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  • Опубликовано: 20 авг 2010
  • Joy Division "Ceremony" is a song by Joy Division, released as New Order's debut single in 1981. The song, as well as the B-side, "In a Lonely Place", were written as Joy Division prior to the death of Ian Curtis. Both were carried over to the band's re-incarnation as New Order.
    After the death of Ian Curtis, the remaining members of Joy Division renamed the band New Order. Their first release was a re-recording of "Ceremony" as a stand-alone single backed with "In a Lonely Place", with guitarist Bernard Sumner taking over lead vocals. Sumner said that he had to put the "Ceremony" rehearsal tape as sung by Curtis through a graphic equalizer to transcribe the lyrics
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  • @athousandleavesturninsideyou
    @athousandleavesturninsideyou 2 месяца назад +75

    You're a young human hanging out at night with friends listening to depeche mode, new order, u2, your favorite song is ceremony. Then you're an adult, and listen to Joy Division's Ceremony, hits hard, very hard

    • @Spendarellaa
      @Spendarellaa 2 месяца назад +3

      I remember the strongest feeling was hope. Now the feeling is hopeless.

    • @Ad-fu6tj
      @Ad-fu6tj 2 месяца назад +4

      ​@@Spendarellaa
      It kinda sounds like your past was New Order's Ceremony while the present is Joy Division's/Ian Curtis' Ceremony

    • @Alex-fb2bs
      @Alex-fb2bs 2 месяца назад +1

      Bro this just new order version slowed down 😭

    • @athousandleavesturninsideyou
      @athousandleavesturninsideyou 2 месяца назад

      @@Alex-fb2bs the video is 13 years old

    • @therealbertho
      @therealbertho Месяц назад

      Bro, this just the original version of the song. And Ian's vocals win.

  • @michawinkler2166
    @michawinkler2166 3 года назад +315

    The best "Goodbye Song" for Ian.

    • @georgeaharonian9078
      @georgeaharonian9078 3 года назад +24

      R.I.P. Ian Curtis, I truly hope you can see all these comments and the hearts you touched
      .

    • @8darkknight472
      @8darkknight472 2 года назад +2

      IAn was murdered

    • @Thehamstersgiude2u
      @Thehamstersgiude2u 2 года назад +1

      Love you flap jack

    • @amirfreeman1557
      @amirfreeman1557 2 года назад +28

      @@8darkknight472 Yeah, murdered by gravity. By another person? No, I don't think so.

    • @stephenfaulkner6975
      @stephenfaulkner6975 Год назад +2

      I think you’ve nailed it with that comment

  • @chegeny
    @chegeny 3 года назад +842

    Ceremony takes me back to myself as a teenager in 1981 hearing it the first time. I feel the emotional pull in my chest, the disconnect, the loneliness and it's all beautiful at the same time, like a found a secret song just for myself. Like I found a bit of hope to latch onto. I think it's the only song I've ever heard that can do that.

    • @nickswaim672
      @nickswaim672 3 года назад +17

      You worded it perfectly.

    • @mikestewart2359
      @mikestewart2359 3 года назад +9

      Soo well written chegeny

    • @drewastolfi6840
      @drewastolfi6840 3 года назад +13

      I hear you. It was like that for me too. A lifetime ago, and I still feel it.

    • @optimusprimate6954
      @optimusprimate6954 3 года назад +5

      i like you chegeny.

    • @JKaiserable
      @JKaiserable 3 года назад +7

      Did the same to me 20 years later.

  • @briangamble5396
    @briangamble5396 3 года назад +354

    41Years today the world lost a legend. RIP Ian

    • @user-sh6li4ue1s
      @user-sh6li4ue1s 3 года назад

      My Favorite as Robert Smith. Russland/

    • @aazreaal
      @aazreaal 3 года назад +1

      Cant believe it's been that long.

    • @c1rcl3s
      @c1rcl3s 3 года назад +1

      Older than me, and I thought I was pretty old.

    • @bbpo1zon3
      @bbpo1zon3 3 года назад

      @@canadariots1139 как скажешь

    • @everettjoseph6400
      @everettjoseph6400 2 года назад

      You probably dont give a damn but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an instagram account?
      I somehow forgot the account password. I would appreciate any tricks you can give me.

  • @charlessomerset9754
    @charlessomerset9754 5 лет назад +1512

    For me this is the song that bridges Joy Division and New Order.

    • @MECHANISM-tm1ug
      @MECHANISM-tm1ug 4 года назад +25

      One amongst many

    • @DrunkChimp
      @DrunkChimp 4 года назад +8

      Absolutely.

    • @andrebotelhosp
      @andrebotelhosp 4 года назад +32

      100% agree! And "Love will tear us apart" is the New Order sonority seed.

    • @scottpierce68
      @scottpierce68 4 года назад +10

      It's the same band....

    • @charlessomerset9754
      @charlessomerset9754 4 года назад +25

      Well yes, but both are distinct. This song, more than any other for me, bridges the style of both.

  • @TheeMissingLinc
    @TheeMissingLinc 5 лет назад +2355

    This is for the 200 incorrect attempts at explaining this song.
    "Ceremony" was one of the last JOY DIVISION songs to be composed, with lyrics written by Ian Curtis. There are THREE recorded versions by Joy Division in existence. The first is a live version, available on the Still album, from their final concert at High Hall, Birmingham University on 2 May 1980. The second, available on the Heart and Soul four-disc box set, is from a studio session on 14 May 1980, four days before Curtis' suicide. It was the band's last recording. The third is a version recorded at the soundcheck on the afternoon of 2 May 1980 (along with "Decades") and is only available on bootleg. In all recordings, the vocals are only partially audible. After the death of Ian Curtis, the remaining members of Joy Division regrouped as New Order. Their first release was a re-recording of "Ceremony" as a stand-alone single backed with "In a Lonely Place", with guitarist Bernard Sumner taking over lead vocals. Because Curtis had never transcribed the lyrics to "Ceremony" and because his singing was muted to the point of near-inaudibility on all surviving recordings, Sumner reportedly had to put them through a graphic equalizer to approximate the lyrics. In January 1981, the first version of "Ceremony" was released on Factory Records (FAC 33). Initially released as a 7" single, it was reissued as a 12" two months later. Martin Hannett (Joy Division's producer) produced the record and Peter Savilledesigned the sleeve artwork for both releases.
    The 7" record was issued in a stamped gold-bronze sleeve. The 12" sleeve was a completely separate design: gold typography on a green background. In September 1981, "Ceremony" was re-released. Gillian Gilbert played guitar on this new recording just after she joined the band. Martin Hannett again produced the record. The single was re-issued as a 12" only, with the same catalogue number (FAC 33). The original is approximately 4:34 minutes in length while the re-recording is 4:23. The re-recorded version was used on all subsequent compilations until Singles in 2005, when the original March '81 recording was released on CD for the first time.
    There are differences in the recordings. Version 1 has a more "Joy Division sound", with throbbing bass, distorted guitar, spacey vocals, and solid drums also contributing a wash of cymbals. In Version 2 the bass is diminished, cymbals restrained, and the vocals are "drier". The guitar has a sound typical of that used on the album Movement. Drum hits in the opening verse are dramatically panned in the mix. There is a greater contrast between verse and chorus, with the latter sections reaching some of the emotional pitch of the original. In addition to the new recording of the a-side track, the b-side track "In a Lonely Place" was slightly remixed and added more synthetic "thunder" noises throughout the song. This alternate mix also appears on the second disc of Substance and subsequent compilations.
    The sleeve was changed to a light cream with a vertical blue stripe, though with the same motif and typography as the original 12" single. After supply of the re-designed sleeve ran out, copies of the originally-designed sleeve were re-used. Accordingly, the two versions of the song were packaged indiscriminately in the original sleeve. However, the run-groove notation (phrases pressed onto the vinyl) differ according to the version. The original says "watching love grow forever," while the re-recording's etching says "this is why events unnerve me"; both phrases are excerpts from the lyrics of "Ceremony".The single was re-issued again in April 2011 for Record Store Day in a white sleeve. This limited edition release (only 800 copies) plays at 33 rpm. It features the New Order recordings of "Ceremony" (the pre-Gillian Gilbert take) and "In a Lonely Place" on one side, with the rare Joy Division recordings of the same tracks on the flip side-"Ceremony" comes from the 1997 Heart & Soul box set but the version of "In a Lonely Place" is a recently discovered complete take and not the same as the version featured on Heart & Soul. TheHeart & Soul version is cut short at 2:32, whereas this newly discovered take runs for 5:45 and the full Ian Curtis vocal of "In a Lonely Place" is heard here for the first time, complete with the missing third verse..

    • @angelariley4296
      @angelariley4296 5 лет назад +53

      Thank you,very interesting.

    • @Stormeysmummy
      @Stormeysmummy 4 года назад +72

      Thank you @TheForgotten for summarizing it so well and accurately for us. We will never have Ian's full realisation of this amazing track (my absolute favourite of Joy Division's actually) I think because it is incomplete and we will never know the full greatness of it... but I think New Order did their best by him and I am thankful for that. RIP Ian Curtis, one of greatest losses to 20th and 21st Century music.

    • @BoudicaJ
      @BoudicaJ 4 года назад +59

      Yes...that's all fact...nothing new there. That doesn't explain though why this version isn't a version...it's just the first single slowed down.,

    • @DannyDiess
      @DannyDiess 4 года назад +13

      brilliant research and thank you for sharing this. Its an amazing song but i'm into all Joy Division and New Order. Take care and thank you again for this.

    • @spassy13
      @spassy13 4 года назад +6

      good to hear the truth

  • @jond2728
    @jond2728 2 года назад +373

    This was Ian's Eulogy.
    Heart breaking and thoughtful.
    Much love everyone.

    • @brymonae6985
      @brymonae6985 2 года назад +30

      I've always thought that. The song sounds so much like a goodbye to me, captures the melancholic sadness while also giving solace and hope for the future

    • @fadedSF
      @fadedSF 2 года назад +4

      Or perhaps Elegia...?

    • @anitas4143
      @anitas4143 Год назад +4

      Love to you

    • @georgeaharonian9078
      @georgeaharonian9078 Год назад +10

      just hope he found what he was looking for. forever watching love grow forever let me know. RIP Ian Curtis

  • @perdunesco
    @perdunesco 9 лет назад +807

    This song makes me feel so many things at the same time

    • @aldrinefrainpv604
      @aldrinefrainpv604 7 лет назад +3

      Javier Canales same here

    • @accountsbizprofits8143
      @accountsbizprofits8143 5 лет назад +4

      I feel you

    • @bobbya1407
      @bobbya1407 5 лет назад +1

      ME TOO

    • @gloriastroedecke2717
      @gloriastroedecke2717 4 года назад

      Yes,Javier. Isn't it magic?

    • @lcuk99
      @lcuk99 4 года назад +5

      couldnt agree more - joy division/new order have/had the ability to do this: mainly this song and atmosphere. There are rare times when bands produce that kind of emotion and these lot did it twice!

  • @juancamacho5746
    @juancamacho5746 2 года назад +219

    This is why events unnerve me
    They find it all, a different story
    Notice whom for wheels are turning
    Turn again and turn towards this time
    All she ask's the strength to hold me
    Then again the same old story
    Word will travel, oh so quickly
    Travel first and lean towards this time.
    Oh, I'll break them all, no mercy shown
    Heaven knows, it's got to be this time
    Watching her, these things she said
    The times she cried
    Too frail to wake this time.
    🎵🎶🎵🎶
    Oh, I'll break them down, no mercy shown
    Heaven knows, it's got to be this time
    Avenues all lined with trees
    Picture me and then you start watching
    Watching forever, forever
    Watching love grow, forever
    Letting me know, forever.

    • @dovlaherbalajzer9234
      @dovlaherbalajzer9234 2 года назад +8

      Thanks.

    • @Nargle19.
      @Nargle19. 2 года назад +8

      This Poem. Beautiful. As it is written.

    • @patrickmcdonald123
      @patrickmcdonald123 2 года назад +2

      Not all heroes wear capes, but in this case I hope you do 😎

    • @roscodabosco81
      @roscodabosco81 Год назад +2

      I think the first chorus starts "Oh, I'll break them all, no mercy shown" not "break them down"?

    • @georgeaharonian9078
      @georgeaharonian9078 Год назад +2

      hope you found your peace R.i.P. Ian Curtis

  • @sem7pre
    @sem7pre 3 года назад +315

    I feel so broken...I miss my baby brother cancer came broke our hearts he battled for a year he was 43...I come to listen to one of his favorites ..he was just 4 years old when this song came about yet years later it would be one of his favorite bands...we listened to Joy Division on our travels to another city for his cancer treatment... So I listen I cry ..Rest in Heaven baby brother .. Martin Forever..1974-2019..

    • @aaronsmith2054
      @aaronsmith2054 3 года назад +14

      I wish you nothing but happy memories and healing brother. Take care.

    • @sem7pre
      @sem7pre 3 года назад +11

      @@aaronsmith2054 Thank you Aaron...I appreciate this...all I have are beautiful memories of my young brother.... Many of them through these songs .... Take care

    • @tsurupaolo
      @tsurupaolo 3 года назад +9

      I'm so sorry for your loss Melissa.

    • @sem7pre
      @sem7pre 3 года назад +8

      @@tsurupaolo Thank you so much...Nov.2019 my baby brother received his wings days after my birthday ..He truly is An Amazing Person ..Very kind respectful and a true soul...I miss him dearly..I have these songs that I listened too and years later he would too.. Thank you for your kind words...

    • @georgeaharonian9078
      @georgeaharonian9078 3 года назад +6

      avenues all lined with trees,
      picture me and then you start watching,
      watching forever, forever,
      watching love grow, forever,
      letting me know, forever

  • @SandraMcCalip
    @SandraMcCalip 6 месяцев назад +14

    To Ian Curtis and
    JOY DIVISION
    We will never forget

  • @ericac2596
    @ericac2596 4 года назад +574

    40 years today. Miss you, miss you, miss you so bad. Hope you've found peace somehow, Ian. 18/5/2020 💔

  • @briangamble5396
    @briangamble5396 Месяц назад +14

    Nearly 2 years ago I wrote that comment and that sad day is nearly with us again, still listen to Joy Division daily and will have them on all day Saturday , R.I.P Ian your music has helped many a person in a bad place just wish something could have helped you, I saw the band every time I could and I still have the memories.

  • @frasermacdonald6614
    @frasermacdonald6614 2 года назад +120

    The song and background image brought back a memory, from a cold winter night in 1982. I was feeling claustrophobic, out of place and miserable in a crowded party, when an absolute stunner caught my eye, stared at me sympathetically, then walked over and asked if I wanted to get out of there. The trees were all covered with a layer of ice from freezing rain that day. She was the most beautiful woman on the planet, the trees glittered around us as we walked through the night, and everything was perfect. A crystalline moment...

    • @k-leb4671
      @k-leb4671 2 года назад +5

      What happened to her afterwards?

    • @frasermacdonald6614
      @frasermacdonald6614 2 года назад +28

      @@k-leb4671 Last I heard (many, many years ago), she became a very socially conscious world traveller. There were a few stories from mutual friends over the years about her spending time in Sri Lanka and North Africa. She was a true free spirit, kind of a post-60's hippy. Glad there are a few people like that left in the world :)

    • @jupiter6647
      @jupiter6647 Год назад +5

      Bravo... I was 16 then, know it ALL too well... peace..

    • @apple_blossom6037
      @apple_blossom6037 Год назад +6

      That is a beautiful memory... thank you for letting us peek at it. 🖤

    • @corvideity
      @corvideity Год назад +1

      there's a hidden lyric about trees at the end of the original cut by jd

  • @lukeyraptor6738
    @lukeyraptor6738 4 года назад +209

    This is the greatest song ever written, I don’t think there is a better example of music and lyrics fitting together so harmoniously

    • @chuckmorton8823
      @chuckmorton8823 Год назад

      Try the Chromatics version

    • @NaturalBornKelli
      @NaturalBornKelli Год назад +4

      ​@@chuckmorton8823 Nothing, no, not anyone ever beats IAN CURTIS and HIS LOVELY SONG AND ANGELIC VOICE.

    • @NaturalBornKelli
      @NaturalBornKelli Год назад +3

      This song makes my heart sink.

    • @squimbio
      @squimbio Год назад +2

      ​@@Balrogus This is ian, its one if not the last recordings joy division ever made, a few days before his death

    • @squimbio
      @squimbio Год назад +1

      @@Balrogus Are you sure? I wouldnt be able to tell, especially with how unclear the vocals are

  • @russellbeckley368
    @russellbeckley368 4 года назад +1719

    For the best listening experience, I recommend fetal position.

  • @badass1424
    @badass1424 5 лет назад +172

    Joy Division, New Order, Bauhaus and so many more what a great generation that was.

    • @Thehamstersgiude2u
      @Thehamstersgiude2u 4 года назад +5

      Bad Ass marry me

    • @Antonio-yn2un
      @Antonio-yn2un 3 года назад +2

      @@Thehamstersgiude2u no, you marry me

    • @davvyefc1
      @davvyefc1 3 года назад +3

      yes it was a great time , lots of new sounds and young lads wearing eye make up, Echo and the Bunnymen were up there

    • @marjanadamovic6393
      @marjanadamovic6393 3 года назад

      without last two and other...joy is monolit, like the doors or ...

    • @sirpizza2044
      @sirpizza2044 3 года назад

      @@Antonio-yn2un no, I marry you

  • @vincentharris8552
    @vincentharris8552 6 лет назад +507

    I love the picture. It reminds me of those Christmas times when the lights and the atmosphere seemed to keep me warm and full of hope. If only for a moment.

    • @fleezuschrist7684
      @fleezuschrist7684 5 лет назад +16

      Vincent Harris I feel the exact same way. The feeling is indescribable but I think you nailed it

    • @emmanuelaube6458
      @emmanuelaube6458 5 лет назад +1

      Do you think it s Paris ? That s what it reminds me.

    • @hashteraksgage3281
      @hashteraksgage3281 4 года назад +14

      @@dopeywonder I am the only one who likes most winter over summer?

    • @eddiebrown8549
      @eddiebrown8549 4 года назад +4

      Yes there's no tacky 'it's Christmas spend money' advertising anywhere...

    • @daveyhando9536
      @daveyhando9536 4 года назад

      Christmas, bullshit this is typically joy division

  • @wyattlangfoss6963
    @wyattlangfoss6963 Год назад +111

    The feeling this song gives me is one I can't explain. Joy Division have gotten me through the ups and downs of life and helped me to stay grounded when all I want is to just fly away. I'll forever be grateful to have heard Disorder on Skate 3 and found my favorite band, rock on you beautiful people

    • @forrestwright5981
      @forrestwright5981 Год назад +5

      I wished I would have heard of them before this last week. I been on this earth for 41 years. The only reason I found joy division is listening to a U2 song where Bono sings love will tear us apart. I was curious about that lyric so looked it up and unopened a whole world of beautiful music.

  • @catalamod66
    @catalamod66 6 лет назад +85

    Joy Division created their own pop song model in Manchester in the late 70s, beyond labels and fashions, they were unique: melancholy, personality, honesty, elegance, minimalism. Logically the first New Order collected all of that

  • @bruhguy4208
    @bruhguy4208 Год назад +42

    I have heard hundreds of albums and this is probably the best song ive ever heard

    • @christianbecker8108
      @christianbecker8108 9 месяцев назад

      What are your favorit bands?

    • @bruhguy4208
      @bruhguy4208 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@christianbecker8108 joy division, have a nice life, the microphones, nine inch nails, model/actriz to name a few

    • @briancox9357
      @briancox9357 3 месяца назад

      It's one of the greatest ever

  • @malcolmcog
    @malcolmcog 4 года назад +127

    I play this to my Grandchildren, they enjoy the music. We have hope in the future !

  • @osorno_js
    @osorno_js 4 года назад +108

    i met this song one day that i drove one hour to the house of a girl i was dating (we were fighting) to fix the things between us, i called to her phone, she rejected the call and told me to leave then i went to a grocery store next to her house to get some cigarretes, the song was playing, suddenly i got that feeling of fullfillness and profundly sadness at the same time.

    • @aaron1708
      @aaron1708 3 года назад +12

      Incredibly stated! This mix between sadness and fulfillness is for me the most charming thing from post punk/gothic

    • @HaiteLibbies
      @HaiteLibbies 11 месяцев назад

      Never chase a girl. She is angry? Just laugh

  • @TerryLee788
    @TerryLee788 4 года назад +81

    My life would be so dry and horrible without Joy Division. I've been listening to them since the mid 80s. I adore them.❤

  • @roydenbellman
    @roydenbellman 2 года назад +42

    My Uncle Albert lived with epilepsy all his life. It was hell on Earth watching him have a seizure and being unable to do anything about it. Poor Ian. Tremendous rock voice, horrendous disease. Sad sad ending, but with amazing unforgettable music such as this song here. Thank you for all that you could give us Ian, Joy Division and New Order.

    • @guyfaux900
      @guyfaux900 10 месяцев назад +5

      "We're so sorry Uncle Albert" - Wings

  • @gunterdeclercq3170
    @gunterdeclercq3170 4 года назад +127

    In a certain way, this depressive music makes me happy. Top song.

    • @franktall7705
      @franktall7705 4 года назад

      Gunter De Clercq: Right?

    • @AdrianCastillo618
      @AdrianCastillo618 4 года назад +10

      Its because negative times negative= positive

    • @heekyungkim8147
      @heekyungkim8147 3 года назад +1

      👍🏽

    • @suumcuique4530
      @suumcuique4530 3 года назад +1

      they tell you dont fall in love with your suffering, but is there anything more beautiful in this world?

    • @jasonjones1690
      @jasonjones1690 3 года назад +2

      me too .......

  • @KutayUgurluer
    @KutayUgurluer 3 года назад +43

    I don't know how many times I walked with this song on in the streets of Istanbul, it made me feel like I am in Manchester, still does. Rest in peace Ian, you changed my life when I was 14.

  • @isao2952
    @isao2952 3 года назад +171

    theres an indelible feeling of hope emanating from this song for me, its inescapable

    • @Ali-it6qu
      @Ali-it6qu 3 года назад +10

      I’m glad you feel that way

    • @kirkhustle7596
      @kirkhustle7596 3 года назад +1

      i know exactly what you mean, i feel the same

    • @BoudicaJ
      @BoudicaJ 3 года назад

      ...wtaf. You like slowed down stuff do you?

    • @isao2952
      @isao2952 3 года назад +2

      @@BoudicaJ huh?

    • @pablojosechavezbotto7689
      @pablojosechavezbotto7689 3 года назад +4

      for me it brings me a feeling of accepting the doom. it's like dying but being glad that you are dying because you hate life

  • @thesis_gaia7960
    @thesis_gaia7960 3 года назад +58

    This amazing bass line, the frenetic drums, the perfect guitar, and the touching lyrics

  • @matthewwarren1789
    @matthewwarren1789 Год назад +26

    This is my all time fav Joy Division Song , brings back so many memories . R.I.P Ian Curtis, you are greatly missed

  • @captainfairysparklz
    @captainfairysparklz 2 года назад +23

    It's rare that I fall in love with a song on the first listen but wow

    • @there7149
      @there7149 2 года назад +2

      btw check out this song - faceless humming by the impures ............
      is a great indie track really gooooood
      rip ian vv

  • @allhull
    @allhull 2 года назад +13

    im nearly 60 now,as i listen to this timeless music, i remember how much joy division meant to me during my formative years...

  • @61subsandnovideos
    @61subsandnovideos 3 года назад +37

    I wanna cry but also dance to this, basically my reaction to all of Joy Division's songs but this one is just different, a much more hopeless atmosphere is in this song.

  • @christianbecker8108
    @christianbecker8108 2 года назад +27

    One of the best songs in the world history.
    You hear this song and all feelings overwhelm you at the same time

    • @josephshines3427
      @josephshines3427 2 года назад +2

      Good call.

    • @MD-ru5vs
      @MD-ru5vs 2 года назад +2

      yes after all this years it is still so impressive. I am happy Peter Hook recorded it again, and what a beauty he created.

  • @mamefydyshyn7257
    @mamefydyshyn7257 10 месяцев назад +10

    One of my favourite songs. Joy Division was a part of my youth.

  • @sem7pre
    @sem7pre 2 года назад +7

    Here Iam... Two years later just about the same dates...I loss my Mom...Dec 18 2021..my soul is crushed ..I had not wanted to listen to music..I'm sitting here under the same lights that Mom sat under in the middle of the nights where she cried for her youngest my baby brother.. now here Iam crying for her...Ive lost my childhood all over again the silence is one you can never let go .. hug your family tight even if it's for a second.. my seconds are gone forever and forever is too far as compared to seconds that can never be erased...Mom I miss you and now Fall leaves and unspeakable frozen raindrops hold you and my brothers name ... Mom Forever 1945-12. 18. 2021.. Martin my brother Forever.. 1976 - 11. 26.2019

    • @ivanchoque718
      @ivanchoque718 2 месяца назад

      Tu perdida golpeó mi corazón. En momentos así no hay palabras ni acciones que consuelen y uno mismo dejar de nadar para evitar ser ahogado por la existencia humana, deja de luchar y se deja llevar por esa corriente tan peligrosa que supo expresar Ian courtis. Solo cuando tenemos más seres amados o objetivos anhelados podemos soportar esas perdidas pero nunca olvidarás pues en nuestras lágrimas estarán ellos, los que ya no están.

    • @mcjs8640
      @mcjs8640 17 дней назад

      I know this is late, but I am sending you my condolences and a gentle hug if you would like to have one. Take care of yourself.

  • @theSid51
    @theSid51 8 лет назад +466

    i don't care if is new order or joy division, this is my favorite version, fooreeveeeer.

    • @jolenecarey2111
      @jolenecarey2111 6 лет назад +23

      its new order

    • @34BigPete
      @34BigPete 6 лет назад +38

      Thomas Yorke from Radiohead also did an excellent tribute to New Order and Joy Division with this song.

    • @rustyninnis145
      @rustyninnis145 5 лет назад +6

      its joy

    • @gustavogoesgomes7874
      @gustavogoesgomes7874 5 лет назад +6

      It was composed and originally played by Joy Division, and also is the most beautiful tribute there is, to Ian Curtis. So, in my view, Joy Division haha

    • @JosselynCollaguazo
      @JosselynCollaguazo 5 лет назад +10

      it's Joy Division

  • @robertcreighton4635
    @robertcreighton4635 5 лет назад +198

    I'm mentally ill have been for over twenty years now. I feel bad for ian that he didn't get the help he clearly needed :(

    • @georgeaharonian9078
      @georgeaharonian9078 4 года назад +5

      a lot don't seek help or get help

    • @ParanoidParkProject
      @ParanoidParkProject 3 года назад +36

      Ian had epilepsy in a time when not much was understood about the disease. Obviously someone should have noticed things were wrong, and i do remember his former band members saying they regretted not actually listening to his lyrics and realizing how far out he was. A sad story, but no one is really to blame in these cases, some people just can't be helped

    • @jakeola10
      @jakeola10 3 года назад +26

      I know this comment is a year old, but I hope you’re doing well.

    • @checkyourhead37
      @checkyourhead37 3 года назад +7

      Joy Division is pretty much why im still alive today

    • @heekyungkim8147
      @heekyungkim8147 3 года назад +7

      @@checkyourhead37 thanks to Ian. It takes guts to keep living sometimes. Wish u well.

  • @jameswolf4628
    @jameswolf4628 3 года назад +37

    Great song!! My dearest friend played this on a beautiful snowy evening in Seattle February ‘19... sounds and visions just like it happened now. She was so beautiful sitting on the floor in front of the fire...outside it looked very much as this picture and I knew then that this moment was going to be forever a sweet moment in my 24 hour clock of Joyful moments of my life! God Bless that woman forever!!!

  • @AEONZOE
    @AEONZOE 8 лет назад +501

    This is why events unnerve me,
    they find it all, a different story,
    notice whom for wheels are turning,
    turn again and turn towards this time,
    all she ask's the strength to hold me,
    then again the same old story,
    word will travel, oh so quickly,
    travel first and lean towards this time.
    Oh, i'll break them down, no mercy shown,
    heaven knows, it's got to be this time,
    watching her, these things she said,
    the times she cried,
    too frail to wake this time.
    Oh, i'll break them down, no mercy shown,
    heaven knows, it's got to be this time,
    avenues all lined with trees,
    picture me and then you start watching,
    watching forever, forever,
    watching love grow, forever,
    letting me know, forever

  • @christianbecker8108
    @christianbecker8108 10 месяцев назад +8

    It's not the fact that the song blows your mind, it's how!
    I could cry my eyes out every time I hear this song.

  • @mark18011965
    @mark18011965 8 лет назад +116

    Manchester's finest..oh,what joy you gave.

    • @SportstalkDudes
      @SportstalkDudes 7 лет назад

      mark kelly I like new order (this is the new order version) a lot but cmon they're not better than oasis, the smiths, the stone roses or joy division

    • @mark18011965
      @mark18011965 7 лет назад +6

      I hear you son,but what I meant actually was joy division...they were well before their time..still so iconic. hope that clears that up.!! fact remains that they're all manc's and bloody well great!

    • @SportstalkDudes
      @SportstalkDudes 7 лет назад +1

      mark kelly yeah like the pixies, so influential and modern.

    • @stephenlisson1994
      @stephenlisson1994 6 лет назад

      Mark, a Great!!!! band and very influential for bands to come. There was one other band from down the road, that I believe were just as influential and powerful......yes Liverpool's own.....Echo and the Bunnymen.

    • @nathancooper1
      @nathancooper1 5 лет назад +7

      Oasis aren’t in the same league as The Smiths or The Stone Roses.

  • @Wehrmacht777
    @Wehrmacht777 8 лет назад +403

    Greatest song ever written, there's no doubt at this point

    • @SportstalkDudes
      @SportstalkDudes 7 лет назад +3

      Memento Mori live forever by oasis is my favorite, but I think this is the most beautiful

    • @kiahamstermemes
      @kiahamstermemes 7 лет назад +5

      Memento Mori second greatest is anything by amebix ;)

    • @woozy7788
      @woozy7788 6 лет назад +5

      This song makes me tear up ;'-(

    • @daysofgrandeur
      @daysofgrandeur 6 лет назад +61

      Ha ha some bloke put Oasis in the same category as Joy Division 🙈🙈

    • @MisyeDiVre
      @MisyeDiVre 6 лет назад +6

      Dreams Never End bruh

  • @christopherderusse1373
    @christopherderusse1373 3 года назад +13

    Ian had a deep haunting voice...cosmic...

    • @fadedSF
      @fadedSF 2 года назад +1

      And of course, this is not him singing....

  • @topBrandzBAIT
    @topBrandzBAIT Год назад +5

    I think in years to come, new folk will discover these tracks and realise how awesome this era of rock was and how brilliant JD were, it's a music era that you feel priviliged to have lived through and loved.

  • @juliusebola9389
    @juliusebola9389 3 года назад +66

    I realize this is kind of strange, but I actually prefer the slowed/pitched down version. It imparts an unreal and dreamy quality that complements the song.

  • @Alex-mu6ow
    @Alex-mu6ow 6 лет назад +38

    Years ahead of their time , and timeless too.

  • @AnonymousUserProfile
    @AnonymousUserProfile 9 месяцев назад +3

    This picture fits the song well

  • @mkn.567
    @mkn.567 3 года назад +9

    This song is everything

    • @there7149
      @there7149 2 года назад

      mind checking out this good song - faceless humming by the impures
      .
      .
      ..
      .vcvc

    • @bottytoohotty
      @bottytoohotty Год назад +3

      Yup. A window into the transcendent.

  • @HaiteLibbies
    @HaiteLibbies 6 месяцев назад +3

    Happy New Year 2024 ❤

  • @skinnymoonbob
    @skinnymoonbob 3 года назад +14

    I feel this in my bones, without any substances

  • @annwe6
    @annwe6 4 года назад +9

    I remember playing the 45 version of this song over and over again on my gran's record player. I'd nicked the record from my local Woolworths. I was about to turn 14 and in unrequited love with some boy. For some reason, this melancholy song spoke to my achy teenage heart. Still makes me swoon to hear it.

    • @gillesdescoins7271
      @gillesdescoins7271 Год назад +1

      Joy division m'a amené vers birthday party puis les stooges..ceremony est un pivot pour la génération de 1980 que j'ai vécue..

  • @paulmannion8048
    @paulmannion8048 2 года назад +4

    it's a classic RIP Ian, every time somebody listens to this they ask themselves who were, you are ....immortality,,

  • @peaceandlove22999
    @peaceandlove22999 4 года назад +18

    i remember hearing this song for the first time, i was at the library on one of the old school computers avoiding school and listening to JD on autoplay through my earphones. skipping school just to go to that place to read and later walking home listening to this :•) wish ian was still with us

  • @loureed3015
    @loureed3015 2 месяца назад +3

    Heaven knows its gotta be this time

  • @davidwhite3598
    @davidwhite3598 4 года назад +49

    I’m here reading Peter Hook’s book Unknown Pleasures Inside Joy Division. Highly recommended

    • @lore4644
      @lore4644 4 года назад

      thank you for that comment i needed that

    • @Ragazzoedimburgo
      @Ragazzoedimburgo 3 года назад

      Also try Stephe. Morris Record Play Pause - he reads it on audible. Brilliant

  • @reithchase7784
    @reithchase7784 5 лет назад +44

    out of all the versions you can find on the internet this is the best one regardless of the bad quality, if only Ian could have properly recorded it before he left. definitely sounds like a slowed down version of new orders, but eerily sounds like Ian.

    • @batzeth
      @batzeth 4 года назад +3

      its not ians voice?

    • @solarpower7581
      @solarpower7581 3 года назад +1

      You are kidding right...

    • @fadedSF
      @fadedSF Год назад

      Like surely with the hundreds of comments here, you've noticed that it is just the new order 7" version slowed down?

    • @reithchase7784
      @reithchase7784 Год назад

      @@fadedSF dont spend to much time reading RUclips comments 🤷

  • @davidh4564
    @davidh4564 3 года назад +5

    I am crying and singing in pleasure and fear. Depression and joy were never brought together that well as in this song and it is this ambivalent Wilde theme that makes me think that life is not worthless. Thank You Ian for teaching us!

    • @there7149
      @there7149 2 года назад

      mind checking out this good song - faceless humming by the impures
      .
      .
      ..
      .vv

  • @jamesmayhem4164
    @jamesmayhem4164 2 года назад +4

    In some beautiful way that background picture perfectly fits this amazing song

  • @helterskelter7499
    @helterskelter7499 3 года назад +19

    I really love this song and the fact that there is so many versions of this song says a lot since each one has a different story to tell. It's a song that sounds like a closure to a part in you're life which sounds beautiful, its like wrapping up something. Ian Curtis may you rest in peace and I thank you for you're amazing contribution to Joy Division.

    • @fadedSF
      @fadedSF Год назад +2

      I mean, there were two new order studio versions, a live recording of Joy Division where Ian didn't have lyrics for the whole song yet, and a demo where each of the three fellas in New order sing a part of it, to see who sounded best. It's kinda goofy.
      This is just a slowed down version of the original new order 7", not joy division. The person posting it is pretending it's some lost demo, but nope.

    • @helterskelter7499
      @helterskelter7499 Год назад +1

      @@fadedSF yeah I recognise that it's not joy division but I love this song as it serves a memorial to Ian. It seems as this song was fated to not exist and be the bridge between joy division and new order. I know its slowed but it also sounds more melancholic in that way

  • @alphatechr
    @alphatechr 8 лет назад +46

    this is so beautiful...

    • @johnferry6403
      @johnferry6403 6 лет назад +4

      an immense piece of music. totally at the top of their game

  • @RacionalEconomia77
    @RacionalEconomia77 3 года назад +6

    The true version. Ian Curtis forever....

  • @milanwitulski1253
    @milanwitulski1253 8 месяцев назад +3

    Ceremony is the only song that made and is still making me cry. But these tears are not coming from sadness or happiness. My tears are coming from something what is between happiness and sadness. I am not able to describe that feeling but it is amazing. Ceremony is perfect in every way it can be - lyrics, music, rythm and it is extremely special because of the aura that surrounds it. I am crying everytime when I listen to it because of every aspect that I have mentioned. At the beginning, my tears were coming from feeling the music and rhytm of that song, then I cried because I have understood the lyrics and their meaning (every line), and at last I cry because of everything I have said, but another aspect that makes me wanna cry is the knowledge that Ian's genius contained in Ceremony wont happen again. Ever.

  • @martinfiay8908
    @martinfiay8908 Год назад +2

    I was 11 in 1981 and must have missed this song on radio , however when listening to 2SM in Sydney later mid 80’s I heard this song again by New Order a went straight to HMV and purchased their 1987 Album New Order Substance ….. I’m 52 and still listen to Temptation & Ceremony two of my favourite New Order tracks ever …. Greetings from Sydney Australia

  • @bradb9971
    @bradb9971 4 года назад +8

    After discovering Joy Division last year all I can ever do is wonder what would happen had Ian lived and made it America, but I also understand how special and powerful JD is to be frozen in time at a place of great significance. RIP IC

  • @lukeyraptor6738
    @lukeyraptor6738 3 года назад +7

    This would be the last song on my desert island discs. Blown me away how a song so simple can convey the strongest of emotions. Feels like a song you’ve always heard.

  • @noname-ly8nu
    @noname-ly8nu Год назад +2

    TW
    my friend posted this song as his last goodbye and i come revisit it every time i think of him and need to cry :(
    i really miss him…

  • @shaungreer3350
    @shaungreer3350 3 года назад +9

    41 years ago today, rip ian

    • @there7149
      @there7149 2 года назад

      mind checking out this good song - faceless humming by the impures
      .
      .
      ..
      .vcvcvc

  • @elliothazelton4489
    @elliothazelton4489 4 года назад +6

    There’s just something about this track that makes me feel cold and alone but warm and at home at the same time. May Ian Curtis forever live on in our hearts.

    • @christianbecker8108
      @christianbecker8108 10 месяцев назад +1

      You summed that up really well. I feel exactly the same about the song.

  • @mindbombtv
    @mindbombtv 5 лет назад +9

    This photograph really works with this seminal JD tune. I am comforted by it.

  • @MWorsa
    @MWorsa 8 лет назад +41

    Forever watching love grow.

  • @guicaria
    @guicaria 8 лет назад +12

    Fabulous ! Thank for posting! :)

  • @_Listen_to_Solar_Kama_Sutra
    @_Listen_to_Solar_Kama_Sutra 4 года назад +5

    One of the greatest songs ever... So many memories...

  • @suzieflynn15
    @suzieflynn15 4 года назад +6

    I still get goose bumps when i hear this and now my son loves joy division and new order good taste ian curtis that voice climatic

  • @drnuke7393
    @drnuke7393 4 года назад +4

    New Division. Classic. Saw them play this in Brighton in 1981. Fook I'm old. Still love it.

  • @vitoliturri3555
    @vitoliturri3555 2 года назад +4

    This song hurts me and saves my soul at the same time

  • @donmackay7610
    @donmackay7610 2 года назад +3

    Beautiful photo.
    Its amazing.
    Thanks.

    • @there7149
      @there7149 2 года назад +1

      btw check out this song - faceless humming by the impures ............
      is a great indie track really gooooood
      rip ian

  • @neontongue117
    @neontongue117 5 лет назад +6

    One of my absolute favorite songs of all time. Here's to new beginnings.

  • @Dexter101x
    @Dexter101x 3 года назад +2

    The first song I backtracked since the re-release of Blue Monday, and this was it. I love this song so much. I then bought a book that chronicled the history of Joy Division. At that point, I still didn't know too much about Joy Division, until I went and bought Joy Division albums and I wasn't disappointed. I love Unknown Pleasures and Closer, the albums are such a gem

  • @PaulMarsh-hn6ji
    @PaulMarsh-hn6ji 3 месяца назад +1

    I've listened to this song soooo many times and all the other timeless masterpieces by Joy division and new order , sitting listening again and the emotion , tingling feeling , memories come flooding back. Thank you for producing such emotive music , I'll be listening till my final days .

  • @woozy7788
    @woozy7788 6 лет назад +24

    I love the background

  • @61subsandnovideos
    @61subsandnovideos 2 года назад +10

    How do you listen to this without hurting and thinking about Ian and the life he had to live through.
    Honestly one of the hardest songs to listen to, not even Joy Division or New Order standard, just in general. The picture here perfectly describes the late Joy Division singer's loneliness while also being stuck in such a mad and chaotic, fast paced situation that no soul should've ever went through, but for whatever reason this song feels like something familiar was lost right in front of you, slowly fading away. I don't know, It makes me feel like I just received news that the greatest friend that I've never had just passed away. You know when you have a relationship with someone in a dream, then they just say goodbye as you start to wake up to reality once again, seeing the light shine slightly in your eyelids until you see your room but then, that person is gone and you will never see them ever again. Now you have to move on with your day; do what you need to do? This feels exactly like that and it's absolutely insane. I don't know any other artist who has emulated this feeling ever. Most songs just are about having a "familiar but also unfamiliar" theme to it, a daze maybe but they usually aren't that deep to be delved into nor could they have specific descriptions written about them. The talent of both bands, man. Nothing can recreate them, honestly. There will never be another band like Joy Division or New Order, sucks that I didn't get to see them rise in popularity.

    • @61subsandnovideos
      @61subsandnovideos 2 года назад

      ​@@canadariots1139 Exactly! It's just so hard to comprehend and accept that such a talented artist had to die so early as they were at their rise but I think I could speak for all the people who have listened and enjoyed Joy Division and New Order that it's a good thing that Ian made such incredible works of art with his band before he had taken up his life. I wished he at the very least saw the fame that he garnered with Joy Division and their impact in music as a whole. The man was not only talented at literature, but the way he helped compose most of the symphonies and sound of the music and conveyed the emotion of his poetry was nothing of that era.

    • @MrMpvincent69
      @MrMpvincent69 2 года назад +1

      He did this to his wife!

  • @stacyblue1980
    @stacyblue1980 Год назад +1

    We didn't have our Ceremony, dear Paul.
    Rest easy in the Paradise, my love.
    We miss you. Such a precious Son of the Universe.
    🌹

  • @rustyshaklford5642
    @rustyshaklford5642 3 года назад +1

    This song brings me back to so many years from young to recent

  • @chenzog6657
    @chenzog6657 2 года назад +3

    Goose bumps

  • @ericwilliams2208
    @ericwilliams2208 Год назад +4

    Laying on a hospital bed listing to the greatest band at there best

    • @christianbecker8108
      @christianbecker8108 10 месяцев назад +2

      I wish you a speedy recovery with this soul-cleansing masterpiece

  • @Guillotineman
    @Guillotineman 2 года назад +2

    Soundtrack to the apocalypse. Imma be listening to this in my head as the sky turns red that one final time.

  • @CharlotteSuckling89
    @CharlotteSuckling89 5 лет назад +5

    Haven't heard this since I first fell in love with New Order, and subsequently Joy Division, 15 years ago, as a teenager. This is a song more than the sum of its parts, and considering the sum is two of the greatest bands of the 20thC, that's something. This song's timeless beyond my ability to conceive of that even now.... it'll last. I'll be listening to it when I'm 90. It's timeless 'cus it was created in a fissure in the fabric of their lives, some sort of portal between states...which can be accessed just as easily as the day it opened, after Ian's death, just as much as it has been closed and been paved over by the end-of-history zombie state in which we, and I, now exist. The portal's open for me now...but for how long...

    • @stretchmarks1025
      @stretchmarks1025 4 года назад +2

      Crazy how time is so meaningless. All the same feelings are conveyed and expressed. I find myself at odds with slowly recognizing throughout my life that good music doesn't just have to be what's currently out. Look through history and you'll find what your looking for. People's bodys grow old but their young spirit is maintained. Thank you for your comment

  • @lancerobinson8889
    @lancerobinson8889 Год назад +3

    Damn you Ian. I love you and I hate you. You could have given us so much more. You were brilliant young man. Bless you. I will never forget you.

  • @drsteele4749
    @drsteele4749 2 года назад +5

    Surely we can all see that 80s made the grade. Terrific music.

  • @belmnoir
    @belmnoir 3 года назад +1

    It's 2020 and im still here. I miss you, Ian.

  • @danielreinhardt8455
    @danielreinhardt8455 2 года назад +2

    So much loss , about time we all pick up each other , ✌️✌️ 🙏🙏

  • @jeffhrytzak4119
    @jeffhrytzak4119 3 года назад +4

    Always a beautiful song. With Ian Curtis' voice even better!

    • @fadedSF
      @fadedSF 2 года назад

      But you know this isn't Ian singing, right?

  • @Mancheguache
    @Mancheguache 3 года назад +6

    You can tell it's the best version by the fret buzz right at the end

  • @patrickryan5570
    @patrickryan5570 5 лет назад +2

    This is truly great... Truly beautiful... Pure Joy.

  • @kevinbennett7329
    @kevinbennett7329 4 года назад

    wow thats a really beautiful picture and we've always loved the band and their work

  • @icaroduarte3011
    @icaroduarte3011 Год назад +12

    É como se essa música me fizesse lembrar de um tempo que eu nao vivi... estranho. JD é sensacional

    • @jcbatista71
      @jcbatista71 6 месяцев назад

      Vidas passadas.... eu acredito!

  • @notlob23
    @notlob23 6 лет назад +20

    this is the new order version with Barney singing. I hunted high and low in Manchester to find this on 12" vinyl. All through the vinyl stalls of Affleks til I found it.

  • @superdog9185
    @superdog9185 5 лет назад +2

    i just want to be in that place, that moment, that feeling, listening to this song! cant think of a more beautiful place to be

  • @itskyb
    @itskyb 5 лет назад +1

    So many emotions with this song.