First memory of New Order

In 2001, hearing Crystal a few times on a french radio station and thinking "this song is excellent!"

Cut to 2004. Watching an awesome video featuring Elegia and thinking "New Order ? Heard that name before". Then I went to a local disc seller and I remember being disappointed by BLT and TPK, thinking "what are these cheapy-gay rythms ?".

2006, buying Substance and thinking "I was a real dumbass two years ago".

I'm quite a newcomer in NO's fanbase...

I bought my big sister Erin the tape of "Substance" in 1987 as a christmas present. She eventually lost the tape (it ended up in the library of our dad's DJ company-I still have it somewhere)Erin warped another copy, ran over yet ANOTHER with her car!! I got Substance the 2cd for sis about 2 years ago at Xmas and told Erin if she ever killed it, it was up to her to get a new one!

I was into other stuff at the time. Def Leppard, Tesla, old Metallica. REM, U2 etc. I got into New Order when I worked at a record store 4 years ago. I had burned out of Grad School and was getting over six months of deep depression. The new music kids listened to just sucked. So I re-bought Def Leppard & dug up my Niravna I had not heard in years.

So Long day I learn of Joy Divison and their link to New Order. JD was dark and unique. As I was accepting I was queer-it was a comfort. New Order jhelped bring back happy memeories of my childhood that I had buried for a long time.

MTV in March or April of 1994 when I was 13; Frente! had a little hit with "Bizarre Love Triangle" and Kennedy the VJ said something about Frente! making a good living doing New Order songs -- and then a few weeks later they did a "Guide to Alternative Music" countdown in which they played the NO "BLT" video and I realized what this song was. (I learned about a bunch of other groups and people with that countdown; I'd never heard "Enjoy the Silence" or "Just Like Heaven," for example.)

I guess I had no idea at the time that British musicians made dance music and found that really mysterious. (Again, I was 13. And I liked Aerosmith.) And the "BLT" video was also mysterious with all that stuff flying everywhere and the "I don't believe in reincarnation" tidbit.

Anyway, I was one of the kids from what was probably the Frente! wave of new New Order fans.

Music truly is universal! N.O. fans liking Def Leppard & Aerosmith! I bow down to your musical open-mindedness! (Mind you,I like The Carpenters....)

I was a little over 12 years old at the time. Top of the Pops was on telly, not really paying attention until the presenter announced a debut live performance (very rare on TOTP back then) by a band called New Order playing Blue Monday. I took notice because it was live. I took even more notice because of the awful flatness of Barney's singing, their apparent discomfort/awkwardness on stage and of course THAT intro.

I was hooked!

When i first listened to my brother's Republic about four years ago. I heard Regret and instantly remembered about the TOTP vid with the Hoff.

And that was the beginning of my love of NO...

My first memory of NO is when i heard there first single ,i was a fan of Joy Division and when Ian died i heard they were carriyng on as NO they were great memories back in the eraly eighties and have been hooked on them.

Hearing Ceremony on the late Sunday afternoon Top Forty show on Radio One.

I didn't become a real fan until I heard The Perfect Kiss though...

the Carpenters? good god.

oh...but then again, I WAS and REMAIN the quintessential ThreeDogNight fan since 1969. In the mid eighties they reformed for two minutes and put out an EP called 'It's a Jungle' which I bought on the very same day that I found the Black Cover original Confusion 12". The sales clerk looked at the three dog night 12" and then at the New ORder 12" and said to me.."are you sure you know what this is?" That, of course, further embarassed me (3DN was shunned by 99% of the world from 74 onward)..but I chinned up and said I knew exactly what that is.

the 3DN ep sucked, of course. But the Confusion 12" was wonderful...but you all know that.

Rollerskating to "True Faith." Or more than likely, hiding in a dark corner at the rink, listening to it and thinking, "I hate everyone." *smirk*

First memory of New Order; listening to True Faith on the car radio in 1987. First memory of Peter Hook; sitting behind him in class on the first day at grammar school in 1967.

I guess Blue Monday was when I first noticed New Order. I think I was about 17 and had a Saturday job in Woolworths (which I hated) and they kept playing Blue Monday over and over at the music counter.

I didn't really take much notice of NO until Substance 1987. My brother taped it for me and I thought it was the most briliant thing I'd ever heard. I played it over and over until the tape broke.

Melanie Major wrote: I guess Blue Monday was when I first noticed New Order. I think I was about 17 and had a Saturday job in Woolworths (which I hated) and they kept playing Blue Monday over and over at the music counter.

I didn't really take much notice of NO until Substance 1987. My brother taped it for me and I thought it was the most briliant thing I'd ever heard. I played it over and over until the tape broke.

Actually...........most of my first memories of NO are of tapes made for me for when i was really young, and yeah, they did wear out and break!

Weird!

Hi!

(i was 11 )

Funny you should say that Bonz, cos all my BEST memories of No revolve around dodgy as fuck tapes bought from dodgy as fuck live tape geezers at record fairs. I would traipse half way accross NI with only enough money for the train, the entrance fee and one tape, then RUSH home to hear it.....hearing it usually meant listening to the intros and outros to hear if barney said owt stupid and to generally guage he mightiness of the performance.

Dodgy TDK D90's eh?

Ear-food of the Gods.

I always recall my first memory of them being the TOTP performance of Blue Monday in MARCH 1983.And the couple of years after that buying and getting to know their back catologue + countless live bootleg tapes

But i've since been corrected on that by people on this site and apparently i only discovered the band in the past year or so.Sorry,THEY must be right then.Apoligies for my lapse of memory.HAPPY DAYS EH?

Classic one, Johnny.

Saw 24 Hour Party People in 2002. Was transfixed by the whole JD story, and got UP and Closer. Only listened to them three times.

2004: Saw True Faith on MTV2 as part of their 50 most influential bands or something (NO were 40 something) Loved the song, and remembered them being mentioned in 24HPP.

Like several others, I was sitting having my tea one Thursday evening in 1983 when New Order came on TOTP, did Blue Monday and blew my adolescent mind. They performed it live and instead of bouncing about like fools, they took the, at the time, revolutionary step of looking cool, as if they couldn't care less about being there. Of course, the fact that they insisted on doing it live would suggest that they were very bothered. I instantly knew that this band were the fucking future so rushed into John Menzies and bought PCL the next lunchtime; imagine my horror when I got home and realised Blue Monday wasn't even on it! Peter Saville designs were beyond my understanding at the age of 12 and I'd only known it was NO thanks to a handy sticker. Having just spunked my savings on the album, I had to suffer the agonising wait of saving up enough to buy the 12". Shit, I'm going on a bit here...............

Listening to Blue Monday on the radio in the mid 80's

Probably heard Blue Monday first but wasn´t hooked there. Then hearing The Kiss of Death (Perfect Kiss) in a local Freestyle Dance contest and the winnig team of 4 girls was using that song. The song accompanied the girls very well. Bit weird, but Perfect Kiss, Kiss of Death was just the coolest song ever, with the extended metal guitar (synth riff) at the end and the frog chorus. Not to mention the almost orgasm female vocals at the end.

A family friend bringing Substance on tape over before I started high school in 1987 and talking about this band that doesn't appear on the cover of their albums(maybe he wasn't aware of Low-Life). His stories about the band were golden, I was sold on New Order even before listening to them. After listening I was a memeber for life!!

Remember seeing the video clip for Bizzare Love Triangle on tv when it was in the charts and amazed not only by the song but also all those people falling from the sky ... and the way it stopped halfway through for the asian girl scene and the 'your a really up person' bit .... Was only a 9 year old but saved up all my money each week to buy the back catalogue ....

My cousin's Substance tape and my old hi-fi at my old house at the beach in 1987.

my sister bought power corruption & lies only 2 find out that blue monday were'nt on it,so she gave me the album 2 me.thanx sis.

Hola!

Well, I'm only 25, but my older cousin used to come over all the time and we'd listen to the radio, watch MTV (as she had a big crush on the Duran Duran guys, it seemed most of the time she would just wait for something from them. Torturing me in the process of endless rants of how she wanted to be Mrs. Simon LeBon and other sick fantasies I didn't wanna hear.. ). Anyways, this must have been around the time "Bizarre Love Triangle" had just come out, and we were waiting for a stupid Duran Duran request she made over the radio, and I remember hearing "BLT" and being totally blown away by it. I'd heard it before, but this was the first time I really had listened to it.. and it had a big impact on my little ears. I asked my cousin who they were and she said "Oh that's that weird band New Order. They're no Duran, though". or some shit like that. She still argues with me that Duran Duran is better than NO. (ahh she can go to hell, lol)

I'd heard their stuff before, but didn't know who it was. So, that was my first 'real', official New Order memory, and where I actually knew who they were.

Silly, boring story, I know. lol.

CuanaD - D-plus wrote: 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:(

... I got that issue too! I also remember Neil Tennant as one of the few reviewers who liked 'Movement'.

Papa Bendi wrote: When i first listened to my brother's Republic about four years ago. I heard Regret and instantly remembered about the TOTP vid with the Hoff.

And that was the beginning of my love of NO...

The Hoff? Sure man, no hassle!!!

When my older Sis brought home Blue Monday, she played it to death. I loved it.

The "True faith" video.