Blue Monday (New Order song)

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* alternative dance
* Peter Hook
* Stephen Morris

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* Peter Hook
* Stephen Morris

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* Peter Hook
* Stephen Morris
 Producer(s) | * New Order

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* acid trance
* hard trance
* Peter Hook
* Stephen Morris

"**Blue Monday**" is a song by the English rock/dance band New Order. It was released as a 12-inch single on 7 March 1983 through Factory Records and later remade by the band 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. It is the best-selling 12" single of all time. The song has been widely acclaimed and according to Acclaimed Music, the song is the 33rd most acclaimed song of all time.

## Background

The song begins with a distinctive semiquaver kick drum intro, programmed on an Oberheim DMX drum machine. 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. 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" was described by the BBC Radio 2 "Sold on Song" feature thus: "The track is widely regarded as a crucial link between Seventies disco and the dance/house boom that took off at the end of the Eighties." Synthpop had been a major force in British popular music for several years, but "Blue Monday", with encouragement by the band's manager Rob Gretton, was a dance record that also exhibited influences 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 beat came from "Our Love", by Donna Summer; and the long keyboard pad on the intro and outro was sampled from the Kraftwerk song "Uranium", from the *Radio-Activity* album. The band claimed to have written the song in response to crowd disappointment at the fact that they never played encores. The song was planned to allow them to return to the stage, press play on a synthesiser and leave the stage again, but while writing the song it evolved into a project that the band quite liked, and it was turned from an experiment into a single. However, the band since have become noted for playing Blue Monday as an encore.

Some rhythmic and synthesizer elements of the song had been used by the band in an earlier composition, "Video 5 8 6", in 1982, which evolved into the track "5 8 6", appearing on the band's 1983 album *Power, Corruption & Lies*.

Despite selling well it was not eligible for an official gold disc because Factory Records was not a member of the British Phonographic Industry association. According to the Official Charts Company, its total sales stands at 1.16 million in the United Kingdom alone, and "Blue Monday" came 69th in the all-time UK best-selling singles chart published in November 2012.

## Composition

In August 1983, New Order released their iconic "Blue Monday", which was composed on prototype-level homebrew "step-time" binary code programming, morphologically a MIDI rendition.

## Packaging

The 1983 edition artwork is designed to resemble a 5¼" floppy disk. The sleeve does not display either the group name nor song title in plain English anywhere; the only text on the sleeve is "FAC SEVENTY THREE" on the spine. Instead the legend "FAC 73 BLUE MONDAY AND THE BEACH NEW ORDER" is represented in code by a series of coloured blocks. The key enabling this to be deciphered was printed on the back sleeve of the album, *Power, Corruption & Lies*. "Blue Monday" and *Power, Corruption & Lies* are two of four Factory releases from this time period to employ the colour code, the others being "Confusion" by New Order and *From the Hip* by Section 25.

The single's original sleeve, created by Factory designer Peter Saville and Brett Wickens, was die-cut with a silver inner sleeve. It cost so much to produce that Factory Records actually lost money on each copy sold. Matthew Robertson's *Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album* notes that "[d]ue to the use of die-cutting and specified colours, the production cost of this sleeve was so high that the single sold at a loss." Tony Wilson noted that it lost 5p per sleeve "due to our strange accounting system"; Saville noted that nobody expected "Blue Monday" to be a commercially successful record at all, so nobody expected the cost to be an issue." In *Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records*, Saville states "I am so bored with this story. We didn't even know how many of these expensive covers were ever made anyway."

Robertson also noted that "[l]ater reissues had subtle changes to limit the cost" (the diecut areas being replaced with printed silver ink). Saville commented in 2013 that the printers "banged out a cheaper version. I don't know how many thousands were sold [the original] way, or whether Factory were charged the full price for something they didn't get, which would be very Factory."

The artwork was so late that Saville sent it straight to the printer, unreviewed by either the band or the label.

The 1988 and 1995 versions were packaged in conventional sleeves.

## Music videos

A music video for a shortened version of the original song was created in 1983, featuring military clips with false colour, simple computer-generated graphics such as colour blocks and geometric lines, digitised video of band members at very low resolution and framerate, and a short appearance of the game Zaxxon (reportedly the Apple II port). The colour blocks were created using Peter Saville's colour-coded alphabet.

On the Australian show *Rage*, a video was shown containing footage taken from their BBC *Top of the Pops* performance with the studio track dubbed over it.

The music video for "Blue Monday '88" appears on the *Substance* video collection (released as a companion to the album of the same name). The video features sketches by photographer William Wegman and his Weimaraner dog named Fay Ray doing balancing acts intercut with hand-drawn animation by Robert Breer. The band members are shown standing around doing various tasks, such as walking a wooden plank over a floor that is painted blue, holding wire-mesh constructed art and milk crates over their faces, being hit by tennis balls, and standing still while they flip through various flip books (tying into the hand-drawn animation sequences).

In September 2012 New Order headlined a festival at Portmeirion in North Wales and festival organisers recruited the support of the local Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir to produce a cover version and accompanying video.

## Official releases

"Blue Monday" has been a hit several times in the UK. In 1983, it charted twice, initially reaching number 12, then re-entering the chart later in the year and climbing to number 9, helped by the fact that neither side of the single (the B-side "The Beach" was an instrumental re-working of "Blue Monday") was featured on the UK version of the group's subsequent album, *Power, Corruption & Lies*.

New Order appeared on the BBC's *Top of the Pops*, on 31 March 1983, to promote the song. New Order insisted on performing Blue Monday live. The performance was dogged by technical problems, and was unrepresentative of the recording. In the words of drummer Stephen Morris, "Blue Monday was never the easiest song to perform, anyway, and everything went wrong. The synthesisers went awry. It sounded awful". In 1985, "Blue Monday" and "Thieves Like Us" were officially released in Poland as a 7" single in different sleeve by Tonpress under license from Factory Records and sold over 50,000 copies and reached number 5 on the end-of-year single chart. In 1988, "Blue Monday" was officially remixed by Quincy Jones and John Potoker under the title "Blue Monday 88" (with the instrumental flip being titled "Beach Buggy"). The single reached number 3 in the British charts, number 4 in the Australian charts, and topped the dance charts in the United States. A further official remix/reissue in 1995, with a mix by Hardfloor as the lead track, also made the British Top 20. The song has sold 1.21 million copies in the UK as of October 2015.

## Appearances

The single was not originally on *Power, Corruption & Lies*, but was included on the Gap Records Australia/New Zealand cassette version (though not listed on the card).

In 2008, Collector's Editions of all New Order's 1980s albums were released, with remastered versions of the original 12" "Blue Monday" and its B-side "The Beach" appearing on the Collector's Edition of *Power, Corruption & Lies*. Meanwhile, "Blue Monday '88" and "Beach Buggy" appear on the Collector's Edition of 1986's *Brotherhood*. "Blue Monday" also appeared on *Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories* on its in-game radio Wave 103. Also in *FIFA Football 2005* and in-game radio in Forza Horizon. "Blue Monday" appears on almost every *New Order* compilation.

* 1987: *Substance 1987* – Original 12" version
* 1994: *Best of New Order* – 1988 7" version
* 1995: *Rest of New Order* – Hardfloor Mix [note: some versions come with a disc of "Blue Monday" remixes]
* 2002: *International* – Original 12" version
* 2002: *Retro* – Original 12" version and Jam and Spoon Manuela Mix
* 2005: *Singles* – Original 12" version [note: this version omits the opening seconds] and 1988 7" version
* 2011: *Total* - Original 12" version
* 2016: *Singles* (2016 re-release) - Original 12" version and 1988 7" version

Compilation appearances include

* 1996 *The Best...Album in the World...Ever!* - New edited version of 12" mix (runs at 6:45 length)
* 2001 *Mixmag B!g Tunes* - Original 12" version
* 2002 *Electric Dreams* - Original 12" version[*citation needed*]
* 2008 *Anthems II 1991-2009* - 1988 7" mix (mixed into "Chime" by Orbital)
* 2011 *Arkives* - Plastikman Remix

## Track listing

### Blue Monday

All tracks are written by Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner; except where indicated.

### Blue Monday 1988

All tracks are written by Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner.

### Blue Monday-95

All tracks are written by Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner.

* "Blue Monday (Plutone Dub)" (4:46) was only made available on promo vinyl FAC73PL

## Orgy version

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"**Blue Monday**" was covered by American alternative metal band Orgy. A cover version of the New Order song, it was released on 14 December 1998. Internationally, the song was a hit, appearing on music charts worldwide. It has been attributed with providing industrial and metal music with a fresh connection.

### Background

In an interview with *Billboard* guitarist Amir Derakh said that upon working on the song they "wanted to do the original 'Blue Monday' justice" and had expected more criticism. He went on to say that they felt lucky to have covered it and that they felt it could have been something that they had written. The fact that their first major hit was a cover of the 1980s electronica/dance song did not bother the band.

Their first official single release featured various versions of "Blue Monday" and upon the success of the song the band decided to include their previous single "Stitches" on the second release. With the label's support this release was an enhanced CD that featured the music video for "Blue Monday" on 9 February 1999, which was in QuickTime format. "Blue Monday" has been made into several dance remixes, some which were produced to appeal to the underground dance club scene, and was even advertised under "Club Mix" 2000, a popular dance compilation series.

The music video for "Blue Monday" also appeared on several music television stations, and the song was also released on vinyl.

### Success

The song appeared on modern rock radio stations, and was a hit on MTV; it appeared on MTV's alternative music program *120 minutes* and *TRL*, in which it debuted at number eight on 22 February 1999. The song was perceived as the band's gateway to success, allowing them to tour in Ozzfest. and in the Family Values Tour and led to the rerelease of the song "Stitches". The song appeared in *Spin Magazine's* "Hits of the Year" for 1999. "Blue Monday" is also said to have helped pave the way for the cyberpunk trend, as best exemplified in the popularity of the movie *The Matrix*, which appeared soon afterwards. In an interview of Joel Gallen in *Los Angeles Magazine*, the music supervisors were discussing the use of Orgy's "Blue Monday" for a football scene in *Not Another Teen Movie*, among others. Stating that the song "had energy", they eventually selected it for the movie, and it appeared in the soundtrack as well.

"Blue Monday" charted internationally, some of which included *CMJ's* "Commercial Alternative Cuts" and *Billboard's* Alternative, Pop, and Dance song charts as well as others. It also appeared in *Time Magazine* and *Newsweek* in 2000 as featured song clips.

### Reception

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"Blue Monday" has been called the "aggro-fied-for-the-1990s" version of New Order's song, and it is considered to be part of a resurgence of new wave covers in gloomcore, along with Dope's cover of Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)". Many critics attribute the success of the album *Candyass* to "Blue Monday", and some anticipated that Orgy would become a one-hit wonder, believing that it would be difficult for the band to follow up with another hit song. Many believed it to be their best song. Porter W. Richards of *Sputnik* felt that even though many of the songs off of *Candyass* sounded similar, "Blue Monday" was a great song that should not be overlooked.While the New Order song is viewed positively by the author of the comic book series *Blue Monday*, Chynna Clugston, in an interview she expresses dislike for the misconception that she borrowed the title for her book from Orgy's cover version rather than the original.

In a January 2000 *Spin Magazine* interview, Buckcherry's vocalist Josh Todd and guitarist Keith Nelson did not speak highly of the song, likening its sound to a Nine Inch Nails rip-off and calling the sound "mechanical".

### Track listing

*Information on Blue Monday (single).*

*Information on Blue Monday/Stitches.*

### Appearances

* *Blue Monday (single)* (1998)
* *Blue Monday/Stitches* (1998)
* *Candyass* (1998)
* *I Still Know What You Did Last Summer* (1998)
* *Big Shiny Tunes, Vol. 4* (1999)
* *Club Mix 2000 (K-Tel)* (1999)
* *Family Values Tour '98 CD* (1999)
* *Shades of Technology* (1999)
* *The F111 House Session* (2000)
* *Kerrang: Life Is Loud* (2001)
* *Not Another Teen Movie* (2001)
* *Ultimate Teen Flick Soundtrack* (2002)
* *Nevermind the Originals, Here's the Covers* (2003)
* *X-Treme Rock* (2003)
* *Game Center CX Season 1, Episode 7* (2004)
* *All That Alternative* (2005)
* *Trans Global Spectacle* (2005)
* *The Take (TV series)* (2009)
* *Powers (TV series)* (2015)

*Information on appearances.*
## Flunk version

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Flunk covered the song and released it as single in 2002. In this version, Flunk slows down "Blue Monday" making it a popular hit for Flunk, based in part on the song's wide recognition. The lyrics become the focus for this version rather than the danceable beat (which was emphasized in the original version).[*citation needed*] The single received generally positive reviews by electronic music critics, but Mallory O'Donnell of Stylus Magazine commented that Flunk "only showed the paucity of melody" of the original New Order song. The cover was included in the 2004 film *Walking Tall*, starring Dwayne Johnson. The song was subsequently remixed, with at least 7 remixes along with the original version available. The original release was on the 2002 EP titled *Blue Monday*. This version of the song can be heard briefly in *Nancy Drew*.

### 2002 EP track listing

1. Blue Monday
2. Eight Days A Freak
3. Blue Monday (Howard Maple Mess Up Mix)

## 808 State version

In 2004, Aphex Twin's Rephlex Records released 808 State's acid house version of Blue Monday which had been recorded in 1988. A favourite at The Haçienda's Hot Night, the recording was believed lost until Autechre's Sean Booth asked Graham Massey to dig through his archive of old 808 State acid house material. Aphex Twin said at the time: "If you're a dance music fan these recordings are almost like a missing link. Bands like New Order helped create house, acid and techno. This is 808 State paying homage to their elders."

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## External links

* New Order discography (includes images of sleeve)
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* How we made: New Order's Gillian Gilbert and designer Peter Saville on Blue Monday

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