New Order - The Him Live 1981 (Hamburg)

Audio Only, New Order - The Him Live 1981-05-16 (Hamburg, Markthalle)

Lyrics

Some days you waste your life away
These times I find no words to say
A crime I once committed filled me
Too much of heaven's eyes I saw through
Only when meanings have no reason
They're taken beyond your sense of right

Small boy kneels, wandering in a great hall
He pays pennance to the air above him
White circles, black lines surround me
Reborn, so plain my eyes see
This is the reason that I came here
To be so near to such a person

I'm so tired, I'm so tired

Category:

Music

Tags:

• new
• order
• the
• him
• movement
• hook
• morris
• sumner
• florianklose
• hamburg
• live
• markthalle

[Procopius1980]

Performed almost one year to the date of Ian's suicide. "This is the reason that I came here/ to be so near to such a person." The arrangements are so simple, yet they are weaved together to make what I consider to be the darkest and most atmospheric song recorded by New Order or Joy Division. Perhaps the memories with which I associate The Him have biased me just a bit. New Order shows here that they can use their punk roots to make something very powerful.

[Irishenglish83]

Unreal

[lioii]

@dominique6259 Lucky bastard!!

[miamormia]

ONE OF THE MOST MORBID BEAUTIFUL SONGS FROM NEW ORDER OF ALL TIME. SO UNDERRATED! TAHNKS FOR POSTING!

[CulticMonkey]

Who ever you are.... thank you so much for posting this :o... this is indeed one off the best songs new order ever made and its sad that ill never have the chance to hear it live... but this is as close as it gets and for that i thank u :) so much :)

[dominique6259]

i've seen them one year later,at the Meervaart,A'dam,with this song....great,just great (i also seen joy division in A'dam,in 80,at the paradiso).

[TheRATTLEHEAD75]

est ce

[TheRATTLEHEAD75]

@001tape ouais c'est vrai! mais est-ce que qq'un a la vidéo de la markthalle(hambourg)! Ce serait magnifique!

[TheRATTLEHEAD75]

@zurbarab POP? Là,c'est encore de la new-wave! (on peut meme dire de la cold-wave...) ils ne sont devenu pop-minimalistes que plus tard. Avec un certain succès malgré tout.

[maruthamarutha]

Fuckin despair!!

[TheRATTLEHEAD75]

@Procopius1980 la plus sombre de new order peu etre (quoiqu'il y ait aussi l'élégie à ian) mais pas de joy division:decades /the eternal/in a lonely place...