New Order / Substance 1987 reissue

Substance 1987, New Order’s classic 12-inch compilation, will be reissued in November as an expanded 4CD edition and across other formats.

Originally released via Factory Records, Substance compiled all of the band’s singles to that point in their 12-inch versions with many of their respective B-sides (on the CD and cassette versions), along with specially recorded versions of ‘Temptation’ and ‘Confusion’.

The album also included the biggest selling 12-inch single of all time, ‘Blue Monday’, alongside other singles ‘The Perfect Kiss’, ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ and the band’s debut single release ‘Ceremony’. The compilation also features the classic ‘True Faith’ which was one of two new songs (the other being ‘1963’) recorded for Substance. The single reached No 4 in the UK charts and was the band’s biggest hit single to that point.

The 2023 reissue sees the audio remastered and expanded to four CDs. This 4CD version includes the original 2CD set and adds two further discs. CD3 expands the collection with alternate versions and extra B-sides, while CD4 features an unreleased concert, Live from Irvine Meadows, California, 12th September 1987, where the band uniquely played the entire album in sequence!

There will also be 2LP and double cassette editions of this reissue with the former available as black or blue/red coloured vinyl. The tape is only available from the New Order shop. There will also be three 12-inch singles released at the same time: ‘True Faith’, ‘True Faith Remix’ and ‘Blue Monday 88’.

Substance 1987 is reissued on 10 November 2023 via Warner Music

Tracklisting

Substance 1987 New Order /

• 4CD set
  • CD 1 (remastered)
    1. Ceremony
    2. Everything’s Gone Green
    3. Temptation 87
    4. Blue Monday        
    5. Confusion 87           
    6. Thieves Like Us
    7. The Perfect Kiss
    8. Sub-Culture 
    9. Shellshock
    10. State Of The Nation
    11. Bizarre Love Triangle
    12. True Faith
  • CD 2 (remastered)
    1. In A Lonely Place
    2. Procession
    3. Cries And Whispers
    4. Hurt
    5. The Beach
    6. Confused Instrumental
    7. Lonesome Tonight
    8. Murder
    9. Thieves Like Us Instrumental
    10. Kiss Of Death
    11. Shame Of The Nation
    12. 1963
  • CD 3
    1. Ceremony (Original)
    2. Mesh
    3. Temptation (12”)
    4. Confusion (Original 12”)
    5. Perfect Pit
    6. Dub Vulture
    7. Shellcock
    8. Bizarre Dub Triangle
    9. True Dub
    10. Confusion (Dub 87)
    11. True Faith (Remix)
  • CD 4

    Live from Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, California 1987 

    1. Ceremony
    2. Everything’s Gone Green
    3. Temptation 87 
    4. Blue Monday
    5. Confusion 87
    6. Thieves Like Us
    7. The Perfect Kiss
    8. Sub-culture
    9. Shellshock
    10. State Of The Nation
    11. Bizarre Love Triangle
    12. True Faith
• 2 x Cassette Version
  • Cassette 1

    Side A

    1. Ceremony 
    2. Everything’s Gone Green
    3. Temptation 87
    4. Blue Monday
    5. Confusion 87
    6. Thieves Like Us
    7. Murder

    Side B

    1. The Perfect Kiss
    2. Sub-culture
    3. Shellshock 
    4. State Of The Nation
    5. Bizarre Love Triangle 
    6. True Faith
  • Cassette 2

    Side C

    1. In A Lonely Place
    2. Procession
    3. Mesh
    4. Cries And Whispers
    5. Hurt
    6. The Beach
    7. Confusion Instrumental
    8. Lonesome Tonight

    Side D

    1. Thieves Like Us Instrumental
    2. The Kiss Of Death
    3. Dub Vulture
    4. Shellcock
    5. Shame Of The Nation
    6. Bizarre Dub Triangle
    7. 1963
• 2LP edition
  • LP 1

    Side 1

    1. Ceremony
    2. Everything’s Gone Green
    3. Temptation 87

    Side 2 

    1. Blue Monday        
    2. Confusion 87           
    3. Thieves Like Us
  • LP 2

    Side 3

    1. The Perfect Kiss
    2. Sub-culture
    3. Shellshock

    Side 4

    1. State Of The Nation
    2. Bizarre Love Triangle
    3. True Faith