Power, Corruption & Lies

A great leap forward from their funeral debut album Movement, Power, Corruption & Lies cemented New Order's place as the most exciting dance-rock hybrid in music, and it didn't even include the massive "Blue Monday" single, released earlier that year. Confident and invigorating where Movement had sounded disconsolate and lost, the record simply pops with energy from the beginning "Age of Consent," an alternative pop song with only a smattering of synthesizers overlaying an assured Bernard Sumner, who took his best vocal turn yet.