Retro (New Order album)

Retro is a 2002 box set from the English band New Order, it comprises of four CDs. Initial quantities came with a fifth disc, featuring rare tracks.

The box set was released as a compromise. The band's manager, Rob Gretton, had originally envisioned a boxset called Recycle which would feature all the singles New Order had released, one single per CD, in a grand 20 CD box.

Gretton's vision of Recycle would feature every recorded version of every New Order track as well as unreleased material, making it the holy grail for New Order fans. Sadly, London Records deemed this a little too excessive, the idea was shelved, New Order released Get Ready and a year later Retro surfaced.

The CDs each have a particular theme: 'Pop', 'Fan', 'Club' and 'Live'. Each one is selected by a friend of the band.

There were large numbers of complaints over the ommission of the track Love Vigilantes from the CD, which were met with suggestions that it was a hiddent track, which it is not. However, convincing people that it is has become a newbie initiation procedure on many New Order fansites.

Tracklisting

Disc 1 : 'Pop'

Selected by Miranda Sawyer, journalist.

1. Fine Time (From Technique)
2. Temptation (From 12” Single Fac63)
3. True Faith (From Substance)
4. The Perfect Kiss (From Low-Life)
5. Ceremony (From 12” Single Fac63)
6. Regret (From Republic)
7. Crystal (From Get Ready)
8. Bizarre Love Triangle (From Brotherhood)
9. Confusion (From 12” Single Fac93)
10. Round And Round (From Technique)
11. Blue Monday (From 12” Single Fac73)
12. Brutal (From The Beach Motion Picture Soundtrack)
13. Slow Jam (From Get Ready)
14. Everyone Everywhere (From Republic)

Disc 2 : 'Fan'

Selected by John McCready, music journalist.

1. Elegia (From Low-Life)
2. In A Lonely Place (From 12” Single Fac33)
3. Procession
4. All Day Long (From Brotherhood)
5. Your Silent Face (From Power, Corruption & Lies)
6. Sunrise (From Low-Life)
7. Let's Go
8. Broken Promise (From Brotherhood)
9. Dreams Never End (From Movement)
10. Cries And Whispers
11. Sooner Than You Think (From Low-Life)
12. Leave Me Alone (From Power, Corruption & Lies)
13. Lonesome Tonight (From 12” Single Fac103)
14. Every Little Counts (From Brotherhood)
15. Run Wild (From Get Ready)

Disc 3 : 'Club'

Selected by Mike Pickering, DJ.

1. Confusion (Koma & Bones Mix With Bernard’s New Vocal)
2. Paradise (Robert Racic Mix)
3. Regret (Sabres Slow ’N’ Low Mix)
4. Bizarre Love Triangle (Shep Pettibone Mix)
5. Shell Shock (John Robie Mix)
6. Fine Time (Steve “Silk” Hurley Mix)
7. 1963 (Arthur Baker Mix)
8. Touched By The Hand Of God (Original Version)
9. Everything’s Gone Green (Original)
10. Blue Monday (Jam & Spoon Manuela Mix)
11. World In Motion (Pickering/Parke Mix)
12. Here To Stay (Chemical Brothers Remix)
13. Crystal (Lee Coombs Remix)

Disc 4 : 'Live'

Selected by Bobby Gillespie, vocalist from Primal Scream.

1. Ceremony (Studio 54, Barcelona, 7 July 1984)
2. Procession (Polytechnic of Central London, 6 December 1985)
3. Everythings Gone Green (Recreation Centre, Kingston-upon-Thames, Tolworth, London 12 March 1983)
4. In A Lonely Place (Glastonbury Festival, 20/06/81)
5. Age Of Consent (Spectrum Arena, Warrington, 1 March 1986)
6. Elegia (Glastonbury Festival, 19 June 1987)
7. The Perfect Kiss (Glastonbury Festival, 19 June 1987))
8. Fine Time (Claims to be from Hoffman Estates, Chicago, 30 June 1989 but is really Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 5 July 1989)
9. World (Starplex Amphitheatre, Dallas, 21 July 1993)
10. Regret (Reading Festival, 31 August 1993)
11. As It Is When It Was (Reading Festival, 31 August 1993)
12. Alan Wise's Introduction (Olympia, Paris, 12 November 2001)
13. Crystal (Big Day Out, Gold Coast, 20 January 2002)
14. Turn My Way (Olympia, Liverpool, 18 July 2001)
15. Temptation (Academy, Brixton, 10 October 2001)

Disc 5 (Limited Edition bonus CD)

1. Temptation '98
2. Transmission (Live)
3. Such A Good Thing
4. Theme From "Best & Marsh"
5. Let's Go (Instrumental)
6. True Faith (Pink Noise Morel Edit)
7. Run Wild (Steve Osborne Original Mix)
8. The Perfect Kiss (Live take recorded at video shoot)
9. Elegia (Full Version)