What,how and/or who first turned you onto NO/JD?

Thought it might be interesting to read some accounts of the fans,as to how they first became fans of the band...

I appreciate many of us are of different ages,and my own may or may not be a typical 32 year olds first encounter. Basically,I remember vividly hearing True Faith being played by the older brother of a very good mate of mine.This necter sound coming from his bedroom while I was round at their house...The lad was 4 years older than me,and bang into his New Order already then(about 1987 or 88)..I thought it sounded fantastic,and started hearing it on the radio alot...Got myself Substance on vynil and played the thing to death,discovering Temptation and Ceremony were a revelation...My own older brother was a U2 fan, so I was well grateful to my mates brother,and countered our Tony's Cock Rock with Ceremony and Temptation from my bedroom,to my delight and our Mam's despair

The reason I mention it now is cos our mam was round recently, and reminded me of it while Temptation was playing on a playlist on my PC..She remembered

What's your story?

my dad likes them, goes to EVERY gig. i try to get to as many as i can

Both bands happened at about the same time for me. It was only last May that, after getting really interested in Public Image Ltd., I started listening to the PiL station on Launch, which played lots of JD/NO as well. I'd heard LWTUA before and liked it okay, but it was after hearing songs like "Something Must Break" and "Isolation" that I realised that JD were definitely something different worth investigating.

I liked the NO stuff that the station played, but one day I heard TPK and was absolutely mesmerised. I loved the dissonance in the synths during the chorus, and how it seemed like something I'd heard before years ago (though I'm not sure I ever actually had). The station wouldn't play it again though, and I was desperate to hear it again until I finally got my hands on Substance.

Dam That River wrote: my dad likes them, goes to EVERY gig. i try to get to as many as i can

Sorry,I should have said..How did everyone get into em? Except you Jack

To be fair,its primarily your old fella's bassplay which has kept me interested I reckon

Being off school one day and they played the video for Bizarre love triangle on a kids tv programme,and instantly became fixed to both the video and song. Purchased it on 12" vinyl that weekend with my pocket money and then when Substance/True Faith came out became a massive fan.

1982, I heard Temptation on the radio, I thought I've gotta go and get that, so I went to the shop and tried to buy an album with Temptation on it! of course I couldn't, so I bought the 12" single, then Movement and then the 7" of Temptation, because this was the verson I had actually heard on the Radio. Happy Days!

NO- I first heard Orgy's cover of BM in 1999. I like the lyrics so much, so a couple of years later I dowloaded it through Grokster. On the same day, NO's version came up in the search results and I downloaded it also. From that day on, prefered NO's version of Blue Monday.

JD- I downloaded LWTUA from the Donnie Darko Soundtrack. That song took a few days to get used to, and I love it.

24 Hour Party People and the soundtrack.

I had heard Blue monday on the radio and at the "youth" disco in 1983 and eventually went and bought a copy as i loved it and was mesmerized by it.But that was as far as my interest went at that point.I was aware they had Power ,Corruption And Lies out but didnt have any interest in buying or hearing it ,strangely enough.But then my brother went and bought it and when he first played it i was in the house at the time and was completely blown away by Age Of Consent.It was the best music i had ever heard.Then as the rest of the album played i was just as stunned by the other songs on it like The Village ,586 ,Your Silent Face and Leave Me Alone.Those songs and that synth/guitar blend with the sounds was far more to my taste than Blue Monday actually was.I always thought if my brother had never bought that album would i have got into them?

Of course in those days (83/84) trying to find anything out about this new band i had discovered was almost impossible.Just the odd scrap of info in the music press every few months and the odd book (An Ideal For Living and the History in Cuttings thingies).

A kid 2 years above me in school called Gary Shand (RIP ) got me into them.

It was the week after Brotherhood had come out. Initially it was all the vinyl artwork as well as the music that got me interested. I was permanantly hooked by the time TF came out.

Much repect to Gary. Much respect to NO.

Columbia House actually had an alternative catalogue issued at some point, and through that I ordered Closer in September 2000, having no prior knowledge of the group. It's been a wonderful exploration since then.

Perfect Kiss video on UHF TVin 1985.

I blame it on Neil Tennant

Well he once mentioned in an interview his favourite band was New Order so I had to check them out. But at the time (1987) I was gutted cause they sounded nothing like PSB

True Faith 1987. Saw them on telly and bought Substance on cassette whilst on holiday. Loved it. Went home and bought BM and LWTUA on 12" from the local vinyl emporium and played them to death. Then Technique came out and I was hooked...

MY COUSIN INTRODUCED NEW ORDER TO ME IN 1987 VIA BROTHERHOOD. 2 YEARS LATER, A MATE LENT ME UNKNOWN PLEASURES. SINCE THEN, I'VE BEEN SICK FOR THEM

well i've told this tale before. there was a girl at school who really like them and i really liked her.

A friend who worked at a record store played me the 7" single of Transmission back in late 79 (he'd bought it cause of the sleeve).

When I was 11, me mom got the Threesome soundtrack, and BLT came on and really opened my eyes....had no idea this song was made 8 years beforehand!
Then, later that summer, VH1 did a 4th of July A-Z, where they fookin showed ALL their videos over the course of like 5 days This was before they purged most of their archeives (or boxed them up for VH1 Classic)....anyways I digress...I knew New Order was coming up, so I set my VCR to record, came back, and True Faith was on.

Stagnation for some time, got Substance for X-Mas '99, and found NOOL late '02...and you know the rest

A friend of mine got me a compilation cassette with all sort of music in 1985, Alphaville, New Order, DM and more. Both Blue Monday and Perfect Kiss were on that cassette and both songs simply outshone all others. In 1985 these songs were just complete breakthrough, so cool and massive. Few weeks later I got the Low life album which soon became my favorite. Then Brotherhood came out and I remember it surprised me to find the rockier side of New Order. That album was just one of the best in 1986 and I must say it has aged well. Then I started digging up more on this mysterious band. Found an album which didn´t seem to have a name, so I called it Roses (PCL). Factus 8 shortly followed and the beauty of Procession and Temptation only made me a bigger New Order fan. -At that time it was difficult to get any info on the band. Then after Substance, which introduced me to Ceremony, remixed BLT and True Faith there was no turning back and I have been a NO nut since then. Have not found a band since then, that has had as much impact on me. Stone Roses, Chemical Bros, Prefab Sprout come close but not as close as the Order.

I was always aware of NO, my dad was a passing fan, had Substance on cassette, and i even recently found an Electronic cassette. I think as a designer, he's a fan of Peter Saville, so NO had always been around, i remember TF as a little 'un.

Few years ago i heard LWTUA in a skate video, so i got into Joy Division a bit, then i heard AOC on another skate video, bough PC&L, then i've been hooked ever since

sigh. I knew it would come to this, I would have to share these painfully bland stories.

NO - Mtv. simple as that. remember being transfixed by the music and imagery of Blue Monday, BLT, and True Faith.

JD - Nine inch Nails. I was obsessed with NIN in 1992 and I had to collect anything and everything that was associated with them. When they did "Dead souls" for the crow soundtrack (with no mention of JD in the linear) A pretty goth girl I knew told me I should check out the original, so I bought Substance and the rest is history.

I remembered BLT and True Faith being out when I was a kid. Then in the early 90s, VH1 or MTV (when they still showed videos) was doing some sort of A-Z and showing *every* video they owned...well, they showed New Order and their music really appealed to me and, to be honest, Bernard being so attractive didn't hurt either Once I started listening to New Order, I discovered Joy Division as well.

i was a fan of sorts-blue monday,love will tear us apart,true faith were as far as my knowledge of the music went

wasn't until i seen "24 hour party people" i really knew what they meant and just how fucking good they were

My brother bought BM, i liked, then he bought confusion, and I liked it, then TLU came out, I thought I'd buy it before my bro did even though I hadn't heard it, I gleefully showed him it and put it on expecting to hear something like BM or confusion, at first I was confused by it, but it grew on me, my brother said it was shite and never bought anymore NO, but I flipped it over and played lonesome tonight and just fell in love with hooky's bass, and barneys gobbing skills, (very rebelious at 15). Then saved up and bought the back catalogue over the next few years, got into JD, but it made me depressed, so loved it when they cheered up and the acid house scene arrived, then things get very hazey!!!!

I was fascinated by their performance of BM on TOTP and then the TPK video, (particularly Gillian) but intimidated by them as well! Didn't 'do' anything really until I heard BLT, went into HMV to find it and looked through all their 12" covers. Bought a few of them just for the design (Mr Saville would be proud!)

It just continued from there, never met anyone else who was into them at the time, or not whole-heartedly anyway. As I've said on here before - I then realised that NO t-shirts attracted male attention!

Of course I don't need to justify my love of their music.

I heard Blue Monday on the radio, a rare radio station that played good stuff, around 1992. I went out and bought Substance (CD) and I was hooked from there. It took me a while after that before I even know of JD.

Valentines Day 1979 I think it was. I was 13 and pissed off that this girl I thought I was in love with hadn't sent me a valentine card. John Peel on the radio to drown my sorrows. Some song playing with the singer going on about how he remembered when he was young. Bet you fucking do, I thought. Bet this shit never happened to you. I was hooked.

my mate Ian

I used to love the World in motion single when i was a boy, then i forgot all about them.

Then our kid bought the train spotting soundtrack and i give it a whirl and thought temptation was definetly by a band i could dig, so i was walking into town to buy their 'best of' the day after and Regret came on the radio on my walkman and it sealed my fate. So i bought every album week after week, then proceeded to buy all the vinyl records the local record shop had.

Chris Nash wrote: My cousin took me to see JD in 1979 and I sort of liked them. It was just cool to be with 'older lads' and drink beer. Really got into New Order afterwards when the same cousin took me to see them.

I tend to forget that alot of fans 'found' New Order first, then JD in the late 80's around the time of 'True Faith'.

Then again, I keep forgetting how sodding old I am...

Interesting that most of the people on here talk about the record/cd/video that converted them.

Like you, for me it was seeing them live. Being (slightly) too young to really appreciate Joy Division I was aware of this band New Order, and had a couple of their records.

But seeing them live - January 1983 - Cardiff Joint Student Union bar - that's what got me into them.

It perhaps sounds a bit corny to say that it was a life changing experience, but certainly my life has not been the same since.

When it comes to music, for me I normally hear a song I like on the radio or when out and I then try to find that song to own. I’ll also give a few other songs a try to see if I like the band or if it was just a one or two song thing for me.

I first heard NO back in the mid 80’s but really did not follow the band or go out and buy the records. Even though I liked most of what I was hearing on the radio. At the time was just not a big record collector so I never went out and bought what I liked to hear on the radio. Due to this I pretty much forgot about them until I had a friend who is a big NO fan, get me back to listening to NO, which happened in April of this year.

At that time, I realized that I recognized most of the songs that she was playing; I just could not remember who was singing them. I also realized that New Order is one of the few bands that I actually like just about everything that they have released.

Since then I’ve been hunting at the used CD stores in the area trying to get my hands on all the CD’s that was missing. I’m up to 7 CD’s and still trying to find more of the early releases.

Psy

When I was 14 I used to hang around a local indie record shop. I was more into singles than albums at that time, and thanks to new wave I had a healthy interest in keyboards. One of the fellows who worked there asked me if I'd ever heard of New Order and put on the 12" of "The Perfect Kiss" which was brand new (April of 1985). I thought it was pretty amazing, but it didn't stick right away. I didn't buy it.

In November of 1986 I was watching MTV and saw this absolutely amazing video (so unlike anything at the time) called "Bizarre" something and I recognized the name of the band. By then I could drive and was hanging out at a much better indie record shop close to the university campus. I went in looking for the single and they didn't have it, but they did have the album. It was called Brotherhood and had fairly cryptic design. I bought it on cassette.

For the next several months that cassette was all I listened to. It was such a cool combination of rock tracks on one side and dance tracks on the other. One of my school friends loaned me the prior two albums Lowlife and Power, Corruption & Lies and I fell in love. This was also around the same time I really got into Depeche Mode and The Cure.

By the time Substance came out I'd collected what I could, but most things were imports and none of it was really easy to come by where I lived. I didn't even know about Joy Division until their Substance was released in 1988 and someone filed it in the New Order bin at the shop. It took a while to sink in but I fell in love with them as well.

So this year marks my 20-year anniversary as a New Order fan.

Barney raped me as a young child, so when I got older and the hormones started to kick in, I just sort of felt compelled to go back to New Order. I can't help it. I'm a victim.

Blue Cuntin Monday

First heard Everything's Gone Green on TV in '82 or so. There was a late-night movie slot run on Friday or Saturday nights on one of the local (Baltimore, MD) stations, and they used EGG as the "Theme" for the show. Then, a few years later, my first real snogfest was soundtracked by Brotherhood, and then I stole all of her JD tapes.

JD gig supporting the Buzzcocks at L.U.T. in 1979.

i think it was older sister who came home with unknown pleasures, seeing a review in the nme. she never got that much into them, but i did. narrowly missed seeing them live back in manchester where i grew up. i remember my friend at school (who was a buzzcocks fan) saying all these people coming to see the support and then leaving. one track was 'rambling in'.. only then i realised the lyric was 'where will it end'

first saw new order at the ritz, stll have the ticket. will post some early tickets when we buy a new scanner this autumn

I had just started in the lower-sixth and me and a few mates used to get a mail order parcel from Rough Trade every couple of weeks with a selection of the latest and greatest punk/postpunk 7" singles. Living out in N.Lincs, there were no decent record shops handy (the Humber Bridge wasn't finished until 1981 - so a ferry trip was required to get to Hull), so this was how we got to hear the bands we read about in the NME and Sounds. We never knew what Rough Trade were going to send, but it was inevitably brilliant - Subway Sect 'Ambition', ATV 'Action Time Vision', Desperate Bicycles 'New Cross, New Cross', 'Teenage Kicks', stuff by The Raincoats, Au Pairs etc etc. Anyway one of the records was Cabaret Voltaire's debut, the double 7" with 'Do The Mussolini' on it. I wasn't that impressed, but my mate Vic was obsessed with it - he kept saying 'we've got to see this band!'. We'd started our own band and were going to as many gigs as we could, but few decent bands played in Cleethorpes or Scunthorpe so we had to look further afield. (exception : The Sex Pistols played on the Anarchy Tour in Dec 1976 - my first proper gig!!). Various elder sisters and a couple of slightly older mates had cars, so a small group of us started going to Sheffield, Leeds and even Manchester to see bands. Just after we got the CV single, we heard that they were playing at some place called the Russell Club in Manchester. A girl who left our school the previous year was at UMIST and into similar music - someone phoned her and she said 'definitely come to the CV gig - Pete Shelley is supporting'. So we did. After a LOT of confusion about whether the Factory club and the Russell Club were one and the same, we arrived at the gig to find out that 'Pete Shelley' was in fact The Tiller Boys i.e Pete and Eric Random, and there was some bunch called Joy Division 3rd on the bill. Thank god we were early. Saw them another dozen or so times in the next 18 months - gotta say they were a decent little live combo.

Forgot to say it was Oct 1978 - the 'Fac 3' gig.

i was doing what i used to do every saturday morning back then in chorley,look for records to buy. nad one in particular grabbed my attention "transmission" it had just come out at the time and i had no idea who joy division were. but that crab nebulea sleeve just grabbed my attention , so i took it to the counter to ask for it to be put on to see what it sounded like. i was grabbed instantly by the opening synth drone and bassline (still gets me today). as ian began to sing the lass behind the counter said (oooh hang on love i think ive put it on the wrong speed, lol.) she hadnt of course and for me the rest was history. you could say they had me at hello.

BM. Then standstill until TF in 1987.

My brother was a DJ around Manc in the mid to late 80s (he always boasts he did a set at the Hac as holiday cover for one of the regulars, Mike Pickering, Dave Haslam, etc) so he had pretty much all the NO 12" from this period which I played to death.

Being a niave little teenager I didn't realise that this great band was from my own city until TF came out. I thought they were Yanks!

So from subconciously following them since BM I realised actually who they were and what they were about. Technique was then released and I went mental. At the time NO seemed to be everywhere as well as the charts. Vanishing Point was used as the title music for the brilliant Making Out and Best & Marsh was the title track to, erm, Best & Marsh.

This fantastic period culminated when WiM went No. 1 forever (well, a fortnight at least!), Madchester was the centre of the universe and the Hac was the coolest place in the world.

The result of this was the ability to speak in my broadest Manc accent - with matching Barney centre parting - to nubile, young, females with lovely tight arses holidaying in Magaluf in 91 and tell them I was from Manc, went to the Hac, and was into NO - the response was better than any Lynx advert! "What a cool accent you've got. I love your hair! Do you really go to the Hacienda?..." etc, etc until time for bed...

Oh, but of course it'd be Blue Monday. The way the story goes at my house, my brother had it on the local 'dance' station, and the dj was a serious worshipper of UK indie and punk. He played Blue Monday and I started doing this dumb dance that everyone became transfixed by. I couldn't even say the band's name properly, apparently I kept saying "noorrer", and it wasn't but a few years down the road around 7-8 that I actually started requesting albums/tapes for birthdays and Christmas.

So, in the end, my brother got me into NO. He also got me into other bands that have become great favorites and it never ceased to tick me off when I'd get the "aren't you too young to like this stuff" from teachers or older friends.

Back when I was 7 or 8 my mom would invite her gay friends over and have parties while I sat in my room at my old Commodore 64 computer and geeked out. They'd bring their records and through the door I got to hear all the great stuff that you usually only heard in clubs. Always been into dance music as a result.

Looking through one of the stacks they'd brought, I saw one that just startled me completely... somebody had the idea to cut a 12" record sleeve in the shape of one of the floppy disks I'd been playing around with so much. What a neat idea! I remember actually picking it up and my mom telling me to put it back.

Fast forward to 1987-88ish... Jr. High school age for me. I was riding in a car with mom and a friend and we're listening to the alternative station and this fucking fantastic song is playing... great beat, smooth moody vocals, and a killer refrain melody... something about the morning sun. I was disappointed because I didn't find out who it was or what the song was called, but the song stuck with me and wouldn't let go. Every once in a while it would get stuck in my head and I still had no idea who it was.

A year or two later, had to be 1989, I was at a school dance... homecoming or something, I don't remember. They'd got these house DJs to do it for us and they played all this great underground junk... house music all night long. I loved how all the tracks just blended together and how all that mattered wasn't the lyrics or the artist or what their video looked like... just the beat. One of them had this killer synth hook that kinda stuck out to me and I would remember later... and some lyric about being too young, but I was too busy dancing with my friends to pay much attention to it.

Keep in mind that at the time i had no idea any of these experiences were related in any way.

Not long after that I was with my mom again at her friend's house and they're playing CDs, which we thought were the greatest thing because we didn't have a CD player yet. A few of them were talking about this trio of bands they'd gone to see at the Meadowlands a few weeks prior. Somebody said something about a song by one of them she really wanted to hear so they pull out this CD which frustratingly didn't have the artist name on it. And it was that same voice... the picture you see is no portrait of me... the one who sang that morning sun song. I usually didn't speak up at these gatherings since it was my mom who was the guest and I was just tagging along, but since the neat colored cherub on the front wasn't giving me any hints, I had to ask who it was. Someone said "New Order."

I decided when I got home I'd check my mom's shelves (and shelves and shelves) of records to see if she had any by them. By this time I'd started invading them and discovering the likes of The Police, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Information Society, etc. Turns out she had Substance and Technique. I loved the lack of information about or pictures of the band on the sleeves. It made me want to find out more about them. I had no face or personality to associate with what I heard, and had no idea what to expect.

I put Technique on first. I recognized Fine Time and suddenly I was back in that high school gym with my friends. Then strangely some guitar-based track was next. I thought these guys did dance music. They'd tricked me and become my gateway drug to indie rock.

How strange that the titles on the label gave me no clues. Though it's probably a good thing because I had to listen to all of Technique and all of Substance before I finally found that "morning sun" song I was looking for. And then I played both albums again... and again. There were so many songs that I'd heard before and didn't know it... Blue Monday, Subculture, Shellshock, True Faith, Fine Time, Round & Round... that it was like listening to my still young life replaying for me.

From there I went out and bought their albums. Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam" may have been the first tape I'd ever bought, but Low-Life was number two. Eventually I had to have them all. Technique was, and still is, my favorite. When I found Regret at the record store a few years later I was ecstatic to find out they were putting out new material. And even though I didn't quite like Republic as much as their previous when it came out, when my mom's travel plans for us got in the way of my being able to see them on that tour I didn't speak to her for about a week. To this day I still have not seen them live. (Come back to Atlanta, PLEASE!)

Geez, that got long-winded. Sorry guys.

There are times when I get tired of them and stop playing their records for a bit but I always end up coming back. I don't care what any of the rest of you think, "Who's Joe" is Barney singing out that no matter what kind of changes happen in my life, I won't get rid of them. Their music is going to come find me wherever I go, whatever I do.

Heard Blue Monday at a youth club disco in 83. Loved that but didn't much time for music generally until Substance came out in 87.

Cheers

When i first heard Temptation in the 'Afro' club in Dublin circa '84.

Um..

I was living with this guy who had written a semi-popular-among-anoraks book about Joy Division.

He brox0red my widdle heart and then I listened to unknown pleasures non-stop haha

[orange]Ultramega[/orange] OK wrote: my dad likes them, goes to EVERY gig. i try to get to as many as i can

hahahahah

[orange]Ultramega[/orange] OK wrote: my dad likes them, goes to EVERY gig.

Apart from the Washington gig in 83 that he sort of forgot about until they were halfway through the first song!

JD : A friend of mine let me hear "Closer" when we were in highschool. I then bought Substance and was hooked ever since. NO: Someone gave (!) me a stack of LP's/12" records including an original floppy disc Blue Monday 12". It has always been a dancefloor filler at the parties I went to as well. First NO record I bought was Substance.

After buying UNKNOWN PLEASURES in 79. Never saw Joy Division, though first New Order gig was Glasto 81 :D

I got in to Electronic first, when I was at school. Moved on to New Order after that.

Hearing and seeing the video of 'True Faith' in the summer of '87 first got me into them and I went out and bought 'Substance' shortly afterwards. I struggled to really get into them for a while but after buying 'Technique' in '89 I was hooked. Purchases of 'Brotherhood', 'Movement' and 'PCL' soon followed, although I didn't buy 'Lowlife' until about 6 months ago. I've only managed to see them once (Reading '93) but can't wait to see them again in October.

First time I heard them was on the late,great John Peel show,playing tracks from their new debut album MOVEMENT.Liked them,but thought they were a bit doomy to buy.(D'oh! Movement's my 2nd fave NO album these days). Will have to be Temptation on which I started taking notice,and LOW-LIFE was my first album.I was hooked. Although I liked LWTUA,it was actually hearing Isolation of STILL which got me into JD.

What can I say? SHEDS are the new dancefloors.

Round and Round on TOTP

I know I've heard of BM, BLT, TLU, and even LWTUA from my brother who was into new wave music back then. But I never took noticed of NO until i heard True Faith, which was a new single back then. Then I saw the video, and saw some NO songs (BLT, BM, and BM) in my brother's new wave compilation cassette tapes. Then I bought my very first CD, Substance 1988. That is where I discovered there were a lot of better tracks than True Faith in the album compilation. So basically that was it. The rest followed... Low-Life... Brotherhood... PCL... Joy D.

Indeed!

1987 I listened to'Unknown Pleasures' and 'Still' and I was astonished. Then, at the same year, I listened to New Order's Substance ....

How. Shugzv's fault,i used to go to his house everyday and all he played and listened to was NO,and when i heard Technique that was it i was hooked,so Thanks Shug!!!!

This came out in 2002:

Bought the soundtrack and heard a very (I thought at the time) U2 influenced track by JD: LWTUA. Had never heard anyone sing like that in my life. And opening with Anarchy was such a contrast(2002 was the punk jubilee so I was listening to punk properly for the first time). Of course, being a rocker I ignored the dance tracks. That would have been a betrayal.

2004: Toothache appears on an MTV2 countdown of 50 Best British Artists (NO came in about 44). I thought 'Wow, they were JD?????????' But I was still a rocker, so it became my dirty little secret.

That summer, I gave into temptation and bought International. I immediatly embraced Ceremony and Regret but the rest I wasn't so sure about. Techno wasn't real, after all. Q had also done an issue where famous musicians or DJ's pick their favourite genre songs (eg. Dave Grohl on metal, Basement Jaxx on dance, Tim Westwood on hip hop etc). That and International made me look at music outside rock. In August, I got into the Prodigy as Liam had finally released Always Outnumbered...

Finally, I started my first year of uni, and I always put on the Order and the Prodigy before going to lectures. Later, an NME special on Goth features JD heavily so I reevalute UP and Closer.

Summers of 2002 and 2004 won't be forgotten.

Back in 1982 I heard Temptation on the radio, never picked up who it was by. Also heard what turned out to be Atmosphere late 82 on the radio. Blue Monday in 1983 was the turning point where I rushed out to buy it. Decided to look more into their background. Also heard LWTUA around this time. Had no idea of the connection between the 2 bands. Went on geology field trip in 1985 and Kingsuk Biswas had Unknown Pleasures with him and that was put on heavy rotation which got me into JD. Did the back catalogue thing with them too.

April 1980, my elder brother (2 and a half year difference), came into my bedroom and said "listen to this" and puts "Love Will Tear Us Apart" on the turntable, and instantly I'm "Wow what the hell is this it's fucking brilliant!" At first I couldn't make out what Curtis was singing about then my ear tuned into his voice and I just loved the lyrics.

So I play "L.W.T.U.A" and "These Days" constantly. and nick my brothers "Unknown Pleasures", and it's never off my turntable. (It's still my favourite record, and in all honesty I've had at least two Hi-Fi's which wouldn't play any other record/C.D.)

I remember then finding out that Curtis had hung himself 1 month after I'd got into the band. (Through J.Peel on the radio.) I was so gutted and pissed off. So when it came out that the rest of the band were going to carry on and just change their name I was mightily pleased. Although I felt "Movement" was a bit of a disappointment and Barney was trying too hard to sound like Ian and his shadow just hung over the record, it was still miles better than the pap most bands put out. But then they (N.O) released Temptation (and "E.G.G" "Mesh" etc "The Mini Album"), and that was it. This was New Order, not a watered down Joy Division, and they were fucking brilliant too. Then in '83 P.C.& L was relesed and it was, and still is, a great record. So that's it. I was a month too late for Joy Division, and never saw them live. But I can genuinely say I was into New Order before they even knew what to call themselves, and of course I've seen them live. Plus had the pleasure of all their albums. Cheers lads.

as a kid i listened to blue monday on a tape my brother had made and loved it

then, when true faith came out again in 94 i recognised it from my brothers substance video

then i collected everything i could

now its all in a box

might sell it

First hearing Temptation around about 1982. Then I was given a C90 tape (remember them?) of Movement and assorted other tracks such as Cries and Whispers, EGG, Hurt etc and I was hooked.

I was aware of the Joy Division link but hadn't heard any of their stuff until about 1983 and I stumbled across the 12" of 'LWTUA' which I loved and played to death. But then I had to endure all of my classmates going wild over the Paul Young version saying it was 'the best'

The fools!

An old friend introduced me them. Slow going because I head the JD stuff first. Bit of an over load to the senses etc. She drilled it into me!! Not sure if I could deal without them or the friends that I have made through them!!

And as other people have said the music stands for its self

Heard Blue Monday on the radio and at the youth disco in 1983.Thought it was ace and went out and bought a copy..Was aware of Power , Corruption & Lies but hadn't bought it.My bro however purchased a copy in late 83 and when i heard it that was it , no turning back

Heard True Faith on the Radio as a spotty 14 year old back in '87. Bought the single that weekend, then spent the rest of my pocket money for the next couple of years buying every other single, 12", album and video I could lay my hands on....!

I saw Unknown Pleasures album for sale, never had heard of Joy Division... had no idea what it would be like but bought that LP because all the Joy Division records in the bin had such cool artwork. Didn't even know about Ian for a year. Found New Order record in a Joy Division bin in another store, bought it because of Joy Division.

My Bro bought back from school Low life on one side and PC&L on the ohter of a cassette. Immediately hooked, then came out Brotherhood (which I loved at the time) and then substance, wow. what music. And what a jourtney of discoverey prior to the internet as well. So when I heard substance not heard alot of the trax b4 despite having the rpevios 3 albums. Also never released prior to 1987 that New order were joy division nowadays ypu can find out everything at a touch of a button, in those days you relied on word of mouth, music papers. Got me into other abds such as jesus and mary chain and then listening to john peel, a great great musicual journey. I don;t think NO realise how important they have been in so many peoples lives. First time I heard JD was the video to here are the young men, hated it! Not a thing like NO. A couple of yrs later heard Closer blew me away again. Combined JD and NO and they are the best band of all time. Commbine all my favoutire things about muisc, electronics, coollness, mystery, an indie label, facelss to an extent. Turned me onto my other great love of music in life, detroit techno. Enough of my ramblings. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL AT NOOL. The hardest question of the year "best hooky bass line" still wake up sweating aout that one, just sooo many.

In 1989-90,when I was itty bitty we had this station that played mostly shite music but they had this hour where they'd play certain bands and new order was one of them. i remember hearing blt and true faith a lot. i didn't hear blue monday until the mid-90's. i was a fan of a certain band's music and i read that jd was one of their influences and decided to look up jd, thats when i then found out new order had once been jd.

been long time fan, but really got fascinated around blt!

My older bro played PC&L then Low Life constantly, and also the JD albums,and it just kinda grew from there, it really took off when, as a fresh faced teen of 14 I nervously approached the Barras on the 9th June 87 for my first ever gig,suppose ive been hooked ever since.

My bro now wears a Vikings badge on his overalls out on the rigs in the North Sea (rather apt),that i gave him,as a cheers for ifluencing my musical taste.

Cheers Paul

For me, it was an interview of Neil Tennant in Smash Hits where he talked about New Order & True Faith being his favourite song at that time. I went out, bought Substance, and never looked back....

Simply: John Peel on BBC Radio 1.

I'd seen the video for "LWTUA" when it came out, but it didn't mean anything. By Christmas 1982, I was old enough to stay up 'til midnight to listen to the Festive 50, so I caught "Temptation" and a lot of Joy Division tracks. I knew it was all supposed to be cool, but I didn't like punk music and much preferred the synth sound.

So, Blue Monday and Power, corruption and lies became the very first records I bought, and the biggest single influence on my musical tastes (the electronic side of indie) and practices (drum machines and synths). Within a year I had all the easily available JD and NO vinyl, and an already-worn cassette of the Radio 1 broadcast of the 1983 Kilkenny gig.

It was no coincidence that I went to university in Salford in 1985, and saw my first and only NO gig at the Haçienda in 1987.

A life changing experience involving Fanny Fart Hicks, Kama Sutra Towers, east of Stretford Arndale Centre on a wet August morning armed with a Tesco carrier bag and three half-drunk Pilsner cans containing Irn-Bru, probably....and absolutely NO printed ramblings and existentialist musings from that pretentious cod-eyed old trollop Paul Morley, lest it be said....

'Round and Round' on TOTP

Joy Division: I first heard of them in 1994 but I became a huge (and obsessed) fan ages later when I began to buy their albums and reading absolutely everything about the band and Ian Curtis. To my mates (and radio co-hosts)and some London Cafe listeners, I'm best known as Mrs. Joy Division.

New Order: As a girl who grew up in the 80s, I've heard their music on the radio and watched a lot of their videos. I remember being hooked on Bizarre Love Triangle, Blue Monday and True Faith. But as with JD, I became a fan ages later.

I must say that I'm more a JD fan than a NO fan though.:)

seeing Sunrise on the PFD video at a mate's brother's house. Still love that today