorded back-to-back in a single take). The end result is a "best of both worlds" approach that came to overshadow both versions of the original 1982 single as time went on.

''Substance'' is a compilation album by Music/NewOrder, released in 1987. Released as a stopgap during the interim between 1986's ''Music/{{Brotherhood}}'' and 1989's ''Music/{{Technique}}'', 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). The album is also the band's first to not be focused primarily on the LP 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. Due to the limited capacity of physical media back in the day, a good amount of tracks were edited down or outright re-recorded to fit a shorter length.

** The outro of "Confusion" features a nod to the "mama-say mama-sah ma-ma-coo-sah" chant from Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango's 1972 single "Soul Makossa"; the use of it specifically in the outro further harks back to [[Music/{{Thriller}} "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"]] by Music/MichaelJackson.

# "Mesh" (3:02)†[[note]]Erroneously named "Cries and Whispers" on the packaging for physical copies[[/note]]
# "Cries and Whispers" (3:25)[[note]]Erroneously named "Mesh" on the packaging[[/note]]

*** "Sub-Culture", "Shellshock", and "Hurt" are all significantly edited down from their original running lengths, with "The Perfect Kiss" being an additional victim on CD and DAT copies. The full-length version of "The Perfect Kiss" wouldn't be included on a New Order CD release in its entirety until the 2008 collector's edition reissue of ''Music/LowLife''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The 2005 ''Singles'' compilation seems intended to be one to ''Substance'' as the latter is now out of print. ''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.

This album is also notable for being one of only a small amount officially released on Digital Audio Tape (DAT) during the format's limited commercial lifespan before the record industry's freakout over potential piracy applications relegated it to professional use; the DAT release is a double-tape package and features the exact same tracklist per tape as the CD version does per disc.

# "Mesh" (3:02)†[[note]]Erroneously named "Cries and Whispers" on packaging[[/note]]
# "Cries and Whispers" (3:25)[[note]]Erroneously named "Mesh" on packaging[[/note]]

* TitleConfusion: "Cries and Whispers" and "Mesh" have their names swapped on the album's packaging, stemming from an error present on the "Everything's Gone Green" sleeve back in 1982.

# "Murder" (3:55)[[note]]Placed between "Lonesome Tonight" and "Thieves Like Us (Instrumental)" on CD and DAT copies; absent on LP copies[[/note]]

# [[Music/LowLife "The Perfect Kiss"]] (8:46)[[note]]8:02 on CD and DAT copies[[/note]]

* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "The Perfect Kiss" includes a sampled interlude of frog croaks of all things, simply because Stephen Morris loved the recording and jumped at the chance to make use of it, as well as synthesized sheep bleats at the end of the double-LP and cassette versions.

*** "Sub-Culture", "Shellshock", and "Hurt" are all significantly edited down from their original running lengths, with "The Perfect Kiss" being an additional victim on CD and DAT copies. The full-length version of "The Perfect Kiss" wouldn't be included in a New Order release in its entirety until the 2008 collector's edition reissue of ''Music/LowLife''.