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do any of you get a hard time for liking new order?
a recent chat with a few of my mates who are regulars at scotland games gave me the impression that new order are looked on as being a band you can't enjoy because of world in motion
i love the song myself
We've just made our own version of WIM. Such matters could never be an issue in my household, which comprises of a hibee, a chelski fan, one that supports who ever is winning, and a jamtart ! :D
but that's not what you were asking, sorry ... suppose Deek (the hibee) isn't too keen on the track but it doesn't stop him liking NO.
oddly enough...I've got 3 16 in...and WIFM is on right now...
and as far as getting a hard time for liking the order here in the States...well, nobody over here knows who the fuck they are...so it doesn't happen!
It was NO third biggest hit in Germany after BM and TF. I think, nobody in Germany has problems with the song. I would like it to see it live.
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: nobody over here knows who the fuck they are...so it doesn't happen!
Maybe nobody in Texas knows who they are. :)
It's not much better in the northeast though. Here they're just the band that did BM and BLT.
Aries wrote:
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: nobody over here knows who the fuck they are...so it doesn't happen!
Maybe nobody in Texas knows who they are. :)
It's not much better in the northeast though. Here they're just the band that did BM and BLT.
Same here + True Faith.
We know different though 
I get a tremendous amount of stick for liking New Order here in the States... primarily because they are seen as a "girls band" and even worse an outdated "girls band" from the 1980's...
I've had many an arguement with people about how influential they are and at this point I've actually stopped arguing... if they don't like them, their loss...
I'd love to send some Vikings around to some of the people who say "Only girls like New Order" and see what comes of it...
In my part of the states, Columbus Ohio, New Order are considered to be a very important ann influential alternative band. Being under 30 and liking New Order means you are intelligent, hip, and you know your shit about music.
Zachery Starkey wrote: In my part of the states, Columbus Ohio, New Order are considered to be a very important ann influential alternative band. Being under 30 and liking New Order means you are intelligent, hip, and you know your shit about music.
Couldn't agree more
Those who know indie or dance music respect New Order... to the rest New Order is a non-entity, but then fvck their opinion anyway
Back in the late 80s-early 90s New Order was known to many ignorant people in the USA as a Depeche Mode wannabe like band that wasn't nearly as good as the DM... i remember the lame Depeche Mode fan posers with much distaste. Of course in the 80s, to average mainstream American college kids New Order was dismissed as "fag" music...
Kerry Harris wrote:
I'd love to send some Vikings around to some of the people who say "Only girls like New Order" and see what comes of it...
Jesus ,
Luckily for me my friends in high school were big fans of New Order. This was in the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia. Now I live in Colorado and I've only met a couple people who've ever heard of them and they both think they "f*cking rock!" and they're both women.
I make my boss listen to NO at work and she's always bitchen about how it's "always the same beat" and she calls them "techno music." 
Whenever she says that, I put on Confusion - Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix and turn it up. 
I put up the NO album covers poster in my office and my boss likes that one after I explained to her who Peter Saville was and the NO link. Her and myself make up the entire graphics department for our company. New Order is essential in this line of work!
Aries wrote:
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: nobody over here knows who the fuck they are...so it doesn't happen!
Maybe nobody in Texas knows who they are. :)
It's not much better in the northeast though. Here they're just the band that did BM and BLT.
Or else, they're just thought of as a gay club band. I remember in a fiction class I took in college two years ago. I had a character with ambiguous sexuality listening to NO in one scene. When it was getting critiqued in class, one of my classmates said, "Of course he's gay. He's listening to New Order, a gay band."
And I think Digi Mike might have crossed my mind at that moment, but I'm not so sure.
many moons ago i got into a fight for dancing along to the original Blue Monday film clip. cunts thought we were nancy boys. ah well they got their just deserts.
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Aries wrote:
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: nobody over here knows who the fuck they are...so it doesn't happen!
Maybe nobody in Texas knows who they are. :)
It's not much better in the northeast though. Here they're just the band that did BM and BLT.
I remember in a fiction class I took in college two years ago. I had a character with ambiguous sexuality listening to NO in one scene. When it was getting critiqued in class, one of my classmates said, "Of course he's gay. He's listening to New Order, a gay band."
"Ambiguous"? With a quick flip of his hair, Sam reached across toward the stereo and rotated the volume knob. During this same action, a now-flaccid knob of another variety slipped from his mouth, having just deposited a frothy liquor in the back of his throat, the pearly globules tasting of mouldy tuna and chocolate as they dripped from uvula to tongue. Tucking his cock back in his pants, the stranger inquired about the music, taking a swift glance at the Cure posters on the wall. "This is New Order," replied Sam. "A song called World in Motion."The stranger grimaced slightly and pronounced his disdain: "This shit is for fags."
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This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote:
Aries wrote:
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: nobody over here knows who the fuck they are...so it doesn't happen!
Maybe nobody in Texas knows who they are. :)
It's not much better in the northeast though. Here they're just the band that did BM and BLT.
I remember in a fiction class I took in college two years ago. I had a character with ambiguous sexuality listening to NO in one scene. When it was getting critiqued in class, one of my classmates said, "Of course he's gay. He's listening to New Order, a gay band."
"Ambiguous"? With a quick flip of his hair, Sam reached across toward the stereo and rotated the volume knob. During this same action, a now-flaccid knob of another variety slipped from his mouth, having just deposited a frothy liquor in the back of his throat, the pearly globules tasting of mouldy tuna and chocolate as they dripped from uvula to tongue. Tucking his cock back in his pants, the stranger inquired about the music, taking a swift glance at the Cure posters on the wall. "This is New Order," replied Sam. "A song called World in Motion."The stranger grimaced slightly and pronounced his disdain: "This shit is for fags."
I didn't submit a soft-core gay porn story to my fiction class.
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote:
His Holiness, The Pope wrote:
This blue-eyed boy that wants to be wrote:
Aries wrote:
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: nobody over here knows who the fuck they are...so it doesn't happen!
Maybe nobody in Texas knows who they are. :)
It's not much better in the northeast though. Here they're just the band that did BM and BLT.
I remember in a fiction class I took in college two years ago. I had a character with ambiguous sexuality listening to NO in one scene. When it was getting critiqued in class, one of my classmates said, "Of course he's gay. He's listening to New Order, a gay band."
"Ambiguous"? With a quick flip of his hair, Sam reached across toward the stereo and rotated the volume knob. During this same action, a now-flaccid knob of another variety slipped from his mouth, having just deposited a frothy liquor in the back of his throat, the pearly globules tasting of mouldy tuna and chocolate as they dripped from uvula to tongue. Tucking his cock back in his pants, the stranger inquired about the music, taking a swift glance at the Cure posters on the wall. "This is New Order," replied Sam. "A song called World in Motion."The stranger grimaced slightly and pronounced his disdain: "This shit is for fags."
I didn't submit a soft-core gay porn story to my fiction class.
Well, by god, you should've!
Kerry Harris wrote: I get a tremendous amount of stick for liking New Order here in the States... primarily because they are seen as a "girls band" and even worse an outdated "girls band" from the 1980's...
I've had many an arguement with people about how influential they are and at this point I've actually stopped arguing... if they don't like them, their loss...
I'd love to send some Vikings around to some of the people who say "Only girls like New Order" and see what comes of it...
Pair of loud headphones and that demo version of Failures off the Heart and soul compilation should fix that.
bobmo wrote: do any of you get a hard time for liking new order?
Nah. You just scare the doubters away by constantly going on about the band. 
Here in Belgium it's still ok to like JD, but NO are regarded here as an inferior version of Depeche Mode or The Cure (both very popular bands here !), it seems, and Blue Monday is the only song people really know over here.
i remember talking about this a couple of days ago with members of the Argie Order. that after all those years of literal loneliness in school, university, etc. where everyone would come to you and ask you "New what? What do they play?", sharing last November´s concert with other 25K fans was at least strange. not even on my weirdest dreams i would have thought of an NO argie concert with so many people attending. here in Arg it was the coolest thing to say you were a JD fan in the 80s, most of the local bands were influenced by them but they didn´t know NO. on the early 90s saying that you were a NO fan was the same as saying you were an Erasure fan but they didn´t know about JD! today is quite cool that you like both bands, it´s like you´re respected or something. 
mrgreen71 wrote: Here in Belgium it's still ok to like JD, but NO are regarded here as an inferior version of Depeche Mode or The Cure (both very popular bands here !), it seems, and Blue Monday is the only song people really know over here.
The same here, Nobody knows New Order and less Joy Division. i've known just like 3 people who care NO/JD music!
well some of my friends are starting to get into it! :\ohwell:
Doctor? wrote: that demo version of Failures off the Heart and soul compilation
Demo version? 
Not on my box-set! Only the Ideal For Living version.
Well, here in the States [or at least in my end of town, in DeLand] New Order is very much admired and respected. My coworkers love the mix c.d.s I put together of New Order and Joy Division that I bring to work sometimes [especially when I need an extra boost, 'cause let's face it--drive-thru can be a wear-out task force!], and even my store manager thinks I'm crazy to be a fan-girly goth/punk girl.
I am an American that is not ashamed to say New Order rules my world. ['Cause they and Joy Division are the soundtrack to my life. Yes!]
Nobody has ever given me any shit about liking New Order. I'd punch 'em out if they did.
The people I work with don't know who they are, but they all sing along to Bizarre Love Triangle when it's on the radio in the office.
bobmo wrote: do any of you get a hard time for liking new order?
a recent chat with a few of my mates who are regulars at scotland games gave me the impression that new order are looked on as being a band you can't enjoy because of world in motion
i love the song myself
You're not allowed to enjoy them 'cos of one song?!
Fuck me,there's some seriously narrow-minded,sad fookers out there isn't there! Apart from it being a very untypical N.O. song anyway,it's the best footie song ever,& the coolest.Mind you,I've heard of the same 'cos of BM. 
Anyway,if you get shit,fook 'em.Feel your own individual pride for being a fan of one of the best,coolest,influential & respected & admired bands in the world.So there
Dont get a hard time for liking them,but i think in the UK dance music has had such a massive effect over the past 20 years that people kind of go,"oh an 80s band how retro..."
Maybe im getting old,but i get the impression that hardly anyone under 20 likes anything other than the latest dance music.
Steve One wrote: Maybe im getting old,but i get the impression that hardly anyone under 20 likes anything other than the latest dance music.
I actually always get the impression that hardly anyone under 20 likes anything other than the latest geetar music.
You know, general twee Indie shite. I mean, the Killers did matinee shows in Londinium last year for their younger fans!
They only people who give me problems are people who are slightly older than me. I was in junior high when I started to like New Order. Other than that, no one knows what I'm talking about. *smile*
bobmo wrote: do any of you get a hard time for liking new order?
a recent chat with a few of my mates who are regulars at scotland games gave me the impression that new order are looked on as being a band you can't enjoy because of world in motion
I don't have a hard time liking NO for that song... but to be honest I do enjoy it simply coz Argentineans get to the finals for that World Cup. 
Well, at least on that World Cup.... 
Daytrippera wrote:
bobmo wrote: do any of you get a hard time for liking new order?
a recent chat with a few of my mates who are regulars at scotland games gave me the impression that new order are looked on as being a band you can't enjoy because of world in motion
I don't have a hard time liking NO for that song... but to be honest I do enjoy it simply coz Argentineans get to the finals for that World Cup.
Well, at least on that World Cup....
Not by cheating that time either..
I am the only New Order fan in my country,I think :\ohwell:
Most people I know think they're pretty cool. I don't think I know anybody who 'hates' them.
I have no friends, no relatives, no colleagues, no neighbours who even KNOW New Order.
Musically I live in a very lonely place.
I'm just glad Mari en Geri post on this forum too so I know there are at least two other big fans of New Order in Holland.
hi...i'm Darren & very sexy & i'm Welsh.I'm 38,male & looking 4 sexy female friends...Big Clive need not apply.
Here in France we have two types of NO fans: hardcore ones who'd been following them for years (at least mid-eighties) and new ones who discovered NO with 'Get Ready'. And of course they don't sell much down here (maybe apart from 'Republic' ?). Personnaly I've never had a hard time because of my liking JD/NO :D
No movement, no colors, just silence... wrote: I have no friends, no relatives, no colleagues, no neighbours who even KNOW New Order.
I'm just glad Mari en Geri post on this forum too so I know there are at least two other big fans of New Order in Holland.
Aww! But I know how it feels 
My current colleagues have no idea who they are, neither does my family. Some of my friends know them, but that's because they're musicfanatics like myself.
Funny thing though, I mentioned at job interviews ("So what are your hobbies...") that I love music, giving New Order as an example of my taste, and twice already, the interviewers started nodding and smiling with appreciation.
Didn't get me the job, though.:\ohwell:
