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#26 Posted : 16 February 2013 12:20:33(UTC)
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Now this is interesting... Who WAS Gerry & the Holograms? Did they know him? This sounds like a lot of early live New Order. Did this guy work with New Order in the early 80s? Did this song inspire New Order?

Looking online, "they" had two 7" singles... but this is basically the only song. One 7" was a joke vinyl that was glued to sleeve apparently, so it was unplayable.

This video has references to The Residents, Andy Kaufman, Elvis, and Frank Zappa.

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#27 Posted : 16 February 2013 16:27:50(UTC)
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So the bass drum stutter/machine gun effect on BM possibly came from the Donna Summer song? They'd previously always claimed it came about from incorrectly programming their new drum machine


The story was that an error was made in triggering the sequencer. The intention was for it to come in from the beginning, not after a kick-drum only intro. It was a happy accident that ended up highlighting the distinctive drum pattern. If anything, the kick-drum echo on the Donna Summer track was more similar to the effect used on "The Beach".
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#28 Posted : 20 February 2013 07:13:11(UTC)
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In an interview in GQ, Bernard also mentions The Desert Place by german band The Twins as an influence for BM. I can hear it. Especially the intro and the sequencer. Great song, great video.

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#29 Posted : 21 February 2013 18:42:37(UTC)
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We the most flat chested woman with big hair that you can find for the video, got that Hasselhoff?
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ROCKET MICK on 22/02/2013(UTC)
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#30 Posted : 25 February 2013 17:00:38(UTC)
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http://www.discogs.com/Donna-Summer-Bad-Girls-Our-Love/release/392491

why didn't they just drag giorgio morodor into britannia row studios instead of trying to recreate all this stuff by hand?
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[Now this is interesting... Who WAS Gerry & the Holograms? Did they know him? This sounds like a lot of early live New Order. Did this guy work with New Order in the early 80s? Did this song inspire New Order?



gerry and the holograms was mostly CP Lee, former member of 70's mancunian comedy-rock band Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias, and latter-day "cultural commentator". on drums in Albertos was Bruce Mitchell, of Durutti Column
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#32 Posted : 25 February 2013 22:37:29(UTC)
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pure_shaw wrote:
http://www.discogs.com/Donna-Summer-Bad-Girls-Our-Love/release/392491

why didn't they just drag giorgio morodor into britannia row studios instead of trying to recreate all this stuff by hand?

Maybe they couldn't afford to hire him at that time.
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#33 Posted : 08 March 2013 02:50:13(UTC)
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BM was released 07/03/83. I thought about starting a new thread entitled "Happy 30th, Blue Monday" but I thought that might be a bit corny. So this'll have to do...
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#34 Posted : 08 March 2013 06:46:21(UTC)
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BM was released 07/03/83. I thought about starting a new thread entitled "Happy 30th, Blue Monday" but I thought that might be a bit corny. So this'll have to do...


It's still corny.

To mark the anniversary, the New Order Facebook site put up a YouTube link to Blue Monday.

In case you haven't heard it.
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#35 Posted : 08 March 2013 08:13:49(UTC)
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Top 10 Facts About New Order's "Blue Monday"
http://www.alancross.ca/a-journ...-which-turned-30-th.html

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#36 Posted : 08 March 2013 08:41:50(UTC)
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Does anyone know why the 83 vid never got an official release? Fuck it, they've had enough chances - Substance 89, NOStory, Best Of '94, Item...
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ROCKET MICK on 09/03/2013(UTC)
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#37 Posted : 08 March 2013 08:42:21(UTC)
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John Digweed and Nick Muir 30th anniversary remix of Blue MondayListen
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ROCKET MICK on 09/03/2013(UTC)
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#38 Posted : 08 March 2013 09:39:24(UTC)
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Midnight Blue wrote:
Top 10 Facts About New Order's "Blue Monday"
http://www.alancross.ca/a-journ...-which-turned-30-th.html

Some of these "facts" are questionable, specially 1 (the band never confirmed that the song is about the day after Curtis' death), 6 (the band produced themselves), 8 (nobody knows for sure how many copies were sold) and 9 (it's part of the factory records myth, but it's not true).
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