Dean Wareham - Ceremony (Live on KEXP) 

30 years on and I still get goosebumps when the bass comes forward at the end of the Galaxy 500 version. It makes me feel old and young at the same time.

For 30 years Dean plays this one the best. And Britta is so stellar..

It´s Dean´s very own atmospheric and charismatic voice that makes this song so distinctive and fascinating...though the guitar sound is extraordinary too....like always.

It's almost--almost!---like a time machine to 1990 when the galaxy hadn't broken apart yet.

The definitive version of this arguably the greatest rock song ever is the Galaxie 500 version. I’m hoping one day someone can use technology to bring up Ian’s vocals in the Joy Division iterations

Everyone's allowed to have their own opinions. But if I ever find the four people who disliked this.... :-)

Joy Division 's Ian Curtis's last song , and New Order 's first . Ian and Bernard Sumner are beyond the infinite phenomenal , and Dean is equally awesome, with a treasure trove of nearly as many great songs as JD/NO. this is a wonderful heartfelt version of Ceremony .

sublime version of this seminal track!

Dean puts his touch on such a great song. I love this

beautiful cover of a great song

I LOVE this version!

a great guitarist

Man, I love JD and this. Theresa been many many covers this but banged it down and up and... Love al

So beautiful. Nicely done cover.

Superb!

Dean rules!!!!!!!!

It's too neat

I still stand by this assertion (echoed below by citileft): that this is the best version of the greatest rock song every written.

Drummer wearing a shirt with a Karate Kid 3 review on it. Love it.

sad boy and proud

Nice tribute to JD/NO.Thank you.

Saw Luna, and Damon and Naomi like a month apart in Seattle way back, wish I coulda saw them together, saw Spiritualized Modest Mouse Sonic Youth Built to Spill Karp and Sleater Kinney that year too! Oh and Joel R.L. Phelps that year. Sooo much good music in that town!

Lyrics: This is why events unnerve me, They find it all, a different story, Notice whom for wheels are turning, Turn again and turn towards this time, All she ask's the strength to hold me, Then again the same old story, World will travel, oh so quickly, Travel first and lean towards this time. Oh, I'll break them down, no mercy shown, Heaven knows, it's got to be this time, Watching her, these things she said, The times she cried, Too frail to wake this time. Oh I'll break them down, no mercy shown Heaven knows, it's got to be this time, Avenues all lined with trees, Picture me and then you start watching, Watching forever, forever, Watching love grow, forever, Letting me know, forever.

I used to spin Galaxie 500's Ceremony cover at 33rpm, and it sounded even better.

The drummer seems so calm...

Decent performance for what was essentially Ian Curtis' suicide letter to the world.

me gusta

Wow. The only cover of this I've ever heard that is faithful in spirit while being a completely original take. Love it.

very familiar title... but i was not expecting a cover :-)

Turn the speed up to 1.25..... :-)

Last Joy Division song. Love Galaxie 500...

Dean's super low-key vocals work pretty well. The guitar work brings out the beauty. Naomi Yang is missing

Kills it...

dean, britta, and their son

This sounds like the National covered it. Love it

dude had a story on his T shirt...imagine having to stare at that dude long enough to read all that sh1t....OUCH!!!!!!

Radiohead’s version has a lot Jorey energy to it. Both great but I prefer the original and then Radiohead.

Bloody hell - pack it in.

why does he keep playing this song? Sounds great but he has his own great songs to play.

Man this is one of my fave covers in the whole world but I wish they'd bury his vocals here a bit. lol.

Dean seems uninterested in the vocal here. Or maybe he was having throat issues. I sped it up to 1.25 and it sounds like the Galaxie 500 recorded version. I used to love when they played this live. If Kramer was on tour with them he would join them on guitar.

Bossa Nova Ceremony

Vocals are too up front. The beauty of the Galaxie sound is heavy reverb on vocals, which puts them on equal footing with instrumentation, where they should be.

Joy division open their masterpiece to pillage. Foreeeeeeeeeeever

Not much of a voice, but great rhythm section and guitar sound.

Crappy version, 500 version the best but this is sad, Dean seams bored or not into it, heard bettah at Bunratty's

the music played is absolutely great. the singers voice kinda ruined it for me. otherwise great cover

why does the drummer's face look like a medieval painter's depiction of a bowl of melting vanilla ice cream?