New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies

The second album by New Order, released on 02 May 1983.
With its electronic-based sound it marks the definitive turning away from the rather gloomy predecessor and the [a=Joy Division] legacy. The album was included in the top 100 albums of the 1980s lists in the Rolling Stone magazine.

[url=/artist/1069010-Peter-Saville-2]Peter Saville's[/url] design for the album cover has a colour-based code, similar to the singles [url=/master/3297]Blue Monday[/url] and [url=/master/4330]Confusion[/url] as well as to the album [m55213]. The decoding wheel is featured on the back cover, and on the cassette insert. The code on the front sleeve is "FACT 75". The code for the CD front cover is "FACD 75". The code for the inner sleeve reads "New Order Power Corruption And Lies".

The cover features a reproduction of the painting "A Basket of Roses" by French artist [a=Henri Fantin-Latour], which Saville found on a postcard he bought at the National Gallery. His then girlfriend [a=Martha Ladly] (of Martha & The Muffins) asked him if he was going to use it for the cover. He then realised it was a great idea.

The album cover was chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of "Classic Album Cover" postage stamps issued in January 2010.

UK re-releases and re-pressings:
April 1986: Cassettes (cat# FACT 75c) - boxed and plastic cases.
April 1986: CD (cat# FACD 75).
July 1993: LP, MC, CD (cat# 520 019-1 / 2 / 4), with repressings in 1994, 1996 and 1998.
January 2000: CD (cat# 8573 81366-2), with repressings in 2005.
October 2008: CD (cat# 2564 69369 8) - Collector's Edition, with remastered reissue in 2009
July 2009: LP (cat# 2564-68880-5) - 180 gram remaster in original artwork, with repressings in 2015.

US releases:
10 May 1983: LP, MC (cat# FACTUS 12 / FACTUS 12C).
June 1985: LP, MC (cat# 9 25308-1 / 4 ), with reissues 1988 with different artwork.
March 1988: CD (cat# 9 25308-2), with CD repressings in 1998, 2001, 2005.
November 2008: CD (cat# R2 516186) - Collector's Edition, with remastered repress in 2009.
October 2009: LP (cat# R1 25308) - 180 gram remaster.

Japanese releases:
December 1983: LP (cat# YX-7331-AX).
November 1986: CD (cat# 33CY-1219).
February 1989: CD (cat# 25CY-3109).
November 1993: CD (cat# POCD-1884).
March 2000: CD (cat# AMCE-6101).
June 2005: CD (cat# WPCR-75042).
March 2008: CD (cat# WCPR-13168/9) - Collector's Edition.
January 2010: CD (cat# WPCR-13583~4) - Collector's Edition - remastered.

The single "Blue Monday" and its B-side "The Beach" were included on the Italian cassette and most US cassette and CD editions of this album only.