When I saw this as a kid I thought the singer was either nervous or that this must be what someone acts like from drugs! Either way.. I always thought he looked so cool and liked his singing style not being perfect.
New Order insisted on performing this song live when the music show's policy was that artists would mime to a backing track. They knew it would be anarchy and sound sh**... If you don't get it, it's cos you have been watching to much “X factor”
im either tripping or is this video going at a really fast speed and the presenters at the start were talking really high-pitched and fast, and the band are sing really high-pitched and fast
The live synths on this are just SUBLIME!... Is aw an interview with Peter Hook the other day and he said they ALWAYS sung live on TOTP because the vocals sounded so bad and they did this on purpose because they wanted their singles to go down the charts. That is so fucking GENIUS< how punk of them! :-)
I have seen new order live and wasn't sure what to expect as I had read mixed reviews of their live shows,I needn't had worried as they were awesome and I had a great time dancing my little boobies off to them
I hate to say it, but New Order is one of the few bands I will never regret not seeing live. Sumner clearly needs multiple takes to provide a decent vocal, and Hook's bass has a horrible tone in every live video I've watched.
I recorded this on the radio in France in 1983 and the DJ called the group Fac 69 - maybe they used a different name in France or maybe the DJ got it wrong?
@Bickieundspielen I don't know. Maybe the DJ made a mistake. I recall though that this was in the UK charts one year later and the then DJ on the Sunday evening countdown saying that it was the biggest selling 12 incher of all time!
@alanheath2 It was probably FAC 73. Factory (FAC) was the label. The 12" single sleeve looked like a big 5.25" floppy disk. The only printed words were on the spine and read "FAC SEVENTY THREE"
There is a series of coloured blocks on the sleeve which when decoded read "FAC 73 BLUE MONDAY AND THE BEACH NEW ORDER". New Order also did this with the "Confusion" single. The key to decode it was on the back of the album Power, Corruption and Lies.
@alanheath2 Interesting. I just found out that FAC release numbers were consecutive from FAC 1 to FAC 357 with the exception that FAC 69 was "unassigned". FAC 630 was the highest number. Numbers were not in chronological order. Factory numbered everything. Music, posters, stationary, events, adverts, a coffin, a club, websites, books, movies, a building, a table, Christmas gifts, t-shirts, a lawsuit, a cat, even people. FAC is usually a single. FACT is usually an album.
@jctoad Your response prompted me to do a google search where I find that the sleeve had Fac 73 printed on it. Maybe Fac 69 was a release. Unfortunately it is now confined to my memory only. Whereas I recorded it from the radio in Lyon in 1983, the tape was lost around 1996 - otherwise I would have published it on my you tube channel!
It was the only time in TOTP history that a band appeared on the show and the single went down in the chart the following week.
Wikipedia says "New Order insisted on performing Blue Monday live. The performance was dogged by technical problems, and was unrepresentative of the recording. In the words of drummer Stephen Morris, "Blue Monday was never the easiest song to perform anyway, and everything went wrong. The synthesisers went awry. It sounded awful"."
At the time, why was New Order the only band that performed live on TOTP? Surely other quality bands wanted to perform live too, but why only New Order?
The wrong notes, the awkwardeness, the overproduced sounds, it looked like a rehearsal- I don't care! That's what made New Order groundbreaking! Awesome band!
Love the synth player's duff notes. I hate it when that happens but who made keys glossy? When you are playing live it gets so hot and sweaty, your finger slips.
sometimes you know you have a great song,, here you see it in its early phase.. he worked on it and got it too where he wanted it which is the later versions with the more modern synths.. that is called belief in what you do ..
If you want people to sound exactly the same as the record when you see them live, why see them live at all. In my opinion many live performances these days are so over produced, they are almost pointless. May as well go buy the dvd.
You go to 'see' the band and the more personal touch to their music is what you go there for.
In refererence to Stock/Aitken & Pete weinerman, they were the birth of over polished mimed pop trash on these types of shows and the death of 'real' creative music.
@stillbornchrist, I just said most of the things you posted right before I read it. NO was/is one of my favs from the '80s, but if YouTube was around then, and I saw this shit, I prob wouldn't have ever bought a cassette. But I'm sincerely interested as to the point you mentioned. Please reply
They were the best dont know why but it has to do with J.D .I dont know The distance they have at stage is tremendous.Never put the hands toghether after a song or say oehh or ahh nothing. Just be in the music
Ah remember bein 14 n thinkin " this is the stuff ah've been waitin fur" - totally changed mah perspective on music ( jist aboot gied up wi the shit the charts wiz pumpin oot) expanded mah mind n ah'm eternally grateful tae barney, hooky, gillian n the monumenal drummer steve morris ( soak up the sweat steve!) power tae the bands thit want tae make a difference- lang may yer lum reek!
You can hear that they barely controlled their high tech gear live, and even in this crap performance the song stands, this song is the main influence for the later Stock Aitken and Waterman productions, Pete Waterman once said in an interview.
You must really take into consideration the fact they were actually a guitar band gone synthpop....
BUT,
If you ask me, the 12" 1983 version of this song is absolutely the best record ever made!
@karelpostthuis are you kidding me? i mean i see your point on the rest of the story calling it great.. but it definitely isn't a crap performance! one of the best of blue monday i've seen!
@kwanza6669 Excuse me.. i adore this band, but.... wrong key's pressed on the prophet and no one having a clue where they are in the track makes this performance not their best.
BUT still i love to watch and hear it, nothing can kill this monstertrack!
@karelpostthuis: I dunno, I actually prefer this version to the studio for some reason. I think the main reason is that almost all the instrumentation sounds a lot thinner here than in the studio version. It really brings out the disparate theme of the lyrics a lot more in the music. But I will admit that SOMEONE really fucked up Bernie's microphone, it keeps shorting out.
@karelpostthuis Some good history here. Very well said. Changing gears a wee bit, but for my money the 88 remix of Blue Monday really stands out. To me, it began with perfection and actually brought out more in the song than before. But then again, like you said they were a bass guitar driven band that went more synth pop. The gear used in 82-83 was still very new and it took a while to really be able to use it to its full potential. Maybe it took that long to use it to "polish" the song.
Just saw this on the V music channel, looks like they were cracking up that they had to do a TV show performance. How mainstream! LOL. Great song, I would love to do this at a Karaoke nightclub!
I adore New Order and they have given me some of my best and most intense moments of enjoying music. That said on this particular day they were worse than awful! :)
As much as I dislike Coldplay and love Kraftwerk, they did ask permission and Kraftwerk gave it, so I don't see any problems apart from the fact what they did with it was terrible :P
the reason this version is shitty is because new order's elaborate blue monday single lost them money on every sale, they did a deliberately shit version to try and cool the hype that had inevitably surrounded them..unsurprisingly this did not work, due to the single being absolutely genius..
The idea that the hole in the sleeve lost money is fallaciousl.
Nº1 die cutting is quite cheap, especially the more you do.
Nº2 they only did die cutting on the first run
Nº3 the money didn't go into album sleeves, it went into the Haçienda club, so New Order never saw the proceeds from their single, which is the highest selling 12" single ever in the UK.
yeah i thought they lost money every time they sold it. either way they never saw much money from it because new order funded the hacienda haha. as the new fac251 website says "built by tony wilson, paid for by new order, broken by the happy mondays"
@bishopdante true that, but the inescapable fact is that new order lost money on every single thing they did up until about the republic album. the debt of factory records as a whole was one that they had unintentionally been conned into thinking they could change or were responsible for, and as such, they literally lost money on this, and many other projects: up until the release of 'regret' i think. poor fellas!! still..intricate sleeveworks aside, what did they expect. this tune is a classic.
Mmm, they made money, and it was spent on their behalf? That's how all record companies have avoided writing cheques to their artists since dot.
Actually, it's a standard business ploy. I've had it done to me in countless ways over the years. Music biz, design biz, manufacturing biz, promotions biz etc etc etc.
That's an accountant's line. "the money is all gone, actually you need to make some more and give it to us"
@bishopdante Wrong. Tony Wilson said in the book 24 Party People: What The Sleeve Notes Didn't Tell You that roughly 4p was lost on each single due to the fact that the colors used on the sleeve were so hard to do, the sleeves needed to be printed 4 times to get the right color. The designer was very specific that no color was changed too.
@fassaalbrecht Yeah, I saw the movie and heard that too, but Factory couldn't have maintained that for the amount of records they sold. On the wiki page it says they changed to normal ones after a while.
@rEMINEMTGR Nope, this was from a book that Tony Wilson himself wrote, called 24 Party People: What The Sleevenotes Didn't Tell You. If they swapped to ordinary sleeves, this wasn't mentioned in any of the material I've read.
@fassaalbrecht Fair call, not saying the books wrong, because the reference that the wiki article used was pretty dodgy. I saw the movie version of 24 hr party people and at the time when this came out factory was pretty poor right? well divide one million copies / 1c and you get 10 grand. Not saying the book is definitely wrong but not many companies, even factory set out to lose 10k. Check out the wiki article as well.
@kraigphrenia What ?! listen , I loved New Order, still do. But they were fucking shit live. Absolute fucking shit. I hear they are better these days. But your conspiracy story is pretty funny.
The bloke you're thinking of is Ian Curtis who was the singer of Joy Division - an amazing songwriter but unfortunately suffered with mental illness too.
After Mr Curtis killed himself, the rest of the band plus a new keyboardist, the woman in the band Gillian Gilbert became New Order.
They were often accused of being Nazis because of the names of the bands (despite any obvious lyrics to suggest sympathy with extremist politics).
And the name "Joy Division" was probably taken by Ian from the Novella "The House of Dools"; which describes the nazi joy divisions (groups of Jewish women in the concentration camps who were kept for the sexual pleasure of Nazi).
bit statuesque here compared to their mental 'fine time' totp a few years later where bernard appears to be trying to climb an invisible tree... this performance is part of the factory records myth - along with losing money on the first run with the 'floppy disk' sleeve (they later made a cheaper one) they talk about being the only band whose single went down in the charts after they'd done totp. considering everyone else was miming, it seemed a shock at the time. i was only 12 but i remember!
New order "live" are a different experience....the songs are often difficult to recreate and so there is an element of hit and miss. However when they do hit the target the result is often totally spontaneous, emotionally uplifting and intensely spiritual.
this is so raw and totally out of sync... but so bloody brilliant at the same time
saint2sin 1 week ago
this song is the father to all techno pop music today. an elderly father that is.
333Chrome 1 month ago 2
Rare pads Simmons SDSV with brand on polycarbon :-)
SimmonsDrums 1 month ago
WTF Easter Rabbit?? O_O
MrBrandonJonez 1 month ago 4
comon that lead singer is cristopher walken ..... more cowbell please
jet07son 1 month ago
its sounds good but im going to need a little more cowbell...
jet07son 1 month ago
one of the few great bass soloes
benehan 1 month ago
BEST PERFORMANCE EVER!!!!
TheUltrabar 1 month ago
I always thought the story was they were all tripping.
oo1ooo1oo 1 month ago
I feel Curtis in the air
slipperypessimist 1 month ago
love the sound of the 6 string bass awesome sound .
crisp2882 1 month ago
When I saw this as a kid I thought the singer was either nervous or that this must be what someone acts like from drugs! Either way.. I always thought he looked so cool and liked his singing style not being perfect.
hejafish 1 month ago
Great song, terrible performance ..
offthelinegt 1 month ago
the song is about now 30 years old but it´s for me still one of the best for the 80´s. For me it was the beginning to hear synthi pop
marycat01 2 months ago
New Order insisted on performing this song live when the music show's policy was that artists would mime to a backing track. They knew it would be anarchy and sound sh**... If you don't get it, it's cos you have been watching to much “X factor”
valls67 2 months ago
@valls67 well said this is proper music .
4STONEROSES 1 month ago
Is excelent song, congratulations (es una excelente cancion, felicitaciones).
ANDAMIRO1 2 months ago
@ANDAMIRO1 U idiot
wentover1 1 month ago
It's a fucking mess I remember seeing this when I was a kid and thinking how shit this guy is on vocals. The studio version is awesome.
Hammersmith80 2 months ago
im either tripping or is this video going at a really fast speed and the presenters at the start were talking really high-pitched and fast, and the band are sing really high-pitched and fast
feelingthesubstance 3 months ago
Shame what Joy Division turned into.. Ian would be rolling in his grave.
thisiscellll 3 months ago
I really love that moog!
electricundergound 3 months ago 5
love the out of time clapping from the audience just before Barney starts to sing...priceless
StoneRosesLive4Ever 3 months ago
The live synths on this are just SUBLIME!... Is aw an interview with Peter Hook the other day and he said they ALWAYS sung live on TOTP because the vocals sounded so bad and they did this on purpose because they wanted their singles to go down the charts. That is so fucking GENIUS< how punk of them! :-)
TheNouveauxdecadence 3 months ago
EPICO
TheUltrabar 3 months ago
judging by this performance, it seems like their heart grew cold from playing this song so many times..
nice to see a prophet 5 being played though...that, and the giant emulator in the back...
rformidable 3 months ago
@rformidable this was one of their first preformances.
Bogyo2 3 months ago
Wow, a TOTP performance that WASN'T mimed, they should have done more real live performances.
SynthJocky 3 months ago
I bet their mums were so proud. Classic bass line.
manmaas 3 months ago
i love seeing electronic music played live
francaisemusique 4 months ago 13
@francaisemusique
check out our belgian friends from 1982.
;O]
TheloneousHonk 1 month ago
名曲だぁね☆
NTC335 4 months ago
I have seen new order live and wasn't sure what to expect as I had read mixed reviews of their live shows,I needn't had worried as they were awesome and I had a great time dancing my little boobies off to them
hogjuice1 4 months ago
muito bom very good
chiquinhotroiano 4 months ago
I hate to say it, but New Order is one of the few bands I will never regret not seeing live. Sumner clearly needs multiple takes to provide a decent vocal, and Hook's bass has a horrible tone in every live video I've watched.
Of course, their RECORDS are fantastic!
jakeod88 5 months ago
@jakeod88 you should regret never seeing them live...it could be sublime, or it could be a shambolic mess...but they were always entertaining...
jeffarialtexani 4 months ago
Live singing on TOTP. :-D
ladyvee7110 5 months ago
I recorded this on the radio in France in 1983 and the DJ called the group Fac 69 - maybe they used a different name in France or maybe the DJ got it wrong?
alanheath2 5 months ago 2
@alanheath2 The "Fac" probably refers to Factory, the band's label. Maybe it was the band's number on the artist's roster?
Bickieundspielen 5 months ago
@Bickieundspielen I don't know. Maybe the DJ made a mistake. I recall though that this was in the UK charts one year later and the then DJ on the Sunday evening countdown saying that it was the biggest selling 12 incher of all time!
alanheath2 5 months ago
@alanheath2 It was probably FAC 73. Factory (FAC) was the label. The 12" single sleeve looked like a big 5.25" floppy disk. The only printed words were on the spine and read "FAC SEVENTY THREE"
There is a series of coloured blocks on the sleeve which when decoded read "FAC 73 BLUE MONDAY AND THE BEACH NEW ORDER". New Order also did this with the "Confusion" single. The key to decode it was on the back of the album Power, Corruption and Lies.
jctoad 5 months ago
@alanheath2 Interesting. I just found out that FAC release numbers were consecutive from FAC 1 to FAC 357 with the exception that FAC 69 was "unassigned". FAC 630 was the highest number. Numbers were not in chronological order. Factory numbered everything. Music, posters, stationary, events, adverts, a coffin, a club, websites, books, movies, a building, a table, Christmas gifts, t-shirts, a lawsuit, a cat, even people. FAC is usually a single. FACT is usually an album.
jctoad 5 months ago
@jctoad Your response prompted me to do a google search where I find that the sleeve had Fac 73 printed on it. Maybe Fac 69 was a release. Unfortunately it is now confined to my memory only. Whereas I recorded it from the radio in Lyon in 1983, the tape was lost around 1996 - otherwise I would have published it on my you tube channel!
alanheath2 4 months ago
It was the only time in TOTP history that a band appeared on the show and the single went down in the chart the following week.
Wikipedia says "New Order insisted on performing Blue Monday live. The performance was dogged by technical problems, and was unrepresentative of the recording. In the words of drummer Stephen Morris, "Blue Monday was never the easiest song to perform anyway, and everything went wrong. The synthesisers went awry. It sounded awful"."
jctoad 5 months ago
@jctoad I find it hard to believe that this is the only time that this ever happened (obviously excepting number ones).
Very curious fact - which no doubt many of us will be trying to disprove although off the top of my head I cannot.
This version is not very good!
alanheath2 5 months ago 2
@alanheath2 I found that info at guardian(dot)co(dot)uk/music/2006/jul/29/popandrock3
jctoad 5 months ago
lol what the fuck is up with that guy in the rabbit suit?
FriedGold8942 5 months ago
I gather it's the biggest selling 12" of all time in the UK. Not sure if FGTH beat it tho.
dazpotton 6 months ago
@dazpotton I had a cassette recording of a DJ saying that in the summer of 1984 just after the chart countdown on a Sunday night.
alanheath2 5 months ago
@MrDaveKnave: A six string bass.
soepil 6 months ago
Negative comments wont change the fact that they are bigger then you....and will STILL be around after Selena Gomez an Beiber have thier mutant
darthslokita 6 months ago
It might sound crap but I think it's great!
bassman0708 6 months ago
this is the world's most wonderful, most beautiful band.when bernard closes his eyes , he brings us closer to god.
texas4christ 7 months ago
80s synth pop way way ahead of its time!!!
tarsiereater 7 months ago 2
definitely ahead of its time!!!
Richarddj 7 months ago
New Order's clunky live rendition of 'Blue Monday' in 1983 sent the biggest-selling 12" single of all time falling down the charts.
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sherbert500 7 months ago
"playing live, singing live!" hahaha hillarious. New Order!!
borealico 7 months ago
At the time, why was New Order the only band that performed live on TOTP? Surely other quality bands wanted to perform live too, but why only New Order?
canuck21 7 months ago
The wrong notes, the awkwardeness, the overproduced sounds, it looked like a rehearsal- I don't care! That's what made New Order groundbreaking! Awesome band!
runforitscooby 7 months ago
Am I the only one who think that Bernard Sumner looks like Ian Curtis in this video?
vincentvalentine832 8 months ago
@vincentvalentine832 Clearly not, as there's somebody else asking the same question but a few comments down...
mrchopper 7 months ago
Love the synth player's duff notes. I hate it when that happens but who made keys glossy? When you are playing live it gets so hot and sweaty, your finger slips.
smash4686 8 months ago
Look at the crowd going wild! They were nearly rioting!
droote 8 months ago
does anyone else think bernard looks kinda like a young keifer sutherland here??
kwanza6669 8 months ago
@kwanza6669 I think Stephen looks more him like at 2:10.
mrchopper 7 months ago
Jest muzyka która się nie nudzi.
Słucham tego kawałka przynajmniej raz na miesiąc od 20 kilku lat, i dalej świetnie to brzmi.
It is music that is not bored.
I listen to this song at least once a month from 20 a few years, and still sounds great.
KristVladic 9 months ago
sometimes you know you have a great song,, here you see it in its early phase.. he worked on it and got it too where he wanted it which is the later versions with the more modern synths.. that is called belief in what you do ..
peterpetersbng 9 months ago
If you want people to sound exactly the same as the record when you see them live, why see them live at all. In my opinion many live performances these days are so over produced, they are almost pointless. May as well go buy the dvd.
You go to 'see' the band and the more personal touch to their music is what you go there for.
In refererence to Stock/Aitken & Pete weinerman, they were the birth of over polished mimed pop trash on these types of shows and the death of 'real' creative music.
higherrights 9 months ago
Stephen Morris: "sounds horrible" xd, not for me :)
bono300vox 9 months ago
Brilliant Band
bleachit21 9 months ago 2
not the best performance, he also changed some lyrics here =D, but this song is still awesome, love it
JTruupold 11 months ago
28 Years Ago today.
JHollowayNetwork 11 months ago
Mmmm, yes, they are playng live, but the only thing on tempo is the sequencer...
warpto80 11 months ago
Es una de mis canciones fav del genero Tekno rock.
rayito2005 1 year ago
@stillbornchrist, I just said most of the things you posted right before I read it. NO was/is one of my favs from the '80s, but if YouTube was around then, and I saw this shit, I prob wouldn't have ever bought a cassette. But I'm sincerely interested as to the point you mentioned. Please reply
timzoemak 1 year ago
They were the best dont know why but it has to do with J.D .I dont know The distance they have at stage is tremendous.Never put the hands toghether after a song or say oehh or ahh nothing. Just be in the music
ronaldvanderkleij 1 year ago
3:19 cracks me up.
EdgarDizzlewicz92 1 year ago
Why is Bernard and Stephen laughing at 2:23 - did Hooky come in with the wrong line (or in the wrong place)?
Also - famously 'uncompromisingly live', but just noticed Hooky plays one drum beat too many at 2:16 - he's miming those stabs. :D
Anyone who says Barney's voice is crap or that they can't play live or that this is a terrible performance is kinda missing the point.
StillbornChrist 1 year ago
Ah remember bein 14 n thinkin " this is the stuff ah've been waitin fur" - totally changed mah perspective on music ( jist aboot gied up wi the shit the charts wiz pumpin oot) expanded mah mind n ah'm eternally grateful tae barney, hooky, gillian n the monumenal drummer steve morris ( soak up the sweat steve!) power tae the bands thit want tae make a difference- lang may yer lum reek!
zisks 1 year ago
I was 18! and was totally in awe still have the original 12" and everything else they produced on vinyl and CD!! QUALITY band LOVE em!!!
nu2orda 1 year ago
A great live version. Could Gillian have had her synth much lower? The poor lass is nearly stooping over it!
UKMashedPotatoes 1 year ago
If BBC was smart they would bring back TOTP and have as many of the artist perform live as they could
UNARismor 1 year ago 6
@UNARismor
There's no decent pop music to have on TOTP today.
JohnPurchaseArt 2 months ago
original rave !
foodstampz 1 year ago
So much prefer this version! So spooky!
JMR83 1 year ago
I bow in awe.
Pamberjack 1 year ago
>:o jojo yo tengo este videoo
ahhh buenisimooo >.<!!!!!!!
Enishiku 1 year ago
This is when TOTP was really great that time.
SweetMatheson 1 year ago 2
look at 1:23, berney was definitely on something!
doubleredsx3 1 year ago
the live version is a thousand times better
edmundsampo 1 year ago
When the original is so good you can't play it any better live.
officernikos 1 year ago
you can definitely see him wishing that Ian was up front there instead of him
g4lt 1 year ago
i was 11 back then, reminds me of the summer of 84
kortenberger 1 year ago
outstanding ... and the girl is playing the mighty Prophet 5... I am in love..
purehousestaff 1 year ago
You can hear that they barely controlled their high tech gear live, and even in this crap performance the song stands, this song is the main influence for the later Stock Aitken and Waterman productions, Pete Waterman once said in an interview.
You must really take into consideration the fact they were actually a guitar band gone synthpop....
BUT,
If you ask me, the 12" 1983 version of this song is absolutely the best record ever made!
karelpostthuis 1 year ago 29
@karelpostthuis every made ... KUDOS!
sanctorumdj1 1 year ago
@karelpostthuis are you kidding me? i mean i see your point on the rest of the story calling it great.. but it definitely isn't a crap performance! one of the best of blue monday i've seen!
kwanza6669 8 months ago
@kwanza6669 Excuse me.. i adore this band, but.... wrong key's pressed on the prophet and no one having a clue where they are in the track makes this performance not their best.
BUT still i love to watch and hear it, nothing can kill this monstertrack!
karelpostthuis 8 months ago
@karelpostthuis my friend, 100% of what you wrote, is completly true.
TheEpicImpaler 6 months ago
@karelpostthuis: I dunno, I actually prefer this version to the studio for some reason. I think the main reason is that almost all the instrumentation sounds a lot thinner here than in the studio version. It really brings out the disparate theme of the lyrics a lot more in the music. But I will admit that SOMEONE really fucked up Bernie's microphone, it keeps shorting out.
FriedGold8942 5 months ago
@karelpostthuis Some good history here. Very well said. Changing gears a wee bit, but for my money the 88 remix of Blue Monday really stands out. To me, it began with perfection and actually brought out more in the song than before. But then again, like you said they were a bass guitar driven band that went more synth pop. The gear used in 82-83 was still very new and it took a while to really be able to use it to its full potential. Maybe it took that long to use it to "polish" the song.
ohmixmaster 5 months ago
Hooky has always looked old hasnt he? lol
GanEdenAustralia 1 year ago 3
3:19 epic fail.
desherinka 1 year ago 2
haha
metalmilitia13111 1 year ago
Just saw this on the V music channel, looks like they were cracking up that they had to do a TV show performance. How mainstream! LOL. Great song, I would love to do this at a Karaoke nightclub!
verbusen 2 years ago
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anch0rman13 2 years ago
I adore New Order and they have given me some of my best and most intense moments of enjoying music. That said on this particular day they were worse than awful! :)
Panthera0nca 2 years ago
Looks like the keyboardists took a page out of Kraftwerk's book - robot musicians
cyclissmo 2 years ago
love it.them and pet shop boys two of the most succesfull british electro-pop of the 80s
londonathens 2 years ago
not to sure about the pet shot boys what about omd the human league
anch0rman13 2 years ago
Wow they were so cute
eklera 2 years ago
As much as I dislike Coldplay and love Kraftwerk, they did ask permission and Kraftwerk gave it, so I don't see any problems apart from the fact what they did with it was terrible :P
TheModCon 2 years ago 6
bernard couldn't ever really sing pitch perfect and he had a beautiful sort of discord-ness to his voice. i don't know but it was great.
reallynaked 2 years ago 3
This is the best song of New Order! A Classic!
carlosgaio20 2 years ago
i love when he almost laughs at the end lol
darkmarkrammstein 2 years ago
This song is played all the time on WRXP out of NYC. I reconnected with it because they started playing it on the radio again. Great song!
KARENCOGS 2 years ago
there just aint bands like this no more
bowbow91 2 years ago 29
@bowbow91 why does every nostalgic out-of-touch piece-of-s*it comment get highest rated??
myowntree 1 year ago 12
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Eloquence34 1 year ago
@myowntree fucking aye
FruitGoLoops 1 year ago
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@myowntree because of people like you dickhead
rickgrimes3955 3 months ago
@myowntree you answer yourself. and why would you care?????? get a life
redredreds100 2 months ago
eyes closed was the rage although most bands were never in this songs class.
ButchRooby 2 years ago
oh my god lol, why does he have his eyes closed for so long?? how embarrassing for him lol
hayleynewstead 2 years ago
the reason this version is shitty is because new order's elaborate blue monday single lost them money on every sale, they did a deliberately shit version to try and cool the hype that had inevitably surrounded them..unsurprisingly this did not work, due to the single being absolutely genius..
kraigphrenia 2 years ago 5
Didn't it have something to do with them putting a hole in their record sleeve so they never made any money because that cost so much to do
somebodygothurt 2 years ago 4
The idea that the hole in the sleeve lost money is fallaciousl.
Nº1 die cutting is quite cheap, especially the more you do.
Nº2 they only did die cutting on the first run
Nº3 the money didn't go into album sleeves, it went into the Haçienda club, so New Order never saw the proceeds from their single, which is the highest selling 12" single ever in the UK.
Hey ho we check our fact
bishopdante 2 years ago 5
yeah i thought they lost money every time they sold it. either way they never saw much money from it because new order funded the hacienda haha. as the new fac251 website says "built by tony wilson, paid for by new order, broken by the happy mondays"
reallynaked 2 years ago
@bishopdante true that, but the inescapable fact is that new order lost money on every single thing they did up until about the republic album. the debt of factory records as a whole was one that they had unintentionally been conned into thinking they could change or were responsible for, and as such, they literally lost money on this, and many other projects: up until the release of 'regret' i think. poor fellas!! still..intricate sleeveworks aside, what did they expect. this tune is a classic.
kraigphrenia 2 years ago
Mmm, they made money, and it was spent on their behalf? That's how all record companies have avoided writing cheques to their artists since dot.
Actually, it's a standard business ploy. I've had it done to me in countless ways over the years. Music biz, design biz, manufacturing biz, promotions biz etc etc etc.
That's an accountant's line. "the money is all gone, actually you need to make some more and give it to us"
bishopdante 2 years ago
@bishopdante Wrong. Tony Wilson said in the book 24 Party People: What The Sleeve Notes Didn't Tell You that roughly 4p was lost on each single due to the fact that the colors used on the sleeve were so hard to do, the sleeves needed to be printed 4 times to get the right color. The designer was very specific that no color was changed too.
fassaalbrecht 1 year ago
@fassaalbrecht Yeah, I saw the movie and heard that too, but Factory couldn't have maintained that for the amount of records they sold. On the wiki page it says they changed to normal ones after a while.
rEMINEMTGR 1 year ago
@rEMINEMTGR Nope, this was from a book that Tony Wilson himself wrote, called 24 Party People: What The Sleevenotes Didn't Tell You. If they swapped to ordinary sleeves, this wasn't mentioned in any of the material I've read.
fassaalbrecht 1 year ago
@fassaalbrecht Fair call, not saying the books wrong, because the reference that the wiki article used was pretty dodgy. I saw the movie version of 24 hr party people and at the time when this came out factory was pretty poor right? well divide one million copies / 1c and you get 10 grand. Not saying the book is definitely wrong but not many companies, even factory set out to lose 10k. Check out the wiki article as well.
rEMINEMTGR 1 year ago
@kraigphrenia What ?! listen , I loved New Order, still do. But they were fucking shit live. Absolute fucking shit. I hear they are better these days. But your conspiracy story is pretty funny.
cullyvan 1 year ago 3
@kraigphrenia so true.
officernikos 1 year ago
Bad version. Lol and I think they knew something was wrong
sirnoggin 2 years ago
i personally think they're just copying Editors ;)
roseslacks 2 years ago
Think it's the other way round mate, New Order did this 20 years before anyone heard of the Editors
2001ManicMonkeys 2 years ago
it was a joke :) albeit a bad one, but a joke nonetheless...
roseslacks 2 years ago 3
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Xesum 2 years ago
Everyone copied Kraftwerk.
Xesum 2 years ago
Not copied, but influenzed
bonzitoo76 2 years ago 3
i never borrow only steal- pablo picaso
im a photographer and all we do is steal
lagook 2 years ago
Dear bonzitoo76-Did they get a cold-when they were influenzed ?...sorry couldn't resist that !
MrBazzabee 2 years ago
probably right
Mattfletch001 2 years ago
Love it!
LeXVdeFrance 2 years ago
who the heck are the editors??? Neworder made this classic 28years ago
twenty eight years!!!! and the synth programming still is stands out as some of the best
padams24 2 years ago
geek. it was a joke. is your name sheldon?
roseslacks 2 years ago
oh! well as you can see us music geeks take this stuff seriously lol and nope my name is not sheldon
padams24 2 years ago
The bloke you're thinking of is Ian Curtis who was the singer of Joy Division - an amazing songwriter but unfortunately suffered with mental illness too.
After Mr Curtis killed himself, the rest of the band plus a new keyboardist, the woman in the band Gillian Gilbert became New Order.
They were often accused of being Nazis because of the names of the bands (despite any obvious lyrics to suggest sympathy with extremist politics).
TheRichardStanton 2 years ago
Yes Richard.
And the name "Joy Division" was probably taken by Ian from the Novella "The House of Dools"; which describes the nazi joy divisions (groups of Jewish women in the concentration camps who were kept for the sexual pleasure of Nazi).
brunobononi 2 years ago
great song, love this. the guy on vocals commited suicide didnt he? forgot his name.
superemposed 2 years ago
@superemposed It was Ian Curtis, singer of Joy Division not New Order yet
Mygalej 2 years ago
I know Peter was the bass player but he's playing a normal 6 string guitar here.
I think the bass line for this cam from one of the organs/synths.
andrew80s 2 years ago
peters bass hanging LOW
browneclowne 2 years ago
LOVe this love this song best song of the 80's!
yourstrulyloved 2 years ago
One of the greatest songs ever, though this is not my favorite version.
RainPoetry 2 years ago
Bliss!
EriqueBonito 2 years ago
bit statuesque here compared to their mental 'fine time' totp a few years later where bernard appears to be trying to climb an invisible tree... this performance is part of the factory records myth - along with losing money on the first run with the 'floppy disk' sleeve (they later made a cheaper one) they talk about being the only band whose single went down in the charts after they'd done totp. considering everyone else was miming, it seemed a shock at the time. i was only 12 but i remember!
aj141070 2 years ago
That looks like a pretty dishevelled Steve Wright on the right of screen at the beginning during the introduction.
ajs41 2 years ago
hooky!!! el mejor de alli no hay mas..
ADESIREEZ 2 years ago
New order "live" are a different experience....the songs are often difficult to recreate and so there is an element of hit and miss. However when they do hit the target the result is often totally spontaneous, emotionally uplifting and intensely spiritual.
howmanock 2 years ago 6
Wait i thought they lip synced everything on TOTP?
vicprobey 2 years ago
not all bands, i remember the red hot chilis played for real a few times on it...
Rockafellaton 2 years ago
My mate was a huge New Order fan and saw them live a few times. As much as loved them he said they were the worst three gigs he'd ever been to.
cheekysausage 2 years ago
Great but does anyone else agree that Bernard is off his head on something
largejack1000 2 years ago 2
sure as ! tony wilson hacienda and no more then damon alban ? watch blurs 1st totp performance
pmo56 2 years ago
God, now you're talking..."There's No Other Way" IIRC?
NO themselves did something similar on ToTP with "World (Price Of Love)"...look at Steve Morris :-o
AlexHales 2 years ago
even UK Gold had repeated this episode aswell from March 31, 1983 and did they repeat April 7, 14, & 21 aswell according to Wikipedia?
Glamking1 2 years ago
i love the singer!! he is supposed to b