This is transformation. This is dealing with grief. Perhaps unconsciously. This is Phoenix, raising from the ashes. This is dance, this is rock, this is pop, electronic, punk, everything and completely unique. It’s ice under shirts, throwing words around, playing wrong notes and right notes and watching something grow bigger than the sum of parts. This is art, this is life. It’s one of the most important pieces of music ever made. It means everything to us.
Everything about this performance and the early days of New Order are a triumph to me. They had to overcome so much and just had to "get on with it" because there was no other way. I'm so proud of the lads. I'm so proud of Bernard for taking on the duties of frontman/singer/songwriter even though he had horrible stage fright and it never came natural to him. I'm proud to be a New Order fan and I can't thank them enough for the comfort they've provide for me in the short time I've been a fan. Love Live Joy Division and New Order!!!!
Well said. That get on with it singing style is what made me love him and the music. Felt so relatable, and still resonates. So many different sounds out of one band over multiple generations, and to remain mostly faceless throughout the ages. I could swear most modern bands come from one corner of the New Orderverse or another. Arcade Fire could sell this as their new single lol
Ya sea 1981 o 2021 New Order empieza hacer bases electronicas tomando la EDM Concreta (NRG & Synthpop) de Giorgio Moroder...al igual que el 80% de la masa de Punks Rockeros Convertidos de finales del 70s.
We use to call the " rock" radio stations requesting all of this music only to be told that they don't have it. we lived at record stores and bootleg cassettes.
LOVE this song. Gotta share this story.... The year was 1988, I was in high school and heard Blue Monday on the radio and just loved it. So I went to "Record Store" in my local mall and found Blue Monday on a white cassette tape compitation called "Substance 1987". I couldn't wait to hear Blue Monday on my new stereo! I popped in the cassette and it started with Ceremony, then Everything's Gone Green and this track...Temptation. Well, I think the first 4 songs of the album put me in some kind of trance, they were so good and seamlessly went together so well. Perfect for engaging to my high school personality and finding my way in those days. I had a huge crush on this girl, but I was too shy to talk to her "And I've never seen anyone quite like you before" 33 years since that time in my life and THIS album is the album I would take to a desert island if I could only take one. It's still hypnotic. Thank you New Order for producing this amazing music!
@@bayekkenway7514 No idea. She dropped out of high school before graduation. I never saw her again. It was my first lesson on not hesitating on going after what I want.
I still remember watching Dave Kendall on 120 Minutes saying "From the ashes of Joy Division, here's New Order's new single, 'True Faith''" I also went out the next day & bought 'Substance.' I had heard Joy Division in passing prior (I was really young,) from Casey in his VW Bus when my Mom was in a college class & he was taking me off campus to go to an arcade as he was watching me. Things you remember are strange.
It's almost a completely different song. Not sure how much later they recorded it, but it can't have been long. The lyrics changed, Morris' drum fills changed, Hooky's bass changed, and even Barney's guitar parts changed. But it's still Temptation. Astonishing piece of musical history.
This is fucking raw. What I hear and see here is a bunch of guys trying to adapt and survive following their friend / lead singer's death. It's something becoming something else. I love this.
Barney still working out the lyrics. Fucking priceless piece of history. For electronic music fans, this is the equivalent to catching the Stones at a Marquee Club gig in '63. Absolutely love this video. Thanks for posting.
Yes yes yes! Out of all the renditions of Temptation that the band has done (including the original 1982 7 and 12 inch singles, '87 an '98 re-recordings) this one has to be my absolute favorite. There's something just so *innocent* about it, if that makes sense. A few people i know consider this concert to be the one where N.O. stepped out of the foggy and brooding atmosphere of Joy Division; but i consider this specific song to be that moment. The juttering synthesizers, Hooky's storming melodic bass, Bernard's vocals pushing up and out with uncertainty against an absolute juggernaut of an instrumental, it's all there. Even in their appearance, and the stage lighting. It surpasses nostalgia and crushes future expectations into nothing. Shame this version isn't on streaming, or that the whole Taras Svenchenko gig wasn't remastered into a live LP, cause lord knows id buy it in an instant. New Order's my favorite band, and this particular version of Temptation is IMO them at their absolute best
Born in the 80s....here in 2023 listening to this early version of one of my all time favourite tracks. Joy Division / New Order were very special indeed.
I love it. It's so raw. The song starts off a bit weird and tense. Midway, it smoothens out. Then it reaches its peak towards the last few minutes with its gorgeous sounds.
As someone who went to see new order from the end of joy division 32 probably the mid 80s and beyond, they didn’t watch the lyrics, some of these recordings capture these as trial songs that they were trying out before they launch them out of the studio. I know that a lot of power corruption and lies was tried out after six months live, it’s not like these days where everybody keeps an album a secret, we always used to hear Tracks that were half finished lyrically lice, but with affected in the studio
I would also like to add that they had some truly chaotic performances when the synthesises let them down… But the best thing about new order, was they were just as obstinate on stage as they were offstage
This is a work of art. The tentative first half, the halting emotion, the slowly grappling with the audial beauty they had created and then them turning into a well oiled machine by the final few minutes.
What like most about this is the ad at 5:29. Classic RUclips _and_ classic New Order. What a treat. 😂 Loved this song since I put Substance on my turntable in 1987. Great, great days 🎉
People who are old enough and lucky enough to have seen new order in their infancy and the raw emotion of every performance are very lucky I am fortunate enough to be a lucky one I love music seen hundreds of groups live but early new order was different level Happy times
I lived in NY when the single of this would sometimes get played on the radio-it was so completely different from anything else, and so much better. It came on, and you had a feeling of possibilities for art that had nothing to do with being cool or money-making.
This is the best new order song and you can’t tell me it isn’t the lyrics the sound the music all fit perfectly it’s like at first glance it’s like you know it’s dancy but the more you listen to it the more it gets sadder and more I guess relatable It’s an important song I listened to
One of the best songs ever! The guitars at 4:24 to 5,50 are just brilliant! At 7:50 to 8,35 the drums are astonishingly good. I imagine 8:47 to the end is what heroin feels like? Sublime, transcendent, magical. This video is such a treat!
@@81freewilly I was addicted to heroin and painkillers for like 8 years and it got so bad I ended up having to be revived in an ambulance from an overdose. It was too good for my own health.
My god ! The legend was beginning! Thank you a lot for this piece of art. It's incredible. When my life is too hard i listen your songs and they sustain me and after a few days of this treatment i retrieve the happyness to live.
I'm from Finland and I must say that during 80's and 90's my religion was Depeche Mode but then there were also 3 perfect groups, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and if we think about New Order they did so many perfect songs that those will stay forever..
@@737sunset bless Texas! I lived there from 1982-1987 and there was a huge New Wave scene in Houston. Depeche Mode was huge but so was New Order, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Devo, Kraftwerk and so many more…I have great memories!
@@niravshahesq Australian late-night music video show on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Starts at about midnight on Fri & Sat nights and finishes up about 9am the next morning with the national Top 40. A legendary show where a lot of Aussies got their musical education. They play videos in full and there a no presenters.
Saw New Order around the same time as this at the sadly now demolished Plaza Ballroom in Eglinton Toll in Glasgow. A truly magickal experience in every way 👍
Bernhard sagt in seinem Buch, das es mit diesem Song sowas wie eine spirituelle Verbindung mit den Fans gibt. Ja, stimmt. New Order- ich werde euch immer lieben für das was ihr mir gegeben habt ...
Where in NYC? I was going to the clubs around this time. I remember when they were supposed to play Hurrah as Joy Division and we got word the lead singer (Ian Curtis) had taken his own life. I was 17 , was just learning about this fascinating scene. Didn’t know Joy Divisions music then, just knew how sad I felt. Wondered how bad it could have been for him that they were about to embark on a HUGE journey and he chose not to be a part of that. 😢
I consider this performance the final goodbye to Ian Curtis before New Order became their own entity. You can see it on all their faces. Bernard, Peter, Stephen, and Gillian are trying so hard to keep it all together. Tony Wilson once said "Temptation" was the first New Order song Bernard sang where he wasn't trying to copy Ian. That iconic "Whoo!" Best part is 4:26-5:49.
I saw them on this tour in Los Angeles and still remember it vividly. I also saw them a year or two later in a roller rink in Orange County CA! Stood right at the front of the stage no problem. Simpler times.
Never thought that back in 94 I'd become fan of one of the greatest bands and my favourite one above all. Regret was my initiation and no regrets from them.
I recall how difficult it must have been to continue on after Ian died , no lead singer. It wasn't easy for them, I saw them when they finally came to Canada after their plan to come with JD. It was great to see them transforming.
That characteristic, captivating and enveloping sound of the New Order bass guitar, after more than 40 years, hearing it is still like a trip back in time to those years. In the 80s all the cult UK bands had their characteristic sound, you could recognize a new song on the radio just by the sound of the guitars or bass, in this case Joy Division-New Order, other examples The Chamelons, Big Country, The Jesus and Mary chain, Cocteau Twins, etc., this gave personality to the bands. I still remember when The Cure releases the song In Beetween Days, they copied New Order's bass sound, at first hearing at first everyone said: New Order?
Did the audience realize how far ahead of their time New Order was and how many countless musicians they would go on to influence. Truly timeless music still relevant to this day!!!
It’s cool to watch Bernie putting together the lyrics and the band shaping the song to release it the next year with full feeling of security that this is in fact a beautiful song.
I feel very fortunate in life to have went through a lot of So called Music Scenes, I enjoyed the Punk, New Wave & Romantics, etc, Kinda got into JD but I loved New Order stuff, 63yr Now, I it transports me back to my late teens, Sex, Drugs & New Order👍
Joy Division by another name. Utter genius pride of Manchester. And I’m a Londoner. Hats off to the North.
This is transformation. This is dealing with grief. Perhaps unconsciously. This is Phoenix, raising from the ashes. This is dance, this is rock, this is pop, electronic, punk, everything and completely unique. It’s ice under shirts, throwing words around, playing wrong notes and right notes and watching something grow bigger than the sum of parts. This is art, this is life. It’s one of the most important pieces of music ever made. It means everything to us.
Incredibly well put. NO has been my absolute favorite band since 1985. I’ve seen them so many time I’ve lost count. 👍
Yes, yes, yes.
Everything about this performance and the early days of New Order are a triumph to me. They had to overcome so much and just had to "get on with it" because there was no other way. I'm so proud of the lads. I'm so proud of Bernard for taking on the duties of frontman/singer/songwriter even though he had horrible stage fright and it never came natural to him. I'm proud to be a New Order fan and I can't thank them enough for the comfort they've provide for me in the short time I've been a fan. Love Live Joy Division and New Order!!!!
HEAR HEAR
New Order is my top band among all the bands I listen. They're simply amazing. Fan of them since 1994 when I was just a kid.
I’m proud of you too friend
Epic! Listen! Believe carefully
Well said. That get on with it singing style is what made me love him and the music. Felt so relatable, and still resonates. So many different sounds out of one band over multiple generations, and to remain mostly faceless throughout the ages. I could swear most modern bands come from one corner of the New Orderverse or another. Arcade Fire could sell this as their new single lol
Happiest and saddest song. I love every second of it.
Whether it is 1981 or 2021 Temptation is still a classic.
Yes it is ...
This or Thieves Like Us.. MY TWO FAVORITE NEW ORDER SONGS...!!!
Goddamn ABSOLUTELY.
Ya sea 1981 o 2021 New Order empieza hacer bases electronicas tomando la EDM Concreta (NRG & Synthpop) de Giorgio Moroder...al igual que el 80% de la masa de Punks Rockeros Convertidos de finales del 70s.
2023... + ♾️
This surely must have been one of the best gigs of all time. I mean, are you all hearing how hard this goes?
40 years of New Order and the music is as hot as it was back then, to our enjoyment !!!! Long live to New Order !!!!
Hell yeah...LONG LIVE NEW ORDER...!!!
@@brianlowe9985 yes NEW ORDER more life for this greatful band
Correct
Van halen is gay, compared to this composition...
Rush. Can't hold a candle to this racket.
People have no idea..how significant or how sad this was in 81.. it was a monumental sound compared to everything else.. so beautiful....
We use to call the " rock" radio stations requesting all of this music only to be told that they don't have it. we lived at record stores and bootleg cassettes.
It’s beautiful in its rawness. Could watch it all day!!
wait, what? New Order wasnt sad.. Joy Division was, but New Order is some of the happiest music I listened to.
Being in the days of early alternative music was a time of nostalgia now. Lucky were the.ones who lived it.....us.
ah yes, but those who know know❤🔥
The birth of New Order sound, live
LOVE this song. Gotta share this story....
The year was 1988, I was in high school and heard Blue Monday on the radio and just loved it. So I went to "Record Store" in my local mall and found Blue Monday on a white cassette tape compitation called "Substance 1987".
I couldn't wait to hear Blue Monday on my new stereo! I popped in the cassette and it started with Ceremony, then Everything's Gone Green and this track...Temptation. Well, I think the first 4 songs of the album put me in some kind of trance, they were so good and seamlessly went together so well. Perfect for engaging to my high school personality and finding my way in those days. I had a huge crush on this girl, but I was too shy to talk to her "And I've never seen anyone quite like you before"
33 years since that time in my life and THIS album is the album I would take to a desert island if I could only take one.
It's still hypnotic.
Thank you New Order for producing this amazing music!
Thanks for sharing this experience 🖤
So what happened to her?
@@bayekkenway7514 No idea. She dropped out of high school before graduation. I never saw her again. It was my first lesson on not hesitating on going after what I want.
I had the same cassette...bought mine at either Peaches or Camelot, can't remember
I still remember watching Dave Kendall on 120 Minutes saying "From the ashes of Joy Division, here's New Order's new single, 'True Faith''" I also went out the next day & bought 'Substance.' I had heard Joy Division in passing prior (I was really young,) from Casey in his VW Bus when my Mom was in a college class & he was taking me off campus to go to an arcade as he was watching me. Things you remember are strange.
Morris is tremendous! Sumner working so damn hard. Hooky and Gilbert lending spiritual support. Whew!!
Hookie's bass sound is one of the most delicious things in this world.
P.s. this song has kept me sane at the end of a relationship.
I can't say it's kept me sane but I've listened to it a lot and Ceremony recently after a relationship ended..
It's almost a completely different song. Not sure how much later they recorded it, but it can't have been long. The lyrics changed, Morris' drum fills changed, Hooky's bass changed, and even Barney's guitar parts changed. But it's still Temptation. Astonishing piece of musical history.
This is fucking raw. What I hear and see here is a bunch of guys trying to adapt and survive following their friend / lead singer's death. It's something becoming something else. I love this.
Barney still working out the lyrics. Fucking priceless piece of history. For electronic music fans, this is the equivalent to catching the Stones at a Marquee Club gig in '63. Absolutely love this video. Thanks for posting.
yes this is goooold
Those Trainspotting peeps have no idea... this song has been a classic forever. And will be forever. So good.
For real
yeah no shit, no one said trainspotting made it a classic.
a 14 year old girl is singing it in the movie, of course it would be a classic already
Essa é raiz. ...
For 10:30 I forgot all about today’s hell hole and remembered what truly is just like Heaven
Yes yes yes!
Out of all the renditions of Temptation that the band has done (including the original 1982 7 and 12 inch singles, '87 an '98 re-recordings) this one has to be my absolute favorite. There's something just so *innocent* about it, if that makes sense. A few people i know consider this concert to be the one where N.O. stepped out of the foggy and brooding atmosphere of Joy Division; but i consider this specific song to be that moment.
The juttering synthesizers, Hooky's storming melodic bass, Bernard's vocals pushing up and out with uncertainty against an absolute juggernaut of an instrumental, it's all there.
Even in their appearance, and the stage lighting. It surpasses nostalgia and crushes future expectations into nothing.
Shame this version isn't on streaming, or that the whole Taras Svenchenko gig wasn't remastered into a live LP, cause lord knows id buy it in an instant.
New Order's my favorite band, and this particular version of Temptation is IMO them at their absolute best
Could do without the nearly three minutes of rubbish synthesizer noise at the end
Beautiful comment.
It's incredible!!
Innocent is a very good word describing it. I also think its a lot more dynamic and organic than all more coming versions.
@@adamv242 solution: stop the video where you see fit
Makes me cry. I miss my teenage years so.badly. These are the days when everything like this was new. Life was raw and magical
Born in the 80s....here in 2023 listening to this early version of one of my all time favourite tracks. Joy Division / New Order were very special indeed.
Back they used to literally jam in public.
What a band.
The most underrated jam band on the planet
The sequencer is cracking. New Order always were good at building and layering songs.
truly a legendary performance, bernard's botched lyrics, out of tune guitars, and a super early version of temptation, is what created new order
I love it. It's so raw. The song starts off a bit weird and tense. Midway, it smoothens out. Then it reaches its peak towards the last few minutes with its gorgeous sounds.
As someone who went to see new order from the end of joy division 32 probably the mid 80s and beyond, they didn’t watch the lyrics, some of these recordings capture these as trial songs that they were trying out before they launch them out of the studio.
I know that a lot of power corruption and lies was tried out after six months live, it’s not like these days where everybody keeps an album a secret, we always used to hear Tracks that were half finished lyrically lice, but with affected in the studio
I would also like to add that they had some truly chaotic performances when the synthesises let them down… But the best thing about new order, was they were just as obstinate on stage as they were offstage
This song makes you feel like you're flying...
This sound was so ahead of its time still a classic dance tune in 2023.
This is a work of art. The tentative first half, the halting emotion, the slowly grappling with the audial beauty they had created and then them turning into a well oiled machine by the final few minutes.
There’s an air about this performance of both sadness and recovery in-process. Absolutely sublime.
Timeless and classically beautiful song!
Mesmerizing in its simplicity.
What like most about this is the ad at 5:29. Classic RUclips _and_ classic New Order. What a treat. 😂
Loved this song since I put Substance on my turntable in 1987. Great, great days 🎉
Make no mistake, Stephen Morris is one of the greatest drummers ever. He can bang out dance shit that most people need a drum machine for.
Temptation is/was ahead of its time.
There are a lot of 80s concert videos that make me wish a had a time machine, but none more than this one!
best version of temptation. Truly transcending,
The difficulty with remembering Ian just makes this so much better.
Best version as far as I concerne. Room for improvisation, so full of life, young and incredible fresh....
I like this version so much better than the more popular Temptation 87
As a young lad in Sheffield, I had Tara Shevchenko bought me on VHS for Xmas by my parents ..This is where it all started for me
80s were filled with innovative artists.
People who are old enough and lucky enough to have seen new order in their infancy and the raw emotion of every performance are very lucky
I am fortunate enough to be a lucky one I love music seen hundreds of groups live but early new order was different level
Happy times
fantastic song. Played it driving to work this morning and got the required mood lift.
I know exactly what you mean. Excellent driving song!
Live demo. What a gift to the audience.
Can never get enough of this! Back then and now :)
Best version!
What a gift to have this historic recording from 40+ years ago of this great song.
My favorite song of the early 80s and top 5 or 6 of all time... Love seeing this live performance.
When Hooky's bass starts to kick in, you know "it's just the start of it all"
Wish I could have seen New Order and DMode in their youthful energy!
This is a stellar version
I lived in NY when the single of this would sometimes get played on the radio-it was so completely different from anything else, and so much better. It came on, and you had a feeling of possibilities for art that had nothing to do with being cool or money-making.
Timeless masterpiece, magnificent live version. ✨💖✨
Bless these people and Ian for making part of my teenage years soundtrack.
Best band on earth
This is the best new order song and you can’t tell me it isn’t the lyrics the sound the music all fit perfectly it’s like at first glance it’s like you know it’s dancy but the more you listen to it the more it gets sadder and more I guess relatable
It’s an important song I listened to
Thanks so much a Barney. Just a perfect Job.
The Haribo ad, right in the middle, really made this experience complete for me. Cheers.
What a start, and what a finish
Of I could give this 100x thumbs up, I would. How on earth this performance is 40+ years old is beyond me. Simply sublime. 😎🙏🏼❤
*if
Ffs. I’m drunk
Last 3 mins - absolutely sublime.
One of the best songs ever! The guitars at 4:24 to 5,50 are just brilliant! At 7:50 to 8,35 the drums are astonishingly good. I imagine 8:47 to the end is what heroin feels like? Sublime, transcendent, magical. This video is such a treat!
It is almost that good. Just gotta be careful you don't end up liking it too much.
-Someone who liked it way too much.
@@QVAZzzz May I ask why?
@@81freewilly I was addicted to heroin and painkillers for like 8 years and it got so bad I ended up having to be revived in an ambulance from an overdose. It was too good for my own health.
You must mean 7:42 until the end.
Engulfing and swamping and itching and bleeding and peaking and slumping in repetition.
Fking gnarley as fuck man
But yes
That last minute and half is fking dreamtime
Definitely one of my favorite New Order songs, it's just so damn good
My god ! The legend was beginning! Thank you a lot for this piece of art. It's incredible. When my life is too hard i listen your songs and they sustain me and after a few days of this treatment i retrieve the happyness to live.
Gotta be one my most favourite songs. Love the extended and live versions, such as this, the most.
gives me chills
Stephen Morris 👍
The last 3 minutes of this are complete and utter perfection
I'm from Finland and I must say that during 80's and 90's my religion was Depeche Mode but then there were also 3 perfect groups, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and if we think about New Order they did so many perfect songs that those will stay forever..
I agree. I am from a small town in Southeast Texas. For me, the fourth would be the Cure. They will stay forever.
@@737sunset bless Texas! I lived there from 1982-1987 and there was a huge New Wave scene in Houston. Depeche Mode was huge but so was New Order, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Devo, Kraftwerk and so many more…I have great memories!
Been looking for this version for years ever since I saw it on Rage in the 90s. Thankyou! The best and rawest of all of them!
what's that? rage in the 90s?
@@niravshahesq Australian late-night music video show on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Starts at about midnight on Fri & Sat nights and finishes up about 9am the next morning with the national Top 40. A legendary show where a lot of Aussies got their musical education. They play videos in full and there a no presenters.
I remember seeing it on a show called Rock around the world which was on SBS circa 1982. Have loved this song ever since.
I'd like to set my time machine for right there!🌠
This is so special to watch and hear! Love this song
Impressive they were able to do this as 20 year olds basically. The song is as good in 2023 as 1996 and 1982.
They were more like 26 but I agree wholeheartedly.
Hi Future Alex!!!!
Have a great day and remember to love yourself and enjoy this song!
-From Alex of Autumn of 22.
Saw New Order around the same time as this at the sadly now demolished Plaza Ballroom in Eglinton Toll in Glasgow. A truly magickal experience in every way 👍
No words, amazing performance brilliant song.
Bernhard sagt in seinem Buch, das es mit diesem Song sowas wie eine spirituelle Verbindung mit den Fans gibt. Ja, stimmt. New Order- ich werde euch immer lieben für das was ihr mir gegeben habt ...
great times, when the mass culture alone is so full of magic.
Some of Bernards best guitar work, fantastic!😎
Possibly the best thing that has *ever* happened in New York City.
I am blown away.
Timeless...........
Where in NYC?
I was going to the clubs around this time. I remember when they were supposed to play Hurrah as Joy Division and we got word the lead singer (Ian Curtis) had taken his own life. I was 17 , was just learning about this fascinating scene. Didn’t know Joy Divisions music then, just knew how sad I felt.
Wondered how bad it could
have been for him that they
were about to embark on a
HUGE journey and he chose
not to be a part of that. 😢
I consider this performance the final goodbye to Ian Curtis before New Order became their own entity. You can see it on all their faces. Bernard, Peter, Stephen, and Gillian are trying so hard to keep it all together. Tony Wilson once said "Temptation" was the first New Order song Bernard sang where he wasn't trying to copy Ian. That iconic "Whoo!" Best part is 4:26-5:49.
If this played in a club today, I would probably be the only one dancing🙃
True, these poor fukn morons would rather b on Wyclef monky boy mutant FK!!!
NEW ORDER E SEMPRE NEW ORDER NÃO IMPORTA O TEMPO ELES SÃO ATEMPORAIS GRATIDÃO GRATIDÃO GRATIDÃO GRATIDÃO GRATIDÃO
I like his guitar tone here
A staggering performance
...sacred time, sacred song, sacred feeling!!!...
The best band 🥰🥰🥰🥰
I saw them on this tour in Los Angeles and still remember it vividly. I also saw them a year or two later in a roller rink in Orange County CA! Stood right at the front of the stage no problem. Simpler times.
Never thought that back in 94 I'd become fan of one of the greatest bands and my favourite one above all. Regret was my initiation and no regrets from them.
僕の生活に最も影響を与えたバンドです。new orderがこの世にいてよかったです。
Watch then perform this live last night in Chicago. Beautiful in all its versions but seeing this video for the first time is transcendent.
Wow. Amazing.
I recall how difficult it must have been to continue on after Ian died , no lead singer. It wasn't easy for them, I saw them when they finally came to Canada after their plan to come with JD. It was great to see them transforming.
That characteristic, captivating and enveloping sound of the New Order bass guitar, after more than 40 years, hearing it is still like a trip back in time to those years.
In the 80s all the cult UK bands had their characteristic sound, you could recognize a new song on the radio just by the sound of the guitars or bass, in this case Joy Division-New Order, other examples The Chamelons, Big Country, The Jesus and Mary chain, Cocteau Twins, etc., this gave personality to the bands.
I still remember when The Cure releases the song In Beetween Days, they copied New Order's bass sound, at first hearing at first everyone said: New Order?
Proper trippy at the end! Ace!
I remember they wanted to walk off stage with the machines still playing..!
Goosebumps….
Did the audience realize how far ahead of their time New Order was and how many countless musicians they would go on to influence. Truly timeless music still relevant to this day!!!
New Order were at one point unequivocally ahead of the music curve.
This performance is ahead of its time in 2024.
It’s cool to watch Bernie putting together the lyrics and the band shaping the song to release it the next year with full feeling of security that this is in fact a beautiful song.
I feel very fortunate in life to have went through a lot of So called Music Scenes,
I enjoyed the Punk, New Wave & Romantics, etc, Kinda got into JD but I loved New Order stuff, 63yr Now, I it transports me back to my late teens, Sex, Drugs & New Order👍
The metaphor is in the tension; you are waiting for the technology to fail but it doesn’t fail and you survive.