1st time you heard a new order record.

bLuE oRdEr wrote:

That cheered me up aswell, what a guy

this thread has been an all round psychological panacea for me I can't remember who started it but well done

First time i heard them and heard of them was the TOTP performance of Blue Monday in March 83.

I never worked out though how Temptation had totally escaped my ears a year before.

BM in 83 on LIR and then bought PC&L only to learn they didn't put it on the LP. It was only available as a bonus on the cassette. Took me 20 years to locate the 12" due to laziness and other pursuits.

But I started buying all their records thinking it was on something else and low and behold a NO fan was born and somehow stumbled on the Temptation 7 inch and immediately knew it was the best song ever created and I was ecstatic that I had disovered something so brilliant and noone else knew about it until a guest UK DJ played it on K rock ( a very commercial rock station at the time in NYC).

I played the shit out of it. Ran out and bought as many versions of the damn song I could. Stumbling across other great songs in the process.

It was a great day!!!

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Whenever Ceremony made it over here, probably April of 81. First brand new NO track that I heard on the radio was AOC, didn't know the new album was out yet in the US, got shivers listening to it, one of my fave moments of all time.

Used to listen to John Peel's show a lot,and before he got his fetish for African music,he once played a couple of songs off Movement when it came out.Can't remember what the other one was,but I taped "Denial" off the radio.First single I heard was Temptation,which I took into collage.My friends commented that they sound like Human League

The first NO record I bought in 1988 was Substance--well, it was actually a tape. The first record I owned was Michael Jackson Thriller but thats for another forum. I remember always seeing the video for True Faith on MTV. It was on an "alternative" show called "120 Minutes" that played videos from that genre--Cure, DM, The Smiths, etc... Everytime that video came on I was entranced. I couldn't quite figure out the whole bouncy people thing, but I just had to have more of their music! My friend owned the PC&L CD; Your Silent Face was another one of our favorites. And when Technique came out, Dream Attack was played heavily on the local alt rock radio station--i just couldn't get enough of that song. Ah, yes, my earliest memories of NO--not that any of you give a rats ass, but I digress...

A friend played me Movement back in 1982. I was 15 years old. I think his sister bought that LP when she was in London.

Loved them since then.

This friend also introduced me to Simple Minds.

Rian wrote:

This friend also introduced me to Simple Minds.

Is it good or bad?

Almost exactly 22 years ago (oh my god, that makes me feel old). I had just started college and my dad was driving me there when it came on the radio, I remember the DJ remarking on how Blue Monday had been hanging around the charts for weeks and weeks, i'd never heard of it so i listened and i have to be honest i didn't think much of it mainly because i was realy into the Beatles at the time, but the fact that i do remember it shows that it must have made some impression on me, mild curiosity probably. It would be another year before i truly discovered NO.

i think the first NO record i heard was Round & Round at Shugzv's house many moon's ago...Back in the late 80's..

baldrick wrote: i think the first NO record i heard was Round & Round at Shugzv's house many moon's ago...Back in the late 80's..

Late 80's.... it could have been only 1989.

July 2002. Heard True Faith on MTV2, to coincide with 24 Hour Party People.

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baldrick wrote: i think the first NO record i heard was Round & Round at Shugzv's house many moon's ago...Back in the late 80's..

Late 80's.... it could have been only 1989.

back in 89 apols

Freshman year in high school...probably Oct'85 I swapped cassetes with my newly found pal Terrence. I gave him 'Some Great Reward' by DM and he gave me Low-life (taped from his Lp). I brought it home, listened to it and was really taken by the music, but wasn't sure if I had the right tape. I thought he had mislabled it or something because the names of the songs weren't being sung in the actual tracks!?!? Argh??! So I called him up and he said that NO were known to do that. That made me feel a whole lot better :) What do you expect? I was a dorky 14 year old! Anyway, now I could relax and really listen to the music. A week had passed and I was completely in love with this record. I loved the interaction between the synthesizers and the guitars. I loved the simplistic, yet earnest and thoughtful lyrics. I loved that melodic "lower" sounding guitar, which I later learned from the same friend, was a bass guitar. Within a few months, I had bought Unknown PLeasures, Closer, Still, Atmosphere, LWTUA, Temptation Ep, BM, TLU, Movement, Ceremony, TPK 12" and P,C&L. Yep, I pretty much blew all my $200 that I had saved up over the last year. Oh well, it was totally fucking worth it!!

I first heard world in motion way back when in 1990 but being only 8 at the time ddin't really take notice. Till a few years later when i was listening to the radio on my way into town and true faith came on, i thought this band are for me so first stop i bought best of new order, the rest is history

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

JOY DIVISION, and new order never appeared on togwt,however and this is where it gets interesting for me. the old grey ect did play an animated video for jds isolation,if this is indeed what you may be thinking about then you are the first person i have come across who remembers it,and thank god as i thought i was going mad. as for the first new order moment,"ceremony". quite simply amazing for the time,no one at the time thought in their wildest dreams theat new order could have even held a torch to the joy division ledgend. how wrong they all where(me included)i was blown away then and still am today.

spindle wrote: 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.

It was a similar story to mine, the days when we used to tape the top 40 from the radio.

For me it was back in '84 and listening and recording songs on a station called 3XY, i can still remember some of the tracks that i taped which included Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake, Naked Eyes - Always Something there to remind me, Real Life - Catch Me I'm Falling and of course New Order - Blue Monday, and from day on i was hooked.

Sometime in 1985. A friend and I kicked out the rostered school radio crew (it went over the p a system). He put on a track from Low Life. Don't ask me which one.

On a radio who use to play non-stop music at days (no dj and every kinds of pop/rock music…)

It was True faith, but I only knew it for years later (I wasn't sure that was a N.O song because I couldn't find this one on the records I bought from them : PCL/Brotherhood then Technique)… when I finally found the song on Substance.

Sadly, it wasn't until 1987 that I discovered the Order. True Faith blared out of the jukebox in the 6th form common room and my musical tastes were changed forever...

WPIX in New York was a broadcast TV station (well, still is, but it's now part of the WB network) that showed all the Yankee baseball games (I'm a huge Yankee fan, btw, so just as an aside let's hope it wasn't Bernie's last game in the Stadium today!). At commercial breaks they would play a bit of songs I had never heard - in retrospect, someone there had awesome taste. Bits of Blue monday were their favorites to play leading into commericals and it must have been 1984, or 1985 I first really noticed. As soon as I learned that cool beat and bass was by a band called New Order, I was hooked....

Man, I'm going to sound like a complete noob around here when I start saying mine..

So anyway, mine's a bit weird, because the first time I heard New Order, I wasn't aware of them and didn't really know who they were. The first time I was really aware of them was in 2001, and I had started watching MTV2 quite a bit, was into pretty average fare MTV stuff (hey, I didn't know better). Saw Crystal's video. Liked the song, but just saw them as another band, but I was aware of them. Then 60MPH came around. Catchy, sublime, melodic indie track. I needed to get ahold of that track. I downloaded it, and happened to mention to someone that I was listening to it, and he recommended I check out the album (Get Ready). I borrowed it from my brother, who had started to get into them at around the time (but was well aware of their history) I really enjoyed the album, but I saw them as a bit of an indie band and didn't really know who they were.. I assumed they were the youthful blokes on the Crystal video! Not long after, there was a documentry where they chose their influences on the telly. Then I saw it. This song called True Faith.

Holy shit, I remember this video from when I was just a kid! The blue guys! Slapping each other! 1994! The USA World cup!

Yeah, that exact moment is when I fell in love with them. True Faith is still my favourite New Order song, too.

Shakin' Baker wrote: WPIX in New York was a broadcast TV station (well, still is, but it's now part of the WB network) that showed all the Yankee baseball games (I'm a huge Yankee fan, btw, so just as an aside let's hope it wasn't Bernie's last game in the Stadium today!). At commercial breaks they would play a bit of songs I had never heard - in retrospect, someone there had awesome taste. Bits of Blue monday were their favorites to play leading into commericals and it must have been 1984, or 1985 I first really noticed. As soon as I learned that cool beat and bass was by a band called New Order, I was hooked....

Yankees on WPIX was a long time ago...

I don't remember BM being played though.

Then again I don't remember much from those years.

Bernieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

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Rian wrote:

This friend also introduced me to Simple Minds.

Is it good or bad?

They were good back then, so it must have been a good thing. He had the first albums that SM made, and they are ace.

Fall of 1981, bought 7" Ceremony/In A Lonely Place at Northern Lights Records (gold/bronze sleeze)...followed by Movement LP....PCL cinced it for me!! (all the 60's types hated it around the house I lived in too)

...of course I bought "Closer" and "Unknown Pleasures" Fall of 1980 when I hear JD for first time

...never looked back...

It was January, Nineteen eighty three When I first heard New Orders' Blue Monday I said I bought it because I loved it And I bought cos it was losing Factory money too

Actually no, it was summer holidays of 1987 and the sounds of True Faith, Its A Sin and Animal. Needless to say I dont listen to PSB or Def Leppard these days!

Blue Monday in 1983 on the radio. The kind of voice/chorus at the end of the song made me think of Radioactivity's atmosphere.

Jean-Philippe Ravier wrote: Blue Monday in 1983 on the radio. The kind of voice/chorus at the end of the song made me think of Radioactivity's atmosphere.

I didnt know Blue Monday had a chorus?