A US vet recently recounted the most unlikely story about how New Order’s Technique became the soundtrack to his personal experience of Desert Storm, the US invasion of Kuwait and Iraq:
I purchased a pirated copy ( i feel bad now) of this album on the streets of Bahrain back in 1990. This album was the soundtrack of my life driving across that fucking sand-drenched wasteland during Desert Storm.
And, quite incredibly, he wasn’t the only one:
I was out there with you my friend. This album was a godsend, also New Order Substance. I wore the hell out of my Sony walkmen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZC55MlV8xE