Feeling the Monday blues? Why not sing them away! 1/2

Song Name: Blue Monday [88]
By: New Order

Sing along to the lyrics, here.

This song can be found in the following items:

(The best of) NewOrder
By: New Order
Format: CD [Sound Recording]
Call No.: RAV 782.42166 NEW
For Reference Only
Location: Music Village, library@esplanade

New Order 316
By: New Order
Format: DVD
Call No.: 782.42166 NEW
Parental Guidance is Advised.
Location: Music Village, library@esplanade

From (The best of) NewOrder’s liner notes, comes a flamboyant and quirky introduction to New Order by the “supremely stylish” Paul Morley. Here’s but a mind-tripping extract:

Who are NewOrder? We may never know.

[ . . . ]

Why are NewOrder? 1) I have worked in one or two capacities with NewOrder, and played with them now and then, and let me tell you they’re a bunch of difficult buggers but you can’t help but love them. 2) They’re kind of anti-stars. Perhaps if they’d showed willing and showed their faces more, and hadn’t hidden behind themselves and their cryptic records sleeves, if they’d disguised their distrust of the media and acted a little more friendly to each other and others and just generally sold themselves a bit and weren’t so perverse when it came to self-promotion, they might now be rock giants — post-punk Pink Floyds — instead of detached pop secrets — sub Pet Shop Boys, although it should be recorded that NewOrder came first, and how. But what the hell, they just thought, what the hell, and why not. They developed as true originals because of their independence, and they’ve stuck fast to an alternative spirit, firmly sceptical about the rock business, and they’ve come this far, to this best, which includes several top tens and a fancy number one, and which is the most accessible and spectacular example of the art of uncompromise you’ll ever hear. So what the hell. They blew it and they made it and it couldn’t have happened any other way.

Work Cited
Morley, Paul. (The best of) NewOrder. CD liner notes. London: London Records, 1994.

Psychedelic writing on the pinnacle of pop. Joy Division. Tell me how does it feel.

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Related read

Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division
Author: Deborah Curtis
Publisher: London: Faber and Faber 2005
Call No.: 782.42166092 CUR
Location: Music Village, library@esplanade

Blurb (taken from back cover):
“An extraordinary book, a steely-eyed look at the pitfalls of fame and a fascinating insight into one man’s heart and soul, written by the only person qualified for the job. Most books about rock and roll cling greedily to the myths of the subject; this one tears them apart.”

– Ian Rankin

– With contributions from Naemah