where were you the first time you heard a NO song?

i don't know if we've done this one before, but here goes:

i was in the audience of my middle school's end of the year talent show in 1986 when a group of girls did a dance routine to blue monday. i thought it was brilliant and had no idea who the song was by until i bought substance the following year and, behold!, there was the song i'd been searching for.

other stories?

that would have been in the senior high school "radio" (it played luchtimes via the intercom) room. i believe it was the subculture 12 inch and to me it was the coolest thing i'd ever heard.

As a very young child i remember my Dad playing NO songs. The first time i was aware whrn i was older is when i heard Age of Consent in a skate video

As far as I remember (and this is assuming that bad covers don't count *shame*), the first time I specifically remember hearing a NO song was watching Trainspotting a few years ago. I remembered the song that Dianne sang, but I didn't know what it was--then I got Substance about a year later and thought, Hey, "Temptation" sounds familiar!

That said, when I first listened to Substance, several songs ("TPK," "Subculture," "True Faith," etc.) seemed vaguely familiar, as if I must have heard them before as a wee kid growing up in the 80's. That's one of the reasons I love NO--that sort of familiarity/nostalgic quality some songs have.

The living room in our first house. All I can say is.. orange shag carpeting. Blue Monday. Me dancing. 1983. I wish they'd thought enough to get the Polaroid out to immortalize it.

student radio here in new zealand ,,,i had never heard new order ..its was crystal that got me hooked for life.i must had been about 17 im 20 now ,,,i remember hearing it and closing my eyes and merging with the beauti of the song..this is a good idea for a thread......hello im new here

In the 6th form common room at school, around March 1981, we had just had the school buy a turntable for us, bloke gets out this gold-sleeved 7", slaps in on and...wow...that was the moment the soundtrack to my 80's was defined.

The day that I bought the Ceremony 7in because I liked the cover.

1987/True Faith on Sky or whatever other channel it was, right here in this room, how boring. The circumstance not the song :\ohwell:

At home on a Sunday afternoon watching the now-defunct pop show Countdown in 1983. Saw a truncated version of BM and thought it was the most interesting record I'd ever heard in quite some time.

Knowingly: Blue Monday '83 Unknowingly: Temptation '82, Mike Sweeney's football show on Piccadilly Radio (still remember it!)

Obv knew of LWTUA but didnt know about the connection until got into NO in '83.

i've no idea at all,imagine it would have been blue monday,

the first tune i remember really loving was temptation thanks to trainspotting

Technically, it was the True Faith video on MTV in the 1980's. However, I didn't know who the hell they were and didn't really get into them until nearly 10 years later. I think it was Blue Monday on the radio that time.

I used to tape the Top Forty on Radio 1 every now and again and back in 1982 there was a song called Temptation. Didn't take too much interest until I heard Blue Monday in '83 then everything clicked.

new order had heaps of no.1's aye...on heaps of charts aye?

krisna wrote: new order had heaps of no.1's aye...on heaps of charts aye?

Not much in the US, sadly enough, but in other places, yes.

At home, first half of 81, whenever I managed to finally track down a copy of Ceremony, from the sadly defunct Earth River Record Store.

Probably in bed, listening to John Peel. I'd read that Ceremony was coming out, and that night he played it! Wondrous stuff.

i first heard NO back in 1988 or 1989 when i used to go to Shugzv's house quite a lot,Shugzv used to have his NO records on all the time,but i started to like NO when i heard the Technique album,and still me favorite album since..

At my mum's house when i was 14.In the living room watching them do Blue Monday live on TOTP, March 83.What a bunch of miserable cnuts were my thoughts at the time

At home one night in 1981 listening to the radio and their new single Ceremony was played. Been hooked ever since.

In my grandparents' house, where I was raised. Late summer 1981 (prob. September), I was listening to my favorite radio show in my bedroom. I don't remember which song it was, though...

my bedroom back in 81 , ceremony. i still recall the feeling of being blown away by the opening bass riff. thanks for rekindling the memory woodsy.:)

1981! Got to thank the late great John Peel for that. Used to listen to his show religiously about this time,and he played three songs of Movement album.Liked them,but not enough to buy them at the time......till I heard Temptation! Strange how tastes change. I listen to Movement cd the most regular!

1983, Melbourne.

Just received a new tape deck and was in my bedroom learning how to record tracks off the radio. 3XY - wonder if it still exists? Had the fingers on the buttons, heard the opening machine-gun beats and thought 'this sounds pretty ace'. Ripped it and played the bastard over and over and over and over again for weeks. Still remember my toddler sister bouncing on my bed to it, flying off and cracking her scone on the window sill.

Ah the memories.

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No idea where; must have heard a track from Movement in 81 or 82. Still have clear memory of buying PC&L when it came out.

As silly as it sounds,a school disco-the first one id been to,first year of high school. It was probavly 82. I remember thinking my mates and me looked cool,which if im right we probably didnt,but it was usual mix of stuff (Adam & The Ants,Blondie etc).

The record was Everythings Gone Green,i must have froze on the spot cos it really stood out from the rest of the music (which i didnt know much about) .

I asked the man playing the music (i`d never heard of a DJ back then) what it was about 10 minutes after it finished he was quite good considering i was hassling him,he played about 3 records and let me listen through headphones till i heard the right one.

He wrote it down and i nagged my mum to buy it for me for about 2 weeks. We had no record shops where i grew up,so i had to wait till we went into town.

Still had the same copy until about five years ago,but sadly it disappeared. I was gutted cos it was the first record i ever owned and i`d looked after it for nearly 25 years.