New order and Joy Division

On a rather more serious note.I remember as a tiny kid at 8, hearing new order on the radio on some station that played god awful pop music most of the timebut would play new order quite a bit.I would only hear BLT and True Faith. And on up through the nineties I would hear Blue Monday and Confusion ( from a friend's collection) every now and then.It wasn't until 2002, that I discovered the music of Joy Division.Only then did I realize that Joy Division was the starting point for New Order. I used to listen to a band called the Cranes back in 2001 and they said JD had been an influence as to their sound as a band. So I looked up JD on the net and a page came up, yellow, pics of four guys. By the looks of it I would havenever guessed that Ian Curtis was gone.

So when I went to visit a friend in Austin,the first JD record I bought was,"Still".It is still my favorite compiled album of live stuff and studio stuff.Maybe not top notch,but a good one. Then I started listening to new order more and here I am,a fan for life!