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Album: Lazer Guided Melodies
Year: 1992

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I will say this for “Run:” I’m pretty confident that it’s the only song that will ever be recorded that combines a lift from the Velvet Undergound and a lift from a song that I first heard in a cover version by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

The cover is “Call Me The Breeze,” a J.J. Cale song that I first heard via Skynyrd’s cover on side three of One More ~~For~~ From The Road, a record that I absolutely adored when I got it way back in 1977. And of course, it’s been covered countless times, but most certainly not in this fashion.

Album: Technique
Year: 1989

And then, three long years between Brotherhood and Technique, an uncharacteristic thing for a band that — if you counted Joy Divsion & the singles comps (fair, because they collected non-album songs) — had released 10 albums worth of studio material in their first decade.

Incredibly prolific. Until they weren’t. Which is normally how it happens, I guess. I mean, except for Robert Pollard, of course. The irony is that — because of the success of 1987’s Substance singles comp, as well as their ongoing onslaught of singles — New Order was getting ever more successful even as their music-making was slowing down.

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