Friday, March 11, 2016

Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts


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Released 33 years ago this week, New Order’s “Blue Monday” (hear the original EP version here) became, according to the BBC, “a crucial link between Seventies disco and the dance/house boom that took off at the end of the Eighties.” If you frequented a dance club during the 1980s, you almost certainly know the song.

6 comments:

Chip Ahoy said...

Saw this and downloaded the regular Blue Monday. I must say, I like this version better.

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You have the YouTube version. I didn't even think of that. My version was BBC. This means I can steal it I meant to say just now have it by means well known. See ya. BRB.

Chip Ahoy said...

Would you like to hear something unexpected and sweet? Like a sweet little Forest Gump feather come floating down and tucking itself into your notebook and affecting your life thereafter pleasantly until it floats off to affect someone else.

Oh, I forgot those guys on Blue Monday sing. That's great. Much better than the original, a mess in comparison.

The nice thing is by email I learned today that subjects I've sent cards realized over time by their inability to toss them that they've acquired a proper collection. And subjects learned that others have proper collections too. They learned of each other. It was inevitable. They are widespread. On their own they wished to compare. So now my cards are traveling in collections. As a side thing to an already planned trip. This weekend to San Francisco to share and compare some eight or so cards between them and a few more gathered from here.

Now, I axe you, is that fantastic or what? That one guy's card has nearly a thousand views worldwide. That is very low statistics so far as internet traffic is measured. But I axe you again, how many people worldwide have looked at your birthday card? And the dude goes, "Wow, and here I have the thing sitting right here in my drawer." Yes. And that there is whatchya call living ARTS.

MamaM said...

And that there is whatchya call living ARTS.

The power of spirit. or Spirit. Dynamic power. Related to how one views whatever pops up.

Titus said...

Loved Blue Monday and New Order-

virgil xenophon said...

Blue Monday & New Order is STILL one of my all-time faves..

Methadras said...

That was awesome. Loved it.