1st time you heard a new order record.

well mine was in the summer of 1982 i taped the top 40 on radio 1,temptation was played;so i was hooked on them ever since.

To me it was the video True Faith played in the spring 1994 within the Great Hits section on MTV. It didn't get me hooked on them because the only reason I paid a closer attention to that particular video was that I recently found out back then that Joy Division in fact carried on as New Order. So I wanted to hear what they sounded and looked like.

To tell the truth after that video I thought of New Order as a kind of the Pet Shop Boys. Moreover, I was unable to believe for a while that band HAD BEEN Joy Divison. No hint whatsoever.

Threw on PCL in winter 2002. Had it on LP. Was big into Joy Division, and, coming from punk rock, was still rather wary of excessive synths. That musical prejudice sounds so silly now, although Depeche Mode are about the only other electro group I listen to, and they can be bit a much here and there.

Anyway, I heard 'Substance' a year later...went back to PCL, fell in love with their music. They are the most consistent group of the last twentyfive years. When I hear a weak NO track, I can forgive them, because they've so many songs that I can listen to almost anytime, no matter what kind of mood I'm in.

Age of Consent, Ceremony, EGG, and Temptation changed how I thought about music just as Transmission, Disorder, Isolation and TwentyFour Hours had.

1986--several girls did a dance routine to blue monday at our junior high school's talent show.

My NO cherry was popped in spring of 84. I went to a local record shop looking some NO. My friend's brother was a dj and had been playing Blue Monday. I went to exam thes guys further. I saw a brilliant album cover of flowers. I thought, let's give it a whirl. When it took it to the counter, the guy behind the counter asked if I had liked NO. I said that it was my first album. He told me to wait and then went back to the record isle. He came back with the Factus 8 ep and Closer from JD. He said, take these and then come back and I'll tell you all about them.

I went home and played all three over and over again. I remeber right off thinking, We All Stand, Leave Me Alone, Age of Consent, Your Silent Face, Mesh, Hurt, Heart and Soul, A Means To An End and Twenty Four Hours were such amazing tracks.

I went back and the guy told me the whole JD/NO story. From there, I bought everything JD and NO. I was 13 at the time, and that music just fit with everything going on around me and in my life. I do recall listening more to JD for the first 2-3 years. My first NO show was in 1986 at Irvine Meadows seeing them with The Fall and Durutti Column. I'm 34 and I'll always be dedicated to NO and JD.

you know i was just thinking about starting a thread like this becuase I'm trying to remember mine and I'm not sure I can. Its a bit like finding out about sex. I know there was a time when I didn't know, and then there was a time when I did but I can't actually remember finding out as such. Exactly the same goes for NO. Let me think about it for a bit.

oops right, just got distracted by those pictures of barney in shorts. okay so my first memeory is of hearing true faith and it the lines 'when i was a very small boy...they're afrraid of what they see' thinking woh is this guy disfigured or something?, and generally been impressed by how sad and moving those lines are(probabvly the first time i heard a non happy pop song) although i couldn't have put it into those words at the time. But this could be any time after it was released, not necessarily 1987. However, its definitely before WIM so I was aged between 6-9. i'm sure Freud would link these formative years to my love of barney's shorts but i disagree. probably.

Early spring '86. I was 14. At my friend Jeromy's house. He lived in the woods. He had just made a greenhouse out of plastic and recycled wood. We hiked out to a defunct quarry, got high, and watched (from afar) some older redneck kids drink beer and dive into the quarry. I remember there was a graffiti portrait of Jimi Hendrix about the size of a VW bug painted on the quarry wall. We went back to his house and he put on the Low Life LP. I was floored. When I heard those Perfect Kiss peeper frogs chirping away, I was forever sold. I had heard the JD/Ian story before hearing NO, but it wasn't until about a year later that I connected the dots between the two. I rode my bike about ten miles that afternoon to a mall record store, and bought the cassette version of LowLife from behind a sliding glass wall in the "import" section. I remember being scared to put it in my pocket, and rode home with the bag wrapped around my handle bars.

It's amazing how as I type this, more and more details of that day, physical and emotional, just keep getting stronger and stronger. The smells, the feel of early spring rotting leaves underfoot, how I had to sqint at the sun bouncing off the quarry wall, the posters of famous revolutionaries on Jeromy's wall, the anxiety from smoking weed, followed by the way those perfect kiss/peeper toad croaks comforted me, riding my bike on the side of a highway and passing a 9 hole golf couse where I was convinced they were aming at me, etc... I only wish I could remember yesterday as well.

That's what I love about NOOl. Never the same thread twice. Hey, does anybody know what 1963's about? :D

bLuE oRdEr wrote: That's what I love about NOOl. Never the same thread twice. Hey, does anybody know what 1963's about? :D

What's your point buddy?

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bLuE oRdEr wrote: That's what I love about NOOl. Never the same thread twice. Hey, does anybody know what 1963's about? :D

What's your point buddy?

Erm, first time you heard of New Order, you were wiping your arse!?!?

not sure about 1st time.but,i already had ceremony and movement when i do remember hearing single 2 'procession' on the radio.i stood in the room open mouthed.i'd never heard.couldnt believe my ears.i'd never heard anything like it before.amazing

Well, I told quite all about it in a different thread but it was in the French forum I reckon...

Way back to late '78, where a now defunct Belgian Legendary broadcast called 'Radio-Cité', aired every week-end from 7.30 AM to 7.30 PM from 21 September'78 until the second week-end of '86 on the national radio,they were playing absolutely everything from the new scene of the time and so a lot of 'An Ideal for Living'EP and then, in '79, 'Unknown Pleasures'straight from its release and then on and on. Personaly, started with 'Unknown Pleasures' and never have stop since. What a souvenir and THRILL.

Have a vague memory of seeing JD on The Old Grey Whistle Test...

Third or Fourth Week 1981. It was Ceremony 7". I bought it at Dom van den Bergh in Venlo, Netherlands. I live in Germany near the dutch boarder. This was an advantage those days.

digitalwaters wrote: Have a vague memory of seeing JD on The Old Grey Whistle Test...

I think, the question was "a new order record". Isn't it?

confusion wrote:

digitalwaters wrote: Have a vague memory of seeing JD on The Old Grey Whistle Test...

I think, the question was "a new order record". Isn't it?

Oh yes... JD had nothing to do with NO, silly me... Anyway, I also:

Have a vague memory of seeing NO on The Old Grey Whistle Test... and I think that was before hearing BM on a funfair in '83.

True faith video

The first time I heard New Order was when I lived in Iceland back in 1983. A friends father had gone to New York and taped some of the mix shows on the radio. There was this incredible song called "Confusion" that was mixed into I.O.U. by Freeez. I had that song already, and to hear it mixed with this other song was brilliant at the tender age of 14. I also remember seeing the video for Confusion but again, but still had no idea who the group was since the name wasnt shown. I played the mix tape for about 3 years then lost it. Then in '87 started to go to a "new wave" club, if you will, started to hear all of these songs that really got me dancing and were like nothing I had heard before. I asked a friend who they were and he told me New Order. Soon after that, I saw Substance. I pondered, I thought, I didnt buy. However later on I saw this really cool 12" with nothing more than a blue background and a single gold leaf. Thought it was the coolest thing. So I bought that. WOW! THATS the song that I love at the club! Rushed out, bought Substance. All the other songs on it are the ones I ask about at the club, including Cofunsion..I was hooked! When the family moved to Spain, I found all these 12" singles with different covers than the stateside releases, plus more releases other than Substances. I guess you can say I discovered them TWICE and havent lost them for 22 years!

True Faith, 1987. I was on holiday with my parents in the west of Ireland, listening to the charts on a little pocket radio whilst sitting on some rocks at the beach. Thought True Faith was sort of dense in that there were lots of lyrics and not much "space" in the song between verses.

yeah i bought the substance 2 cassette box in 1989 for 8.50p a lot of the tracks i never heard before either&and xmas 1989 i got the substance 1989 video .:)

ithink that song is like a story similar to close range hes thinking back when he was younger.

The Evil Penguin's Nemesis wrote: True Faith, 1987. I was on holiday with my parents in the west of Ireland, listening to the charts on a little pocket radio whilst sitting on some rocks at the beach. Thought True Faith was sort of dense in that there were lots of lyrics and not much "space" in the song between verses.

:p

AgentWood wrote: 1986--several girls did a dance routine to blue monday at our junior high school's talent show.

anything like donnie darko?

NObabe wrote:

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bLuE oRdEr wrote: That's what I love about NOOl. Never the same thread twice. Hey, does anybody know what 1963's about? :D

What's your point buddy?

Erm, first time you heard of New Order, you were wiping your arse!?!?

That'd be different, wouldn't it?

No, actually I meant that some old subjects seem to pop up in new threads regularly: "When was the first time you heard New Order", "what is 1963 about", "If Ian were alive..."

It's why I stay over at BCD mostly.

On the other hand, some threads have never been posted before. Maya's arse-wiping thread, for instance. :D :p

maya has a GI problem that is why she likes to discuss such things. And it is part of the reason she is so charming.

What's a Gl problem?

Jonathan wrote:

AgentWood wrote: 1986--several girls did a dance routine to blue monday at our junior high school's talent show.

anything like donnie darko?

these girls were part of the 'new wave' contingent at our school. 8th graders--older, cool kids.

NObabe wrote: What's a Gl problem?

indigestion,flautence, bloating, adominal discomfort.

My first time i heard NO i was making out for the first time. To the lovely beats of 'Substance'

First time that I knew that I definately liked them was BM in 83, but when buying the back catalog realised I'd heard temptation and ceremony before but was too young and stupid to realise how good they were.

BTY, who gives a toss if the thread has been done before, some of us didn't see it and you don't have to post if it winds you up.

Also:

hope Maya's arse is sorted out soon!!!

Jed Stephens wrote: BTY, who gives a toss if the thread has been done before, some of us didn't see it and you don't have to post if it winds you up.

Ohh, now I'm really wound up. That makes me so mad!

I feel much better now.

Of course you're right, Jed. Carry on!