What was it your first time?

hope I've got this right...

it was my junior high school's talent show at the end of the school year, may 1986 i believe, and these 3 girls did a dance to blue monday. i thought 'wow, that's an awesome song'. i had no idea it was new order until the following year, however, when i finally bought substance after seeing the video for true faith.

...the following year they did their dance to a bronski beat song. (i was really into them for about five minutes, as well!) :D

Blue monday for me, my older brother had it on a tape. I never knew what it was until true faith 94 came out and then i found blue monday, thieves like us and confusion on 12" in a box in the loft.

F'k knows if i can remember!! probably summin off Substance i'd imagine...

SHRINK WRAPPED..does EXACTLY what it says on the COVER!:p

I used to dance to EGG in a sweaty basement club in my home town, I'm pretty sure the DJ played Temptation as well.

I didn't know who they were by until BM came out & then it all fell into place & that my sisters JD records I was listening to at the same time were (almost) the same band.

"True Faith" was my first one. When i saw the video i thought it was UB40 in the first place, 'cos their singer had nearly the same hairdo as Barney...

Originally posted by Marco Pleil "True Faith" was my first one. When i saw the video i thought it was UB40 in the first place, 'cos their singer had nearly the same hairdo as Barney...

I saw UB40 interviewed on telly recently. The years seem to have been even less kind to them than to our lads, they were all quite...er...large. Incidentaly, is it long term over indulgence in alcohol that gives one that puffy red 'Phil Mitchell' complexion?

There's nothing that makes one feel quite as ancient as seeing what's become of the pop stars of one's youth (compare UB40 in that Red Red Wine video with them now, or, ulp, Sting now with early Police videos. And why is it that as pop stars age they seem to more and more resemble their 'spitting image' puppets?)

Regret was the first concious memory I have of a "New Order" song (as in, "Oh, that's New Order? Interesting."). Having grown up in the Eighties, I'm sure I ran across BLT or True Faith, but Regret's the one I remember....

Originally posted by Taboo # 7 Regret was the first concious memory I have of a "New Order" song (as in, "Oh, that's New Order? Interesting."). Having grown up in the Eighties, I'm sure I ran across BLT or True Faith, but Regret's the one I remember....

First song I can actually remember was True Faith. Saw the weird ass video on MTV with my sis, who was already a big NO fan. ahhhh memories...

I first heard NO that I know of when MTV aired the "perfect kiss" as a new video in I guess '84. I was immediately struck by the bass playing, electronics, weird vocals and non stupid MTV attitude and became a fan. I think I had heard LWTUA prior to that but it hadn't made an impression (still doesn't make much of one).

Nineteen Sixty-Three

I remember hearing "Johnny, don't point that gun at me..." on the radio all the time when I was about 6 or 7. I didn't know who it was, or the name of the song, but I do remember that I loved it, much to the confusion of other Michael Jackson and Madonna loving little kids. I guess I was a New Order fan before I even knew what New Order was. It's kind of funny that the radio that I remember hearing in the 80s as a little kid sounds nothing like what local radio stations are playing now during their so called 'Retro 80s Hours' when they play nothing but hair bands and Madonna. Maybe once in a while they'll play New Order or the Cure, but it's always something any idiot would know.

What a bunch of NO newbies you are...

Heard my friend Geoff playing Blue Monday in his record store. I bought it.

:D:D:D:D:D anita, it was 20 yrs ago today...sgt pepper got the band to play...

Yup...confusion. I remember back in the day being into those darn pesky parachute pants and breakdancing...FAC 93 was the shit for that!!!

That'd be Ceremony, since I was a huge JD fan........

"Age of Consent" and "Blue Monday" when they were new and I was 9 or 10, but I didn't know who they were by and didn't know they were by the same band because they sounded totally different from each other and I didn't even notice they at least had the same person singing. I loved "Age of Consent" at the time but didn't appreciate 'Blue monday". Then the radio station died and I didn't become truly aware of New Order until True Faith.

I also must have heard and loved Transmission back then, because when I bought Substance in 1989 thinking I only knew LWTUA, I recognized it. What a treat!

Alyssa

Blue Monday. My brother had made a big deal about staying in one night to record the Radio 1 evening programme of the time (Janice Long?). He'd heard that they were going to play the new New Order single. That crappy AM recording got played to death so I couldn't help but notice it. My interest grew from there. (It wasn't until a couple of years later that I developed into the a rabid must buy everything on the day of release nutter, though.)

The bonus was that my brother already had some JD and NO stuff in his collection, which somehow mysteriously made its way into mine....

Ceremony. I couldn't wait for it to come out, was so pleased to hear it on Peel a couple of weeks before it was released. Needless to say, I wasn't disappointed.

Mine is a very strange way to arrive to NO. I was at my grannies' listening to the radio and they were talking about "this new music style from America: Break dance/rap" and then they played a couple of songs, one of them had lifted the intro from BM and then someone was rapping over it. I got immediately hooked.

Yes, it was love at first hear for NO and me and we have never looked back since.

BTW that's one of the reasons I could never join the usual BM abusing.

When I was in 7th grade, one of my favorite radio stations at the time kept playing "Bizarre Love Triangle (Radio Edit)" constantly. Then I heard "Blue Monday" and then "TBTHOG"...

Originally posted by anita Heard my friend Geoff playing Blue Monday in his record store. I bought it.:D:D:D:D:Danita, it was 20 yrs ago today...sgt pepper got the band to play...

Wild shot in the dark...

Would your Geoff be the Probe Plus Geoff who gave us Half Man Half Biscuit?

PK video.

Temptation 7" in oct 82. A friend came round to do a tape and said "listen to this, remember JD?" I'd never heard anything like that intro. Is it a sequencer? Why do you think I've been going on about it for the last fortnight?

Originally posted by Alan Tomlinson Temptation 7" in oct 82. A friend came round to do a tape and said "listen to this, remember JD?" I'd never heard anything like that intro. Is it a sequencer? Why do you think I've been going on about it for the last fortnight?

I think thats around the time I first heard it. Probably the best 7" single ever made.

around 94-95, i was watching much music and they had a spotlight on new order. saw the video for BLT and that was the only song i liked from new order for 3 years. i thought they were too dated for my taste...my how times have changed.

I heard Ceremony first on a sunday evening listening to the top 30 or was it 40 on BBC radio One, taped it on my trusty old music centre, remember them? I bought the 7" and green sleeved 12" the following Saturday at the Virgin megastore Tottenham Court road tube. I still have those copies in mint, funny I bought the white sleeved 12" but the 12" green old copy was inside. I must take it back next time I`m up over.