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Originally posted by Razed In A New Division Of Agony 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...
This is the best story told of New Order I've ever heard!! To listen to Procession as a baby... mmm.... that's great.
Ceremony.
Remember lounging around in the 6th form common room at school, must have been early part of '81, and one of my mates brought this 7" in a gold sleeve in and put on the record player at full volume. There were a few JD fans there, but no-one knew what the track was. I was just mesmerised by the opening bass line. Still am.
Great time 1988 , The Perfect Kiss - Substance version ! My cousin brought a tape with his favourite New Order songs.I was a A-ha fan those days and New Order changed my mind completely.A year later Joy Division - Unknown Plesures album came to me since then became my no.1 band.
Just too old to remember but as a guess: Dreams never end. Based on the fact that I always started with side A, song 1.
Temptation, but I only found out it was Temptation after I found out that Blue Monday was Blue Monday and I bought 1981-82 in 1983. If that makes sense.
August 2001, playing Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo 64, tuned into my local station 104.7. And my life changed.....it was super smooth...
John Peel playied "Temptation" in '82. Went to our local record shop after school next day, and they had just the one copy of the 7". No info, just that gloriously obscure cover and that wonderful music. Took me a few months to make the connection between "Temptation" and the 12" of "Transmission" I'd bought a couple of months before...
I was listening to my favorite radio show, one afternoon in September 1981, when the DJ announced a special New Order/Joy division broadcast, to celebrate the Movement/Still releases. I wasn't aware of either band, and was particularly moved by the DJ's account of Ian's suicide and the subsequent birth of New Order. Their music got me hooked from the first moment: Ceremony was the first one played, right at the beginning of the show. I seem to remember that EGG, LWTUA and Decades were played too... But I must confess that New Order only became officially my Number One Band with the release of Low-life, the finest album ever made!
My brother won a trip to England in May '85 and brought back several records among which were Low-Life and the FBN five track EP w/ Temptation as well as the SMiths "How soon is now?" and Paul Hardcastle's "19" if memory serves. So it would either be Temptation or Love Vigilantes w/ the off chance of it being Elegia if we couldn't figure out which was side one or side two of low-life. I do know that Love Vigilantes was the first song that I really got into.
First heard "Blue Monday" on a music show called "Countdown" in 1983 (they performed live), when they toured Australia, me and my mates loved it so much that we went to their second gig in Melbourne at the "Seaview Ballroom" (now a yuppie complex, the scum) didn't know any of the songs except BM but had a great time anyway. P.S. it took me a year to figure out why some people in the audience were screaming out "Joy Division".
Originally posted by teleharmonium 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.
My story is exactly the same, except I'm pretty sure it was early summer 1985. I still remember seeing that video. I demanded to be driven to the store that day so I could buy the single. I was 14 and my favorite band at the time was Van Halen. The song completely blew me away. I remember thinking "are they playing this live??? no one plays live in videos. Is this dance music? Why aren't they dancing? They look bored. Why does the bass player play like that? Wait, they look unhappy now. What's going on? Play it again!" I was hooked. All these years later they're still the best.
Originally posted by Spotnick This is a tricky question...It should be.. what is the first song you KNEW it was New Order.Of course I have to say Blue Monday, I live in Canada... what else can it be for anyone living in North America...!
The first song I knew was NO was Blue Monday because it had heavy play at The Wave, a club in Honolulu, HI. The first song that really struck me down was Perfect Kiss, and FACD 100...the rest really is history and 18 years of being a very loyal NO fan. This is the first time in my life I have been able to have the time to discuss my NO interests with others or you would have seen me sooner!
It was something with a robotic, machine gun staccato drum machine intro, then a fade in from a sequenced synth...
...Not sure what it was. Never heard it again.
my first NO track was true faith. i was 14, and i was flicking through the music channels and i stumbled across this video with weird characters slapping each other. so i kept it on for comic value... little did i know that watching this video would change my musical outlook forever. :D
Originally posted by bLuE oRdEr It was something with a robotic, machine gun staccato drum machine intro, then a fade in from a sequenced synth......Not sure what it was. Never heard it again.
hmmm...sounds like elegia...
