Video: New Order Blue Monday

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Photo by Cap Blackard This fall, the reunited New Order will return stateside for their first tour in seven years, reports Rolling Stone . The seven-date run begins at San Francisco's Oakland Fox Theatre  on October 5th and wraps up at Toronto's Sony Center on October 23rd, marking their first Canadian performance in over a decade. "We’ve been having such a great time together this year, playing shows all over Europe, and we're all really excited to be playing America again," singer Bernard [...]

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Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia: We’re breaking the ‘Goin’ Old School’ rules a little today by featuring tracks we’ve featured before and tracks that aren’t strictly ‘80’s, but in celebration if the late, great, Bob Moog’s birthday, here’s some of our favourite Moog tracks. Starting with Kraftwerk ’s ‘Autobahn’ from 1975. And we had to feature New Order ’s ‘Blue Monday’ again, from 1983. Moog Source anyone? [...]

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Tras su reunión sin el bajista Peter Hook en el mes de octubre , la banda de Manchester New Order se presentará en el estadio Obras de Buenos Aires el próximo 1ero de diciembre a las 21 en el marco de una gira que los llevará, entre otros, a Brasil y a Chile. Así, la alineación para el show estará conformada por el cantante y guitarrista  Bernard Sumner , el baterista  Stephen Morris , [...]

The fans have been wiating since 2006, New Order will be back on stage for two concerts on October 17th and 18th at the Ancienne Belgique (Bruxelles) and the Bataclan (Paris).

Today on our nostalgia moment we have the video of 1983 "Blue Monday" by New Order, one of favorite songs of all times.

One of the most successful band's of the 1980's, New Order emerged from the shroud of Joy Division to produce some of the most dynamic and critically acclaimed music of the decade. From the sombre Movement, to the charming Power, Corruption and Lies and later works such as Brotherhood and Low-Life, the quartet grew to be the powerhouse band of the Hacienda nightclub and of course, Factory Records

So today is starting off on the wrong foot, which is all I need to say. Nevertheless, any personal anecdote is best amended with a tune, and I couldn't think of anything better than "Blue Monday." As a kid (and I'm dating myself) I remember Orgy's cover of New Order's version. The New Order version [...] Read more at www.SFCritic.com

Pah, isto é lindo: "But if it wasn't for your misfortune, I'd be a heavenly person today. And I thought I was mistaken, and I thought I heard you speak Tell me, how do I feel. Tell me now, how should I feel." Não sei o que tenho hoje, mas andei com esta música na cabeça, pronto! Haha! Deve ser por ser segunda-feira. Hoje apetece-me registar por aqui o videoclip oficial do single "Blue Monday",

Happy 25th to"Blue Monday", which, let's face it, is the epitome of the independent ideal. The original pressing, infamously, made about as much money as Resonator does (which is to say it lost cash by the buttloads every time it sold). Thanks Cerysmatic Factory for the note. Someone keep Hooky out of the cake.

I absolutely love "America's Next Top Model," and the new season starts this Wednesday. In the commercials for Cycle 9, they've been using Rihanna's "Shut Up and Drive," which is not a bad song. Far less annoying than that one about the umbrella-ella-ella... Although, the main bass riff, I think, bears a passing resemblance to New Order's "Blue Monday." Anybody else hear it? Anybody wanna mash the two tracks up for me? (Alright, mash-ups [...]