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but its hard to imagine new order without peter hook.
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I think the first (but not the subsequent two) Electronic record proved who the star of the show was in the band. That record is basically a New Order record sans Hook's bass lines and it doesn't suffer for it.
That Electronic record was the last time any member of the band, or the band collectively, felt like the original exploratory spirit of the group was alive. There would no longer be anything like "The Perfect Kiss" or "Fine Time" and instead it was all mostly middle of the road pop with a fair bit of self referentiality. I remember reading an NME article previewing the second Electronic record and it Bernard Sumner mentioned that he'd gone sober but had started experimenting with Prozac so that probably partially explains why that record was such a flatline.