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

22/1/81 My bedroom, FAC33/12A "Ceremony" of course, remember thinking it wasn't a patch on the Joy Division version. Took me a long time to get into "Movement" too, thought Barney was doing a terrible job of vocals after Ian, but when "Temptation" (and the whole/rest of the "Mini-album") came out all was forgiven, totally blew me away, almost as much as "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (almost).

I'm really not sure of the date or which song or anything, only that it would have been when I was young and either in my dad's car or in the living room..... Hmmm thinking back I don't think dad had a tape player in that old car so must have been in the living room of the house where i grew up.:)

MIMX wrote: 22/1/81 My bedroom, FAC33/12A "Ceremony" of course, remember thinking it wasn't a patch on the Joy Division version.

You'd heard the JD version of Ceremony in January 81?

oldmonkey wrote:

MIMX wrote: 22/1/81 My bedroom, FAC33/12A "Ceremony" of course, remember thinking it wasn't a patch on the Joy Division version.

You'd heard the JD version of Ceremony in January 81?

Hmm.....must have been at Birmingham

It was an 18th birthday party in Wells, Somerset. The dj had been playing Adam and the Ants and The Beat, Martha and the Muffins, the usual party fare. Then he put on Ceremony, somebody came up to request it and then started moaning that he hadn't put the b-side on instead! Lots of 'wtf's' when it came on but once the drums started people just got on with it.... Didn't find out it was them till a couple of weeks later.

at home in my bedroom in front of the tv

i liked barney's voice and the band's nonchalant image

I heart 'Regret' on the radio back in 1993 and thought it was the greatest song I'd ever heard in my life (I still think so today) and went out and bought the cassingle (it was 1993). I then bought Republic shortly thereafter. The next year I bought their 'Best Of...' and put together that they were the same band who wrote BLT and True Faith. Best band ever.

In a airport in Rio de Janeiro/Brazil I was listening to my walkman(some local radio channel) it was 1988 and New Order were going to play in BraZil so they were playing BLT when I heard Bernard´s voice I melted...and still feel the same after all this years. I remember I record the song and heard that about 100 times...

oldmonkey wrote:

MIMX wrote: 22/1/81 My bedroom, FAC33/12A "Ceremony" of course, remember thinking it wasn't a patch on the Joy Division version.

You'd heard the JD version of Ceremony in January 81?

You never heard "Still"? Fact 40 1/8/81 1st Track side 3. Sure I'd heard it elsewhere before that though, Peel possibly? Definitely wasn't in Birmingham, never been in the place (although that is were Still version was recorded). Was totally hooked on Joy Division from the moment I first heard them. Couldn't believe it when I heard about Ian Curtis's death. Bought Movement straight away, but for a while I never thought I'd ever like New Order as much as Joy Division; and to be truthful I probably don't, but their still the best extant band on the planet!

In a shitty bar in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, one early afternoon in 1990. The MTV was on, I was sitting alone, drinking and watching the telly. Then all of a sudden, the Run video popped up. Halfway through the song they switched the channel - they always do, it's part of the conspiracy. Bit too late - I was converted already. This was the story of when and where I became a fan. I'd heard Blue Monday, LWTUA, True Faith, and maybe other stuff before that, but oddly enough, it was this particular occasion in 1990 that got me. Probably it just takes to be alone and bored and slightly tipsy for the magic to work, dunno.

just after leaving school 82, I was going out with a girl, Louise, her older brother, was at uni and left, in the family home, boxes of 7" singles, in here were some top tunes of that era including ceremony and temptation, played to death and never looked back....

El Jarvo wrote:

MIMX wrote:

oldmonkey wrote:

MIMX wrote: 22/1/81 My bedroom, FAC33/12A "Ceremony" of course, remember thinking it wasn't a patch on the Joy Division version.

You'd heard the JD version of Ceremony in January 81?

You never heard "Still"? Fact 40 1/8/81 1st Track side 3. Sure I'd heard it elsewhere before that though, Peel possibly? Definitely wasn't in Birmingham, never been in the place (although that is were Still version was recorded). Was totally hooked on Joy Division from the moment I first heard them. Couldn't believe it when I heard about Ian Curtis's death. Bought Movement straight away, but for a while I never thought I'd ever like New Order as much as Joy Division; and to be truthful I probably don't, but their still the best extant band on the planet!

Haven't you just answered yer own question there?!

You listened to Ceremony (by New Order) in January 1981, yet thought it wasn't a patch on Ceremony (by Joy Division) which was released on Still, as you've then rightly pointed out, much later in the year. Not convinced it was August, think it was even later than that.

Think Still was scheduled for August 81 but ended up coming out in the September of that year. There wasn't long between it and Movement, I do know that much.

I do know that the audience recording of the JD set at Birmingham High Hall didn't surface until after Still was released, possibly not until the start of 1982, so nobody had heard the full Ceremony from that gig.

I am prepared to wager that MIMX hadn't heard the JD version in January 1981!

I suppose that i was a child in 1989, it was RUN!

But In the 2000 I heard the song Brutal (Beach Movie Soundtrack) and since that single i lovethem!!

My grandmother's house, 1983. MTV was on and they played "Confusion." It was like nothing I heard before, which isn't saying much because I was only in third grade.

Aries wrote: My grandmother's house, 1983. MTV was on and they played "Confusion." It was like nothing I heard before, which isn't saying much because I was only in third grade.

Hey, I like Phil!

At a party, it was Blue Mnday, I'd heard it before on the radio, couldn't tell the difference between them, PSB or Noel....

The first time I heard Joy Division (knowingly, mind you) it was Transmission and it fuckin spooked me - I was actually afraid of that voice and that music. (I'm not a poof though. ) Unknowingly it was LWTUA and I really liked it - remember being surprised when I found out it was a JD track. Absolutely no idea where.

Oldmonkey said "I am prepared to wager that MIMX hadn't heard the JD version in January 1981!"

I'll take you up on that! What are you prepared to BET? Wager: ooh, la-di-da.:) OK, okay, you have me troubled: and I'll admit to being slightly disingenuous, "Ceremony" was the first New Order single I bought, on reflection I think "Dreams Never End" was the first song of theirs I'd heard, also in my bedroom; and definitely on Peel. I'd been a Joy Division fan for a few years beforehand and I'm still 90% certain I'd heard the original "Ceremony" before I heard the New Order "cover". I shall look into it (IE, where/when the hell did I first hear the Joy Division version) and get back to you on the subject. There is more at stake here than I'd care to admit to!

'Ceremony',The Summer of '81,I was 14,& it was on the radio in a park in Manchester.Vaguely knew who they were,& the story(it WAS Manchester),just remember the BASS! Was 'Hooked'(oh god!) to that sound & have been ever since

Probably listening to the radio in my bedroom as a 17 year old, when I heard True Faith sometime in August '87. I went out and bought Substance soon after.