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Blue Monday by New Order

Artist Biography For New Order

New Order Is A New Wavesynthpop Band Which Formed In 1980 In Salford England United Kingdom By The Three Remaining Members Of Joy Division. The Band's Classic Lineup Consists Of Bernard Sumner Vocals Guitar Keyboards Peter Hook Bass Electronic Percussion Gillian Gilbert Keyboards Guitar And Stephen Morris Drums Keyboards. The Group Effectively Disbanded In 1993 But Reformed In 1998. Gilbert Left In 2001 To Look After Her And Morris' Children And Was Replaced By Guitaristkeyboardist Phil Cunningham. Hook Left Acrimoniously In 2007 And Declared The Band To Be Defunct. Initially Sumner Cunningham And Morris Denied The Band Had Split Up But In 2009 Following The Release Of The Trio's Bad Lieutenant Album They Admitted That That They Could Not Continue On Without Hook And. However The Band Reformed In 2011 For A Pair Of Charity Dates Without Hook With Gilbert Returning To The Fold And Tom Chapman Replacing Hook On Bass.

Pioneers Of Dance Music In The 1980s And One Of The First Bands To Effectively And Popularly Synthesize Keyboard- And Guitar-Based Music New Order's Members Hailed From Salford And Macclesfield England Out Of The Ashes Of Joy Division Are Noted As Being One Of The First Bands To Bridge The Gap Between Post-Punk And Dancefloor. They Were Factory Records' Highest Selling Artist. They Also Funded Factory's Famous Manchester Club The Haçienda. The Band Partnered With Quincy Jones's American Label Qwest Recorded With Legendary Hip-Hop Producer Arthur Baker On 1983's Single "Confusion" And 1984's "Thieves Like Us" And They Embraced Ibizan Club Culture On The Album Technique.

The Band Was Formed In 1980 By The Three Surviving Members Bernard Sumner Peter Hook And Stephen Morris Of Joy Division After The Lead Singer Ian Curtis Committed Suicide. Morris' Girlfriend And Later Wife Gillian Gilbert Joined In October 1980 On Keyboards And Occasional Guitar Shortly After Contributing Guitar To The Second Release Of New Order's First Single "Ceremony". Their Early Music Followed In The Same Vein As Joy Division Most Notably On Debut Album Movement. This Is Mostly Seen Now As A 'transitional' Album Where The New 4-Piece Band Was Trying To Find A New Identity.

They Continued To Develop Their Music And Their Identity With Tracks Such As "Procession" And "Temptation" Until 1983 When Under The Influence Of Early Electro Funk And Italo-Disco Tracks Most Notably Klein & MBO's Dirty Talk They Released "Blue Monday" Arguably Their Most Famous Song And The Biggest-Selling 12" Single Of All Time. This Came In Such A Detailed Peter Saville-Designed Sleeve Replicating A Floppy Disc That It Is Claimed By Some That The Band's Record Company Factory Lost Money On Every Copy Sold.

The Release Of "Blue Monday" Coincided With The Album Power Corruption & Lies Which Further Developed Their Dancerock Crossover. Other Albums Followed In 1985 Low-Life 1986 Brotherhood And 1989 Technique Influenced Heavily By Ibiza's Acid House Scene. In 1990 The Band Scored Their Sole Number 1 Hit With A Song Written By Keith Allen And Performed With The England Football Team "World In Motion" The. One More Album Republic Followed In May 1993 Which Was Released By London Records After The Collapse Of Factory In November 1992.

The Band Effectively Split In 1993 To Pursue Solo Projects But Returned With A Triumphant Gig At The Reading Festival In 1998. After The Recording Of 2001's Get Ready Album Gillian Gilbert Left The Band Amicably For Family Reasons - Her And Stephen's Daughter Grace Had Been Diagnosed With Transverse Myelitis And She Came To The Decision That It Would Be Easier For The Band To Replace Her Than Her Husband. They Have Since Gone On To Produce One More Album With The Help Of Phil Cunningham Of Marion When They Released Their Last Album Waiting For The Sirens' Call.

Hook Left Acrimoniously In 2007 And According To Him The Band Has Effectively Broken Up. However Sumner Cunningham And Morris Repeatedly Denied That The Band Was Over And That If Hook No Longer Wanted To Be In The Band That Was His Choice. Hook Has Since Threatened To Take Legal Action If They Attempt To Continue As New Order. In 2009 Sumner Morris And Cunningham Announced That They Did Not Plan On Continuing On As New Order Without Hook. However In September 2011 It Was Announced That They Will Reform As New Order For Two Concerts In October Brussels And Paris Without Hook But With Gillian Gilbert. Hook's Replacement Is Tom Chapman Who Is Also In Bad Lieutenant With Sumner Morris And Cunningham. The Charity Gigs In Brussels And Paris Were Very Successful And New Order Decided To Go On Tour In 2012. They Played Various Concerts All Over The World And Also Some Big Festivals In The Summer.

Discography Studio Albums
Movement 1981
Power Corruption & Lies 1983
Low-Life 1985
Brotherhood 1986
Technique 1989
Republic 1993
Get Ready 2001
Waiting For The Sirens' Call 2005
Lost Sirens 2013
Music Complete 2015

Collaborations And Other Projects
Shortly After The Split Sumner And Cunningham Formed Bad Lieutenant. The Band's Debut Album Never Cry Another Tear Released In 2009 Features Morris On Drums On Several Tracks Although He Is Not An. The Band's Various Solo Projects Understandably Seemed To Contain Elements Of The New Order 'sound' And Gave Some Clues As To Each Member's Contribution To The Band.

Bernard Sumner Worked With Johnny Marr Formerly Of The Smiths And Neil Tennant Of The Pet Shop Boys In The 'supergroup' Electronic. Peter Hook Formed The Bands Revenge And Later Monaco. These Projects Gained Some Commercial Success. Stephen Morris And Gillian Gilbert Recorded Two Albums Of Songs As The Other Two And Also Did Scoring Work For Film And Television.

Each Of New Order's Four Original Members Have At Various Times Acted As Producers Andor Guest Musicians Under The Moniker Of Be Music For A Myriad Of Factory Labelmates And Other Artists Including Section 25 A Certain Ratio Happy Mondays Paul Haig The Stockholm Monsters The Stone Roses And Stanton Miranda. . User-Contributed Text Is Available Under The Creative Commons By-SA License Additional Terms May Apply.

Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Blue Monday

"Blue Monday" Is A Synthpop Song Recorded And Originally Released As A Single In 1983 By British Band New Order And Later Remixed For Further Releases In 1988 And 1995. At Nearly 7 And A Half Minutes In Length "Blue Monday" Is One Of The Longest Tracks Ever To Chart In The UK. It Is Recognised As The Biggest Selling 12" Single Of All Time But As Factory Records Were Not Members Of The British Phonographic Industry Association It Was Not Eligible For An Official Gold Disc. However The Official UK Chart Company UK Singles Chart Has Estimated Its Total UK Sales At Over One Million. In The All-Time UK Best-Selling Singles Chart Published In 2002 "Blue Monday" Came 76th. The Song Begins With A Distinctive Semiquaver Kick Drum Intro. Gillian Gilbert Eventually Fades In A Sequencer Melody. According To Band Interviews In NewOrderStory She Did So At The Wrong Time So The Melody Is Out Of Sync With The Beat However The Band Considered It To Be A Happy Accident That Contributed To The Track's Charm. The Verse Section Features The Song's Signature Throbbing Synth Bass Line Played By A Moog Source Overlaid With Peter Hook's Bass Guitar Leads. The Synth Bass Line Was Sequenced On A Powertran Sequencer Home Built By Bernard. Bernard Sumner Delivers The Lyrics In A Deadpan Manner. "Blue Monday" Is An Atypical Hit Song In That It Does Not Feature A Standard Verse-Chorus Structure. After A Lengthy Introduction The First And Second Verses Are Contiguous And Are Separated From The Third Verse Only By A Brief Series Of Sound Effects. A Short Breakdown Section Follows The Third Verse Which Leads To An Extended Outro. "Blue Monday" Is Often Seen As One Of The Most Important Crossover Tracks Of The 1980s Pop Music Scene. Synthpop Had Been A Major Force In British Popular Music For Several Years But "Blue Monday" Was Arguably The First British Dance Record To Exhibit An Obvious Influence From The New York Club Scene Particularly The Work Of Producers Like Arthur Baker Who Collaborated On New Order's Follow-Up Single "Confusion" . According To Bernard Sumner "Blue Monday" Was Influenced By Four Songs The Arrangement Came From "Dirty Talk" By Klein & MBO The Signature Bassline With Octaves Came From Sylvester's Disco Classic "You Make Me Feel Mighty Real " The House Beat Came From "Our Love" By Donna Summer And The Long Keyboard Pad On The Intro Was Sampled From The Kraftwerk Song "Uranium" From The Radio-Activity Album. In An Interview For Channel 4's Countdown Of The Biggest Selling UK Singles The Band Claimed To Have Written The Song In Response To Crowd Disappointment At The Fact That They Never Played Encores. This Song They Say Allowed Them To Return To The Stage Press Play On A Synthesizer And Leave The Stage Again. As With Many Of New Order's Songs The Title Has No Relationship With The Lyrics Which In Turn Have Been The Subject Of Much Debate. Although Bernard Sumner Never Publicly Discusses His Lyrics Many People Have Surmised That "Blue Monday" Concerns The Suicide Of Joy Division Vocalist Ian Curtis And The Effect It Had On His Former Bandmates. However Comparisons With The Lyrics And The Aftereffects Of Cocaine Have Also Been Made Which Would Fit In With The Potentially Drug Related Themes Of Many Other New Order Tracks. Another Legend Has It That The Band Was On LSD While Recording It And After They Finished The Producers Took Them To A Café To Finish Out Their Tripping While They Went Back And Cleaned It Up. The Song's References To A Ship In The Harbour A Beach The Name Of The Original Releases B-Side As Well As Other Lyrics That Could Concern War Together With The Fact That More Overt Military Imagery Is Used In A Number Of Other New Order Songs Such As The Contemporaneous "We All Stand" Has Also Raised Suggestions That The Song Is A Reference To The Falklands War Of 1982. Indeed The Video To The Original 1983 Release Of The Song Used Many Clips Of Military Vehicles Albeit In A Warped Manner Such As That Of A Harrier Jump Jet A Plane Which Featured Heavily In The Conflict. Official Releases "Blue Monday" Has Been A Hit Several Times In The UK. In 1983 It Charted Twice Initially Reaching Number 12 Then Re-Entering The Chart Later In The Year And Climbing To Number 9 Helped By The Fact That Neither Side Of The Single The B-Side "The Beach" Was An Instrumental Re-Working Of "Blue Monday" Was Featured On The UK Version Of The Group's Subsequent Album Power Corruption & Lies. New Order Appeared On The BBC's Top Of The Pops On 31 March 1983 To Promote The Song. It Had Long Been The Show's Policy That Artists Would Mime To A Backing Track But New Order Insisted On Performing Blue Monday Live. The Performance Was Dogged By Technical Problems And Was Unrepresentative Of The Recording. In The Words Of Drummer Stephen Morris "Blue Monday Was Never The Easiest Song To Perform Anyway And Everything Went Wrong. The Synthesisers Went Awry. It Sounded Awful". In 1988 "Blue Monday" Was Officially Remixed By Quincy Jones And John Potoker Under The Title "Blue Monday 88" With The Instrumental Flip Being Titled "Beach Buggy" . The Single Reached Number 3 In The British Charts And Topped The Charts In New Zealand. A Further Official Remix/reissue In 1995 With A Mix By Hardfloor As The Lead Track Also Made The British Top 20. Video Clip A Video Clip For A Shortened Version Of The Original Song Was Created In 1983 Featuring Military Clips With False Colour Simple Computer-Generated Graphics Such As Colour Blocks And Geometric Lines Digitised Video Of Band Members At Very Low Resolution And Framerate And A Short Appearance Of The Game Zaxxon Reportedly The Apple II Port . The Colour Blocks Were Created Using Peter Saville's Colour Coded Alphabet. The Music Video For "Blue Monday '88" The Quincy Jones Re-Recording And Mix Of The Song Shortened By Several Minutes And Featuring Added Vocal Effects Appears On The Substance Video Collection Released As A Companion To The Album Of The Same Name. It Features Sketches By Photographer William Wegman And His Weimaraner Dog Named Fay Ray Doing Balancing Acts Intercut With Hand-Drawn Animation By Robert Breer. The Band Members Are Shown Standing Around Doing Various Tasks Such As Walking A Wooden Plank Over A Floor That Is Painted Blue Holding Wire-Mesh Constructed Art And Milk Crates Over Their Faces Being Hit By Tennis Balls And Standing Still While They Flip Through Various Flip Books Tying Into The Hand-Drawn Animation Sequences . On The Australian Show Rage The Video Is Simply Footage Taken From Their Top Of The Pops Performance With The Studio Track Dubbed Over It. Sleevenotes A Popular Story About "Blue Monday" Holds That The Single's Die-Cut Sleeve Created By Factory Designer Peter Saville Cost So Much To Produce That Factory Records Actually Lost Money On Each Copy Sold. It Is Unlikely That Factory Records Could Have Sustained The Losses Implied And The Sleeve Was Soon Changed To A Similar Non-Die-Cut Design That Would Cost No More Than A Regular Sleeve. It Is However Probably True That New Order Saw Little Profit From The Single's Success Since An Investment In The Haçienda Nightclub Swallowed Much Of The Money They Made From Their Hit. Another Notable Feature Of The Sleeve Is That It Does Not Display Either The Group Name Nor Song Title In Plain English Anywhere. Instead The Legend "FAC 73 BLUE MONDAY AND THE BEACH NEW ORDER" Is Represented In Code By A Series Of Coloured Blocks. The Key Enabling This To Be Deciphered Was Printed On The Back Sleeve Of The Album Power Corruption & Lies. "Blue Monday" Is One Of Several New Order Releases From This Time Period To Employ The Colour Code. The Sleeve's Spine Simply Reads "FAC SEVENTY THREE". Track Listing Blue Monday 1983 1. "Blue Monday" – 7 29 2. "The Beach" – 7 19 Blue Monday 1988 1. "Blue Monday 1988 12" Version " – 7 09 2. "Beach Buggy" – 6 52 3. "Blue Monday 1988 7" Version " – 4 09 Blue Monday 1988 North American Cassette 1. "Blue Monday 1988 12" Mix " – 7 09 2. "Touched By The Hand Of God Single Version " – 4 10 3. "Blue Monday 1988 Single Version " – 4 10 4. "Blue Monday 1988 Dub Version " – 7 16 Blue Monday-95 UK CD 1. "Blue Monday 1983 12" Version " – 7 29 2. "Blue Monday Hardfloor Mix " – 8 34 3. "Blue Monday Manuela Mix " – 7 31 4. "Blue Monday Andrea Mix " – 8 26 5. "Blue Monday Plutone Mix " – 6 29 6. "Blue Monday Starwash Mix " – 5 29 7. "Blue Monday Hawtin Mix " – 8 02 Other Appearances "Blue Monday" Appears On Almost Every New Order Compilation. This Is A Brief Rundown Of What Versions Appear Where. * 1987 Substance 1987 - Original 12" Version * 1994 Best Of New Order - 1988 7" Version * 1995 Rest Of New Order - Hardfloor Mix Note Some Versions Come With A Disc Of Blue Monday Remixes * 2002 International - Original 12" Version * 2002 Retro - Original 12" Version & Jam And Spoon Manuela Mix * 2004 FIFA Football 2005 - Appears As An Unlockable Song * 2005 Singles - Original 12" Version Note This Version Omits The Opening Seconds & 1988 7" Version Chart Positions Blue Monday 1983 1983 UK Singles 9
1983 UK Indie Singles 1 13 Weeks 1983 IRE Singles 4
1983 U.S. Dance Play 5
1983 AUS Singles 13
1983 NZ Singles 2 Blue Monday 1988 1988 UK Singles 3
1988 UK Indie Singles 1 2 Weeks 1988 IRE Singles 2
1988 U.S. Hot 100 68
1988 U.S. Dance Play Charted Together With "Touched By The Hand Of God" 1
1988 U.S. Dance Sales Charted Together With "Touched By The Hand Of God" 9
1988 AUS Singles 4
1988 NZ Singles 1 Blue Monday-95 1995 UK Singles 17
1995 IRE Singles 29

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