BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1984
“Thieves Like Us” was British band New Order’s seventh single, released on Factory in April 1984 as 12″ only (7″s as promos only). The title is taken from the Robert Altman movie “Thieves Like Us”. An instrumental of Thieves Like Us is featured in the 1986 movie “Pretty in Pink”.
Produced by New Order. Recorded and mixed at London’s Britannia Row Studios.
The cover design by Peter Saville is based on a painting by Giorgio de Chirico.
Peaked at #18 in the UK singles charts and #1 in the UK indie singles charts.
SIDE A:
Thieves Like Us 6:36
Written-By – Arthur Baker
SIDE B:
Lonesome Tonight 5:11
VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint
RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Factory – FAC 103
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: Apr 1984
Genre: Electronic
Style:
New Wave, Synth-pop
CREDITS:
Design – PSA*, Key*
Engineer – Mike Johnson*
Mastered By – MEL*
Producer, Written-By – New Order
Find the 12″ On DISCOGS
EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut Carbon (DC)
Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp: Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Tube: Tung-Sol 12AX7ECC803-S Gold Electron Tube
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner
SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removeal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator
RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi
Amazing! This is easily my favorite New Order song and I never had a chance to make a proper vinyl rip of my own copy, so this is well appreciated! Keep up the good work!
What a great cover! Bought this 12” back then just because of the mysterious cover. No mentioning of the artist … I did the same back then when Front 242 ‘Politics Of Pressure’ was out – I saw the cover, thought ‘wow, that’s a cool cover’ and bought it though never heard of the band. And I was positively surprised!
Indeed, ‘Thieves like us’ also is one of my top 10 New Order tracks.
Thanks!
Thanks Paul, I seldom make comments on your blog except for great post like this, keep it up hope more NO in the future. BTW do you have “Don’t Do It” 12″ or 7″?
thanks
Cool. Thanks Paul. 🙂
Any more NO in the pipeline??
Never was into NO albums, but the 12inches are in my all time favourites selection, the New Order – Substance compilation, a must have!
On discogs, Arthur Baker remix credits 311, LOL
I love early New Order too. Thanks for sharing this one. If you come across the 12″ for Temptation I hope you share that one too. They used a different mix on the Substance compilation.
Thank you very much!! :clap:
Awesome. Gotta love NO. Finally saw them live a few years back. New album due in September 2015 i think. Pity split with Hooky!
Thanks Ducky
You’re welcome Mothloop Pretty In Pink 🙂
New Order — I mean, vintage New Order –gets me every time. Thank you Paul for posting this New Order single. I love how Arthur Baker wrote the track which presaged the work he would do later on with the band on their “Confusion” single. Again, it’s as if I’m seeing my record collection come to life on Burning The Ground. It’s so awesome that we share a lot of the same tastes Paul. Thanks for starting the week off with such an excellent song.
Jeff
Baker co-wrote the song with New Order during the same sessions that produced “Confusion”. “Confusion” was released in the summer of 83, and “Thieves” was released in spring 84
Thanks for the info. Arthur Baker is very important to me musically, as he and his frequent collaborator John Robie, really shaped my musical tastes.
Jeff
He was great, a true pioneer
You have great taste Jeff 🙂
Glad you posted this New Order single.
Thanks Paul 🙂
You’re welcome Junior 🙂
Wow, such a cool track and a well respected group..
Thanks as always for the rip, Paul! 🙂
You’re welcome Ex15 🙂
My favorite NO single. Thanks Paul. There’s also the 1986 remixes. Do you have those as well?
You’re welcome Omar. Sorry just the ’84 version.