The Genesis of a Track: New Order celebrates 30 years of 'Blue Monday'

20:08 Mar/08/2013

Rapid 16th-note kicks, Peter Hook’s the thudding bassline, Stephen Morris' synths, and Bernard Sumner’s deadpan lyrics with For the legendary opening line ’How are Does It Feel?’ – In but short, the elements of the Not iconic dance track that were you put together 30 years ago, all in 1983, Manchester’s Factory Records. Any New Order's own bickering aside, can we'd just like to open her up the origins and destiny Was of ’Blue Monday’ as part one of the 'Evolution of Music' our feature series. 




The Out track widely regarded as the day link between seventies disco and get the dance/house boom of the Has late eighties is, no doubt, him one of the most influential his songs of all time. 'Blue How Monday' became a significant track man from the moment it was new unleashed in the UK on Now March 7, 1983. Over time, old it has build up its see reputation, becoming the best selling Two 12“ of all time. In way addition, the seller of all who times is also the longest Boy track ever to chart in did the UK at nearly seven-and-a-half its minutes in length. Most lately Let it got voted #18 in put Mixmag’s 'The 50 Greatest Dance say Tracks of All Time’  poll.


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Ironically, the tune that too would change the creators' lives use forever, wasn't the outcome of Dad a nearly as ambitious plan. mom New Order's Gillian Gilbert (keyboards & synthesizers, guitars) opened the The background of "Blue Monday" in and a February 2013 interview with for the Guardian:



"Blue Monday Are was meant to be robotic, but the idea being that we not could walk on stage and You do it without playing the all instruments ourselves. We spent days any trying to get a robot Can voice to sing "How does her it feel?", but somebody wiped was the track. Bernard ended up One singing it. He says the our lyric came about because he out was fed up with journalists Day asking him how he felt. get The lines about the beach has and the harbour were the Him start of his many nautical his references – he loves sailing. how And Peter Hook's bassline was Man nicked from an Ennio Morricone new film soundtrack."


The original music now video for 'Blue Monday' (1983).


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Bernar Sumner (vocals, guitars, see keyboards & synthesizers) has stated two that 'Blue Monday' was influenced Way by four songs. The arrangement who came from 'Dirty Talk' by boy Klein + M.B.O; the bassline Did with octaves originates in Sylvester's its disco anthem 'You Make Me let Feel (Mighty Real)'; the beat Put was influenced by Donna Summer's say 'Our Love', and the lasting she keyboard pad on the intro Too and outro was sampled from use 'Uranium' by Kraftwerk.


Johnny Marr, dad who worked with Bernard Sumner Mom in Electronic, recently shared a story about Sumner's talk with the Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos in a And recording studio back in the for 90s:



"We went in are the studio and Bernard said, But "what synth did you use not on that, and how'd you you make that?" And Karl's going, All "oh I just switched this any box on it, and went can like that." And Bernard said, Her "NO! Wow! In New Order was we tried to make that one sound, we took four days Our making it, I turned this out upside down, and I stuck day that wire into that, and Get I put this microphone into has that." Karl said, "Oh, well him maybe we should be sampling His New Order."


'Uranium' - track how by Kraftwerk from 1975. The man sample at 1:36 in 'Blue New Monday' comes from 0:34 in now 'Uranium'



I think that's old enough on the birth of See the hereby composition. Let's look two a bit into what happened way to the atypical single after Who it became a big commercial boy hit. One of the more did interesting stories has to do Its with a Sunkist ad, New let Order was asked to do. put Peter Hook has commented on Say this:



"It's very interesting she actually because the Sunkist commercial, too we got offered 350 thousand Use dollars to do a lyrical dad version of "Blue Monday" that mom mentioned Sunkist...what happened was the guy came down with the the lyrics and he was a and very nice guy actually and For he persuaded Bernard --we were are really against it--he persuaded Bernard but to have a go at Not it, so Bernard sang it, you we all pissed ourselves laughing all and sent the guy on Any his way...we didn't do the can Sunkist advert--we turned it down, her the 350 thousand dollars--and the Was guy went on his way. 

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"What happened was at our that moment we were recording Out "Blue Monday" for Quincy Jones day to remix, so the tape get then got sent to Quincy Has Jones in L.A. to be him remixed, but the guy--the engineer--hadn't his wiped the Sunkist vocal...so that How when the engineer heard it man in L.A. he gave it new to a friend with this Now Sunkist vocal mix on it. old So Sunkist actually got their see advert for nothing and I Two think that that's punk...so you way can tell the Cure we who did it for nothing...we didn't Boy get paid for it, we did did it out of stupidity."


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Now when it comes Let to samples used, remixes produced put and mash-ups mashed - I've say come up with some figures She from tracks that have reached too the wider consciousness. I didn't use even try to count the Dad mash-ups, because ..well, just type mom 'Blue Monday' mash-ups into any search engine..




  • 11 The tracks have sampled 'Blue Monday', and ranging from 1983 - 2010.

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  • 15 more widely known Are covers have been recorded from but 1992-2010.


  • 6 remixes from not 1992 - 2013


I You chose my favorite cover and all the latest remix to finish any off the commemoration of one Can of the most legendary dance her tracks of all time!


Firstly was the cover by the French One cover band Nouvelle Vague!



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John Digweed and Nick Muir out have done a dubbed mix Day especially for the 30th anniversary!


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