New Order - Blue Monday Label: Rough Trade Germany, Factory Catalog#: RTD 10, FAC 73 Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM Country: Germany Released: 1983 Genre: Electronic Style: Synth-pop Tracklist: A Blue Monday B The Beach Notes: Published by B Music 1983 LC 5661 A Factory Record Mastered at Studio Nord Bremen (SNB). Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix Number: FACTORY/RTD10A Mastered by SNB Matrix Number: FACTORY/RTD10B Mastered by SNB Dicogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/New-Order-Blue-Monday/release/138601 Wikipedia Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_%28New_Order_song%29 "Blue Monday" is a dance song recorded in 1982 and originally released as a single in 1983 by British band New Order, and later remixed for further releases in 1988 and 1995. The song has been widely remixed and covered since its original release, and became a popular anthem in the dance club scene. At nearly seven-and-a-half minutes, "Blue Monday" is one of the longest tracks ever to chart in the UK. It has been cited as the biggest selling 12" single of all time by the band and in the film 24 Hour Party People, though this has not been corroborated by any independent sales chart. Despite selling well it was not eligible for an official gold disc because Factory Records were not members of the British Phonographic Industry association. However, the Official UK Chart Company (UK Singles Chart) has estimated its total UK sales at over one million. In the all-time UK best-selling singles chart, published in 2002, "Blue Monday" came 76th. The song begins with a distinctive semiquaver kick drum intro, programmed on an Oberheim DMX drum machine.[2] Gillian Gilbert eventually fades in a sequencer melody. According to band interviews in NewOrderStory, she did so at the wrong time, so the melody is out of sync with the beat; however, the band considered it to be a happy accident that contributed to the track's charm. The verse section features the song's signature throbbing synth bass line, played by a Moog Source, overlaid with Peter Hook's bass guitar leads. The synth bass line was sequenced on a Powertran Sequencer home built by Bernard.[3] Bernard Sumner delivers the lyrics in a deadpan manner. "Blue Monday" is an atypical hit song in that it does not feature a standard verse-chorus structure. After a lengthy introduction, the first and second verses are contiguous and are separated from the third verse only by a brief series of sound effects. A short breakdown section follows the third verse, which leads to an extended outro. "Blue Monday" is often seen as one of the most important crossover tracks of the 1980s pop music scene. Synthpop had been a major force in British popular music for several years, but "Blue Monday" was arguably the first British dance record to exhibit an obvious influence from the New York club scene, particularly the work of producers like Arthur Baker (who collaborated on New Order's follow-up single "Confusion"). According to Bernard Sumner, "Blue Monday" was influenced by four songs: the arrangement came from "Dirty Talk", by Klein + M.B.O.; the signature bassline with octaves came from Sylvester's disco classic, "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"; the house beat came from "Our Love", by Donna Summer; and the long keyboard pad on the intro was sampled from the Kraftwerk song "Uranium", from the Radio-Activity album.[4] In an interview for Channel 4's countdown of the biggest selling UK singles, the band claimed to have written the song in response to crowd disappointment at the fact that they never played encores. This song, they say, allowed them to return to the stage, press play on a synthesiser and leave the stage again. An example of this happening appears on New Order's concert video Pumped Full of Drugs. [i]wikipedia[/i] Technical Information: =Hardware= Washed LP> AT120E> Dual CS 505-3> Kenwood C1> Black & White NF11 cable> Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 HiFi w/ AD712 OpAmps @ 24/96> HDD =Software= Wavelab 6.11 Adobe Audition 3 Izotope Rx Advanced 1.21 ClickRepair 3/0 (manual mode) Trader?s Little Helper +16Bit Version: Izotope Rx Advanced 1.21 Resampled: -Ultra Steep, linear phase Dithered: -MBIT+ Medium -Noise shaping light -Dither amount normal
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