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Tell us your story about your first encounter of NO/ JD.
Of course with me its my passions for PSB and Electronic and their collaborations. I had been a fan of PSB of 4 years now. If I never discovered them, i would not discovered electornic then evolvement into New order/ Joy division.

I first heard Temptation but didn't register who is was by and was then hooked by Blue Monday. I voted PCL but it wasn't really that at all.

Since Unknown Pleasures - Fucking Depressing Album

pre-Unknown Pleasures. Some strange feedbacky noise on the first Peel Session in early 1979. Bastards. Worse than crack.

Since 1993 but it has nothing to do with Republic, ok?

Since the first time I heard Bizarre Love Triangle... about 1988.

For me, it was my brother's Factus 8 vinyl....loved Temptation on first listen, and still get a buzz from that original 12" version. Looking back, I recall he tried to get me into JD prior to this with UP, Closer & Still, but it didn't stick until after Temptation and then PC&L. Funnily enough, he lost interest in NO/JD around the time of Brotherhood, by which time the passion was fully transferred. He's now into Jethro Tull, the boring old fart. CTB

I discovered their whole discography at once in 1989-1990.  A friend lent me Substance, and two weeks later I rented all their albums in a media library.

Ok I'll say it again. A girl I really liked was into them. This was actually just before Brotherhood. In 87 she went to the UK as a Nanny and I never heard from her again. I'm sure she's still a good sort. But this always happens to me. They either move overseea, or get engaged to someone else.

At least I'm still a fan. I'd never previously heard of the Order.

15th of August 1984, Sunderland Mayfair, England 19 years old & too much to drink !! The memory was a blurr until 12 months ago when a mate I have met since was at the same gig & he taped it !! Memories of dodgy keyboards came flooding back.

since True Faith.

The most of you already know so I won't annoy everyone repeating myself (first Joy Division-only fan, then converted straight after Technique but thanks to Blue Monday... bla bla etc.). I just wanna say it's nice to see some people became fans in the most recent years... I'd be curious to read how they became fans, if they just discovered old records in the recent years or if it was the most recent releases that conquered them... I still think Get Ready was an excellent album (though Sirens is even better) and I'd be happy to read some people became New Order fans because of Crystal...

i bought Unknown Pleasures back in 1982. i had never heard of the band but i was instantly attracted by the album covers (so unique and cool) and just took a chance and bought that album. later that year i bought the other records and singles... all the record store clerks told me about JD was that i liked depressing stuff... i never even heard about Ian for another year...

then in early 1983 i bought 1981-82 EP, just because it was in the Joy Division record bin, even thou i had no idea who New order was, just i hoped there was a connection to JD... and it grew on me. bought Blue Monday when it came out even thou i wasnt even sure what the heck it was! then i saw an Rough Trade ad for PC&L in Trouser Press, and looked very hard til i found PC&L... and was very excited when i played it

... i sure could have used the internet when i was a teenager

1998 would be a good guess time wise but didn't know they were back together with Get Ready. Borrowed it off my brother, shoved it in my PC and let it play whilst playing SC2K. After three or four tracks, I went back to play Crystal again, and bought a copy of it within days.

After Unknown Pleasures, but before Closer.

wouldnt have to be exactly what album, it would the the era, like 1993, but not Republic, well, just call it Republic era if you want ;)

Since Blue Monday.

Joy Division - LWTUA, One Sunday night during the fall of 1980.

I was first exposed to them in 84/85 by my college roommate who had PCL and Lowlife, but I didn't really become a huge fan until I heard Shellshock off of the Pretty in Pink album. I soon after purchased Brotherhood and then Substance. So I guess I've been a fan since 1986.

Had a chance to see them in I think 1985 at the Akron Agora, but something came up, however a friend who went said the show was awful, they played a short set and Barney had one of his piss off days. Damn, I wish I could have gone.

I was familiar with New Order's hit singles for all of my life, but never really bothered to look into their music much further. It wasn't until "Crystal" hit MTV that I got hypnotized by NO. Get Ready was my first official NO record and it totally floored me. To this day, I still think it's their best record.

As for Joy Division, I knew of the band through The Crow comics and movie, but hadn't gotten into them until after I discovered New Order.

The Sirens call was The Beach taped off of KUNI. Thank God Bob Dorr mentioned the title and artist. 1983/4?

Jeff - Blue Monday came out in 1983 I SHOULD KNOW

PCL for me , saw the cover and it spoke to me - sounds weird but every cover since has done the same ( except perhaps some of the more recent ones ). From then , to coin a phrase "I was hooked."

Playing PCL for hour after hour on a scratchy old record player - makes me feel weird just thinking about it. It seems a lifetime ago now !! I then did the same with TLU and loved that great sleeve. Forgive me - I am falling down the rabbit hole back to my youth.

Back to work for me , type , type , IT bollocks. Thanks for listening for a few moments.

I guess I got into NO around when crystal came out (I thought that video was so fucking cool). But the first NO album I got was technique - I read a short article on NO's career in some music magazine (probably now defunct like they all are), and it called technique a masterpiece. I wasn't disappointed. I was alos into Les Rythmes Digitales (Darkdancer is fantastic 80's heaven), and I bought a Jacques Lu Cont mix album, which had 586 on it. So Had to go buy PCL obviously. Then I read somewhere that LowLife was NO's best albums, so had to get that.... ironically Get Ready was the last NO album proper that I bought. And no, never seen em live, grr...

Since BEFORE i had UNKNOWN PLEASURES.It is strange to think that back then i KNEW they were different and good but i NEVER thought nearly 28 years later i would still be listening to them without them being a GOLDEN OLDIE like LED ZEPPELIN and THE DOORS are for me!WEIRD...a bit like their DAFT fans. GET A LIFE...GET LOW LIFE!

1982, SMASH HITS 2 page interview with Gillian Gilbert. hadn't heard of them before that but I liked her attitude (& dimples - I'm a sucker for dimples:\ohwell: )

I had heard LWTUA in 1980 & loved it but at 11/12 I was a bit too young to appreciate JD then.

After the interview I used to scour the Smash Hits charts page to see if NO had anything coming out - so I knew the names of their songs (ETG Temptation) before ever hearing them. Couldnt get any of their stuff in the locak record shop in Finglas tho'.

Then, months later I heard BM on medium wave BBC1 on the Tuesday lunchtime chart show & LOVED IT - I was home sick so I gave my Dad the pocket money to buy it for me. Hours later he returned complaining that it cost far more 'cause it was some kind of album!? That was my first introduction to 12" singles

I remember feeling cheated after the first listen - an album just for a song & Its instrumental!!! - but before the afternoon was out I was hooked - why couldnt every single be a 12" - the depth of sound was SO GOOD, on , or filling up the room, I had never heard anything so wonderfull before.

Originally posted by Rocket Mick GET A LIFE...GET LOW LIFE!

Great line, RM.

Since I was 16 in 1983....very first record I bought was Blue Monday, then backtracked through all their previous stuff right back to JD. Was right obsession then......even bought a bloody Hazel Dean 12" because someone suggested NO provided the music (it did sound like them, unsurprisingly for the time). Entire bedroom walls at the time were covered in plastic-sleeved NO/Factory records. Waited for first gig in Feb 1985 with near religious fervour, carved the entire setlist of Movement into my College desk hoping that it would mean shit all to most but the chosen few at the time.....aaaah the folly of youth

Somwhere in 1986, although I was a more of a Joy Division fan at first. That's why I still have a soft spot for Brotherhood.

I liked blue monday but my brother had it, liked confusion so stole it (permenantly borrowed) off a mate, bought TLU expecting loads of synth and drums and thought it must be the wrong band flipped it over listend to lonesome tonight, the I was hooked, not what I was looking for or expecting, but fantastic, bought the back catalog of NO/JD, as above was lead to beleive Hazel Deans music was NO, (I think it was Simon Bates on radio 1 that said it), listened to some live bootlegs, saw them at preston guild hall in 85, pestered almost everyone I've ever met about them, lived the life style and fucked myself up for almost 10 years, saw them live again in 2002 at old trafford, looking forward to seeing them live again this year.

21 years later still think they're the best band in the world

The first time I listened to New Order was in high school in 1987. My friend let me borrow Substance after his older cousin introduced him to NO.

I was "hooked" right away after listening to Everything's Gone Green, Procession, Mesh, Murder, The Perfect Kiss (my favorite NO song), and True Faith.

I remember what "joy" it was buying a copy of the CD at Tower Records in the Village (NYC).

Oh what fond memories!

I bought Brotherhood as a birthday present for a friend in 1987 (I had already heard Bizarre Love Triangle, Blue Monday, and Shellshock at this point). I heard his copy and liked it. Then True Faith was released, and I was hooked for good.

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Hearing 'True Faith' on the radio on the school bus home in 1987. It just sounded like the most wonderful thing I'd ever heard.

So good I think I actually shat myself.;)

For me it would be between republic and Get Ready. I still don't own Republic. Growing up, I was always a fan of Blue Monday, True Faith, BLT when they played those on the radio. But I was never able to put the pieces together that it was the same band. I got a hold of Substance 1987 around 2000. Fell in love with them since and have been trying to educate myself on their history as well as keep up with their new stuff. So far, the only joy division song I've heard is LWTUA.

But I did purchase the "Warsaw" album in an attempt to listen to them from where it all started and work my way up to Sirens. That plan failed miserably as I can't stay away from the recent stuff.

my first encounter with New Order, Joy Divsion was on my 15th birthday in 2001. My Uncle brought a few cds from his collection over and i instantly got into there music and now i have followed them ever since. I really like there music on the low life and technique albums. And the songs that i have heard from the new album are just fantastic!

Hopefully i will get to see them for the first time in concert some time this year:)

Since Technique,

I used to live in the same street as SHUGZV,when i used to go round to his house he had NO on all the time,and i mean all the time,he forced them on to me,Cheers Shug!!

Since 1981 when ceremony was released. I was aware of JD but not really a fan. incidentally Ian Curtis once lived just a few streets away from where i live now. I saw NO. live in 81 and was struck by how different they were to other bands. I thought Movement was dissapointing at the time but recently bought it on cd and enjoyed hearing it again. Everythings gone green just blew me away and temptation is still my favourite to this day although i thought the original vinyl version sounded like it was recorded in a phone box.....

I also think the version of temptation on moby's new album is brilliant and whatever people think of Moby its a huge compliment to NO.I love WFTSC its definately the best since technique

yeah i imagine hearing the rage driven angst of joy divsion comparing to Movement. I can understand movement: the band doesnt sound exciting when their band mate/ friend committed suicide, would you?

They got with a 3 pronged attack in '83:

Listening to my sisters JD albums in my bedroom, not knowing there were related to NO.

Dancing to EGG & Temptation down my local night club, but not knowing who they were by.

& hereing BM for the first time.

The penny didn't drop that the 3 were interconnected until a magazine article (Smash Hits, I think) explained it all.

I was then hooked, permanently.

Somewhere between the 'Technique' and 'Republic' periods for me. Absolutely loved the first Electronic album and decided to seek out some NO stuff. I bought Technique (which is still my all round fav) and worked back from there.

I find NO are a band that you almost have to make a conscious effort to find out more about, maybe because they've never massively self promoted. That's probably part of the reason why we all seem to have 'stumbled' upon them in different ways.

Well worth the effort though

Since a school disco in 83. Belive it or not,it wasnt Blue Monday the 'DJ' played-it was 'Everythings Gone Green'.

Who has been so lucky to see a Joy Division concert here? Or even to meet Ian?

Mick Aneworderfan wrote: Who has been so lucky to see a Joy Division concert here? Or even to meet Ian?

well i wasnt born yet and its hard for me to meet someone in my mothers womb, so no. Ian died 3 months before I was born.

I got into them shortly before Get Ready, having heard the "big 3" on the radio for many years, and also never connecting JD's LWTUA will the later band.

I probably became a NO fan in the lamest manner possible. I was watching Depeche Mode music videos on Launch and BLT came on, I loved it and wanted more.

Hate to admit it, but my first exposure to New Order was via MTV back in the late '80s (Hey, it was good back then!) True Faith was played almost every hour. They used to play Round and Round a lot too when it came out. That summer ('89) we went to the UK for a holiday and ALL I saw was Technique posters, I mean EVERYWHERE! Then it all came to its fruition when we spent a few days in Singapore and I was lucky enough to go to one of the best clubs there at the time, where they played New Order almost all night. I bought Technique the very next day. I was 15.

Yay New Order!

It amazes me that some of the big posters have been fans for a relatively short time, I suppose us oldies must not have it in us any more, I've been trying to recruit people to the order for 20 years, it wears thin after a while when they still buy crap by robbie williams and the like.

I first became Hooked on New Order after buying my first ever 12" single back in 1983 - Blue Monday. I was 9yrs old and I haven't looked back. Soon after this time I discovered Joy Division, Warsaw and Stray Kittens

Then I proceeded to collect everything of theirs on vinal then later on, CD. Alas I have only just found out about the New Order on line website (where have I been!!). Thank you New Order for providing me with many, many years of great music - long may they continue

Lee Baines wrote: my first encounter with New Order, Joy Divsion was on my 15th birthday in 2001. My Uncle brought a few cds from his collection over and i instantly got into there music and now i have followed them ever since. I really like there music on the low life and technique albums. And the songs that i have heard from the new album are just fantastic!

Hopefully i will get to see them for the first time in concert some time this year:)

yes mate hopefully i will get to go this year to and we can both see them live!!!

Originally posted by Jed Stephens It amazes me that some of the big posters have been fans for a relatively short time.

you know what they say, "The bigger the post count, the smaller the dick!" or for you math whizzes out there: Post count is inversely proportional to penis size.

PC&L. March 1983 when Blue Monday appeared. Although I'd heard Temptation I didn't know who it was by.

Jeff wrote:

Biznotic Love Digitoid wrote:

Originally posted by Jed Stephens It amazes me that some of the big posters have been fans for a relatively short time.

you know what they say, "The bigger the post count, the smaller the dick!" or for you math whizzes out there: Post count is inversely proportional to penis size.

Brian...are you trying to say I have a itty bitty digit???

I thought that was already a given.

JEFF take an INCH-run a MILE

At least you do it with a SMILE

ANNE is here

JEFF is THERE

I rather be a ............

Answer on a rucksack to THAMES water board!

Not quite sure how to answer this one: there's no option there for my case! I got into them properly in 2000, after being vaguely aware of them for most of my life. I got Substance for my birthday that year and loved it, then it all snowballed from there.

true faith in '87. so i guess it would be substance, then.

1979. Norway. Small town. Ski resort. Fuck all to do. Never seen New Order live. Could go to Glasto. I live in London now.

I voted since Republic, but it was really more since Best Of/Raise the Pressure.

Went to a party at a girls house and heard Transmission. From then on was hooked (no pun intended) and waited for each recording to come out.

I must be the only person on this board that loved Movement from day one.

Then fell out of love with NO just after Subculture. Didn't bother listening again until I heard Regret.

I must admit I still (no pun intended again) prefer Barney singing like he did in the early days.