After an interminable wait for their album Get Ready, and that nervous anticipation of whether or not after such a long wait it would be abject shite, fans the world over breathed a sigh of relief when it arrived and was generally decidedly un-shite. The first single, Crystal, kicked serious jacksie, and almost as good was to come in the form of the second single, 60 Miles an Hour.

It’s pretty well known by now that New Order hardly ever get particularly excited when it comes to appearing in their own videos, and this clip certainly continues that trend – although they do at least make a fleeting appearance in the form of a signed photo. We boggle at the effort that must have entailed...

Anyway, the concept for this clip - as of course ALL modern day videos need one - revolves around a somewhat out-there, redneck scientist (with quite the resemblance to Woody Harrelson, however his name is actually Rick Warden) who studies bears – by dressing in a shonky bear suit and getting down on all fours wit’ ‘em. He’s driving through the woods, singing along when he comes across a blonde, Gen X-ish hitchhiker, picks her up, raves about New Order (he's a man of taste) and kind of hits a German Shepherd who’s leisurely hanging out in the middle of a winding mountain road. A crash ensues, a bite on the bum and attention from the police – yep, it makes as much sense as pretty much any modern day clip – but it is kind of fun, even if the song is regularly polluted by dialogue.

Perhaps because of this pollution, the radio edit of the track is also included on this disc, playing away to a static screen in keeping with the whole Peter Saville Get Ready design concept – black and white shots of people with coloured blocks sticky-taped on top (this release’s colour? Yellow!). Included in the same format, with the same visual accompaniment, is one of the CD single’s bonus tracks, Sabotage, which is quite a fun, more laidback New Order ditty that some may argue is better than a few of the tracks that made the latest album.

And that’s it.

As with the first single video from Get Ready, Crystal, this is another pretend widescreen affair (read “non-anamorphic�), this time in a ratio hovering somewhere around 1.85:1. Generally things look pretty fine. The panoramic mountainside vistas, the forest, the bears – they all look pretty darned fine, which should be expected when the authors were faced with the not so daunting task of fitting a mere four minutes of video onto a DVD. The only negative is some ever so slight aliasing on the truck at times; however it really isn’t anything worth getting a sore head over.

Sonically all three songs come in Linear PCM stereo, delivering fabulous CD quality sound with no nasties whatsoever. Synching is perfectly fine, and really there’s not much more to be said – well, except maybe that the two audio-only tracks tend to be a little louder than the clip soundtrack, but that’s really reaching.

Unlike the earlier Crystal DVD there are no extras at all (mind you the ones on that were pretty lame anyway), which regardless of this being a single is still a bit disappointing considering the vast expanses of void space left over on the disc. Still, at least unlike most DVD singles it comes in a proper Amaray case – my mother always taught me to accentuate the positives...

A second single from a comeback album that manages to combine all that’s loved about New Order – the catchiness, the rhythmic beauty, the melody, Barney’s unique vocal stylings and THAT Hooky bass – and all teamed up with a rather imaginative and bear-y entertaining video clip? As an obsessive fan I’d buy that for almost $20 – however those who think the song is just “kind of cool, you know?� may wish to wait and see if somebody ever gets around to releasing a DVD compilation of New Order’s videos to date. Seriously, how much effort would it really take to compile?