Joy Division - Ceremony
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- Joy Division "Ceremony" is a song by Joy Division, released as New Order's debut single in 1981. The song, as well as the B-side, "In a Lonely Place", were written as Joy Division prior to the death of Ian Curtis. Both were carried over to the band's re-incarnation as New Order.
After the death of Ian Curtis, the remaining members of Joy Division renamed the band New Order. Their first release was a re-recording of "Ceremony" as a stand-alone single backed with "In a Lonely Place", with guitarist Bernard Sumner taking over lead vocals. Sumner said that he had to put the "Ceremony" rehearsal tape as sung by Curtis through a graphic equalizer to transcribe the lyrics
You're a young human hanging out at night with friends listening to depeche mode, new order, u2, your favorite song is ceremony. Then you're an adult, and listen to Joy Division's Ceremony, hits hard, very hard
I remember the strongest feeling was hope. Now the feeling is hopeless.
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It kinda sounds like your past was New Order's Ceremony while the present is Joy Division's/Ian Curtis' Ceremony
Bro this just new order version slowed down 😭
@@Alex-fb2bs the video is 13 years old
Bro, this just the original version of the song. And Ian's vocals win.
Nearly 2 years ago I wrote that comment and that sad day is nearly with us again, still listen to Joy Division daily and will have them on all day Saturday , R.I.P Ian your music has helped many a person in a bad place just wish something could have helped you, I saw the band every time I could and I still have the memories.
The best "Goodbye Song" for Ian.
R.I.P. Ian Curtis, I truly hope you can see all these comments and the hearts you touched
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IAn was murdered
Love you flap jack
@@8darkknight472 Yeah, murdered by gravity. By another person? No, I don't think so.
I think you’ve nailed it with that comment
41Years today the world lost a legend. RIP Ian
My Favorite as Robert Smith. Russland/
Cant believe it's been that long.
Older than me, and I thought I was pretty old.
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I somehow forgot the account password. I would appreciate any tricks you can give me.
Ceremony takes me back to myself as a teenager in 1981 hearing it the first time. I feel the emotional pull in my chest, the disconnect, the loneliness and it's all beautiful at the same time, like a found a secret song just for myself. Like I found a bit of hope to latch onto. I think it's the only song I've ever heard that can do that.
You worded it perfectly.
Soo well written chegeny
I hear you. It was like that for me too. A lifetime ago, and I still feel it.
i like you chegeny.
Did the same to me 20 years later.
To Ian Curtis and
JOY DIVISION
We will never forget
I feel so broken...I miss my baby brother cancer came broke our hearts he battled for a year he was 43...I come to listen to one of his favorites ..he was just 4 years old when this song came about yet years later it would be one of his favorite bands...we listened to Joy Division on our travels to another city for his cancer treatment... So I listen I cry ..Rest in Heaven baby brother .. Martin Forever..1974-2019..
I wish you nothing but happy memories and healing brother. Take care.
@@aaronsmith2054 Thank you Aaron...I appreciate this...all I have are beautiful memories of my young brother.... Many of them through these songs .... Take care
I'm so sorry for your loss Melissa.
@@tsurupaolo Thank you so much...Nov.2019 my baby brother received his wings days after my birthday ..He truly is An Amazing Person ..Very kind respectful and a true soul...I miss him dearly..I have these songs that I listened too and years later he would too.. Thank you for your kind words...
avenues all lined with trees,
picture me and then you start watching,
watching forever, forever,
watching love grow, forever,
letting me know, forever
This is why events unnerve me
They find it all, a different story
Notice whom for wheels are turning
Turn again and turn towards this time
All she ask's the strength to hold me
Then again the same old story
Word will travel, oh so quickly
Travel first and lean towards this time.
Oh, I'll break them all, no mercy shown
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time
Watching her, these things she said
The times she cried
Too frail to wake this time.
🎵🎶🎵🎶
Oh, I'll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time
Avenues all lined with trees
Picture me and then you start watching
Watching forever, forever
Watching love grow, forever
Letting me know, forever.
Thanks.
This Poem. Beautiful. As it is written.
Not all heroes wear capes, but in this case I hope you do 😎
I think the first chorus starts "Oh, I'll break them all, no mercy shown" not "break them down"?
hope you found your peace R.i.P. Ian Curtis
This is for the 200 incorrect attempts at explaining this song.
"Ceremony" was one of the last JOY DIVISION songs to be composed, with lyrics written by Ian Curtis. There are THREE recorded versions by Joy Division in existence. The first is a live version, available on the Still album, from their final concert at High Hall, Birmingham University on 2 May 1980. The second, available on the Heart and Soul four-disc box set, is from a studio session on 14 May 1980, four days before Curtis' suicide. It was the band's last recording. The third is a version recorded at the soundcheck on the afternoon of 2 May 1980 (along with "Decades") and is only available on bootleg. In all recordings, the vocals are only partially audible. After the death of Ian Curtis, the remaining members of Joy Division regrouped as New Order. Their first release was a re-recording of "Ceremony" as a stand-alone single backed with "In a Lonely Place", with guitarist Bernard Sumner taking over lead vocals. Because Curtis had never transcribed the lyrics to "Ceremony" and because his singing was muted to the point of near-inaudibility on all surviving recordings, Sumner reportedly had to put them through a graphic equalizer to approximate the lyrics. In January 1981, the first version of "Ceremony" was released on Factory Records (FAC 33). Initially released as a 7" single, it was reissued as a 12" two months later. Martin Hannett (Joy Division's producer) produced the record and Peter Savilledesigned the sleeve artwork for both releases.
The 7" record was issued in a stamped gold-bronze sleeve. The 12" sleeve was a completely separate design: gold typography on a green background. In September 1981, "Ceremony" was re-released. Gillian Gilbert played guitar on this new recording just after she joined the band. Martin Hannett again produced the record. The single was re-issued as a 12" only, with the same catalogue number (FAC 33). The original is approximately 4:34 minutes in length while the re-recording is 4:23. The re-recorded version was used on all subsequent compilations until Singles in 2005, when the original March '81 recording was released on CD for the first time.
There are differences in the recordings. Version 1 has a more "Joy Division sound", with throbbing bass, distorted guitar, spacey vocals, and solid drums also contributing a wash of cymbals. In Version 2 the bass is diminished, cymbals restrained, and the vocals are "drier". The guitar has a sound typical of that used on the album Movement. Drum hits in the opening verse are dramatically panned in the mix. There is a greater contrast between verse and chorus, with the latter sections reaching some of the emotional pitch of the original. In addition to the new recording of the a-side track, the b-side track "In a Lonely Place" was slightly remixed and added more synthetic "thunder" noises throughout the song. This alternate mix also appears on the second disc of Substance and subsequent compilations.
The sleeve was changed to a light cream with a vertical blue stripe, though with the same motif and typography as the original 12" single. After supply of the re-designed sleeve ran out, copies of the originally-designed sleeve were re-used. Accordingly, the two versions of the song were packaged indiscriminately in the original sleeve. However, the run-groove notation (phrases pressed onto the vinyl) differ according to the version. The original says "watching love grow forever," while the re-recording's etching says "this is why events unnerve me"; both phrases are excerpts from the lyrics of "Ceremony".The single was re-issued again in April 2011 for Record Store Day in a white sleeve. This limited edition release (only 800 copies) plays at 33 rpm. It features the New Order recordings of "Ceremony" (the pre-Gillian Gilbert take) and "In a Lonely Place" on one side, with the rare Joy Division recordings of the same tracks on the flip side-"Ceremony" comes from the 1997 Heart & Soul box set but the version of "In a Lonely Place" is a recently discovered complete take and not the same as the version featured on Heart & Soul. TheHeart & Soul version is cut short at 2:32, whereas this newly discovered take runs for 5:45 and the full Ian Curtis vocal of "In a Lonely Place" is heard here for the first time, complete with the missing third verse..
Thank you,very interesting.
Thank you @TheForgotten for summarizing it so well and accurately for us. We will never have Ian's full realisation of this amazing track (my absolute favourite of Joy Division's actually) I think because it is incomplete and we will never know the full greatness of it... but I think New Order did their best by him and I am thankful for that. RIP Ian Curtis, one of greatest losses to 20th and 21st Century music.
Yes...that's all fact...nothing new there. That doesn't explain though why this version isn't a version...it's just the first single slowed down.,
brilliant research and thank you for sharing this. Its an amazing song but i'm into all Joy Division and New Order. Take care and thank you again for this.
good to hear the truth
The song and background image brought back a memory, from a cold winter night in 1982. I was feeling claustrophobic, out of place and miserable in a crowded party, when an absolute stunner caught my eye, stared at me sympathetically, then walked over and asked if I wanted to get out of there. The trees were all covered with a layer of ice from freezing rain that day. She was the most beautiful woman on the planet, the trees glittered around us as we walked through the night, and everything was perfect. A crystalline moment...
What happened to her afterwards?
@@k-leb4671 Last I heard (many, many years ago), she became a very socially conscious world traveller. There were a few stories from mutual friends over the years about her spending time in Sri Lanka and North Africa. She was a true free spirit, kind of a post-60's hippy. Glad there are a few people like that left in the world :)
Bravo... I was 16 then, know it ALL too well... peace..
That is a beautiful memory... thank you for letting us peek at it. 🖤
there's a hidden lyric about trees at the end of the original cut by jd
I have heard hundreds of albums and this is probably the best song ive ever heard
What are your favorit bands?
@@christianbecker8108 joy division, have a nice life, the microphones, nine inch nails, model/actriz to name a few
It's one of the greatest ever
This was Ian's Eulogy.
Heart breaking and thoughtful.
Much love everyone.
I've always thought that. The song sounds so much like a goodbye to me, captures the melancholic sadness while also giving solace and hope for the future
Or perhaps Elegia...?
Love to you
just hope he found what he was looking for. forever watching love grow forever let me know. RIP Ian Curtis
This song makes me feel so many things at the same time
Javier Canales same here
I feel you
ME TOO
Yes,Javier. Isn't it magic?
couldnt agree more - joy division/new order have/had the ability to do this: mainly this song and atmosphere. There are rare times when bands produce that kind of emotion and these lot did it twice!
The feeling this song gives me is one I can't explain. Joy Division have gotten me through the ups and downs of life and helped me to stay grounded when all I want is to just fly away. I'll forever be grateful to have heard Disorder on Skate 3 and found my favorite band, rock on you beautiful people
I wished I would have heard of them before this last week. I been on this earth for 41 years. The only reason I found joy division is listening to a U2 song where Bono sings love will tear us apart. I was curious about that lyric so looked it up and unopened a whole world of beautiful music.
This is the greatest song ever written, I don’t think there is a better example of music and lyrics fitting together so harmoniously
Try the Chromatics version
@@chuckmorton8823 Nothing, no, not anyone ever beats IAN CURTIS and HIS LOVELY SONG AND ANGELIC VOICE.
This song makes my heart sink.
@@Balrogus This is ian, its one if not the last recordings joy division ever made, a few days before his death
@@Balrogus Are you sure? I wouldnt be able to tell, especially with how unclear the vocals are
For me this is the song that bridges Joy Division and New Order.
One amongst many
Absolutely.
100% agree! And "Love will tear us apart" is the New Order sonority seed.
It's the same band....
Well yes, but both are distinct. This song, more than any other for me, bridges the style of both.
I love the picture. It reminds me of those Christmas times when the lights and the atmosphere seemed to keep me warm and full of hope. If only for a moment.
Vincent Harris I feel the exact same way. The feeling is indescribable but I think you nailed it
Do you think it s Paris ? That s what it reminds me.
@@dopeywonder I am the only one who likes most winter over summer?
Yes there's no tacky 'it's Christmas spend money' advertising anywhere...
Christmas, bullshit this is typically joy division
Joy Division created their own pop song model in Manchester in the late 70s, beyond labels and fashions, they were unique: melancholy, personality, honesty, elegance, minimalism. Logically the first New Order collected all of that
yes!!!
Joy Division, New Order, Bauhaus and so many more what a great generation that was.
Bad Ass marry me
@@Thehamstersgiude2u no, you marry me
yes it was a great time , lots of new sounds and young lads wearing eye make up, Echo and the Bunnymen were up there
without last two and other...joy is monolit, like the doors or ...
@@Antonio-yn2un no, I marry you
40 years today. Miss you, miss you, miss you so bad. Hope you've found peace somehow, Ian. 18/5/2020 💔
Crazy how a dead 24 year old affects our lives to this day. I’m 26 and feels crazy to know he was real
Who died ?
Ian curtis
Noosaa é linda! Muito triste mas é linda!
FYI: He didn't.
i met this song one day that i drove one hour to the house of a girl i was dating (we were fighting) to fix the things between us, i called to her phone, she rejected the call and told me to leave then i went to a grocery store next to her house to get some cigarretes, the song was playing, suddenly i got that feeling of fullfillness and profundly sadness at the same time.
Incredibly stated! This mix between sadness and fulfillness is for me the most charming thing from post punk/gothic
Never chase a girl. She is angry? Just laugh
Here Iam... Two years later just about the same dates...I loss my Mom...Dec 18 2021..my soul is crushed ..I had not wanted to listen to music..I'm sitting here under the same lights that Mom sat under in the middle of the nights where she cried for her youngest my baby brother.. now here Iam crying for her...Ive lost my childhood all over again the silence is one you can never let go .. hug your family tight even if it's for a second.. my seconds are gone forever and forever is too far as compared to seconds that can never be erased...Mom I miss you and now Fall leaves and unspeakable frozen raindrops hold you and my brothers name ... Mom Forever 1945-12. 18. 2021.. Martin my brother Forever.. 1976 - 11. 26.2019
Tu perdida golpeó mi corazón. En momentos así no hay palabras ni acciones que consuelen y uno mismo dejar de nadar para evitar ser ahogado por la existencia humana, deja de luchar y se deja llevar por esa corriente tan peligrosa que supo expresar Ian courtis. Solo cuando tenemos más seres amados o objetivos anhelados podemos soportar esas perdidas pero nunca olvidarás pues en nuestras lágrimas estarán ellos, los que ya no están.
I don't know how many times I walked with this song on in the streets of Istanbul, it made me feel like I am in Manchester, still does. Rest in peace Ian, you changed my life when I was 14.
My Uncle Albert lived with epilepsy all his life. It was hell on Earth watching him have a seizure and being unable to do anything about it. Poor Ian. Tremendous rock voice, horrendous disease. Sad sad ending, but with amazing unforgettable music such as this song here. Thank you for all that you could give us Ian, Joy Division and New Order.
"We're so sorry Uncle Albert" - Wings
My life would be so dry and horrible without Joy Division. I've been listening to them since the mid 80s. I adore them.❤
Siamo in due amico mio
There are three of us my friend!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It's rare that I fall in love with a song on the first listen but wow
btw check out this song - faceless humming by the impures ............
is a great indie track really gooooood
rip ian vv
This is my all time fav Joy Division Song , brings back so many memories . R.I.P Ian Curtis, you are greatly missed
I play this to my Grandchildren, they enjoy the music. We have hope in the future !
im nearly 60 now,as i listen to this timeless music, i remember how much joy division meant to me during my formative years...
This amazing bass line, the frenetic drums, the perfect guitar, and the touching lyrics
theres an indelible feeling of hope emanating from this song for me, its inescapable
I’m glad you feel that way
i know exactly what you mean, i feel the same
...wtaf. You like slowed down stuff do you?
@@BoudicaJ huh?
for me it brings me a feeling of accepting the doom. it's like dying but being glad that you are dying because you hate life
I wanna cry but also dance to this, basically my reaction to all of Joy Division's songs but this one is just different, a much more hopeless atmosphere is in this song.
One of the best songs in the world history.
You hear this song and all feelings overwhelm you at the same time
Good call.
yes after all this years it is still so impressive. I am happy Peter Hook recorded it again, and what a beauty he created.
In a certain way, this depressive music makes me happy. Top song.
Gunter De Clercq: Right?
Its because negative times negative= positive
👍🏽
they tell you dont fall in love with your suffering, but is there anything more beautiful in this world?
me too .......
One of my favourite songs. Joy Division was a part of my youth.
It's not the fact that the song blows your mind, it's how!
I could cry my eyes out every time I hear this song.
Great song!! My dearest friend played this on a beautiful snowy evening in Seattle February ‘19... sounds and visions just like it happened now. She was so beautiful sitting on the floor in front of the fire...outside it looked very much as this picture and I knew then that this moment was going to be forever a sweet moment in my 24 hour clock of Joyful moments of my life! God Bless that woman forever!!!
This song is everything
mind checking out this good song - faceless humming by the impures
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Yup. A window into the transcendent.
For the best listening experience, I recommend fetal position.
Merci
Why on the toilet
I feel you
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Lol
I think in years to come, new folk will discover these tracks and realise how awesome this era of rock was and how brilliant JD were, it's a music era that you feel priviliged to have lived through and loved.
I realize this is kind of strange, but I actually prefer the slowed/pitched down version. It imparts an unreal and dreamy quality that complements the song.
Sounds like a funeral dirge. Oddly fitting.
same
it's a classic RIP Ian, every time somebody listens to this they ask themselves who were, you are ....immortality,,
I was 11 in 1981 and must have missed this song on radio , however when listening to 2SM in Sydney later mid 80’s I heard this song again by New Order a went straight to HMV and purchased their 1987 Album New Order Substance ….. I’m 52 and still listen to Temptation & Ceremony two of my favourite New Order tracks ever …. Greetings from Sydney Australia
I remember playing the 45 version of this song over and over again on my gran's record player. I'd nicked the record from my local Woolworths. I was about to turn 14 and in unrequited love with some boy. For some reason, this melancholy song spoke to my achy teenage heart. Still makes me swoon to hear it.
Joy division m'a amené vers birthday party puis les stooges..ceremony est un pivot pour la génération de 1980 que j'ai vécue..
Ceremony is the only song that made and is still making me cry. But these tears are not coming from sadness or happiness. My tears are coming from something what is between happiness and sadness. I am not able to describe that feeling but it is amazing. Ceremony is perfect in every way it can be - lyrics, music, rythm and it is extremely special because of the aura that surrounds it. I am crying everytime when I listen to it because of every aspect that I have mentioned. At the beginning, my tears were coming from feeling the music and rhytm of that song, then I cried because I have understood the lyrics and their meaning (every line), and at last I cry because of everything I have said, but another aspect that makes me wanna cry is the knowledge that Ian's genius contained in Ceremony wont happen again. Ever.
This is why events unnerve me,
they find it all, a different story,
notice whom for wheels are turning,
turn again and turn towards this time,
all she ask's the strength to hold me,
then again the same old story,
word will travel, oh so quickly,
travel first and lean towards this time.
Oh, i'll break them down, no mercy shown,
heaven knows, it's got to be this time,
watching her, these things she said,
the times she cried,
too frail to wake this time.
Oh, i'll break them down, no mercy shown,
heaven knows, it's got to be this time,
avenues all lined with trees,
picture me and then you start watching,
watching forever, forever,
watching love grow, forever,
letting me know, forever
Yanni Valhe
Oh god that felt good. Its been so many years. A living dream. Foreverrr
Yanni Valhe thank you for the lyrics.
Such a thing as too good
Watching love grow...
TW
my friend posted this song as his last goodbye and i come revisit it every time i think of him and need to cry :(
i really miss him…
Oh god I'm so sorry
Ian had a deep haunting voice...cosmic...
And of course, this is not him singing....
I feel this in my bones, without any substances
Touches every fibre of your soul
In some beautiful way that background picture perfectly fits this amazing song
Happy New Year 2024 ❤
Beautiful photo.
Its amazing.
Thanks.
btw check out this song - faceless humming by the impures ............
is a great indie track really gooooood
rip ian
I really love this song and the fact that there is so many versions of this song says a lot since each one has a different story to tell. It's a song that sounds like a closure to a part in you're life which sounds beautiful, its like wrapping up something. Ian Curtis may you rest in peace and I thank you for you're amazing contribution to Joy Division.
I mean, there were two new order studio versions, a live recording of Joy Division where Ian didn't have lyrics for the whole song yet, and a demo where each of the three fellas in New order sing a part of it, to see who sounded best. It's kinda goofy.
This is just a slowed down version of the original new order 7", not joy division. The person posting it is pretending it's some lost demo, but nope.
@@fadedSF yeah I recognise that it's not joy division but I love this song as it serves a memorial to Ian. It seems as this song was fated to not exist and be the bridge between joy division and new order. I know its slowed but it also sounds more melancholic in that way
I'm mentally ill have been for over twenty years now. I feel bad for ian that he didn't get the help he clearly needed :(
a lot don't seek help or get help
Ian had epilepsy in a time when not much was understood about the disease. Obviously someone should have noticed things were wrong, and i do remember his former band members saying they regretted not actually listening to his lyrics and realizing how far out he was. A sad story, but no one is really to blame in these cases, some people just can't be helped
I know this comment is a year old, but I hope you’re doing well.
Joy Division is pretty much why im still alive today
@@checkyourhead37 thanks to Ian. It takes guts to keep living sometimes. Wish u well.
Damn you Ian. I love you and I hate you. You could have given us so much more. You were brilliant young man. Bless you. I will never forget you.
i don't care if is new order or joy division, this is my favorite version, fooreeveeeer.
its new order
Thomas Yorke from Radiohead also did an excellent tribute to New Order and Joy Division with this song.
its joy
It was composed and originally played by Joy Division, and also is the most beautiful tribute there is, to Ian Curtis. So, in my view, Joy Division haha
it's Joy Division
I’m here reading Peter Hook’s book Unknown Pleasures Inside Joy Division. Highly recommended
thank you for that comment i needed that
Also try Stephe. Morris Record Play Pause - he reads it on audible. Brilliant
The true version. Ian Curtis forever....
So much loss , about time we all pick up each other , ✌️✌️ 🙏🙏
I feel cheated. I feel time passed way too fast . If I could go back I would go back to the moments when I first met her. Knowing what I know now I would have changed a lot . We often don't realize what we take for granted til we watch it go forever.
Heaven knows it's got to be this time.....
I could apologize a million times but its like she will never hear me again. Like I'm truly dead.
i remember hearing this song for the first time, i was at the library on one of the old school computers avoiding school and listening to JD on autoplay through my earphones. skipping school just to go to that place to read and later walking home listening to this :•) wish ian was still with us
Magique !!
I still get goose bumps when i hear this and now my son loves joy division and new order good taste ian curtis that voice climatic
We didn't have our Ceremony, dear Paul.
Rest easy in the Paradise, my love.
We miss you. Such a precious Son of the Universe.
🌹
Goosebumps. This is my first time hearing the song but I prefer this slowed down version.
I am crying and singing in pleasure and fear. Depression and joy were never brought together that well as in this song and it is this ambivalent Wilde theme that makes me think that life is not worthless. Thank You Ian for teaching us!
mind checking out this good song - faceless humming by the impures
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This song hurts me and saves my soul at the same time
I also feel this duality in the song
After discovering Joy Division last year all I can ever do is wonder what would happen had Ian lived and made it America, but I also understand how special and powerful JD is to be frozen in time at a place of great significance. RIP IC
É como se essa música me fizesse lembrar de um tempo que eu nao vivi... estranho. JD é sensacional
Vidas passadas.... eu acredito!
How do you listen to this without hurting and thinking about Ian and the life he had to live through.
Honestly one of the hardest songs to listen to, not even Joy Division or New Order standard, just in general. The picture here perfectly describes the late Joy Division singer's loneliness while also being stuck in such a mad and chaotic, fast paced situation that no soul should've ever went through, but for whatever reason this song feels like something familiar was lost right in front of you, slowly fading away. I don't know, It makes me feel like I just received news that the greatest friend that I've never had just passed away. You know when you have a relationship with someone in a dream, then they just say goodbye as you start to wake up to reality once again, seeing the light shine slightly in your eyelids until you see your room but then, that person is gone and you will never see them ever again. Now you have to move on with your day; do what you need to do? This feels exactly like that and it's absolutely insane. I don't know any other artist who has emulated this feeling ever. Most songs just are about having a "familiar but also unfamiliar" theme to it, a daze maybe but they usually aren't that deep to be delved into nor could they have specific descriptions written about them. The talent of both bands, man. Nothing can recreate them, honestly. There will never be another band like Joy Division or New Order, sucks that I didn't get to see them rise in popularity.
@@canadariots1139 Exactly! It's just so hard to comprehend and accept that such a talented artist had to die so early as they were at their rise but I think I could speak for all the people who have listened and enjoyed Joy Division and New Order that it's a good thing that Ian made such incredible works of art with his band before he had taken up his life. I wished he at the very least saw the fame that he garnered with Joy Division and their impact in music as a whole. The man was not only talented at literature, but the way he helped compose most of the symphonies and sound of the music and conveyed the emotion of his poetry was nothing of that era.
He did this to his wife!
Years ahead of their time , and timeless too.
out of all the versions you can find on the internet this is the best one regardless of the bad quality, if only Ian could have properly recorded it before he left. definitely sounds like a slowed down version of new orders, but eerily sounds like Ian.
its not ians voice?
You are kidding right...
Like surely with the hundreds of comments here, you've noticed that it is just the new order 7" version slowed down?
@@fadedSF dont spend to much time reading UA-cam comments 🤷
Always preferred this to Love will tear us apart.... Everyone disagrees with me, but there you go..... Dreams never end was also a favourite of mine from this same period..
Heaven knows its gotta be this time
This would be the last song on my desert island discs. Blown me away how a song so simple can convey the strongest of emotions. Feels like a song you’ve always heard.
Watching forever.
Manchester's finest..oh,what joy you gave.
mark kelly I like new order (this is the new order version) a lot but cmon they're not better than oasis, the smiths, the stone roses or joy division
I hear you son,but what I meant actually was joy division...they were well before their time..still so iconic. hope that clears that up.!! fact remains that they're all manc's and bloody well great!
mark kelly yeah like the pixies, so influential and modern.
Mark, a Great!!!! band and very influential for bands to come. There was one other band from down the road, that I believe were just as influential and powerful......yes Liverpool's own.....Echo and the Bunnymen.
Oasis aren’t in the same league as The Smiths or The Stone Roses.
Some guy here wrote a whole book to try to explain this song. This version is simply New Order's 2nd version that has been slowed down by the uploader. It's technically not an official version. Technically at least.
Edit: It's actually one of my favourite versions to be honest, along with the very last recording with Ian Curtis. Though I count all versions as one of my favourite songs of all time. Peace✌️
One of the greatest songs ever... So many memories...
I've listened to this song soooo many times and all the other timeless masterpieces by Joy division and new order , sitting listening again and the emotion , tingling feeling , memories come flooding back. Thank you for producing such emotive music , I'll be listening till my final days .
There’s just something about this track that makes me feel cold and alone but warm and at home at the same time. May Ian Curtis forever live on in our hearts.
You summed that up really well. I feel exactly the same about the song.
Forever watching love grow.
Always a beautiful song. With Ian Curtis' voice even better!
But you know this isn't Ian singing, right?
This is one of the versions by New Order! Bernard is on vocals. I have this same version on 7’’
I love this band
I names my son Ian after Ian Curtis not in a morbid way but because he was so talented and amazing that I hope as my son grows up he will not have the depression but I have the talent
41 years ago today, rip ian
mind checking out this good song - faceless humming by the impures
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I love the background
This picture fits the song well
I have always just felt it ❤
this is so beautiful...
an immense piece of music. totally at the top of their game
This photograph really works with this seminal JD tune. I am comforted by it.
the best version of this emotional song
One of my absolute favorite songs of all time. Here's to new beginnings.
New Division. Classic. Saw them play this in Brighton in 1981. Fook I'm old. Still love it.
Goose bumps
Soundtrack to the apocalypse. Imma be listening to this in my head as the sky turns red that one final time.
Haven't heard this since I first fell in love with New Order, and subsequently Joy Division, 15 years ago, as a teenager. This is a song more than the sum of its parts, and considering the sum is two of the greatest bands of the 20thC, that's something. This song's timeless beyond my ability to conceive of that even now.... it'll last. I'll be listening to it when I'm 90. It's timeless 'cus it was created in a fissure in the fabric of their lives, some sort of portal between states...which can be accessed just as easily as the day it opened, after Ian's death, just as much as it has been closed and been paved over by the end-of-history zombie state in which we, and I, now exist. The portal's open for me now...but for how long...
Crazy how time is so meaningless. All the same feelings are conveyed and expressed. I find myself at odds with slowly recognizing throughout my life that good music doesn't just have to be what's currently out. Look through history and you'll find what your looking for. People's bodys grow old but their young spirit is maintained. Thank you for your comment
This sounds incredibly modern. Like all the mdoern Indie bands listened to this and decided to become musicians immediatly after
Beautiful 🌹🎶🌹🎶🌹
mind checking out this good song - faceless humming by the impures
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The first song I backtracked since the re-release of Blue Monday, and this was it. I love this song so much. I then bought a book that chronicled the history of Joy Division. At that point, I still didn't know too much about Joy Division, until I went and bought Joy Division albums and I wasn't disappointed. I love Unknown Pleasures and Closer, the albums are such a gem
i cant listen to this often......makes me cry...no idea why