Song that made you a New Order fan

I meant not ya favourite song but the one that called ya attention to the band and made you a fan. This one below was mine. It was 1988

True Faith

I went from liking Joy Division, to getting Substance (NO), so I guess it would be several tracks from that, namely Ceremony, The Perfect Kiss, In A Lonely Place, Procession, and, in particular, 1963.

The 1st song I ever heard of them was,"Shellshock." It made me wonder about them enough to buy Low-life. But "The Perfect Kiss" is the one that made me a FAN4LIFE!

mine was Blue Monday in 1984

Everything's Gone Green off of the 1981-1982 EP when it was released.

Andrès wrote: mine was Blue Monday in 1984

Nice being influenced by a band when you're only 10 years old child in Colombia Andrés

Big Mouth Julio wrote:

Andrès wrote: mine was Blue Monday in 1984

Nice being influenced by a band when you're only 10 years old child in Colombia Andrés

yep, my dad was an influential man in Bogota night life.... he was the owner of the 3 more captivating night clubs during the 80's and 90's, so i growed up in that ambient. That's why

[black]blue monday 88[/black]

Ceremony or Temptation,i know its Blue Monday for a lot of people,i seriously cant listen to that song anymore,im sure Barney feels the same.It was really only written cos everyone moaned about no encores,mind you it was before its time.Hope your all signing up for the new Hacienda updates.Paul Chadwicks putting a lot of hard work into it so give it some support.

Ceremony.

this is why

The Perfect Kiss 12" Version

Blue Monday made me notice them, Confusion and Thieves Like Us made me realise they were very good but Lonesome Tonight made e realise they were way above anyone else, for so many different reasons, the chord progression in the final section just builds the whole track to the climax superbly, Hooky's bass is just fantastic, I'd never heard anything like it, even Barney snorting up a load of phlegm and gobbing it out was brilliant.

I fell for Ceremony off substance, but Movement made me realize that this love would last forever.

Hearing Joy Division on TV........

True Faith, school summer holidays 1987.

Saw this on telly.

Andrès wrote:

Big Mouth Julio wrote:

Andrès wrote: mine was Blue Monday in 1984

Nice being influenced by a band when you're only 10 years old child in Colombia Andrés

yep, my dad was an influential man in Bogota night life.... he was the owner of the 3 more captivating night clubs during the 80's and 90's, so i growed up in that ambient. That's why

Ya so lucky :)

It was temptation for me too!

Rock the Shack

Ryan wrote: I went from liking Joy Division, to getting Substance (NO), so I guess it would be several tracks from that, namely Ceremony, The Perfect Kiss, In A Lonely Place, Procession, and, in particular, 1963.

I could've written this post

twp wrote:

Ryan wrote: I went from liking Joy Division, to getting Substance (NO), so I guess it would be several tracks from that, namely Ceremony, The Perfect Kiss, In A Lonely Place, Procession, and, in particular, 1963.

I could've written this post

That's the album that made a NO fan indeed. I had heard it in my cousin's house a few months earlier I bought my albums and was caught by the sound of their music.

It really is the lamest reason. I was mesmerized by the frog croaking in Perfect Kiss. I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Hey, I was 11... stupid things catch yer attention at that age.

Soon after it was BLT and True Faith that kept me listening and wanting to listen to the entire album.

Heard True Faith on one of those classic weekends on UK music channel The Hits (now 4Music). Then I discovered Blue Monday, and the rest is history!

Regret from Republic, I heard this on a radio station in NYC called Z100, then I bought the CD and was hooked on it, I knew of True Faith, BlT and Blue Monday because they use to play it on this radio station.

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

almansoglasnost wrote: it was 1986... it was a special time for me :p

BLT

and yes, i was 10 too. i was the dj of a 10 y-o bday party (ok, i was in charge of the music) and my sister gave me her brand new Brotherhood LP and told me to put the first song of the side B. the rest is history ;)

bullshit...no 10 year old is ever influenced by music...Julio said so, therefore it must be true...

NEENER NEENER!!!

Fact! You have to be at least 11

1987 - BLT

'blue monday', back in 1983..

but what really got me hooked was 'the perfect kiss' back in 1985. after seeing the video on tv..

later -1

EdelBrock wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

almansoglasnost wrote: it was 1986... it was a special time for me :p

BLT

and yes, i was 10 too. i was the dj of a 10 y-o bday party (ok, i was in charge of the music) and my sister gave me her brand new Brotherhood LP and told me to put the first song of the side B. the rest is history ;)

bullshit...no 10 year old is ever influenced by music...Julio said so, therefore it must be true...

NEENER NEENER!!!

Fact! You have to be at least 11

Fook off Jeff!

Blue Moday was when I first noticed NO,but True Faith got me into them.

Blue Monday on Radio 1 - probably played by the Hairy Cornflake in the good old bad old pre-FM days c.1983/1984.

Magic.

Revenge "Pineapple Face"

(ie: Song that made you a New Order fan....as opposed to a Revenge/Monaco/insertSideProjectHere fan)

The Perfect Kiss really got my attention, but it wasn't until I heard All The Way that I became really intrigued by the band. Then I went back and heard their early work and fell in love with it all.

I remember being intrigued but not sold by the first tracks I heard. I think one of Age of Consent, Regret, True Faith, or BLT on the 1994 best of cd must have done it. I wish I could summon that feeling of "getting" NewOrder for the first time again.

For me, the first one was "Blue Monday" in 1988 when I was 11. I fell in love with the bassline immediately.

I had a DJ friend at high school who bought SUBSTANCE at 87, and he played to me True Faith and told me "It´s the only song that I like from this double-vynil".

I don´t think so....

I became a Joy Division fan first after hearing Twenty Four Hours on an indie radio in 1988, and it's still my favourite Joy Division song. When I bought New Order's Substance of course I liked Ceremony but I couldn't really get the other songs. Unfortunately I was also influenced, as a 15 years old kid could be, by stupid journos and goths which revered the cult of Joy Division but they all basically were saying New Order sold out to the dancefloor. I bought Movement and I liked the most of the tracks, the difference between that album and the other tracks on the vynil Substance prevented me even more from accepting their evolution. Movement, to me, was their last good album, though not as good as Closer, before selling out, so I couldn't really call myself A New Order Fan. They were releasing Technique by then, and hearing Fine Time on the jukebox didn't really help. But one day I was walking and all those keyboard layers from Blue Monday came back to my mind and I just realized their greatness. I ran back home and heard Substance many more times and I started to adore every track apart from the weakest ones (you know which ones, the unholy "S" trinity). Perfect Kiss and True Faith became second and third favourites because they just had those huge tunes of keyboards and bass, and that rhythm I hated now I was loving. EGG was the perfect bridge between Movement and Blue Monday, Temptation and Confusion (even in those versions which weren't better than the original ones) and BLT became other favourites. Power Corruption And Lies became my favourite album because it had just everything, great electro tracks and great guitar pop tracks, I just found it all amazingly inspired. I loved the other albums as well, and the same Fine Time I hated became one of my favourites, I told the silly goths to fuck off and when I was ready to love World In Motion I knew by then that I became A New Order Fan!

"Age of Consent", which I did not hear until it showed up on some late-night radio show in 1988. It sounded unique and wonderful, and - hey! - it still does.

I heard The Kiss Of Death in august 1989 on my cousin 'NEW ORDER home made compilation tape'. I loved the stereo reversed channels effects, the girl voice and the powerful ending.

...and I still prefer The Kiss Of Death than his A-side

Turn took it to another level, for me.

Nothing was ever the same again after Turn, and that's the truth.

Here to stay. This song was a revelation to me, though I was listening to the music of New Order since so many years. Up to this song (and I should rather say : the video of this song), I wasn't aware of the fact that from Joy Division to New Order, this music is essential to me. No more, no less.

Regret and the summer of 93, I was young and the song brings about memories of road trips and the video is a work of art.

True Faith it was 1988...

Age Of Consent, late 1983

Substance, 1990. The stores were clearing out vinyl and they were unloading it for $8, so I took a chance on it.

True Faith, although it was actually the video that lingered in my memory for years more than the song.

True Faith made me buy Substance,then I wore the needle out on Ceremony and Temptation.

When I was 13, hearing 'Temptation' for the first time on a little transistor radio, sitting on the school playing fields in '82. I was completely and utterly hooked from that day on :)'

James Weaver wrote: When I was 13, hearing 'Temptation' for the first time on a little transistor radio, sitting on the school playing fields in '82. I was completely and utterly hooked from that day on :)'

Good first post

True Faith in 1987 followed very quickly by Substance 1987 and then everything I could beg, borrow, steal or buy.

Waz wrote: I wish I could summon that feeling of "getting" NewOrder for the first time again.

Temptation or BLT from Reading 98. The extended intro to the R&R 12". The absolute majesty of the full TPK. Any live recording of Ceremony.

If I listen to any of these (and probably some others) after a period of time away, I am immediately reminded of the power and beauty of NO.

Nothing in this world, can touch the music that I heard...

Rorschach wrote:

The extended intro to the R&R 12". The absolute majesty of the full TPK. Any live recording of Ceremony.

If I listen to any of these (and probably some others) after a period of time away, I am immediately reminded of the power and beauty of NO.

Nothing in this world, can touch the music that I heard...

Very well put-I'll second the above.

Lonesome Tonight.

I think I posted this in another thread, but basically, Bizarre Love Triangle. I wanted that song after hearing it on the alternative station, and I wanted to see what this Blue Monday was all about, so I got Substance on CD at Best Buy. That was about 8 years ago and the rest is history.

absolutely, bizarre love triangle!

True Faith, , at the end of 1988

shellshock -- off of the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. That whole album powered my interest in music for years - smiths, psyc furs too