Top 10 New Order Songs #7 - "Dreams Never End"

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The 1981 album Movement re-introduced guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris, post-Joy Division, as New Order (keyboardist Gillian Gilbert rounded out the New Order lineup.) Movement is a dark, gloomy affair, and yet, you can hear the seeds of the New Order we grew to love. It also sounds enough like the trio's musical past that it's easy to imagine Joy Division, had vocalist Ian Curtis not hung himself, taking a musical path that would end up as Movement. "Dreams Never End," for instance, would have sounded right at home on New Order's second album, Power, Corruption & Lies. It's certainly not one of the band's electronic dance songs, but it sure would've sounded great as the lead track on side two. Although Sumner would take over fulltime vocal duties, Peter Hook performs the vocals on "Dreams Never End." Eerily, he doesn't sound all that different from Curtis. "Dreams Never End" is, essentially, the twain between Joy Division and New Order, and sounds a bit like both bands, much like Janus peering into past and future at the same time.