How were you introducted to New Order or Joy Division?

I heard TPK on the local college radio...the very first time I heard it I was totally blown away...nothing else I had ever heard sounded like it. I had heard BM before but didn't realize who it was...just heard it in the clubs etc.

True story...I went and bought the 12" straight away and took it home to play it...it was the very first vinyl I'd ever bought...still have it actually.

I am 48 years old, have lived in Manchester all my life (so far) and had never heard of New Order until True Faith was released. Bought Substance 18 months later and 12 months after that was amazed to discover I had been in the same class at school as Barney and Hooky for 5 years.

I regret having spent 10 years of my life with my head stuck firmly up my arse.

had heard blue monday, a kid i was mates with was into jd & new order before that, but never really listened to them til i got to poly & borroewd substance from a class mate.

shortly after i got true faith, then substance, then technique came out, saw them at the nec & that was it.

remember a certain member of NOOL being introduced to phil c & telling him "you're just a fan onstage".....

Originally posted by Steve Campbell Heard BM loads of times in local youth club disco circa 1984. I thought it was Hazel Dean, but always remember how it sounded different and better than any other record they played. I eventually asked what it was and spent the next several weeks trying to find it in it's oh so obvious sleeve.Bought TPK, the Temptation, and then spent my every penny for the next 5 years.

Haha! When I first heard the Hazel Dean record (late 83>84) without the vocals I thought it was New Order (handclaps, synths, drum patterns sounded very New Orderish) I think it was called 'whatever I do wherever I go' or some fluff like that....

Back on topic,the first NO record I bought was 12" BM in 83. Typical introduction, heard on radio & in local club and went what the fook was that? rapidly collected all the back catalogue and bought just about every new release on the date of release till about 1990, when i thought they had sort of gone a bit bland. Remember Joy Division in my early teens but wasn't sufficiently into music to appreciate them.

Originally posted by Facthunt remember a certain member of NOOL being introduced to phil c & telling him "you're just a fan onstage".....

A comment which nearly caused Stash's sideburns to fall off, he was already that stressed about us all being backstage ! Not that Bass Fiend Reilly knows any of this though, as he was quite literally in the cold. Best bit of this was ignoring Doves in the pub afterwards, they thought we were going over to chat to them, and all Karen wanted was the spare seat !

First time I was struck my them was the Perfect Kiss video, I then forgot about them for a while, but was bowled over by BLT - which is still my fave and haven't looked back since then. It particularly appealed to me that Gillian wasn't sold as a sex symbol - and Bernard was quite beautiful!

Also at age 16 NO was a cool thing to talk to lads about as I was crap at pulling - and there was a lot of NO lads in Leeds

Heavy disco sound, rock guitar, russian voice chords, dark voice, jetplane noise, machine gun.....Blue Monday! It was at a teenage party in 83, I was 15, and at this time I was sure it was the better band in the world. This synthetic disco was a bit like (the sound not the song) Ronni Grifith "desire" who knows about this song I have not heard since this area? In fact I'm going to download it to see if I was right.

First time I heard of New Order was when they did World In Motion. Which meant I was obliged to hate them, being Irish. Of course, Our Italia 90 song was faaaaaar better :D :D (U2 did it, totally forgotten now)

Oldest brother very into 80's music so I heard Blue Monday a lot and assumed it was by the Pet Shop Boys, as he played them an awful lot.

When my parents first got satellite and hence MTV in 1992, True Faith was still being shown a lot, and then when Republic came out Regret and World were added to it. So I knew who they were. However, I assumed (correctly) that they'd broken up.

It was only in 2002 when my other, not so older brother came back from the Lansdowne gig here that I knew they were still around. He leant me Get Ready, and fairly shortly after that I got my own copy... and its gone on from there.

I remember seeing the "An Ideal For Living" EP advertised in the Melody Maker & NME, but the first time I heard Joy Division was the first John Peel session, which was followed by my first purchase: FAC2 A Factory Sample.

I bought Unknown Pleasures in the autumn of '79, and I think that was closely followed by the 7" Transmission. Also around that time the EP "Earcom 2" was released featuring Autosuggestion & From Safety To Where, by JD. I also managed to get hold of a copy of the 12" version of An Ideal For Living.

So with such a glut of monumentally wonderful records appearing in such a short space of time, I was hooked for life. It was set in stone that they would become my favourite band for life when I saw them supporting the Buzzcocks at Leicester in '79.

I suppose the first I ever heard of New Order would have been when the NME announced what the remaining members of JD were planning, a while after Ian's death. The first time I ever heard them was, as ever, their first Peel session track - Dreams Never End.

So Goatboy, since you were around from almost the begining of JD's success, what were your intial thoughts when you first heard Dreams Never End? The diference in vocals must have been a shock.

Originally posted by twist So Goatboy, since you were around from almost the begining of JD's success, what were your intial thoughts when you first heard Dreams Never End? The diference in vocals must have been a shock.

I thought it was magnificent! The difference in vocals was not a shock, because I knew it would be "different" so in fact was expecting it to be "more different" than it actually was!

The early New Order stuff left me delighted and relieved that they had not lost their touch. I have often wondered over the ensuing years though, how would they have developed if Ian had stayed around...?

By my oldest brother (11 years older than me), who used to ask my parents to bring him NO and JD records from Europe during summer vacations, as here in Brazil was very hard to found their records to buy 15 year ago.

The vinil records still with me, and my brother and I still listening to JD/NO too much, of course !!

A mate at school had the Ideal for Living EP which made a good impression, then we saw JD at Leeds Futurama - wow! Following that I saw them around 10 times in Leeds, Sheffield, London, Manchester, Leeds again. Best live band ever.

I heard "Blue Monday" on Anne Nightingale's Sunday evening show on Radio 1 in 1983 and was so impressed that I set off into town the next weekend with my couple of quid pocket money (I was only 12!).

Having searched every record shop I knew existed at that time for a 7" copy (I was 12 - I didn't know!) I decided I couldn't go home without the record so splashed out on the 12".

Next thing I knew, my cousin (Old Blue) came to stay in the school holidays and he was really impressed to find out I'd independently discovered New Order and he immediately took me down to my local Woolworths to buy "P, C & L".

Then he bombarded me with Joy Division until it finally clicked...!!!

Chris :)

was in a record store, saw the cover ( movement )thought that looks a bit nice, took a punt, just goes to show you can't judge a record by it's cover - but you can tell how much it costs

Originally posted by a very small boy I am 48 years old, have lived in Manchester all my life (so far) and had never heard of New Order until True Faith was released. Bought Substance 18 months later and 12 months after that was amazed to discover I had been in the same class at school as Barney and Hooky for 5 years.I regret having spent 10 years of my life with my head stuck firmly up my arse.

That's an astonishing experience to live in Manchester and not to have heard of New Order :) I like it.

Originally posted by Goatboy I remember seeing the "An Ideal For Living" EP advertised......The first time I ever heard them was, as ever, their first Peel session track - Dreams Never End.

I'm always impressed by what some people can say about time they survived. Like Goatboy.

I killed them all, no mercy shown :)

That's about such people :) Marvelous

Really it was in like 1999 or 2000. My favorite band before that all during high school was Jane's Addiction. I remember hearing that Joy Division (especially Peter Hook's bass)was a big influence on the band (Or at least on Eric Avery & Dave Navarro).

Didn;t like them a whole lot a first, first album I bought was Permanent ans the only things that stuck out were She's Lost Control and Atmosphere.

Anyway, eventually over the next year they became my favorite band and still are today.

Got into New Order after Joy Division.

well my story is different, way different from everyone, when i was younger my mom liked duran duran, she still does, she made me download music by them, i accidenlty downloaded Bizzare Love Triangle, and my mom yelled at me for it not being Duran Duran, SO i downloaded more new order, and on and on, and i came unto Ceremony, which stil remains my favorite, soon after Joy division came along with in a lonely place, and the rest is history....

Originally posted by Spike well my story is different, way different from everyone, when i was younger my mom liked duran duran, she still does, she made me download music by them, i accidenlty downloaded Bizzare Love Triangle, and my mom yelled at me for it not being Duran Duran, SO i downloaded more new order, and on and on, and i came unto Ceremony, which stil remains my favorite, soon after Joy division came along with in a lonely place, and the rest is history....

Don't be silly. IALP isn't a Joy Division song! And neither is Ceremony!

I mentioned it before. There was this girl who I liked, who liked them etc....

My first encounter of both JD & NO was, quite surprisingly, via the same pop music show, Countdown, on ABC TV in 1980 & 1983. Songs featured were the vid of LWTUA(1980) & a shortened(mimed) version of BM from some other pop TV program(1983). I was a little naive about the JD/NO link due to "Molly"(Countdown's host) stating that LWTUA was JD's last gasp &the band was "splitting up", so I thought no more about it and took this as being gospel at the time, being the spotty-faced 13y.o. I was then(Maybe "Molly" had been instructed not to mention Ian topping himself to "protect" the impressionable youth of Oz). I went out and promptly both BM & PCL(2 B continued).

I was to do work experience later that year & one interest I had was to work as an on-air DJ or station library assistant. This particular interest was satisfied for 1 week of my work experience time at 2XX, a public-access radio station based at the Australian National University. During this time, I came across the Ceremony 12" single with the green "Veritas" cover and noticed the song credits were for JD. I played it & IALP & liked what I heard, so I asked around some of the older heads at XX to find out what else they knew about JD & was informed they were one & the same , that Ian hung himself and Gillian was bought in to help out on keys & guitar to help Bernie concentrate on lead vox. Of course, I was then keen to hear more about JD & Ian and the rest is history.

I was watching MTV with the sound off because the speaker was blown and they aired the video of TBTHOG. I says to meself, "That's the metal hair band f the future." So purchased every thing I could ge tme mitts on the next day. Was I ever suprised! Having spent so much money I forced meself to learn to enjoy the music.

transmission played on our student radio station along with the best of british music back in 1982. Radio BFM.