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“Your Silent Face” by New Order

From the album Power, Corruption & Lies (1983)

“Your Silent Face” by New Order appears on 19 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1983 and 2022. It was first released in 1983 on the album Power, Corruption & Lies. Its best result is #18 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1983. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #83 alternative song of 1983 and #1,391 alternative song of all time.

19countdowns

5stations

#18best position

0#1 finishes

0top 10 finishes

1983–2022years charted

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"Your Silent Face" floats through New Order's Power, Corruption & Lies, released in May 1983, and it's New Order at their most tender. All four of them, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris, share the writing credit, and they produced it themselves, with Michael Johnson engineering and Mark Boyne and Barry Sage assisting.

It glides on a slow, stately synth melody and a steady machine pulse, with a plaintive vocal drifting over the top. Cold electronics, warm heart: proof that a drum machine can ache.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

#4,252 of all time

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1983	18	John Peel (BBC Radio 1)	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1983	50

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1991	568	CFNY 102.1 The Edge	CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition)	1002
1999	707	CD101	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	2000
2000	707	CD101	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)	2001
2001	708	CD101	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	2002
2002	708	CD101	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)	2003
2003	708	CD101	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	2004
2003	1575	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)	2044
2004	708	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2005	709	CD101	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	1994
2007	1574	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	1504	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	1518	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	1548	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	1615	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	1591	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2014	1616	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013
2019	457	KEXP	KEXP Listeners' Favorite Songs of All Time	627
2022	318	KEXP	KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022)	491

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