🎵 New Order - Blue Monday REACTION

[@planreview]

If anyone was sitting down at the club when this was played, everyone was immediately up dancing to the 20+ minute version of this song. Those were great times.

[@maryellenazack4466]

Dancin' at ALDO'S HIDEAWAY! best times of my life! Luckily no one was injured, just mentally damaged. 🤯

[@avictorbell2835]

They used to play the 20 minute version at the Mayfair Rock Club on Fiday and Saturday nights Everyone was on the dancefloor

[@PaulEvans-j7h]

I was

[@bibsp3556]

"Insert barely moving 80s dancing*

[@ruanniemann2604]

Le Club in Johannesburg, South Africe 80's

[@kellypierce81]

Nearly 40 years on and this song is still an absolute BANGER!!

[@cahillgreg]

Not bad for an oul banger yourself Kel

[@raffaojeda]

Jesus christ Kelly ! 40 years!! That means that I became old very rapidly!!

[@Zyzzyyx]

It's too good for anyone not 40.

[@JohnSmith-ki2eq]

I'm up and dancing around like a kid again!

[@LeTrashPanda]

Impossible NOT TO DANCE!

[@mlyten67]

This track is a perfect example of how great music never dies. The amount I played this in my 20’s you’d think that I’d be sick of it…..but there is absolutely no chance of that ever occurring.

[@Thynqikan]

I am the same, I have easily listened to this hundreds of times and never get tired of it.

[@deechristoff2405]

With you!

[@greenmachine718]

Just like all New Order classics!! Never gets old. 🙂

[@paulrodsted3905]

"Everytime" I hear this I have to listen to the whole thing..... It is awesome.....

[@redsidebiker]

I was driving to pick my wife up today, this came on on random play on the USB stick in the car, got turned up, big style! I remember the original version, this is a cover/remix by the surviving members of Joy Division.

[@julie68au]

nup , no robots !~ This is a in the nightclub , off ya face , eyes shut and dancing like nobody's watching and fast dancing ... dripping sweat

[@jeffbeach8354]

Damn, that Gal! When she hears a note that hits her, she lights up like a 100 watt bulb. Love it.

[@cletusbeauregard1972]

This song has been driving club people insane for almost 4 decades now.

[@paranoidrodent]

This song is a great example of the transition from the disco era to modern techno club music. It’s got a disco beat but clearly isn’t disco but rather something new that leverages the new synthesizer technology so well. Also, Peter Hook’s bass was freaking brilliant as usual. It was a huge club music hit in the 80s and has stayed an ever fresh dance club song for almost four decades.

[@barrytantlinger1033]

Peter Hook is a god.

[@jmotiff]

Hook is the best ever!

[@LeTrashPanda]

Disco Sucks era, we had the t shirt & Mohawk, lol.

[@robin9876]

@@LeTrashPanda I had the bumper sticker & the 'hawk, too!

[@MrVegasdeuce]

This song still routinely fills the floor up.

[@steph990]

“Inner Robot.” 😂 There’s a book about the 80s New Wave that had the line, “When the American wanted to be British, the British wanted to be German, and the Germans wanted to be robots.” Truer words….

[@DavidRodriguez-xm3gw]

What's the name of the book?

[@springsource]

Love this.

[@jokervienna6433]

Ha, ha, haa! Spot on! :D

[@meridiths9287]

@@DavidRodriguez-xm3gw pretty sure it was Mad World by Lori Majewski

[@Arieeeee]

Kraftwerk has entered chat

[@alukuhito]

New Order is amazing. Especially when you consider where they came from. New Order is Joy Division. Joy Division was incredible. They were just on the verge of a US tour. They had already become big in the UK, then their singer, Ian Curtis, killed himself. They must've been totally devastated, but they continued. Instead of replacing the singer, which would've been just lame, the guitarist became the singer, and they took on a new member and went electronic, doing totally different stuff, yet also somehow retaining their greatness from Joy Division. Ian would've wanted them to go on, and they did it in such an original way. Thankfully they had a lot of success and created a whole slew of hits even up until recently. From this era you might want to also try: Ceremony and Temptation. For later stuff: Regret. For more recent stuff: Restless and Singularity.

[@emulus4000]

And before Joy Division they were Warsaw. Every band name they had is a nod to Nazi Germany

[@nogovannut9386]

Regret is great!

[@Charlesbaker3017]

Control is a bio..pic..really good..

[@nucpsay1524]

That’s right , the song is about that Monday they were leaving Heathrow to start the American tour , Ian Curtis committed suicide hours before their ride was there. You know the line , now I stand here waiting …. This song was brilliant love song in tragedy . Cool show 🎉

[@nucpsay1524]

Closer is a great joy division album before Ian died. I still have the world tour poster fir show in San Francisco . I cherish it

[@thursday1679]

One of the greatest songs ever , which never becomes dated.

[@SpiralMoss]

Absolute banger of a tune 👍

[@sylviarippey6488]

The entire album is amazing.

[@Benkeimoores]

❤❤❤

[@allancorbin5608]

Song is a sample of Our Love by Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder

[@err4071]

@@allancorbin5608 There are actually 2 samples in blue Monday, but it's none of those you have mentioned. 1 is a synth choir sample from Uranium by Kraftwerk and the 2nd is from, La Resa Dei Conti by Ennio Morricone, which comes in at 1:26 which is that famous Mexican guitar sound from the Western film The Big Gundown. Everything else was written and performed and produced by New Order.

[@alistairmcdougall9625]

I'm 52 now, that took me back to being 14 years of age all over again, still sounds great & modern 👌

[@lumpyfishgravy]

It does! I was going to say no-one's dared cover it but Nouvelle Vague did and it's quite good. Hannah Peel also did one of her music box versions, which is incredible in its way. There are also some decent mashups: the Eminem and Flat Eric ones worth looking up.

[@paramentalproductions2053]

Great song. The orgy version also bumps pretty hard

[@liverush24]

I'll be 52 in a couple of weeks. ☹️

[@KyleHowardhax]

I'm 49 and same here.

[@travelbites5128]

@@lumpyfishgravy Flunk have also done a cover, with a very different vibe but very enjoyable

[@JeffKelly03]

This song is *still* a jam. It’s got a permanent place on my workout playlist (it’s a perfect song for the treadmill). It's also a SUPER confident song. Like, that crazy long intro, and then later when he sings "Now I stand here waiting..." and literally waits for like 10 seconds before he says anything else. I love it.

[@manbearpig7359]

Me too. I also have the heavy Orgy version on my workout playlist too. Just to mix it up

[@AbeVicious]

Hell yea it is!

[@mariotovar951]

Goes to show how special this track is 💙

[@dougman23]

I've always considered that pause after "...waiting" as an awesome studio joke, like I can picture a producer saying "let's just let that line hang...", and everyone involved, probably gaked out of their mind. Just rolling laughing.

[@JeffKelly03]

@@dougman23 Oh, I can absolutely see that too. That also goes into what I mean when I say it's an incredibly confident song. Like... they knew it was a jam and they could do whatever the hell they wanted, and people would lap it up.

[@chrisrichardson8988]

Lex is awesome! She has an incredibly optimistic and bubbly personality.

[@tootsmagoots9523]

Ikr she's MY new bff.. fight me Lol

[@Vergilsma]

She was totally digging this song! I love Lex!

[@wolverine4ever38]

Brad probably does not even know what a gem he has in lex, I hope he does. She makes me smile every video..she rocks 🤘💕

[@jamesbradley2301]

Oh I think he does.

[@wolverine4ever38]

@@jamesbradley2301 yeah I'm sure he does. They pair well together.

[@sarahbreisch4750]

Her little squeal of joy when the synth strings came on made me feel like that 13 year old again, fist listening to the random CDs left by her weird uncle. Thanks Uncle Louis, wherever you are

[@fromSweden4u]

This song is hypnotic.

[@pbasswil]

Picture a bunch of working class Northern Englanders, who'd been hearing classic 70s rock & pop since they started noticing music. Suddenly there's a _completely_ new sound appearing - all you had to do is get a hold of some synthesizers, and fiddle with them until you liked the sounds. At the time, you can't imagine how fresh this new genre sounded (and _looked,_ even), after a life time of nothing but distortion guitar.

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Top comment! As if the legacy of Joy Division wasn't enough, when Ian died they finished off the songs that became Movement then took a deliberate musical turn for Power, Corruption and Lies which is an unrecognised classic in my opinion.

[@neumanmachine3781]

They were all into Kraftwerk and NEU! They also toured with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (from Birkenhead), who opened for Joy Division and shared similar tastes. OMD were further along on the electronic music side and I remember reading something in the dim distant past that they gave New Order some help early on with how to set up and use the technology.

[@megamanmuppet]

Blue Monday takes influence from Donna Summer, Sylvester, Klein + MBO and Kraftwerk.

[@davidjames4980]

100% other than the classic rock was probably just plain old rock in 83

[@miketube208]

@@megamanmuppet Donna Summer - produced by Giorgio Moroder, who was also an electronic music legend in the 70s. He actually did a DJ-ing tour, playing 70s/80s electronic music, together with a live band, 3 years ago. When he was already 80 years old! And - I attended one of these shows, in Amsterdam. Epic.

[@evilcam]

This is a song tailor made for dancing in a club. Think about whatever your absolute most favorite club song, and then apply that to this song in 1983 in whatever dance club you want, and you'll get the picture. Or all the way up til at least the early 1990s. I bet it would still kill on any dance floor if it was played today too. As Lex said it 'activates your inner robot' and you can't help but move.

[@ischmidt]

In the mid-90s I lived in Orlando, and there was a club downtown that did 80s night every weekend. This song *always* packed the dance floor.

[@evedumont9233]

As a New Romantic, in the '80s....we Danced our heads Off to this song, in the clubs .

[@avant-punk]

can confirm this is true at least through 2011

[@v.j.3029]

Watching them react to the song, I can just imagine them in a club in the 80's. Lex and Brad's brother going crazy on the dance floor while Brad is sitting in the back, sipping on his drink while watching them and his watch occasionally.😂

[@roberttodd2414]

I still mix it into modern trance sets on vinyl. Works great, needs a bit of a bass boost that's all

[@simonlucas5213]

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division for the New Order connection, and because it's perfect.

[@ianbirtles6507]

or shes lost control again for lex!

[@shannonbennett987]

Transmission! Dance, to the radio.

[@MEDVE1978]

And then New dawn fades....

[@JennVix]

Excellent choice!

[@JonathanLivingston87]

they just have to get into Joy Division's music..Ian Curtis will do the rest :D p.s. the live version of transmission would be perfect to me 👍🏼😁

[@arthurcurry2003]

One of the greatest dance songs in history right there.

[@jojomojo9950]

One of the best songs ever written. Genius. A music game changer.

[@JackMellor498]

More than anything else in our culture, this song makes me proud to be British. The quality of our music is unparalleled.

[@gardini100]

when it comes to music GB has always been the best, I like the food and beer as well, thumbs up from Norway, YNWA :)

[@Elena-er7zp]

Agreed, been getting hyped listening to Prodigy all day!!

[@heathcornbeef]

@@gardini100 do you like warm beer?

[@heathcornbeef]

OK guys you're on the right track but not quite there IT'S JOE STRUMMER AND THE CLASH THAT SHOULD MAKE YOUR POMMY HEARTS SWEEL WITH PRIDE

[@gardini100]

@@heathcornbeef i guess I have been lucky :)

[@manna6618]

Such an important song for the time...birthed a whole new genre of music. The OG's!

[@etherealcarlos]

Darn, I could watch Lex's unabashed, delightful couch dancing all day. She celebrates the music that she hears with her whole soul.

[@BoondockRoberts]

need a bigger couch so she can move.

[@drServitis]

You do know she's dating Brad already, right?

[@ITPalGame]

@@drServitis That jump in subject logic was so grand Evel Knievel would have been in awe at your attempt.

[@drServitis]

@@ITPalGame Why is that a jump in subject logic?? He's attracted to Lex, so I pointed out that Lex is in a relationship already. And Evil Knievel was a wannabe. He pulled his shoot way early on the Snake River. Pussy Knievel we should've called him.

[@ITPalGame]

@@drServitis how you managed to get love out of liking watching her antics is a huge jump.

[@lLushKitty]

Lex reminds me of how I felt when I first heard this track in my teens. She squeals around 8:34 and I'm loving it!!!!

[@grigris7755]

I love how Lex is having a good time from start to finish 👌🏻

[@hughmoore3251]

"It activates your inner NPC" is brilliant. Hugely important / influencial song. It was absolutely ground-breaking in the 80s.

[@iDEATH]

Ya, Lex and little bro nailed that! Turn your brain off and let the beat carry you, but it has enough other stuff going on to be very interesting to the ear. To quote an old friend, "If you can't dance to a 4/4 beat you just can't dance."

[@jonnyyen7169]

Imagine this being played LOUD AF in a dance club, with the smoke machines pumping and the lights and lasers just going off, people elbow to elbow grooving! Yes!

[@chestrockwell8328]

Yes I can imagine... I was there. As I'm listening you described exactly what I had in my visual memory. :)

[@jonnyyen7169]

@@chestrockwell8328 great time to be young! Hopefully, one day we can get this back.

[@themadhatter3622]

Imagine it, I remember it and at nearly 60 years old, I can still move to it.

[@neumanmachine3781]

It was still going off in the clubs ten years later in the early 1990’s.

[@KyleHowardhax]

People doing tai chi on the dance floor in the 90s

[@djm0111]

HUGE club song in the 80s. Really one of the most influential bands of the era. Check out Age of Consent, Ceremony, Temptation, Love Vigilantes, tons more.

[@anglosaxon5874]

'Bizarre Love Triangle' was great too.

[@jonesy2892]

Also Thieves Like Us, Shellshock, Regret, Bizarre Love Triangle, and Elegia

[@kristensolury7088]

many music historians consider this to be first true "club" song. i'd have to agree. it's been on rotation in my house for 35 years and i never ever get sick of it.

[@mrphic69]

Crystal!!!!

[@louisaklimentos7583]

I love New Order . They were the offspring of Joy Division and were the early innovators of techno music.

[@mrglasses8953]

Acid house specifically. The whole UK acid house scene came from this.

[@mafeetaritchie6927]

Behave! 😂

[@bibsp3556]

Rip Ian

[@TacShooter]

Lex looks like the kind of dame that when she hints she wants to dance, you go dance, even if you don't dance, because she isn't going to make you feel awkward. You're just gonna have a fun time on the dance floor.

[@mariobarrigan5284]

Agreed!! 😅

[@sashabertold3731]

It came out in 1983 and was played throughout the decade and is still played. Timeless genius classic and they have MORE of this!

[@ashleydixon4613]

This had everyone on the dance floor from when it came out in the early ‘80s, through my late teens and 20s in the ‘90s, and still today. You definitely need to check out Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order! (My high school dance team performed a routine to this in ‘90, and I still remember the choreography to it at age 46!)

[@jco207]

I also recommend the song "Temptation" but honestly New Order (and Joy Division, their previous band before they renamed themselves after their singer died) have a lot of great songs.

[@themadhatter3622]

It was a pretty long song and the beat, by the tine the song ended, you would be soaked in sweat and you needed a seat.

[@keydad3607]

more like LATE 80s?

[@steved1135]

Yup. All of the above.

[@malingor7042]

@@keydad3607 no, it came out in '83...

[@Sonnie0325]

An ultimate club song - back in my days, we'd run to the dance floor when this came on. New Order, and prior to them Joy Division were some of my favorites!

[@AbdulKuddus-rm4pd]

This tune still sounds fresh today as it did almost 39 years ago.

[@declanshanahan3888]

The word is timeless. If this got released tomorrow no one would batter an eye lid. Apparently the biggest ever selling 12inch single of all time. A piece of electronic genius.

[@seabasssimpson4547]

And Factory Records lost a small fortune on it!

[@ralphmorris8169]

But never made any money coz the sleeve design was too expensive 😮

[@PaulEvans-j7h]

Yes it cost very slightly more to manufacture than factory sold it wholesale. They didn't care because it wasn't expected to sell. However, it sold and sold millions and therein was the problem.

[@bibsp3556]

I wouldnt doubt it. I got it straight away when i started collecting vinyl. Love the code they made

[@rik6696]

This song changed EVERYTHING and you have not really heard it until you've heard it in a club dancing with a hundred other people.

[@arthurcurry2003]

Preach! No one stayed sitting down when this came on in a club.

[@paulrodsted3905]

I don't dance but would do my white man shuffle to this.... lol

[@kappakai78]

And you STILL hear it in the clubs, undergrounds, massive. Especially that kick.

[@markbeiser]

On legal pharmaceutical grade Extacy, before it became a street drug!

[@rik6696]

@@markbeiser Yes, for those "in the know" real M.D.M.A has been known to take this song to another level. Lol. Nothing controversial in your statement.

[@matthewowen2182]

Back then we hadn’t heard anything like it, New Order/ Joy Division one of the most influential bands ever

[@jaquettajones]

THIS Song was MASSIVE! Defined an ENTIRE GENERATION.

[@dougcrawford6967]

Agreed. It was totally groundbreaking in it's day.

[@gregorydavis2184]

It changed the world

[@ingovonderluhe2174]

STILL the HYMN of MY Generation!....This Song changed EVERYTHING at that time....and still does !

[@alanmurray5963]

This was a ground breaking dance tune - there's just so much packed into 1 tune. Genius

[@csilt]

Love Lex's energy, she is feeling it. This is such a classic song for me since I grew up in the 80s. It was a very innovative song at the time. They actually had to invent software on archaic computers to make this happen. Also, yup there is technology and magic involved, ceremonies etc etc I'll leave it at that lol

[@raserx63]

Ah… memories of the 80’s club scene. Sorry you guys missed it ..It was a party. This song had everyone bouncing in unison on the dance floor. I saw them live in the 80’s as well and the entire arena was bouncing up and down!

[@Trifler500]

In the dark, with those laser light beams passing back and forth over the crowd... :)

[@larissa1770]

missed it too 😭 late 90s baby here and i still think the 80s was the coolest era ever!!!!! Im now noticing some 80s fashion influences coming back. I see so many guys wearing shorts that are waaayy above the knees. Almost like girl mom shorts 😂 I love it haha

[@Spotnick2]

The beauty about New Order's music is that it ages well. This was release in 83, 88 and 95, influenced many artists, used in so many movies (up to last year's Wonder Woman 84 trailer). This was the biggest 12" seller of all time, for younger people they used to release singles or 7" and 12" vinyl discs back in the days.

[@alanbobbymcguire5099]

The early eighties music scene in Great Britain was just magical. This song blew me away as did early Simple Minds ,Depeche Mode ,Gary Newman ,OMD ,just a brilliant time

[@Workrategetschingy]

💯 OMD was one of my favourite bands

[@johndaarteest]

Love it that ALL of your heads are all bobbing to this music.😆

[@derwoodbowen5954]

I heard that the band had written this as an instrumental when the lead singer came in and said, "I had words for this." When the lead singer from Joy Division committed suicide the singer for New Order said he was numb. His wife was very suprised he wasn't more emotional. So, the song, How do I feel How should I feel etc

[@hod2116]

I thought new order was born out of joy division after the death

[@jaynagerber7474]

@@hod2116 They were; three of the four members of New Order were part of Joy Division (Bernard Sumner - lead vocalist/guitar in NO, guitar/keyboards/backing vocals in JD; Peter Hook - bass in both; Stephen Morris - drums in both). They added in Gillian Gilbert on keyboards/synthesizer when they reformed as New Order following the death of Ian Curtis. Not sure if he (Derwood Bowen) just phrased it in a confusing way or if he has bad info, but it does sound like he was saying that New Order already existed when Ian Curtis (lead singer of Joy Division) committed suicide (which, again, is not correct as the surviving members of JD reformed as NO following his death).

[@neumanmachine3781]

This was recorded some two years after Ian passed.

[@AdjustableSquelch]

The idea was that they didn't want to do encores (because well encores are BS. lets walk offstage. stand around a bit. come back again) so it was designed to just play onstage automatically without them there. But then Barney put a lyric on it... and there you go

[@filyblunt2572]

New order was formed by the remaining members of joy division

[@malwill54]

I'm proud to say that this is THE tune that linked disco to techno, industrial and symphonic simultaneously. Check out when it was released in the Uk, then re-released and released again. It cannot ever be anything other than the song that took post punk British music to another level. Influenced by German music, blended with Sci-Fi, add a little nihilism and enjoy a timeless classic

[@hannastrauss2994]

New Order and Gary Newman both influenced by Kraftwerk.

[@bibsp3556]

"The americans wanted to be british, the bristish wanted to be german, and the german wanted to be robots" - some fella above

[@barnigranero5882]

Great song. The biggest selling 12 inch record of all time. The band made a loss on every copy because the artwork was expensive to produce as it was a replica of a floppy disk. They wrote this so that they could play it at the end of the gig and go to the bar before everyone else got there. They made the synthesiser that is used in this song themselves and ended up inventing a genre.

[@thedeceiver5545]

I wouldn't go so far as saying they invented a genre, they are just were just trying to copy Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder/ Donna Summer stuff. and even have two Kraftwerk samples in there.

[@iainweller452]

@@thedeceiver5545 the bass in the chorus is very similar to Donna Summer - Our Love

[@barnigranero5882]

@@thedeceiver5545 Kraftwerk are part of a different genre. Claiming that Kraftwerk are in the same genre as New Order is like claiming that The Sex Pistols are in the same genre as Nirvana and that Nirvana copied them. New Order didn't set out to invent a new genre but ended up doing it.

[@ChrisEchoes]

@@barnigranero5882 Sorry but claiming that this is a new genre and New Order invented it is just absurd. Electronic Dance Music was around before that, what New Order did was tap into what was already happening around them and expanded upon it. I am also fairly certain that none of the synths they used on this weren't made by themselves. Guitarist / singer Bernard Sumner did built a DIY one he ordered through a catalogue but that was when they were still Joy Division.

[@barnigranero5882]

@@ChrisEchoes They didn't invent "Electronic dance music." That's not the genre I am referring to. They used a Powertran sequencer that they built themselves.

[@marshsundeen]

New Order is very influential in Alternative music. They influenced many New Wave bands. The originally were called Joy Division. When singer Ian Curtis died by suicide, the band reformed into New Order. Pop and lock was brand new when this came out.

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

Everyone influences everyone else. If you ask the band they will tell you that they stole all the elements that became this song from all sorts of people, including Donna Summer and Enio Morricone. There's an old Psychic TV album as well from I believe 1979 or 1980 that has a similar sound on one of the songs. In fact, if you want to find origins in alternative music, PTV and TG are always good places to start. But that was derived too. No one ever starts anything. They steal a little here and there and then glue it back together again with their own glue.

[@bibsp3556]

They were a huge thing for me in highschool, in the early 00s. Thats how much they made things their own. We studied their influence on music

[@marshsundeen]

@@bibsp3556 that is very cool.

[@marshsundeen]

@@politicallycorrectredskin796 true. I think they were the first to put goat sounds, etc., into popular music too.

[@2110jacko]

Lex is definitely feeling it, eyes closed, head bopping, big smile. That's THE way to listen to this.

[@robertkenneth6517]

One of those rare songs that changed the rules.

[@KapmansBasementWorkshop]

I saw them in Miami at the James L Night center. The crowd could only fill the bottom section of the stadium. There were no stage effects or anything. As plain as could be. They started playing and the audience exploded into dance and used up every available space to dance. It was amazing.

[@kosh6612]

this song is a life long favorite! I have been known to be passed out drunk in a club and STILL manage to make it to the dancefloor for this song. As a DJ from the 80/90's the impact of this song can not be understated. It was the first time mainstream clubs and DJ's really started intermixing and cutting songs together on the fly. It set the stage for many different genre's to finally enter the mainstream. The lyrics to this are really dark, about an abusive relationship. Hardly surprising considering their Joy Division origins. The official video for this is weird AF

[@BarrySanderson-u6b]

this was one of my favourite songs when i was younger now I'm 62 and it's still a favourite song

[@locutus1126]

This was THE national anthem of the clubs back in the 80's. I used to DJ back then, this always packed the dance floor

[@johndennison3140]

This is the 80s wrapped up in one song it filled every dance floor as soon as everyone heard that intro and it always will it’s a classic that’s timeless.another great UK band who influenced so many other artists.

[@jamalsampson9389]

The 80s always had those long instrumental openers to make you feel like you're at a dance club. New Order had that same distinctive sound!

[@barnigranero5882]

They invented that sound.

[@dawatcherz]

this is the 12 inch version, they always have longer intros

[@kimcutts424]

Ohhh. Now we're talking. What a great tune this is. HUGE back in the 80s. And always got the dancefloor filled to the max. 🕺💃🎹🎼🇬🇧

[@Strappa71]

My feelings for this song is that it was a song more for crazy club dancing than just listening to. When it came on, the floor always filled up during the intro. When it ended, most people had just danced their hearts out and were sweating as ****. So many memories.

[@michellehawk282]

Can you believe they made this amazing song while playing around on a self made synthesizer? Honestly one of the best songs of all time. The beginning of the good old 80s synth wave.

[@domhunt6488]

The Manchester anthem. Every single Mancunian boy and girl goes through a New Order/Joy Division/808 State/The Smiths/Stone Roses phase and this is one of the defining tracks.

[@russbillington6291]

You can throw in the Happy Mondays in there an all to name just the one of many..

[@lumpyfishgravy]

808 State - Preach!

[@htt232101]

As a resident of North Yorkshire, I totally get you, Manchester is just a Mecca of incredible music

[@brenflynn3107]

100% mate

[@gavinreid2741]

No mention of that other band from Manchester

[@mset510]

I just LOVE Lex & her reactions as she REALLY gets into the music. Lex is the most entertaining KZbin reactor to watch

[@markelliott2758]

This song is a monumental classic that has been imitated thousands of times but never equaled. As powerful and moving today as it was almost 40 years ago when it was released.

[@bibsp3556]

How. Does it feel?

[@ShawnGBR]

This song came out when I was 13. I'm 52 now. 1983... before House, before Techno, there was Steve Morris on drums, Gillian Gilbert on keyboards and Peter Hook on bass with Bernard Sumner on vocals. Some music is just WAY ahead of its time. The band stated that the song was written in response to crowd disappointment at the fact that they never played encores. The song was planned to allow them to return to the stage, press play on a synthesiser and leave the stage again, but while writing the song it evolved into a project that the band quite liked, and it was turned from an experiment into a single. So it sounds like a break-up song because the crowd (the other side of the relationship) is unhappy with them and is telling them what to do.

[@harrymay2528]

New Order and Cabaret Voltaire - 83 was a great year

[@LuisA-fc3ox]

I’m 49 and from Chicago. The house music scene was so huge in 82,83 84 and when this hit Us we were like wow. Great memories great song. I prefer bizarre love triangle but this shows how great a band they are after joy division.

[@bibsp3556]

They accidentally made an encore so good it created uk new wave

[@Alright70]

We had such crazy good music in the 80s but this was one of the best of the times, blue Monday!

[@nem447]

The first true electronic dance song that started it all.

[@nriqueog]

That song is LEGENDARY New wave classic. It hasn't lost it's power since the day it was released...March of 1983. TIMELESS dance floor BANGER. Check out Joy Division and their AMAZING songs, the three members of New Order came from this band after their lead singer died.

[@BFKAnthony817]

Lex hit the nail on the head. When she says it activates your inner robot there is a lot of truth to it. Electronic music is basically modern tribal music, it is highly repetitive so it puts you into the zone, and lets not forget people that do music enhancing substances REALLY get in tune with their inner robot if you know what I mean! Something about it puts you into this primitive tribal mindset and that is what Dance music or EDM is all about. Brad was kinda right too, this is not quite rave music per sey, more akin to Rock as it is New Wave, but still heavily influenced electronic and dance music. But when he was bringing up Terry Crews and the glow sticks, that is the kind of music it is, not quite Trance Rave style, but still similar and an influential genre that inspired Trance and later Dance and EDM. I really get a kick out of Black people straying out of their lane and fully deep diving into what is regarded as White Music. I know it is stereotypical to think all black people conform to a certain way and only listen to R&B or Hip Hop and Rap or Blues and Soul. But there is always some truth to stereotypes lest they wouldn't be stereotypes in the first place. So something about this really makes me happy it brings people together and it is such a unifying thing listening to such different genres of music. I love you guys channel and have been watching for the past few months since I discovered it and it is always really wholesome and I love seeing how you both go through the emotions.

[@robingannaway8262]

It was great for a road bicycle ride, listening on the walkman.

[@rickg8015]

Techno started in Detroit, pioneered by black DJ’s.. But took off in places like Germany.

[@johnelrick8945]

|I don't know if it directly relates to this song but Kurt Vonnegut Jnr had a theory: That we are all robots whose behaviour and responses to our programming is determined by the mix of chemicals inside.

[@lavenderllamamusic]

@@rickg8015 yup! Techno and House are rooted in black & LGBT culture. the history of some music genres can be really interesting.

[@promontorium]

we aren't fucking robots

[@monogramadikt5971]

*joy division became new order after ian curtis who was the lead singer hung himself, after new order Bernard Sumner (new orders vocalist) teamed up with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr to form the group Electronic

[@markdensel1274]

Berto takes this shit serious, I love it.

[@benshafer5198]

Quintessential 80's club vibes. The ladies (& gents) in the eighties loved this band; reminds me so much of days at my alma mater. Berto's a cool dude, BTW!

[@oskarobit]

The ladies...?

[@benshafer5198]

@@oskarobit Lol, not to say that the fellas didn’t like them as well. An absolutely massive favorite with the females at my university though

[@chrisvanco4694]

In fact, this track was recorded in NYC, after a clubbing night by the members. They're music at the time was "closer" to post punk/ new wave, and they thought " it could be great to hear one of our track on this place and see the dancefloor moving"... So they did!

[@marshsundeen]

They opened Hacienda Club in England too.

[@chrisvanco4694]

​@@marshsundeen Yeah, that's right, more or less at the same time .... but i don't know how much the band was involved in the opening of the club.... aside from the money of course....

[@Neo2k7]

ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER! It's in every playlist I won for some reason. It's so amazingly 80's, but sounds SO good! Also, the 90's band Orgy did a pretty damn good cover of this song as well, definitely worth a listen! Also also, the music in this song makes ME think of these video games: Batman on original NES TMNT on original NES Battletoads on NES (the electric drum makes me think of the pause music in the game) Maybe a little Toejam and Earl on Sega Genesis too?

[@davidotto3731]

Orgy's version may even be better

[@danielbalboni6804]

@@davidotto3731 agree I much prefer the Orgy cover

[@addicted2chaos]

@@danielbalboni6804 agreed as a matter of fact I am definitely going to listen to right now lol

[@Neo2k7]

@@danielbalboni6804 the Orgy version definitely more so encapsulates the aggression I feel the original didn’t have. For a song about such strong emotions it’s Uber monotone lol

[@philipgroves4186]

There's a blade remix that's great

[@craigroyle860]

How can people not know this ..... just wow ...... live under a rock

[@bopryszlak3863]

We danced to this in the 80's and got very sweaty. I love your genuine reactions. It's amazing how we all appreciate music so much more when we just listen to it and let it do its magic instead of succumbing what our peer group might be telling us to consider to be the "in thing".

[@willdogon1874]

Arguably the most influential song in UK dance music history. I (think) it was the first track to feature electronic 4/4 beats, It was certainly the first to receive commercial success

[@lk-music]

It's no doubt iconic and very influential, the 12" version sold more copies than any other, but not sure it was first (for either electronic 4/4 or commercial success), perhaps it was the first for New Order or something? I don't know who was first, but Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder were doing this years before, although Kraftwerk were earlier to make music like that, I think Giorgio had commercial success earlier.

[@robbie007]

1983 classic. Most sold 12" song of the 80s. Now all time. Danced to this in the 80s clubs

[@lumpyfishgravy]

In the UK, Blue Monday has the status of a national treasure. Apparently contextless and coming out of nowhere, people nevertheless found themselves addicted to its beats. Written by New Order to avoid giving encores at their live shows, it went on to have a life of its own. All the discogs say it was released 1983 but I thought I heard it earlier than that.

[@oskarobit]

I heard it for the first time in 1983, I keep that copy in good condition. The cover is a work of art by graphic designer Peter Saville. As you say, it's supposed to be a track to leave stage while it's playing... but! it ended up being the best-selling 12" single in history.

[@lumpyfishgravy]

@@oskarobit I too had the 12" but I heard it first on my sister's cassette of Power, Corruption and Lies. That was my introduction to New Order. I prefer the early stuff like Movement because it sounds so evocative and takes me back to specific moments.

[@raffaojeda]

long live Ian Curtis- Joy Division, greetings from Mexico city!

[@oskarobit]

@@lumpyfishgravy Movement and Power, Corruption & Lies are both my favourites NO albums too, but Blue Monday didn't appear on an "album" until the compilation Substance in 1987. They used to publish 12"" singles with songs that never would be included in the albums. That was one of the identity cards for New Order. Blue Monday / The Beach (double sided 12") was released on March '83. PC&L on May '83.

[@oskarobit]

@@lumpyfishgravy oh! I have my copy of the first editions with the die-cut cover and the silver inner sleeve. I mean not th following editions without the die-cut parts or the one (this one in the video) from '88. 😁✌

[@SHIDDYTRIPPER]

One of the greatest sounds to come out of Manchester..........ever! Takes me back to the Hacienda nights, this song will never age.

[@clevelandnative7175]

Ahhh the club music of the 80’s

[@JRcomments]

The number one early 1980's club hit. All over the world. This tune was hopping when I was on the floor of the Lindenkeller in Freising Germany.

[@deadjester]

When this 12" vinyl single hit the stores it stayed in the charts for months. Every nightclub you walked into this was playing at least once that night. It resonated with everyone, regardless of musical taste at the time. Good times. This song was sampled and looped by just about every DJ even if they didnt play the entire track.

[@MARSHOMEWORLD]

Man oh man, those beautiful analog synthesizers from that era are so tasty. The music just sounds warm even though it's largely electronic... Something that sort of disappeared the farther into the 80s we got. As I understand it this single actually cost Factory records money because even though it was so phenomenally popular and sold so well, the album artwork specifically for the sleeves ended up being expensive to produce in mass, and the nature of the deal that the label had with their artist meant that the band was getting a very profitable share of the return without eating any of the production costs.

[@sh4dowchas3r]

Years ago I got an original copy of the 12" and the inner and outer sleeve is made to look like a 5 1/4" floppy disk.

[@APAL880]

If you haven't already, you've got to check out 24 Hour Party People, about Factory Records (I can't remember the guy's name).

[@IanMatthewsuk]

@@APAL880 Tony Wilson. Growing up in Manchester and going to the Hacienda he was a bit of a legend. (and was, bizarrely, a local news presenter as well).

[@LynneConnolly]

The band didn't get paid for this. They got shares in the Hacienda, a club which was great for us punters, but a massive money pit for the investors. Tony Wilson had a day job, news reporter, and sometimes he forgot that other people depended on their music to put bread in their mouths. This was the era of Madchester, when the Sex Pistols played the little Trade Hall, and everybody there started a band.

[@robertenck2423]

Definitely one the most entertaining song reactions I have ever seen. Y’all immediately vibed to it, smiled big smiles, and never looked back. Which is exactly the correct reaction. Get on the train and enjoy this ride. Love it.

[@AnthonyLaMastra]

Lex’s reaction is priceless!

[@Cadinho93]

You guys should react to… New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle 🎸🤘

[@floorticket]

"Perfect Kiss" and "Bizarre Love Triangle" are a couple more notables from them.

[@MusicMissionary]

Don't forget True Faith. Video has the first depiction I ever saw.

[@AbeVicious]

Age of Consent?

[@richbauer9531]

Temptation…so good

[@ricw5262]

Lex's energy and joy is just off the page! Brad holding it down and analyzing the feel from a neutral place. Such a great team! Could watch you both all day. Great job and keep the content coming!

[@Helsbells20]

The best music came out of the north west of England in the eighties/nineties. The cure (Robert Smith born Blackpool) The smiths, The verve, New order (formerly Joy Division) Oasis, Happy Mondays,the stone roses. Growing up near Manchester in this era is a gift I’ll never forget 😊

[@CortinasAndClassics]

Absolute classic from my childhood I love it. There are two more versions of this song. Blue Monday 88 & Blue Monday 95.

[@noone8418]

I love you bringing your family. 👍 Look up Joy Division. New Order is the name they took up after their original singer committed suicide. Great band with a sad story.

[@ingobordewick6480]

That "computer-bass-drum" was something completly new back then. No one had never heard something like this before.

[@barnigranero5882]

The band made and programmed the synthesiser that is used on this themselves.

[@daveborder7751]

Pretty sure they copied it from Kraftwerk.

[@janoshunyadi2]

@@daveborder7751 Influenced by Kraftwerk, no doubt. But much more accessible to the mainstream. This is, perhaps, the greatest dance track of the past few decades.

[@ninawildr4207]

Ah...guess you never heard of Kraftwerk...

[@jerrycote659]

@Ingo Bordewick. not necessarily true and New Order would be one of the first to say “Kraftwerk”. The pioneers of synth.

[@jzero4813]

With these types of club tracks, especially the 12" versions tended to be long with really long intros and outros to give the DJ something to layer and mix with going into and out of the tune. Normally you'd hear this as a part of a set where the meat in the middle plays but the intro and outro would be blending with the track before and after in a beatmatched mix. It's meant to be a bit like a preview that hints to the club what's coming next. You know, so everyone can get jammed up about their favourite tune coming up and then hold onto the last fading bits of it while the next track slowly morphs into dominance.

[@oscillatewildly6553]

You guys did a reaction of Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division ... After the lead singer of Joy Division (Ian Curtis) took his life the remaining band members formed New Order. The guitarist in Joy Division (Bernard Sumner) is on vocals and guitar in New Order

[@williamherman9065]

It really is near impossible to describe just how massive this song was upon its release! It. Was. EVERYWHERE! And the very first time you heard it, you knew... You just KNEW. This was gonna be a hit, AND it would stand the test of time. This is still, to this day, a great Track that people (especially first time listeners) LOVE!

[@sdev2749]

It's great to see a younger generation listen to and enjoy music I grew up with back in the early 80's - to happy to see you guys appreciate it like we did all those years ago.

[@philbowyer874]

Instantly transported back to 1989/90 dancing in the Hacienda, pilled up , dancing in the strobes and fog with sweat/Condensation dripping from the ceiling as I got lost in the beat. Lex is 100% it taps into something primal and it takes over.

[@mimzyrising4145]

I'm almost 50 and still love this

[@transmit13]

160,000 views. We need more NEW ODER reactions. Best UK 80'S BAND IMO.

[@bibsp3556]

There are serious competitors

[@toddlyons]

Knew this would blow your minds. Your reactions did not disappoint.