New Order "Blue Monday" 12" Factory Records FACTUS10 (US) 

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ABlue Monday7:29BThe Beach7:19

New Order are an   group formed in 1980 by  (, , ),  (, , ) and  (, synthesizers). The band was formed in the wake of the demise of their previous band, , following the suicide of singer . They were soon joined by /guitarist . New Order melded and , and became one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the 1980s. Though the band were shadowed by the legacy of Joy Division in their first years, their immersion in the club scene of the early 1980s introduced them to . The band's 1983 hit "" saw them fully embrace dance music and synthesized instruments, and is the best-selling 12-inch single of all time. New Order was the flagship band for , and their minimalist album sleeves and non-image reflected the label's aesthetic of doing whatever the relevant parties wanted to do, including New Order not wanting to put singles onto the albums. The band has often been acclaimed by fans, critics and other musicians as a highly influential force in the and dance music scenes over the past 25 years.

New Order was in hiatus between 1993 and 1998, during which time the members participated in various side-projects. The band reconvened in 1998, and in 2001 released , their first album in eight years. In 2005, (guitars, synthesizers) replaced Gilbert, who had left the group due to family commitments. In July 2007, Peter Hook claimed that he and Sumner had no further plans to work together.

Between 1976 and 1980, , , , and were members of the post-punk band , often featuring heavy production input from producer . Curtis committed suicide on , the day before they were scheduled to depart for their first American tour, and prior to release of the band's second album, . The rest of the band decided soon after Curtis's death that they would carry on. Hook told Mojo in 1994, "The first meeting we all had, which was the Sunday night [Curtis committed suicide], we agreed that. We didn't sit there crying. We didn't cry at his funeral. It came out as anger at the start. We were absolutely devastated: not only had we lost someone we considered our friend, we'd lost the group. Our life basically."

The members of Joy Division had agreed before Curtis's death not to continue under the Joy Division name should any one member leave the band. , the band's manager for over twenty years, is credited for having found the name "New Order" in an article in entitled "The People's New Order of ". The band adopted this name, despite its previous use for ex- 's band The New Order. As the term "New Order" was featured in 's as "the new order of the Third Reich" and the name originated from the prostitution wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the 1955 novel , critics inappropriately attempted to cite undertones. The band publicly rejected any claims that the name had anything to do with fascist or Nazi sympathies, with Sumner later saying, "We really, really thought it didn't have any connotations, and we thought that it was a neutral name, it didn't mean much...."

The band rehearsed with each member taking turns on vocals. Sumner ultimately took the role, as the guitar was an easier instrument to play while singing. Wanting to complete the line-up with someone they knew well and whose musical skill and style was compatible with their own, New Order invited Morris's girlfriend, Gillian Gilbert from , to join the band during the early part of October 1980, as keyboardist and guitarist. She had already played with Joy Division a number of times, filling in for both Curtis and Sumner playing guitar. Gilbert's membership was suggested by Gretton.

Their initial release as New Order was the single "", backed with "In a Lonely Place". These two songs were written in the weeks before Curtis took his own life.With the release of in November 1981, New Order initially started on a similar route as their previous incarnation, performing dark, melodic songs, albeit with an increased use of synthesizers - a musical direction already palpable in Joy Division's later work and fully explained by the band's admiration of . The band viewed the period as a low point, as they were still reeling from Curtis's death. Hook commented that the only positive thing to come out of the Movement sessions was that producer Martin Hannett had showed the band how to use a mixing board, which allowed them to produce records by themselves from then on.

A change in musical direction was brought about when New Order visited New York City in 1981. The band immersed themselves in the New York dance scene and were introduced to postdisco, Latin freestyle, and . Additionally, the band had taken to listening to Italian to cheer themselves up, while Morris taught himself drum programming. The singles that followed, "" and "", indicated the change in direction toward dance music.

, ' own nightclub (largely funded by New Order), opened in May 1982 in Manchester and was even issued a Factory catalogue number: FAC51. This was the UK's first ever . Its opening was marked by a nearly 23-minute instrumental piece of Steve Morris's making, "Video 586", which was released as a single 15 years later.

Low-Life, Brotherhood, and Substance

1985's refined and sometimes mixed the two styles, brandishing ""—the video for which was filmed by —and "". In February 1986, the to featuring "" was released on . An instrumental version of "" and the instrumental "" appeared in the film but were not on the soundtrack album. Later that summer, New Order headlined a line-up that included , , and during the at Manchester's .

(1986) divided the two approaches onto separate album sides. The album notably featured "" and "Angel Dust" (of which a remixed instrumental version is available on the UK "True Faith" CD video single, under the title "Evil Dust"), a track which marries a synth break beat with Low-Life-era guitar effects. Brotherhood also featured "All Day Long", a tale of child abuse, and "Every Little Counts", in which Sumner cracks up after singing the line "I think you are a pig, you should be in a zoo," affording the track successor-status to 1983's "Your Silent Face" on which Sumner sang the immortal line "You've caught me at a bad time so why don't you piss off?". Needless to say, Sumner often stopped singing the expletive during live renditions of the song, allowing the audience to sing it back to him.

While New Order toured North America with friends , the summer of 1987 saw the release of the compilation , which featured the new single "". Substance was an important album in collecting the group's 12-inch singles onto CD for the first time and featured new versions of "Temptation" and "Confusion"—referred to as "Temptation '87" and "Confusion '87". A second disc featured several of the B-sides from the singles on the first disc, as well as additional A-sides "Procession" and "Murder" and another new song, "1963". The single, "True Faith", with its surreal video, became a hit on MTV and the band's first American top 40 hit. The single's B-side, "1963"—originally planned on being the A-side until the group's label convinced them to release "True Faith" instead—would later be released as a single in its own right several years later, with two new versions.

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