I am addicted to Age of Consent by New Order

Tubeileh · 08-24-2021, 12:31 PM

I recently heard the song “Age of Consent” by New Order for the first time, and it has been growing on me to the point where I am addicted to it. I have to listen to it at least 5 times every day. That bass guitar, which starts the song, immediately gives me goosebumps, and then the drums kick in. Eventually Summers starts with the line “Won’t you please let me go?”, and just that line has so much emotion in it, from pain to regret to confusion. And then transitions into the chorus, which at the first time it’s sung it is almost as if he is just saying it, just casually putting it out into the world. As the song goes on, the tone of that same chorus becomes more and more emotional, ending in almost like an exclamation of realisation, as at the same time we also get more and more information through the very scarce yet much telling verses. And throughout the entire song it is just that constant bass guitar riff. It does not change, not for the verses, chorus, or bridge. It just keeps on going forward and forward, with Summers only coming in every once in a while, as if he is jumping on a moving train, says his short lines, and then departs again, and the guitar just keeps on going. And then there is the meaning of the song. I haven’t quite figured it out yet, but I get the feeling that, just like the title of the song, the lyrics are purposefully meant ambiguous and vague. We are not supposed to know exactly what the story is, but we are given just enough information that we can feel the emotion of the song, yet we can only guess what happened.

bob_32_116 · 08-24-2021, 02:33 PM

I'm not a big fan of New Order, but I have been known to get True Faith stuck in my brain for hours on end.

bob_32_116 · 08-24-2021, 02:40 PM

testing

jadis · 08-24-2021, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tubeileh

just like the title of the song, the lyrics are purposefully meant ambiguous and vague

I love that about NO. People usually cite the lyrics as their weakest link but I find that what he does is pretty clever: putting words that have a certain suggestive ring to them into the right slots in the melody without going into the unnecessary effort of making those words cohere. A kind of a statement about lyrics being not that important.

Many of their biggest songs have completely random, interchangeable titles that don't appear in the body of the lyric.

jadis · 08-24-2021, 04:53 PM

Yep. Low-Life is one of my favorite pop albums, Everything's Gone Green is one of my favorite ever bass riffs, Temptation is me and my chick's song... I'm all in.*

*Almost. The 1993 documentary that's on YT is one of the smuggest self-suck jobs I've ever seen. But who cares... when they were good they were good

08-24-2021, 12:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tubeileh doo doo water Join Date: Aug 2021 Location: YOur Mom's House Posts: 104	I am addicted to Age of Consent by New Order I recently heard the song “Age of Consent” by New Order for the first time, and it has been growing on me to the point where I am addicted to it. I have to listen to it at least 5 times every day. That bass guitar, which starts the song, immediately gives me goosebumps, and then the drums kick in. Eventually Summers starts with the line “Won’t you please let me go?”, and just that line has so much emotion in it, from pain to regret to confusion. And then transitions into the chorus, which at the first time it’s sung it is almost as if he is just saying it, just casually putting it out into the world. As the song goes on, the tone of that same chorus becomes more and more emotional, ending in almost like an exclamation of realisation, as at the same time we also get more and more information through the very scarce yet much telling verses. And throughout the entire song it is just that constant bass guitar riff. It does not change, not for the verses, chorus, or bridge. It just keeps on going forward and forward, with Summers only coming in every once in a while, as if he is jumping on a moving train, says his short lines, and then departs again, and the guitar just keeps on going. And then there is the meaning of the song. I haven’t quite figured it out yet, but I get the feeling that, just like the title of the song, the lyrics are purposefully meant ambiguous and vague. We are not supposed to know exactly what the story is, but we are given just enough information that we can feel the emotion of the song, yet we can only guess what happened.

08-24-2021, 02:33 PM	#2 (permalink)
bob_32_116 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: 32S 116E Posts: 324	I'm not a big fan of New Order, but I have been known to get True Faith stuck in my brain for hours on end.

08-24-2021, 02:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
bob_32_116 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: 32S 116E Posts: 324	testing

08-24-2021, 04:53 PM	#5 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,232	Yep. Low-Life is one of my favorite pop albums, Everything's Gone Green is one of my favorite ever bass riffs, Temptation is me and my chick's song... I'm all in.* *Almost. The 1993 documentary that's on YT is one of the smuggest self-suck jobs I've ever seen. But who cares... when they were good they were good