When and how did you get into New Order?

I liked anything electronic between 1980-1981,I hadn't heard owt of Joy Division till LWTUA got in the charts.John Peel played a session of New Order playing stuff off Movement,liked it though a bit doomy for me at time.Now I love that album. Got to be TEMPTATION that got me into them,and LOWLIFE got me out of my seat to see them live at HACIENDA. First gig I ever went to that didn't have seats.There was the APOLLO at the time,which if you weren't lucky enough to have got in the two front row seats,you couldn.t get up towards the stage. Went to see them 84/85 and a couple of pints over the road at ROWETTA's dad's pub The City Road Arms,and got in.Was crushed against the stage,and TONY WILSON (bless him) came out and said "Everyone get back get back...they're a bunch of ugly bastards anyway!"

WON ME OVER!

i SAW joy division ON TELLY IN THE LATE 70's when i had a job and i had thought they could be as big as LED ZEPPLIN whom i was into at that time.So i bought a duster and the rest is bloody pathetic.I blame my pretend parents.

In high school in '86. First 'Low-Life' then 'Substance' and I'm still hook(y)ed

A local radio station used to have a late night show dedicated to 12" mixes ('The Extended Hour') which was quite unusual back then for a commercial station. Anyway, heard BLT on that, bought the 12" the next day and was hooked.

1987, Substance, I was 16 and just getting interested in music, although I hated True Faith which was getting loads of radio and TV play. Then in 1988, college lecturer into music gave me a bunch of tapes. One was the gig from Tolworth 1983, which blew me away and still does!

The Village wrote: For me it was about 4 months ago. My sister is a fan of The Cure and one day she was looking on this web site that listed songs that sound like Cure songs. Blue Monday was one of them so we looked it up on YouTube. At that point I wasn't thinking much of it. A month or two later a friend told me about Pandora, an online radio ...Blue Monday came on and so I said I like it so they played more. Then came The Perfect Kiss, Age Of Consent, 1963 and lots more.

How and when did you get into New Order?

It wasn't Blue Monday that got me crazy about New Order. It was The Perfect Kiss. I listened to that one ten times a day.

about 10 years ago or so i read somewhere about this blue monday thing, influential and historic etc. got best of from the library and wasn't that impressed.

fast forward to about 7 years ago. i wanted to hear the original bm and get this blt thing i heard on the alternative station. so i went down to best buy and got substance. since then i must have listened to it like 1000 times. my favorites at that point were blt and pk, and then bm. after that i picked up technique used and that was my favorite album that summer.

this year i got republic used and get ready used on record store day. now with the re-rereleases i am getting into the classics starting with movement. while i was waiting for that i nabbed a best of for only $2.99. my favorites these days are the singles from e.g.g. to bm including b-sides. procession is my favorite n.o. song, really underrated. without substance i never would have heard it.

I used to listen to New Order when I was a little kid on my older's boom box, I used to be mesmerized by "The Beach", but I did not really get into New Order until 1998 after being a Joy Division fan for 2 years. I used to listen to Substance from top to bottom & then I collected the most of the vinyls up until Technique, with the last New Order vinyls I bought being Run 12" & Here to Stay 12"

Well, I had heard Blue Monday and Bizzare Love Triangle before but never really knew anything about the band. Then, about two years ago, my roomate showed me 24 Hour Party People and I was really fascinated by the story of Joy Division. Shortly after that a friend of mine purchased both the Joy Division and New Order Substance compilations on vinyl, and I still remember him throwing New Order's on the record player and hearing Ceremony for the first time. I just fell in love right there, pretty much. I hadn't heard anything quite like it before and from then on I just listened to more and more of their music until I absorbed most of it. Today Joy Division and New Order are among my top four favorite bands (the others being The Clash and My Bloody Valentine) and I know I will always be listening to their music to some extent for the rest of my life. It just sucks that I became a fan pretty much right when they broke up. But I eagerly await both the Freebass and Bad Lieutenant albums.

When I bought an LP and put it on the record player:\ohwell:

Actually it was True Faith August 1987. Loved the song and the video. Then got a cassette recording of my mates Substance 87 LP. I loved it apart from the first 3 tracks. It wasnt till about 3 years later I liked these (mad I know). I bought Technique on LP, then with CD player purchase bought Substance, Low-Life, PC&L, Brotherhood, Technique, Republic, Get Ready, Movement on CD (I think)

For me, it all began in 1981. My (then) favorite radio show did a Joy Division/New Order special, celebrating, I think, the Still/Movement releases. I was both inspired by Ian Curtis' story and the amazing music the show's DJ played. "Decades" and "EGG", if I remember correctly, were stuck in my head for the following weeks... Ever since then, I remember vividly all kinds of stuff:

Being in a mate's house, listening to his brand new "Blue monday" 12"...

Buying "Low life", my FIRST New Order record... wich cost my entire allowance for that month!

Waiting THREE BLOODY MONTHS for my copy of PCL (it was an import that took ages to arrive, in those Amazon-less days!)...

Buying "Brotherhood" in a chance visit to my favorite record shop, thinking "at last it arrived" and... realising when I saw the nameless sleeve that the bloody record had been in the store window for the last two weeks without me realizing what it was!

Doing a mix tape with Low-life on side A and PCL on side B for my then girlfriend... and being told, many years after, that she still has the tape!

And last but not least, finding NOOL and realizing I was not alone!

Bought Technique on cassette in 1990 because the cover looked interesting.

A friend who worked the counter at an indie record shop played me the full 12" version of The Perfect Kiss on the day they got it in. I was 14. I liked it but I didn't buy it. About 18 months later I was watching MTV (November 1986) and saw the video for Bizarre Love Triangle. I went out the next day and bought Brotherhood on cassette (fun fact - I bought Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Liverpool too, which I think is superior to Welcome To The Pleasuredome). Brotherhood didn't leave my sight for months. A friend at school had the PC&L and Lowlife cassettes, which he loaned me. Then came True Faith and Substance right at the start of my senior year of high school.

At the time, a CD imported from the UK would run about $20. I bought the UK versions anyway because the artwork looked nicer and didn't have any text added to the front. They also came with these nifty little extra sleeves for carrying the CD in your car.

I didn't know anything at all about Joy Division until their Substance compilation was released in 1988. That was a revelation. I fell in love with two very different bands who just happened to share most of the same members.

I've been a hardcore collector ever since.

It was 1988, I was 15 years old and heard Blue Monday on Radio 1. At the time I liked House music, and I thought BM sounded kind of house'y, but like a proper band. So I bought Substance and they became my favourite band of all time!

Now I'm going to shamelessly plug the latest track "Slow Kids" from my new album. Can you spot the New Order sound? The track features looping granular samples from Low Life (in particular Subculture) giving it an early-80s feel: slowkids.mp3

Cheers, Robbie www.towersofasia.com

Got drunk, had sex with a NO obsessive in Jan 93 left with no choice!

lucyjane wrote: Got drunk, had sex with a NO obsessive in Jan 93 left with no choice!

And they say romance is dead.

Now then Fradders, you know us both, Romance????!!!

lucyjane wrote: Now then Fradders, you know us both, Romance????!!!

It'd make a good erotic thriller though: substance abuse, torrid sex, obsession, intoxication of many kinds....all with a great soundtrack.

I always saw you as the sort to keep an icepick under the bed, LJ. Y'know, to prod Jimbo when he falls asleep with the light on while reading "Bird-Watching Monthly".

Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote:

lucyjane wrote: Now then Fradders, you know us both, Romance????!!!

It'd make a good erotic thriller though: substance abuse, torrid sex, obsession, intoxication of many kinds....all with a great soundtrack.

I always saw you as the sort to keep an icepick under the bed, LJ. Y'know, to prod Jimbo when he falls asleep with the light on while reading "Bird-Watching Monthly".

They say romance is dead..

Imagine someone prepared to sit in a scuzzy carpark for a few hours to allow their partner to get off on it

Now I think about it, though BLT was the first 12" I bought by NO, my first memory of NO was hearing the extended mix of Shellshock on an Aussie compilation called 1986: Just for Kicks. Used to listen to that over and over on my swanky new Walkman and remember being dazzled by the panning effects. Later my cousin lent me Substance on vinyl. Happy days :)

from JD to NO natural progression. However, I still remember being transfixed when I first heard Ceremony 7" being played on one of those portable record players in my form room at school and a friend showing me the cover.

This sums up my story.

http://fuckyeahbluemonday.tumblr.com/post/150933863/factus-10

AngryRobot wrote: This sums up my story.

http://fuckyeahbluemonday.tumblr.com/post/150933863/factus-10

School bus home, summer of 1987. Every single day for what seemed like months they'd play 'True Faith' on Radio 1. (Never in the mornings, though. Steve Wright must have really liked it.) Didn't know (or care) who it was, but I knew I liked it. To this day, "True Faith" - and Talking Heads' "Road to Nowhere" - remind me of the B5415 on sunny days.

When "Blue Monday '88" came out, I liked that too. Someone in the Sixth Form lent me "Substance" and I belatedly made the connection. I was into Sigue Sigue Sputnik at that point.

Quite boring, really. No sex in my story. Just a scabby old bus, a tinny medium wave radio and sweaty polyester shirts. Very British, really. Is it time for tea yet?

Tommy Vance played The Beach by mistake instead of Blue Monday on the Radio 1 Top 40 rundown in April 1983.I was listening in the loo! I was hooked then

ShugZV wrote:

Clayhead Liberation Faction wrote: School bus home, summer of 1987. Every single day for what seemed like months they'd play 'True Faith' on Radio 1. (Never in the mornings, though. Steve Wright must have really liked it.) Didn't know (or care) who it was, but I knew I liked it. To this day, "True Faith" - and Talking Heads' "Road to Nowhere" - remind me of the B5415 on sunny days.

When "Blue Monday '88" came out, I liked that too. Someone in the Sixth Form lent me "Substance" and I belatedly made the connection. I was into Sigue Sigue Sputnik at that point.

Quite boring, really. No sex in my story. Just a scabby old bus, a tinny medium wave radio and sweaty polyester shirts. Very British, really. Is it time for tea yet?

I am more surprised that you can remember the name of the bus after years and years of taking drugs and generally making no sense whatsoever.

I salute you

Obviously the drugs have done you more harm, Shuglet. The B5415 is a road, not the name of a bus. It's kind of like drugs, though: Class A's, Class B's.....A-Roads, B-Roads....

When I listened to BLT for the first time in 1986! Then bought Brotherhood for that track. Next year bought Substance. Then Low Life and finally Technique, that made me a true NO fan. And then bought all the other official albums. Then I started to buy all the 7", 12" and cd singles (mainly the japanese 3" and 5" ones) and also bought all the japanese laser discs (PFD, Substance, NO Story and the best of). Also got the Canadian, US and Europe cd singles. Also got all the promos all I could find (7", 12", acetates, cassete tapes and cds, including that japanese 7" Blue Monday). Also got a lot of bootlegs cds and LPs (a lot of live ones, megamixes, medleys, Substance Abuse cd, The Remix cd, dj only remix services, asian compilations etc). Nowadays I'm still a hardcore collector, and my last buy was the japanese remasters cds.

Earliest memories would be Get the Message, Regret and True Faith 94 when they came out; those were the catalysts.