I had loved ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ by Joy Division and so was therefore very excited when ‘New Order’ came along following up on Joy Division’s legacy.
I remember ‘Blue Monday’ (which you could only get on a 12’ single due to its length) being packaged to look like a computer floppy disc and paying it on the turntable and letting the needle touch the record from whence that very distinctive machine driven drum rhythm started. It seemed at the time that ‘New Order’ were loathe to promote the single and I can only recall them coming onto ‘Top Of The Pops’ once where they played it live, however it became a massive hit and is one of the songs that truly sums up the early eighties.
At that time the ‘Emulator’, which was a synthesiser that ‘sampled’ real sounds allowing them to be played back on a keyboard at various pitches, was brand new (and extremely expensive) and being used by bands like OMD and Depeche Mode and New Order to create new and exciting music. This is the result…
Now listen to the song….
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