First memory of New Order
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hearing BLT in Club Atlantis many years ago.
they also had a pretty good new order mega-mix in Club A too.
hearing Thieves Like Us on local college radio in 1984.
went out and bought the 12", then the rest of their small catalog in the next few weeks, then a few months later the record store owner explained to me that they were once Joy Division, when I wondered if there were any lps before Movement....
pandora's box!
Technically, it's watcing the True Faith video on MTV circa 1986. My first memory where I knew it was NO is in the car with my buddy, hearing Blue Monday on the radio (Toronto radio station!) on the way to the bars.
Reading an interview with GGilbert in Smash Hits in 1982 - probably not long after the release of Temptation, but I hadn't heard any of their stuff then. Thats when I realised that I new a Joy Division song (LWTUA of course) & I was on the look out for any of their tracks from then on. They didn't get played on any radio stations I got to listen to (& as a 13-14 year old at the time I wasn't going to any clubs where they could be heard - they used to call them 'discos' in those days :D ) so it was 1983 & the release of BM before I finally heard a proper NO track - on BBC mw the chart show on a Tuesday at lunchtime I think. At that stage I already knew the names of various songs (Temptation & EGG & Procession anyway) from the Indie Charts published in Smash Hits, but that was all:(
First bad memory: seeing/hearing True Faith for the first time in my life (first time I was aware of the band as well and that was in 1987), thinking 'this is rubbish' 
First good memory (I guess): crying with joy to Ruined in a day but I think it was earlier actually when I decided I'm gonna love this band forever :shy:
Have to be careful what I say as this might be about someone that reads this...
I was at my mates house years ago and this guy from school turned up. We all knew this lad as a bit of a headcase and we were all very wary of him. We were all a bit stoned and the radio was on but we weren't really listening to it. One by one we all stopped talking and started paying attention to the song that was being played. It was Atmosphere.
At the end of the song we all looked at one another and, as stoned teenagers do, discussed the song in awed tones. I'd never heard it before, which seems incredible now, but a couple of the lads knew of it and they were talking about Joy Division and Ian Curtis and so on. Then we noticed that the headcase from school was quietly crying.
The whole thing rattled me a bit and I avoided Joy Division and New Order for a few years. I felt intimidated by the intensity of it all.
I'm over it now, like 
Diamond White wrote: Have to be careful what I say as this might be about someone that reads this...
I was at my mates house years ago and this guy from school turned up. We all knew this lad as a bit of a headcase and we were all very wary of him. We were all a bit stoned and the radio was on but we weren't really listening to it. One by one we all stopped talking and started paying attention to the song that was being played. It was Atmosphere.
At the end of the song we all looked at one another and, as stoned teenagers do, discussed the song in awed tones. I'd never heard it before, which seems incredible now, but a couple of the lads knew of it and they were talking about Joy Division and Ian Curtis and so on. Then we noticed that the headcase from school was quietly crying.
The whole thing rattled me a bit and I avoided Joy Division and New Order for a few years. I felt intimidated by the intensity of it all.
I'm over it now, like
Are you saying you have to be a head case to like Joy Division? 
By the way, who's the head case? You can tell me, I won't tell anyone.
Shellshocker wrote:
Are you saying you have to be a head case to like Joy Division?
It helps.
Getting the Shellshock 7" when I was 7 years old and preferring the Thieves Like Us Instrumental Edit.
Someone at college used to be mad on JD and I'd never heard of them before he started scrawling their name on the blackboard.Used to wear the obligatory trenchcoat too. First memory of New Order was hearing them for the first time on the John Peel show,who was playing tracks of their new album MOVEMENT.Played about 4 songs of it. As you would when you're young,you tape a lot of stuff off radio,I wasn't mad on it,but I liked anything electronic at the time.Absolutely love Movement now,production's great.
Hearing BM at a youthclub disco and thinking it was Hazel Dean. I asked the DJ eventually and he said "that's Blue monday by a band called new order, I only play it cos it drives the lights mad". I spent WEEKS looking for it before I asked and was handed the odd floppy disc thing I had been flicking past all those weeks.
Probably seeing Substance in WH Smiths or Woolworths and thinking how cool and different the sleeve was... Then heard True Faith and was sold...
Snorri xxx
it was one of the most inspirational days of my life .hands down.
it was a mixture of these rather clever emot-icons
and this one as well
(it translates to "SHIT MAN")
I think it was hearing Confusion as the theme for the Rockline program presented by Bernard Lenoir in Les Enfants Du Rock on French tele in the 80's. I didn't know the title, only that it was a New Order track, so I bought all their 12' :p
the same as in this thread: where were you the first time you heard a NO song?
http://neworderonline.com/Forums/MessageList.aspx?ThreadID=32405
Absolutely no memory of when I first heard / heard of New Order, probably NME. But distinctly remember hearing Atmosphere on John Peel's show for the first time and thinking it was laughably poor and Curtis couldn't sing for toffee. I mean, I thought it was just pure unadulterated SHITE.
Funny the things you remember.
Opinions have swung somewhat since though.
Hearing Ceremony in a park in Manchester in the Summer of '81,just remember the soaring bassline.The end of the 1st version still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.Also remember,when actually found it who it was,that 'they're that band that used to be someone else but their singer killed himself'..said at the time.It was a big deal in Manchester at the time,it had a 'buzz'.But I let them come & go,& got into Ratio 1st...& then Blue Monday came along........ 
most likely it was shellshock, when my friends and i used to listen to the pretty in pink soundtrack (crack for girls at that time). my first real memory of NO was when this group of girls did a dance routine to BM at our middle school talent show around 1986-1987. i thought i had reached nirvana...although i have since changed my mind. it wasn't until true faith that i discovered the real beauty of new order.
I had gotten into Joy Division by some indie kid friends and was looking up info on them one day while bored and somewhere in the info it said that after Ian Curtis died the other members became New Order, the band that did "Blue Monday."
I thought, "Blue Monday? The song Orgy covered several years ago?" I remembered liking that song when I was in 7th Grade, so I thought I'd give the original a listen to see what it was like. Turned out it was amazing, better than the cover, and I couldn't stop listening!
It was in the late 80's, early 90's...I was between the ages of 8 and 12...I remember hearing "True Faith"( is that what it is called, I can hear the song...) I didn't know the name of the band until the mid-90's. I didn't know about Joy Division until mid-'02. I always thought New Order had unique music. Hearing the transformation from Joy Division to New Order, you know, not totally losing the jd sound, but turning into this brilliant sound...
I bought CLOSER in 1981 after reading a review of it that made it sound like it was right up my alley. It was, in a way, but after maybe 10 listens, I found that I COULDN"T listen to it anymore...and I never went back to it. I cant explain that.
didnt see any press about Curtis' death or New Order forming...
cut to late 1983 and I'm in a record store in downtown WashDC lookin thru 12" bins to see whats new and came across the origianl 12" import of Blue Monday...I was very intrigued by the cover, and the guy working at the store recommended it...I bought it, and the rest is predictable...I havent let NO out of my sight since. I still have that original copy, but it's not in too good a shape,,,,
