Fantastic!

Hei there.

Finally got round to joining this website properly, rather than just browsing today, and I'm really pleased that I did. I've been a die-hard New Order/Joy Division enthusiast, since first hearing 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' in 1980, and have spent much of the rest of my life getting hold of everything and anything released by the band!

I'd been hoping to get some information on obtaining Run 2 and MTO, as like many of you on here I guess, I'm trying my best to update my New Order collection from vinyl to more durable CD and MP3. The problem is worse for me in that I've recently lost the ability of play vinyl, meaning that quite a lot of releases in my collection are now little more than ornaments! Lucily I've managed to re-purchase all the albums on CD, download some of the unrealeased singles (I know it's copyright breach, but I initially bought them on vinyl, and my conscience is clear)...even my precious 'Temptation 7" and 12", plus 'Ceremony' and 'Mesh' have been re-obtained thanks to a work collegue who agreed to record them from vinyl to MP3 for me.

I despaired of ever getting Run 2, or MTO however, and so imagine my delight today when I found both in the 'Audio/Video' section .

I guess that I'll never get to hear 'Run 2 Extended Version' and 'MTO Remix', as I don't own the single, It was just never available in my home town at the time, and by the time I found out more about it, it was too late. My attempts to get hold of this single over the last fifteen years have gained legendary status...travelling far and wide, searching shops and record fayres and auctions all over the country...all with no result. Still I now have the standard versions of the tracks.  I'll keep up the hopless search for the remix and extended versions...but still I'm really happy now, thanks to NewOrderOnline. There's even a few curios and remixes on here that I've never even heard of! Not to mention the famous-but-never-heard Christmas Flexi CD!

All I need now to make my collection complete is the 7" edits of 'Blue Monday and 'Confusion', and some of the more obscure DJ remixes of other tracks that I've read about - well I can dream can't !?

Hope to interact more with the community on here as the days pass, if you'll have me?

Welcome aboard dude, you'll find a sorry bunch of NO completists to trade details with around these parts.

As far as your quest for Run2 goes, have you tried eBay? They do come up every few weeks.

The 7" of Confusion will also appear, albeit far less frequently. Good luck finding your original Blue Monday 7" however, it's the stuff of myths in these parts!

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Cries and Wispers wrote:

Hei there.

Finally got round to joining this website properly, rather than just browsing today, and I'm really pleased that I did. I've been a die-hard New Order/Joy Division enthusiast, since first hearing 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' in 1980, and have spent much of the rest of my life getting hold of everything and anything released by the band!

I'd been hoping to get some information on obtaining Run 2 and MTO, as like many of you on here I guess, I'm trying my best to update my New Order collection from vinyl to more durable CD and MP3. The problem is worse for me in that I've recently lost the ability of play vinyl, meaning that quite a lot of releases in my collection are now little more than ornaments! Lucily I've managed to re-purchase all the albums on CD, download some of the unrealeased singles (I know it's copyright breach, but I initially bought them on vinyl, and my conscience is clear)...even my precious 'Temptation 7" and 12", plus 'Ceremony' and 'Mesh' have been re-obtained thanks to a work collegue who agreed to record them from vinyl to MP3 for me.

I despaired of ever getting Run 2, or MTO however, and so imagine my delight today when I found both in the 'Audio/Video' section .

I guess that I'll never get to hear 'Run 2 Extended Version' and 'MTO Remix', as I don't own the single, It was just never available in my home town at the time, and by the time I found out more about it, it was too late. My attempts to get hold of this single over the last fifteen years have gained legendary status...travelling far and wide, searching shops and record fayres and auctions all over the country...all with no result. Still I now have the standard versions of the tracks.  I'll keep up the hopless search for the remix and extended versions...but still I'm really happy now, thanks to NewOrderOnline. There's even a few curios and remixes on here that I've never even heard of! Not to mention the famous-but-never-heard Christmas Flexi CD!

All I need now to make my collection complete is the 7" edits of 'Blue Monday and 'Confusion', and some of the more obscure DJ remixes of other tracks that I've read about - well I can dream can't !?

Hope to interact more with the community on here as the days pass, if you'll have me?

find a kind UK soul to copy International 2 for you. It's 4 discs worth of 7" mixes, rare edits and basically every song that never appeared on CD, all highest quality rips. Very well done. Thanks to -1 for all the work!

Thanks a lot people.

Ally, I have emailed you.

I've checked EBay loads of times, and I've either been very stupid or unlucky, 'cos I've never seen it up on there before. It is expensive, but you have to pay for rare things I suppose. I once paid £20.00 for the Joy Division BBC Radio Sessions limited edition 7"  from a record fayre so more fool me lol! I suppose I would class myself as a completist. I'll think about putting a bid in, though I had a bad experience once with EBay, and lost some money on a hard drive that never arrived. I saw the Confusion 7" earlier today whilst at work, and was very tempted. The hell of it is, that I cannot play them once in my posession, but it would still be nice to have them in my collection.

Anyway I've grabbed 'Run 2' and 'MTO' from this website, and converted to MP3 using DBPowerAMP, along with lots of other stuff. That should keep me going for a while.

Those Christmas Flexi tunes are ghastly aren't they? I wouldn't like to listen to them with any regularity unless completely pissed!

I'm wondering if it would be possible to fool many people by creating your own '7" Edit' of Blue Monday via simply editing the 12" down to around 4 minutes in something Like CoolEdit Pro? very few people must have heard the 7" version, and most will have no idea what it sounds like - I'm not going to try it 'cos I'm generally honest about such things.

You can fool some of the people some of the time...