New Order practicing Blue Monday in 1984.

Man… That’s a piece of history. It was a better world. A world more alive.

@JDNOPICS It's not. It's them doing it live as part of Rock Around The Clock on the BBC. They also did In A Lonely Place where Barney kept telling Steve to go faster

The best selling 12" of all time - still have a sealed copy. Often considered the New Wave equivalent of "Stairway to Heaven". (A significant amount of my brain is filled with 80s music and pop culture info...lol).

@peterhook absolute legend manning the drum pads and lead bass simultaneously

@SurfThrash This isn’t a practice, this was a broadcast performance for Radio 1

Do you think they had any idea what they about to create?! 🤯

this song brings me back so hard

Ian Curtis is needed in today’s world☹️

Anyone with a passing knowledge of New Order will tell you that is not Blue Monday, but “The Beach”. They have different lyrics.

Greatest trnce dance song ever. This song would fill the dance floor or room

@SurfThrash The old "I'll make the greatest club song of the 1980's after my tennis match" trick.

Never gets old!

Not practicing. A live performance on British radio one

It was released in '83 and charted at number 12 in April of that year then at number 9 in October.

@JDNOPICS Amazing ❤️ remember when I first heard it, blown away, still love it to this day ✊

all that sugar added, and still, vocal + bassline would be enough to make it a hit

Linda McCartney eat your heart-out. They’ve got her one finger keyboard technique down to a tee. It’s like watching prospective customers in Turnkey on the Tottenham Court Road.

That’s pretty badass

Gorgeous. Last third really sounds like The Walk by The Cure too.

@JDNOPICS when Peter Hook's bass came in🥲

At age 14, New Order was my first concert, in São Paulo, Brazil. I love them.

How does it feel...?

I remember watching this. It was part of an all night rock/pop program broadcast on BBC2 and Radio 1. I was 15 then and loved every minute of it

Damn, that's sad compared to today's tools. If I have the muse I can make something much better in a day, or even a couple hours with luck. And basically costs me 50¢ to pay for Grok's help in research, art cover... maybe a little over $1 if you include the cost of my cheap phone and internet/power.

_ March, 1983

Video checks out.. Men actually wore Boris Becker shorts back in the day..

Whole thing is totally out of sync

I swear this song inspired the episode on Friends lol

Calabrese in Chicago proper says ' from whence dost Cinema_Literature History cometh ? MTV , I was 16, never aired a viddee of N.O. post Joy Division..oh my brothers..my Gulliver pulses to Space-Time retrograde unto an underground club '

Incredible track. Incredible shorts.

More of this!!!

Some would say...the birth of techno!

There was a great episode of the Song Exploder podcast on how they created it.

BBC live simulcast, one Saturday late September 1984.