Sorry if it´s been done before but I´d like to know which was the first NO album you bought (please tell me everything about that experience).
Now I´ll tell you about me: the first album I bought was International on January 2nd 2012 (yes, I remember the date)(but it wasn´t the first of music by NO that I had, that being a mixtape I made a few months ago with the NO songs I knew up to that point).That evening I was just hanging around in the shopping mall with my mum (we had just finished having tea) and I had no intentions of buying anything but then I entered the record shop just to see what they had on sale. They had the albums in alphabetical order and when I got to the "N" I found 4 NO albums: Get Ready, The Best Of, Total and International. The 2 albums that caught my attention were Total and International (I was also interested in a greatest hits album by the Pet Shop Boys). As Total features songs by Joy Division which I´m not familiar with and I didn´t want to take risks as I had little money I chose International But it was a difficult choice to the point of my mum and the sales assistant waiting for me until the store was closing (The issue was that Total has Temptation, which I love, and International doesn´t). I got home quite late but I couldn´t sleep until 3 am thinking whether it was a good purchase or not and I didn´t want to open the envelope in case I wanted to change it for Total. But the next morning I made up my mind and I played it. Since the fist time I played it I could notice the diffrence in terms of sound quality with my home-made mixtape. My favourite song in it it´s the extended mix of BLT. My least favourite song is the extended mix of TBTHOG as I find it a bit dull. As being my only original NO cd and having such a great sound quality I listen to it a lot. Overall, I think it was a good purchase, especially as it has the exteneded mix of BLT, but if i had more money would buy Total too.

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LowLife

The singles of the mid 80s prompted me to by Substance - Wasn't all that keen on it to begin with, but something kept making me go back to it until I started to fall in love with it.

Then I got blown away by Technique and splashed out on the whole back catalogue.

Joy division's back catalogue was the final step and now I love the whole lot.

The first album I possessed was Substance, but I stole that from my boyfriend at the time. The first album purchased was Technique.

Side 2 of Substance on cassette from Hectic House in Macc. I often wondered whether side 1 had been sold on its own or simply nicked. You never knew in that place.

Any good ?

Substance.

New Order had somehow slipped under my radar until I saw a tiny clip of the True Faith video which intrigued me.

Went to the local Our Price (remember them?!) and saw they had a double-album on cassette called Substance.

It was nearly £10 though and, as a fairly broke 15 year old, I went weeks deciding whether or not to take a chance on an expensive purchase (considering I had no money and had only heard a few seconds of one of their songs).

Then one day, I was browsing the cassettes in Woolworths and found Substance there too.... same price, but this one was in one of those Saville designed linen boxes. That sold me.

Got it home.... loved it... couldn't stop playing it.
The only track i didn't like at the time was Confusion - and whilst I'm still not a fan of the Substance version, I love some of the other versions of it.

It changed the way I thought about music so much that I binned all my old records! Only an original 7" of Ace Of Spades by Motorhead, survived the cut.

Over time, my favourite NO song has changed on a fairly regular basis, but most of them have been from Substance.

The first Joy Division related album I got was Permanent 1995 and as far as compilations go it wasn't a bad introduction to the band.

Can't be sure but I think Republic was the first proper New Order album I nicked from my bro's CD collection, it was 1995/6 after all.

Think my first proper NO album purchase was PC&L or Brotherhood. I forget which one precisely. I got Low-Life as a birthday present.

Movement was ironically the last album I picked up and it didn't really compute for a good few years as I'd heard all the later period stuff first. I didn't like it.

It's only recently I've begun to appreciate that blue monolith album... even Hannett's production.

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Agreed... Substance should be given to every kid as standard issue when they become a teenager (although there's nothing wrong with starting them even younger).

Power Corruption & Lies and Brotherhood. Same day in 1988.

First album would have been PCL in 1984 I guess. Worked my way back from there right through to the beginning of JD. What an assault 'Still' was to me but I persevered. Then got all releases as they came out. Back in those days I had to import the singles from the UK via ads in the NME. Cost a fortune to bring them to NZ by post and it literally took weeks. There was nothing more rewarding than having a large cardboard box containing 12" singles coming from the UK. One of my most prized scores was finding by chance Murder/TLU instrumental Factory Benelux 12" and convincing the guy in the record store to let me buy it as he said he only had a few copies for special customers. Still love everything about that vinyl. Artwork is supurb.

Bought Factus 8 in Jan 84 thinking it was an album but i guess Movement was first proper album i bought, same month and year.

PCL on vinyl one bright day at Sleeves Record Shop, Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 1983. I had all the JD records and Movement, but I didn't buy them myself. This was the first I actually shelled out for. How maverick that flowery picture seemed at first sight both in the whole mix of covers around then, and after the solemnity of the JD sleeves and the seriousness of Movement. Then having to get the LP home on the bus without damage But then it was the kind of picture that could be either serious or not so serious at all, maybe even psychedelic - an enigma. You can't judge a LP by its sleeve, but it's difficult to resist when that's all there is to go on, and NO were anonymous figures to me. Musicwise, all was revealed on listening to it a few times of course. The next decade was mapped out by what was the latest NO album of the time - 83-85, 85-7, 87-89, 89-93, that was continued by Electronic.

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