CEREMONY

Best: Bernard’s guitar. Ceremony has the definitive guitar sound of Joy Division.

Worst: Bernard’s singing. After you hear Ian sing the song, Bernard cannot match it. Hence the live and demo versions by JD which have been cited as favorites of others.

Why Love: The song sticks with you forever. They take something seemingly simply (as noted in prior posts) and turn it into a song of profound emotional depth. The lyric, “Avenues all lined with trees” is one of my favorite lines from JD.

Rating: 98%.

1.) The raspy echo of the guitars and of course the Fabulous Bass! 2.) Unfortunately Ian's Intro. (Sorry) 3.) The Simplistic but Genuinely Beautiful emotion! 4.) 85%

1. The bass intro on the 7"
2. The 12" watered-down version
3. The last great song Joy Division wrote
4. 99%

being more of a JD this is my favourite new order song

1. fav bit. the whole song is magnificent but i'll can choose two of the best bits. The wonderful intro and hooky's bass just before the chorus

2. worst bit. barneys vocals. no disrespect to barney but this a JD song and i would kill for a proper studio version with ian singing

3. it serves as a great goodbye to ian

4. 100%

ps is it possible that someone could send me the version recorded without gillian i would be very grateful thank you

Don´t like it. Most overrated song bij the fans.

Best bit - every version Worst bit - ? I don't understand the question:D love/hate - just love % - got to be 100%

The original lyrics are available in Ian's wife's book. Can I re-produce them here?

CuanaD wrote: Best bit - every version Worst bit - ? I don't understand the question:D love/hate - just love % - got to be 100%

The original lyrics are available in Ian's wife's book. Can I re-produce them here?

I feel exactly this way about ceremony.

best- so so so UNIQUE ! worst- who is trying to find that thing from this community? love- all versions from 0,001sec until the end %- 1000%

1 Intro, Watching Forever, Outro 2 Why oh why can't we find a pristine recording of Joy Divison playing this 3 Joy Division's death, New Order's birth, and it has never been bettered 4 Next to Atmosphere at the height of perfection

Church of the KLF wrote: The JD demo on Heart and Soul is awesome, isn't it?

Absolutely, the first time i heard the JD demo i had pins and needles going up and down my spine, more than 15 years after i first got into them, a great moment for me.

Dog's Bollocks - Essential

I think the 12" green sleeve version is the best of the various "Ceremony" releases.

Love Morris's drumming.

1. Erm... that's tough.
2. Erm... that's tough.
3. Erm... that's tough.
4. 100%

BTW, I always thought 'Avenues all lined with trees' was 'Avenues of highway dreams.'

Best bit: When the drums start... Worst bit: When it all stops... Love it: After True Faith the first NO track I heard, having saved for ages to buy Substance on cassette without having heard anything else, because I loved TF and loved the artwork for Substance... The anticipation as the tape started playing... Can still remember it vividly now... Rating: 100%

1. The "Letting me know" being missinterpreted as "Where did he go?" is a nice touch.

2. The Re-recording with Gillian was pretty bad quality...

3. I love it cos I can play it with the band lol

4. Singles Version - 100% Gillian Re-record Version - 90%

1. There aren't synthesizers, yet you can still dance easily to it.
2. There's nothing bad about it
3. I love the lyrics and the dancability of it
4. 100%

My alltime Fav...

1. That bass line (it reminds me of bells, somehow); the way the song fades out and then comes back in just before concluding (really evident on the Still recording)
2. there are no worst parts
3. Lyrics (turn towards this time), it starts Substance, which was my intro to NO many, many years ago--and I had an immediate emotional attachment to the song (and Temptation; well, actually, the first four songs)
4. 100%

1. bass, drums, an emotional song
2. not so much versions. It is one of the last New Order songs that I learned to appreciate and love.
3. when i first heard the song in Substance, it is my least favorable single in the album. It really took a long, long time before I finally appreciated it. I started to like the song in the 511 video (as the background song) and when the very late music video was released. Then I slowly learned to love the song.
4. C+(80s-90s), A-(2000 to present)

Indeed!

Tim wrote:

1. best bit, 2. worst bit, 3. why you love/hate it, 4. percentage rating

I can really speak of the Radiohead cover, as Ii barely listened to "Still"'s version nor the one by NO.

1. the guitar on the chorus
2. that it ends
3. I probably began to love it becuase of the video of that R'Head session. Just played ina a small studio, the guys a bit apart, not all of them could see each other at the same time...
4. I guess you mean my rating of the song. it gets on the top group of songs. 9 ut of 10.

The final Joy Division song ....

all around beautiful song.

Considering that this is a Joy Division song, and having heard this on the Still album i.e. live, I would of liked to have heard the recorded studio version, as assuming that all of you would of loved to of heard it

Good song, the intro, shocked me, since I started liking New Order from the Blue Monday/Confusion days, and that is the best bit I like about Ceremony

Give it a 79%

8/10 for me