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* Audio CD (November 3, 1992)
* Original Release Date: 1981
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Original recording reissued
* Label: Qwest / Wea
* Catalog Number: 45089
* ASIN: B000002MGT
* Other Editions: Audio Cassette
* Average Customer Review: based on 39 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,438 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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This is New Order's debut in name only, with the ghost of Ian Curtis still hanging heavily over his grieving Joy Division bandmates. It would take them one more step, to the brilliant Power, Corruption and Lies, to really assert their own power. Movement, then, is the sound of guitarist Bernard Sumner, percussionist Stephen Morris, and innovative bassist Peter Hook building a bridge from JD's Sturm und Drang drone to New Order's considerably brighter dance pop. It's an interesting bridge to cross though, peppered with dark highlights like the almost poppy "Dreams Never End," the blip-blooping electro chaos of the Pere Ubu-influenced "ICB," and "The Him," with its rhythmic echoes of JD's "Atrocity Exhibition." --Michael Ruby
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
From a strange blue planet, May 23, 2005
Reviewer: Gary - See all my reviews
Now this stands the test of time. Do not heed the siren's call and get this instead. Teutonic and depersonalized, it was a bit of a shock after 'Closer'. The elastic twang of Joy Division is missing without the human windmill conducting proceedings, but kudos for sounding like a new band. The production is metalic meets stone masonary. My favourite song is Chosen Time due to its killer bass line. I walk around the house going "do do do do da da da doo". Actually, that's due to a medical condition, but the song is still good.

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Dreams Roll On , April 11, 2005
Reviewer: H. L. Thomas (Athens, GA) - See all my reviews
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I was a huge fan of Joy Division and Public Image Limited in that time, and still love them. That said. I am a New Order fan. I was of the few in San Francisco that saw them at the I-Beam on the first sans Ian tour. They were touching. That said.
Strip them of their history and take this album as it is for the time it was released and even today, and still it holds as a very good set of songs about stretching across a blackened musical landscape of minor chords and sketchy guitar with guilt ridden vocals and the occasional dance-trippy melodies. Movement is a musical statement. It shows the now and the where to go of the later masterpiece, Power, Corruption And Lies. Movement is a gloomy record, but that's ok, the dark wave really did rejoice in it's melancholy and of course in it's layered sounds. Put this album next to PIL Metal BOX and Echo and the Bunneymens Heaven Up Here and you have a couple of dreamy hours into the netherlands of what was to become of Manchester and American Brit rock idolators. Great stuff, and a wonderful clarion call to what was to become the makings of the greatest dance single of all time from the darkness of Dreams Never End: Blue Monday. After the regrettabel suicide of Ian Curtis, who I hope has found some new incarntion better fitted to his damaged soul, New Order lifted spirits rathers than dampened them. ( )