What was it your first time?

Originally posted by murv_hughes 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.

It is worthless so just BIN it MURV.:D

Blue Monday was the beginning of the end for me. They managed to get under my skin like no other band - still don't know why.

I'm sorry to say my first exposure to NO related stuff was the cover of BM by Orgy (it still is a cool video). I was young. But the first real song was Shellshock, on the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, I was really dazzled. First exposure to the Smiths and the Furs too. I got a copy of the Orgy cover last year and think it really sucks now, and I even like heavy metal. Nothing will ever be better than the original.

"True Faith" I believe, back around 1988 or 1989. At that time I didn't know who sang the song but I really liked it. Too bad it took me a few more years after that to really start discovering the band.

Sice PC7L was the first album I heard it would have to be Age of Consent

When I was about twelve I watched trainspotting (yes, i know its a film about heroin junkies, and i was a young, impressionable 12 year old..well my parents arnt very responsible!) and I remember the girl in it singing the ooo, youve got green eyes e.t.c line, and i thought, wow that sounds good, got the soundtrack, listened to that song over and over again, and decided i liked New Order! But i listened to the greatest hits, didnt like it because it seemed very dated and it didnt have Temptation on (as far as i remember)so..never listened to any New Order again.

Fastforward four years, and being a depressive adolescent i took to Joy Division in a big way..and when that ran out got in to New Order, now no longer considering them dated, and had to pay 20 bloody quid for a copy of substance, grrrrrr!

Orgy for me. That cover rocks. Only their first CD was good though. :(

I heard Blue Monday at the school disco and thought it was great but never bought it at the time. It wasn't until i watched their set on BBC's Rock Around The Clock in 1984 and in particular Temptation that i got hooked. I thought Barney looked the part in his shorts and tee shirt so i went straight out afterwards and bought Temptation 12'and a pair of blue shorts. Still got the 12' but grown out of the shorts!. Also still got the video - what a performance.

Ceremony for me, courtesy of Mr. J Peel. Wonderful feeling hearing the spirit of JD survive.

For me it was the 94 release of True Faith. I saw the video for it on Top of The Pops & was totally taken aback by it!

I went straight out to buy THE BEST OF & have been a committed NEW ORDER fan ever since!

There aint a band out there who are better!!!!!!!!!!!

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WATCHA GONNA DO WHEN THE NOVELTY HAS GONE?

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Blue Monday on TOTP, 83 or whenever. I must have been about 12, and the fact that such a point was made over it being live put me off the very idea of live music for a long long long time.

"Blue Monday by Orgy", that's pretty sad. I remember a few people back in highschool that knew about New Order only because of that wretched cover song.

Anyway, the first song that I heard (knowing it was New Order) was "True Faith". I saw the video for it in my mid-teens, and a few years later a buddy of mine let me borrow "The Best Of" and I quickly became a fan. "Blue Monday" and "BLT" were very familiar to me as well, but I never knew who the band was.

Also, the first Joy Division song I heard was "LWTUA" on the radio, and the first Electronic song I heard was "Disappoinment" on the movie "Cool World". The other side projects I never heard of 'till I bought the albums. Although Monaco's "What Do You Want From Me" sounded very familiar to me. Was that song on a soundtrack or something?

Blue Monday for me. It was just impulse, I liked the name of the band and the name of the song. 6 months later I was converted to JD as well. And for those of you who mention UB40, the greatest band to come out of my fair city. Whats Manchester got to shout about :p

UB40

just refloating this thread as its my one and only poll.

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The first time I heard a NO song was way back in '88, at my junior high school dance in nyc. I kept wondering who "this morning sun" song was by and where I could find it. All I remember was that the floor actually filled up. '89 HS talent show and this girl that I had a huge crush on did a choreographed dance with her friend to BLT. The interesting part was that the song was being covered by our high school band! I asked who recorded that track and I heard NO, for the first time. 1990 someone made me a "mixed tape" including a couple of tracks from technique--coincidentally the same tape introduced me to the smiths vis-a-vis "girlfriend in a coma." Got substance, heard LWTUA in '91, freshman year in college and the rest is history.

State of the Nation, so I have an emotional connection to it, and I don't dismiss it as most people at this forum do. Not many stations played New Order at that time, so I guess I've been somewhat hampered in my early years. However, that made taping each song played on the radio a special experience.

Blue Monday '88

I was in vacation in Germany, and I listened to it in a record store... I liked it so much that I played it several times (I was listening with headphones, so nobody noticed that point). But actually I went really into NO in 1994 when I bought their Best Of.

The first video I saw was Round&Round in 1989, in the french charts TV show... It was presented as a possible entry in the forthcoming weeks, but it never enter the charts... shame.

I was a Joy Division fan by the end of 1993 but I didn't know a thing about New Order. Then I happened to read an article in a rock-encyclopedia that Joy Divsion became New Order. And I just waited for a chance to hear them. And here they are: the English MTV broadcast several times the old "True Faith" video on their "Greatest Hits" show. But I could not believe my eyes. I remember asking myself - are those guys really the ones who played "Heart And Soul" and "Decades"? And then why do they look so YOUNG, ha? And it took a few months for me to accept it as music for I had been more into rock back then. Sooth to say I had never thought of dance music before.

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True Faith... because it's track 1 on "The Best Of" and I bought that to see if I would like the band that Joy Division had become. It was really BLT and Perfect Kiss that got repeat plays, and when 24HPP came out and I got the soundtrack, the song I always listened to was Temptation. That got me into the "must buy everything" mode.

It would have been True Faith, probably some time in the mid 90s, I always liked the song, but it was seeing the BLT clip in 1997 that started it all. So BLT has that special significance to me, and always will.

So for the question itself, the answer is True Faith. I recognised Blue Monday when I first heard it, and loved it, I may have heard that around the same time as True Faith. But when I realised BLT was new order i was thinking of other songs which sound like New Order and 'the morning sun one' came to mind. Another one which did was 'If You Leave' by OMD, but me and a friend of mine thought 'nah, its not good enough' and we were right.

I also recognised 'Shellshock' when I bought the best of, for some god unknown reason that got airplay in the 90s in Australia.

Cheers ALEX

Shamelessly resurrecting my own poll...need a feeble pretext...um...I know, I'll comment on the fact that Crystal seems to have bought in precisely one new fan, which doesnt' bode well...

My mom was obsessed with New Order, and she tells me she used to play Procession to put me to sleep when I was a baby... You know, I still love that song...

I guess this will annoy the poll-haters, but I just thought there'd be enough newcomers to make it worth refloating this.

(Is the idea to move all the polls over to the new poll forum? How come we now have two poll forums, one forum and one in resources?)