one of today's most original and best post punk bands covering a hugely influential post punk band. This cover is fantastic, they took Ceremony and gave a new take on it, rather than just a rehash. Its not better, its just a different song, Ian Curtis would have loved this.
R.I.P Ian Curtis you blue spark of ideas, wish you could see the impact you've created on so many different bands and genres and how much of good music would derive from your influence, carry on.
A friend of mine turned me onto this cover tonight. I really loved how strange and truly creative Xiu Xiu's first album of originals is but have not kept up with his current output. I can see what some people don't get him but I think he is extremely talented.....truly a bizarro world genius! T hat's high praise coming from me!
This really does amplify the emotion the original song was suppose to convey times a thousand. You can really feel the sadness, grief, and rage here. A complete nervous breakdown and a decent into madness. Except it sounds more like someone going on a killing spree in the name of vengeance rather than a suicide. I love it.
as far as covers go, New Order's cover of this song is probably one of my top 3 favorite songs of all time. when i hear Xiu Xiu's version, i often find myself asking, damn, is this better than New Order's? yeah, it's that good. so suck it, Xiu Xiu haters.
I love Xiu Xiu all the more for taking Joy Division to a place they might well have gone were they still around today. Might have gone, who knows for sure, and I don't really care - I'm too busy dancing.
I really dont think you can sensibly judge Xiu Xiu by the standards of musicality (or if you do, you miss the more important bit). Sure, its pretentious and overwrought - but to me it also has a real emotional truth. If you listen to music to sound nice, you wont like anything they have done. If you listen to music to feel something, this is a band that could mean a lot to you if you're open to it.
i agree with you, except the part about the music being pretentious and it not sounding "nice". it's too emotionally candid to be pretentious. i also find parts of some of their songs particularly peaceful and soothing, but that's just me and maybe I'm strange.
i saw Galaxie 500 when they opened for the Cocteau Twins. I remember the audience booing them, but it was St. Louis. I personally love them and yes, their cover of Ceremony is amazing.
it's on their second bandcamp page on an album with a bunch of other 80's covers they did on a bunch of other releases they did from 2002 - 2010 xiuxiu69.bandcamp.com/album/die-die-you-80s-obsessed-pinocchio the info on ceremony says it was on their ep "Chapel of the Chimes" but that ep isn't on spotify. the version of ceremony on spotify they have is a remix version.
@@zirtapot57 Pretty hilarious how many people come here with hateful ignorant comments, then change their mind down the line. I'm glad you enjoy it now, I just wish people weren't so quick to shit on someone else's creative output just because it doesn't suit their taste.
listen to New Order's version that is the original, the Joy Division version is a demo, and if u still saying this shit of Xiu Xiu version more than the original u have problems.
I heard this 20 years ago. Just found the original, and thought - I've heard this somewhere before....but damn New Order got it, though this ain't bad...
Lemme come back and think about this as there are actually good parts to this cover, though the use of the sound effects are saying "No", it's because I don't particularly like the use of the sound effects that are pointing to say, no...........sorry
-"Ian Curtis wish list." Sigh, life is as meaningless as you all make it and if you don't enjoy or understand Xiu Xiu's experimental persona or creating mutilation into sound then don't listen to it and go elsewhere but maybe by chance, open your bottled mind into respecting that there are other genres of music out there than your mainstream bull.
you're completely missing the point, this was meant to sound off the rails and very anxious and unnerving, it's meant to be very experimental sounding. You're meant to feel like the world is crashing around you and that he is trying to fight desperately at the love that's causing him pain and then looks and just stares at it all as it's crashing down. It's not meant to sound perfectly like the original. This is an extremely emotional song about the torment that Ian felt, the extreme that he took it to in this cover was his interpretation and it was meant to be so unnerving and emotional. If you don't feel that way then i think you should listen instead of feel, this cover expressed those emotions perfectly.
I'm glad I don't. I get it...they want to be different. However, never mind an aesthetic difference. It's simply out of tune on many levels. I hope this doesn't represent the sound of their entire output.
i never thought this song could be more suicidal than original
This song is what the worm dance was made for.
Someone: this song could not possibly sound more suicidal and depressing
Jamie: hold my beer
@@ScrolledAgain hold my bottle of rum
What a great stupid comment
What an emotive cover. This intensity in his voice is fucking chilling.
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@@henrywilkerson5681 did they even switch their pronouns before the original comment was written?
one of today's most original and best post punk bands covering a hugely influential post punk band. This cover is fantastic, they took Ceremony and gave a new take on it, rather than just a rehash. Its not better, its just a different song, Ian Curtis would have loved this.
Raw as fuck
+Moisés Daniel exactly my reaction. I adore this cover.
R.I.P Ian Curtis you blue spark of ideas, wish you could see the impact you've created on so many different bands and genres and how much of good music would derive from your influence, carry on.
Anything Xiu Xiu covers turns to gold
it was already gold
But this is golder
Especially when they do it with Michael Gira.
@@rene9406 shut up
@@ihatezen lol what
dissonance doesn't equal bad music
You know its a good song when theres a part in it that makes you check to see if your headohones are broken
i like this
ian would have loved it
Sounds a lot better live. You can really hear the fear and sadness in his voice in person.
2:58 That Ian Curtis impression hits hard.
it's chilling- Stewart really channels Ian there...
A friend of mine turned me onto this cover tonight.
I really loved how strange and truly creative Xiu Xiu's first album of originals is but have not kept up with his current output.
I can see what some people don't get him but I think he is extremely talented.....truly a bizarro world genius! T
hat's high praise coming from me!
This really does amplify the emotion the original song was suppose to convey times a thousand. You can really feel the sadness, grief, and rage here. A complete nervous breakdown and a decent into madness.
Except it sounds more like someone going on a killing spree in the name of vengeance rather than a suicide.
I love it.
Disturbingly fascinating... and interesting instrumentation.
I can't stop dancing!
Really enjoyed this cover. Would like to hear Xiu Xiu covers of Neutral Milk Hotel songs.
Would be wild
not sure if this is preventing my suicide or contributing to it but I'm happy it exists regardless
as far as covers go, New Order's cover of this song is probably one of my top 3 favorite songs of all time. when i hear Xiu Xiu's version, i often find myself asking, damn, is this better than New Order's? yeah, it's that good. so suck it, Xiu Xiu haters.
nalemag New Order technically is Joy Division though, without Ian Curtis
Yeah I’m not sure if I’d call New Order doing this song a cover, it’s more like them completing a song they couldn’t finish as Joy Division
i just got this comment to 69 likes and it only took 9 years. hell yeah
You have a truly gifted nephew.
this is what the inside of my head sounds like
+Marla Singer Same.
+Marla Singer lol xd so quirky n wierd! *holds up spork*
antonino parisi I cringed
CRAAAWLING IIIIIIN MY SKIIIIIIIIN
Marla Singer Does anybody truly care about your depression and your misery? Fuck no. Same goes for me and everyone else here.
I love Xiu Xiu all the more for taking Joy Division to a place they might well have gone were they still around today. Might have gone, who knows for sure, and I don't really care - I'm too busy dancing.
a masterpiece.
It’s funny how people either love or hate this
I really dont think you can sensibly judge Xiu Xiu by the standards of musicality (or if you do, you miss the more important bit). Sure, its pretentious and overwrought - but to me it also has a real emotional truth. If you listen to music to sound nice, you wont like anything they have done. If you listen to music to feel something, this is a band that could mean a lot to you if you're open to it.
i agree with you, except the part about the music being pretentious and it not sounding "nice". it's too emotionally candid to be pretentious. i also find parts of some of their songs particularly peaceful and soothing, but that's just me and maybe I'm strange.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable
Nahh, they are great musically, just out of norm.
Adam Douglas or listen to joy division, a band that sounds nice and is emotional...
Because Xiu Xiu is not?
this is great :)
we've all got epilepsy after listening to this now
Thank you for properly identifying this as a Joy Division cover, not New Order.
Awesome cover.
the fuck this is gooood.
Imagine if Xiu Xiu someday made a bad cover.
Jack Pivarnik I mean, they could pull it off
If they do, it'll be so unbearably terrible that it circles around to being good again.
The compression on this upload hits diffrent
aaaaaah ♥♥
He must be extremely talented!
Teatering on the edge between stupid and brilliant
THIS IS SO GOOD
XIU XIU FOR LIFE
🖤
this is absolutely brilliant. for those of you who dislike this....you are underdeveloped as human beings.
+teargarden or they have different tastes??????
could be, but i will stick with my original theory. i will say i am a little overprotective of Xiu Xiu.
teargarden lol, Xiu Xiu is possibly my favorite band, but I prefer the Galaxie 500 version of this song.
i saw Galaxie 500 when they opened for the Cocteau Twins. I remember the audience booing them, but it was St. Louis. I personally love them and yes, their cover of Ceremony is amazing.
every xiu xiu song has parts I like and parts I h9. But the percussion on this is 100 emoji
This is foking guud !
Was supposed to see Xiu Xiu for the first time this month .. but then fucking corona happened
love u
But then again that is how Ian Curtis danced.
"hey guys let's do a cover of ceremony" *mashes synthesizer keys obnoxiously*
Hi this comment is 4 years old but Xiu Xiu is my babe so u need 2 stop
@Doctor Faustus this ruined your day because you don't deserve a good day
ikr? I love the synths. It's so industrial.
6 years after original comment
Yup. Still bad.
Ian Curtis had epilepsy but didn't record while he was having a seizure like this...
Where is this available? The version in Spotify is different
it's on their second bandcamp page on an album with a bunch of other 80's covers they did on a bunch of other releases they did from 2002 - 2010
xiuxiu69.bandcamp.com/album/die-die-you-80s-obsessed-pinocchio
the info on ceremony says it was on their ep "Chapel of the Chimes" but that ep isn't on spotify. the version of ceremony on spotify they have is a remix version.
This song is not a virgin anymore.
of course, mr gira
I changed my mind, I love it now
@@zirtapot57 progress
@@zirtapot57 Pretty hilarious how many people come here with hateful ignorant comments, then change their mind down the line. I'm glad you enjoy it now, I just wish people weren't so quick to shit on someone else's creative output just because it doesn't suit their taste.
The funny thing is if you meant that as an insult you definitely don't know Xiu Xiu fans.
Can never have too much cowbell
nah im right there with u
interesting
is this on an album for anything or this only way of listing to it, i just really love it
It’s on their “remixed and covered” compilation
And was originally on their Chapel of The Chimes EP if you wanna listen to it with a few rare Xiu stuff
Better than the original. However both are amazing.
listen to New Order's version that is the original, the Joy Division version is a demo, and if u still saying this shit of Xiu Xiu version more than the original u have problems.
@@natanael3150 You are the worst kind of person. I hope in the 2 years since the comment you have realised how to be not be so insufferable.
I heard this 20 years ago. Just found the original, and thought - I've heard this somewhere before....but damn New Order got it, though this ain't bad...
I agree n so would ian i believe
bailando sobre disparos
He's sick...
@enkinka NON SO FORSE SARO VIEUX JEUX NEL DIRE NOT BAD. PERO PENSO CHE LE COVER, INSOMMA CI VUOLE CORAGGIO. E PURE Xiu Xiu MI PIACCIONO BYBY
Awful at the beginning but become exciting after the voice begin.
Finally i like it. Bravo for this very personal cover...
bollocks...but I Love them with Deer Hoof doing the unknown pleasures thing
Lemme come back and think about this as there are actually good parts to this cover, though the use of the sound effects are saying "No", it's because I don't particularly like the use of the sound effects that are pointing to say, no...........sorry
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кто от стримерши карины?
Да уж.. стремное было время
vodka gulag stalin
camión de bomberos
Pacita Mendoza lo que?
Ian would have laughed at this bollox
Tim curtis
-"Ian Curtis wish list." Sigh, life is as meaningless as you all make it and if you don't enjoy or understand Xiu Xiu's experimental persona or creating mutilation into sound then don't listen to it and go elsewhere but maybe by chance, open your bottled mind into respecting that there are other genres of music out there than your mainstream bull.
oh shit.
yes, just you few
Hope you enjoyed the ride. Now go and wipe your pants. Wash your hands after.
How do any of you know Ian Curtis would've loved this?
he said so
c'est magnifique. such an insipration to my music. if you have some time, please check out my channel. love, jason
An ex-lax OD to sing JD is a definite non-starter!
did they go to jail for that?
This must be comedy 'cause I am laughing so hard.
go to sleep
lol ! listen to Nicky Minaj !
oh..not at all.
This isn't bad but it isn't great either. Very messy and unorganised. Still nice harmonisation and melody.
you're completely missing the point, this was meant to sound off the rails and very anxious and unnerving, it's meant to be very experimental sounding. You're meant to feel like the world is crashing around you and that he is trying to fight desperately at the love that's causing him pain and then looks and just stares at it all as it's crashing down. It's not meant to sound perfectly like the original. This is an extremely emotional song about the torment that Ian felt, the extreme that he took it to in this cover was his interpretation and it was meant to be so unnerving and emotional. If you don't feel that way then i think you should listen instead of feel, this cover expressed those emotions perfectly.
I agree. I didn't know the story behind the composition. Thank you for telling me.
ma cos'è sta roba, si denigra una canzone fantastica che ha segnato un epoca. Andate a lavorare che è meglio
I'm glad I don't. I get it...they want to be different. However, never mind an aesthetic difference. It's simply out of tune on many levels. I hope this doesn't represent the sound of their entire output.
doo doo pee pee I don't like it
orribile
Butchered.
+sarajuanaaa Babies getting ground by stones.
+Saint Dick i like this guy
Worst. Cover. Ever.
I think you actually said, "Waltz did it better, but this is still valid."
This is an insult to Joy Division. Just put down the instruments and fucking stop.