Happy 40th Birthday Blue Monday

KBslittlesis

To try & forget how old this makes us………give me your memories of this absolute classic tune.

Mine, St Mary’s Catholic Church Crayford disco. Patrick Corbet Smith absolutely smashing the dance moves. And then thinking, blimey he’s playing the 12” he’s going to die!!!!! 😎🤣🤣🤣

Covered End

Blue Monday was my favourite record back then.
I used to play it endlessly and can certainly recall dancing to it at parties.

kentaddick

personally think their first album is their best. Pretty much a slightly brighter sounding joy division (which they of course were at that point)

kentaddick

Ceremony always throws shivers up my spine and makes my eyes fill with tears. 

TelMc32

Just been driving home and Gillian & Stephen were on BBC Radio 6 Music chatting about it and how they started out after Joy Division.  Bass and treble turned up for the full 7 minutes & 23 seconds and it still sounds as good today as it did 40 years ago.  Think I could have switched the engine off and the car would have been driven along by the bass!! Love it.

Arthur_Trudgill

For me, 'True Faith' is unbeatable, music from heaven, despite what it's about.

RaplhMilne

I believe that “Blue Monday” has more recorded remixes than any other song. From classical through every genre to Dub Step.

SporadicAddick

For anyone of a similar mindset, early 90s in Echoes (Bow), Bon Bonnie (Sydenham), Downham Tavern, Albany Deptford, a few Margate "all dayers".

KBslittlesis

Bon Bonnie……Christ that brings me back 😳

Arthur_Trudgill

Jessie said:

Arthur_Trudgill said:

For me, 'True Faith' is unbeatable, music from heaven, despite what it's about.

... I listened to it a lot until I read news of a horrible horrible murder in Canada. ..

Thanks for the warning.

It's one of the reasons I nowadays tend not to get too much into the details of highly disturbing stuff like that.

kentaddick

yeah needs a bit of a "trigger warning" that @Jessie

Stig

I bought this on 12" single - one of the few records where I took the risk of buying before hearing it. I wasn't disappointed, it's absolutely cracking as you all know. Got to say though, that Senses is still my favourite New Order track. Am I imagining it, or was 12" the only format you could get it on when it first came out? 

I once had a mate who used to be bothered by a neighbour playing his music too loud. Apparently the other character was quite obnoxious and never turned their music down no matter how nice the request. So my mate made a tape loop of the opening drum track from Blue Monday turned his speakers to the wall, cranked up the volume and then buggered off on holiday. The arms race was won and the other bloke moved out soon afterwards. 

I've been reading Hooky's book about the Haçienda, How not to run a club . Anyone read that? It's a great read.

 

fadgadget

Stig said:

I bought this on 12" single - one of the few records where I took the risk of buying before hearing it. I wasn't disappointed, it's absolutely cracking as you all know. Got to say though, that Senses is still my favourite New Order track. Am I imagining it, or was 12" the only format you could get it on when it first came out? 

I once had a mate who used to be bothered by a neighbour playing his music too loud. Apparently the other character was quite obnoxious and never turned their music down no matter how nice the request. So my mate made a tape loop of the opening drum track from Blue Monday turned his speakers to the wall, cranked up the volume and then buggered off on holiday. The arms race was won and the other bloke moved out soon afterwards. 

I've been reading Hooky's book about the Haçienda, How not to run a club . Anyone read that? It's a great read.

 

I Read Hookys book and about the bets they had about who could drink a pint of Piss .

TelMc32

Stig said:

I bought this on 12" single - one of the few records where I took the risk of buying before hearing it. I wasn't disappointed, it's absolutely cracking as you all know. Got to say though, that Senses is still my favourite New Order track. Am I imagining it, or was 12" the only format you could get it on when it first came out? 

I once had a mate who used to be bothered by a neighbour playing his music too loud. Apparently the other character was quite obnoxious and never turned their music down no matter how nice the request. So my mate made a tape loop of the opening drum track from Blue Monday turned his speakers to the wall, cranked up the volume and then buggered off on holiday. The arms race was won and the other bloke moved out soon afterwards. 

I've been reading Hooky's book about the Haçienda, How not to run a club . Anyone read that? It's a great read.

 

😂 I had a neighbour who did something similar. Played really sh!te music at high volume and was a right pain in the ar$e!  I used a 12” version of Colourbox’s The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme, turned the speakers to the wall and blasted it out.  It has quite a pounding beat…soon shut the neighbour up 😁

rananegra

Stig said:

I bought this on 12" single - one of the few records where I took the risk of buying before hearing it. I wasn't disappointed, it's absolutely cracking as you all know. Got to say though, that Senses is still my favourite New Order track. Am I imagining it, or was 12" the only format you could get it on when it first came out? 

I once had a mate who used to be bothered by a neighbour playing his music too loud. Apparently the other character was quite obnoxious and never turned their music down no matter how nice the request. So my mate made a tape loop of the opening drum track from Blue Monday turned his speakers to the wall, cranked up the volume and then buggered off on holiday. The arms race was won and the other bloke moved out soon afterwards. 

I've been reading Hooky's book about the Haçienda, How not to run a club . Anyone read that? It's a great read.

 

Yes, it was only available on 12", I think one of the first where that was the case.  I think Factory Records made a loss on it as well as the sleeve was so elaborate it cost more to manufacture than they got selling it. 

WHAddick

Love it! Such a versatile song . Works as well in a house set as an 80s night 

AllHailTheHen

Blue Monday is a song that sounds as brilliant today as it did when first released. It doesn't age.