New Order: Denial @ NYC 1981

New Order playing Denial live at the Ukrainian National Home in New York on November 19th 1981

Here I am in a house full of doors with no exits
In a light that is gray like the stain on my window
All of this is a gift such a painful companion
Inside my soul

It's just something I know, the answer's not there, it comes and it goes and it frightens me
It's just something I know, the answer's not there, it comes and it goes and it frightens me

This feeling inside me can't confront the decay
To fall down on my knees and resume the charade
Believe me this distance it's not what I need
Inside my soul

Time worked so well upon us
Inside my soul

Category:

Music

Tags:

• new
• order
• denial
• taras
• shevchenko
• 1981

[Procopius1980]

To true. Yet, real art, such as this, does not pay the bills. Only a hardcore JD/NO fan could appreciate this. Songs like Blue Monday and Bizzare Love Triangle are the ones that sell the records.

[laynenmru]

So much cooler than the studio version.

They've lost something over the years

[cmdraven]

@woodmankrk I tend to believe this was the main reason they were notorious for not playing encores. He was probably too exhausted to continue. I get tired just looking at him! Amazing drummer. He and Hooky are one of the best rhythm sections I've ever seen.

[RobinParmarSound]

Thanks for posting this live session! All incredible to see/hear.

[LegRoom3]

1:30 hooky sounds scarily like ian curtis

[simionTheOne]

by far the best new order album i've heard so far

not a huge fan of their sell-out singles

[jayops]

@laynenmru Hell yes. Their thrill is gone now.

[SoulrapeR100]

losing something? I like this performance alot.

[NOBUKAZUASA]

ニューオーダーのなかではこれが一番好き♪＾＾＾



[JubeProductions]

you can just feel the regret, remorse, tension and confusion in this electric performance of a band not knowing where they are goingl but knowing that when they get there it's going to be incredible.

[woodmankrk]

Stephen Morris is a freakin' machine. I've played drums (not too well, lol) and I think most people don't realize how difficult it is to do what he's doin'! WOW!!

[jlucasca]

Like @Procopius1980 said, this was in a transactional period, between NO and JD. This songs were like a fusion between what JD were and what's NO became. Yet I like the others NO albums, even knowing that they are much more "selling focused".