How important WAS Blue Monday?

Originally posted by Rocket Mick [bWould i like to go back to days BEFORE this.Course i bloody would even if i did drink DOUBLE DIAMOND and WATNEY's. Rocket Mick

Or even Long Life, specially brewed for the can

I think BM deserves its praise because even if it wasn't the first modern dance record, it was one of the most influential. "I Feel Love" may have come first, but "Blue Monday" was a huge seller and it appealed to both rock and disco/dance fans. It's also pretty much the blueprint for modern house.

At any rate, it introduced a lot of people to underground dance.

some of todays top dj's still mention BM. felix da houscat and paul okenfeld for example. electroclash owes a lot to BM imo. im sure if you walk into a club where its all techno and house of today and the dj throws in blue monday, people would still go crazy. its a track that has stood the test of time :)

Originally posted by kamar some of todays top dj's still mention BM. felix da houscat and paul okenfeld for example. electroclash owes a lot to BM imo. im sure if you walk into a club where its all techno and house of today and the dj throws in blue monday, people would still go crazy. its a track that has stood the test of time :)

Your sure and actually correct, from my limited experience of DJ'ing and less limited experience of nightclubs

Best reaction I've seen was at Oxegen where the DJ chucked it in towards the end of his set when everyone was starting the leave and there was a rush back towards the speakers.

I however seemed to be the only person able to punch the air in time with the intro, but at least everyone else there was going totally nuts for it.

Must agree with James, LOVE REACTION by Divine is superb

It's a damn good rock/dance hybrid which does owe a nod back to Giorgio Moroder/Donna Sumner & the Werkers from Dusselldorf. However, It's time to revisit some of the older stuff(EGG/Hurt-81/82)and dust off Perfect Kiss or Subculture for the live sets, as BM is getting too predictable in the live sets.

Hit the site, the Tampa Dec.13'86 gig date should have a Miami date following it a couple days later.The reason I went to the unlisted Miami gig a day or two later was Blue monday.It was listenable/danceable,and the only N-O song I was familiar with in 1986.Anyway check out Sylvester[Born to be alive]also big in the dance clubs in the early-mid '80's.One of So. Fla.'s local dance music scene icons now passed on,other than a car commercial,now forgotten.

It was the track that brought New Order into the mainstream, therefore the track that made it cool for white kids to listen to what was considered gay & black music. It's probably also one of the first tracks that could be classed as 'techno' in its earliest form... I also see it as a direct influence on the acid house sound. Kevin Saunderson (Inner City fame) has apparently noted New Order as an influence.

classic defined a musical era... and how much did factory loose on each 12 inch... brilliant!

Originally posted by doug rasmusen ...Sylvester[Born to be alive]...

I don't want to be too anal, nor take this too off topic... but you probably mean Patrick Hernandez, who did Born To Be Alive in 1979.

If you can track it down, I really recommend the German (?) mid/late-80's synth-cover of the track, released by the band Disco Connection. Nostalgia.

/TLV

Interesting,I thought Pat Hernandez was the producer.I used to go to a dance club in Ft. Lauderdale,early '80's, Backstreets. Both Sylvester and Hernandez hung out there.I'm not a music authority,so who did what and when isn't my field.Thank you for the info,I'll see where it goes."As I scratch my wooden head"