The Revenge

Revenge was New Order bassist Peter Hook's critically maligned and commercially rebuffed side project. Exhibiting a sleazy image -- the band's first album One True Passion featured provocative shots of scantily clad women -- and a noisier sound than New Order, Revenge was Hook's attempt to divest himself from his accomplishments with Joy Division and New Order. However, Revenge didn't have Joy Division's grim intensity and intellectual depth or New Order's smooth amalgam of rock and disco; instead, the group was unfocused and self-indulgent. The throb of Hook's trademark bassl...