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Galaxie 500 - Ceremony (New Order Cover).
“Oh, I’ll break them down, no mercy shown. Heaven knows it’s got to be this time.”
Any New Order cover has, in my honest opinion, been phenomenal. Plus, this is my favorite New Order song. Soundtrack to my life, guys.
Litle known fact: this is actually a cover of New Order’s cover of the song, which was originally performed by Joy Division.
Joy Division, of course, was an earlier iteration of New Order, fronted by lead singer Ian Curtis. When Curtis took his own life, the rest of the band reorganized as New Order.
This was the last song Curtis wrote before he died; only two recordings were made — one of them a bootleg tape of a performance with such bad accoustics that the audio had to be run through a machine to determine the lyrics. The results, it would turn out, are haunting.
Bernard Sumner, Joy Division guitarist and reluctant lead singer of New Order, sings the New Order track, which became their first single released off their first album, Movement.
