Stephen Morris (Joy Division, New Order and Bad Lieutenant.

Top 5 Fave records from the Factory Records back catalogue.

1) - Red Turns To 'Deep Sleep'

An early production job, found this one while sorting out some old tapes and still sounds good - they could have been Factory's answer to Suicide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsrDJEFGXSc&feature=related

2) - Marcel King 'Reach For Love'

How this was not a huge hit record I'll never know. A fantastic tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h7X3z8JghY

3) - OMD 'Electricity'

Another classic. I remember Martin [Hannett, Joy Division producer] playing this at Strawberry [Studios], and thinking that it sounded like Kraftwerk doing a Del Shannon cover.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq2vl99iIEc

4) - ESG 'You're No Good'

We went to America for the first time with A Certain Ratio and lost all our gear but someone (Tony?) found ESG, another hit that wasn't. They memorably played the opening night of The Hacienda with Bernard Manning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOgmf_Vb8S0

5) - Happy Mondays 'WFL'
The Mondays are a unique band, hearing this reminds me of a particular summer when things were either "top" or "buzzin", the constabulary were "Dibble" and we were all "loved up".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3svrd9OaIw

www.badlieutenant.net

Many thanks to Stephen Morris for the top 5 - thunder.