New Order - Ceremony (Live in New York City 1981) 

He’s the human drum machine!

no fucking way was this before drum machines. suicide, metal urbain, cabaret voltaire, throbbing gristle, blondie, kraftwerk, and i won't even pretend they got there first

come on

Not actually underrated - he always makes the top 50 drummer lists - but what is astonishing is how he gave it up for a drum machine

Amphetamines.

Yeah, I always felt like he didn't get the recognition he deserved. I guess Peter and Bernard are such big personalities that Stephen kinda blended in.

Stephen never disappoints.

Yes perfect that!!

As he does. Always makes me wonder how many pounds he loses during a gig!

give that man a towel!! He is a drum machine in a human body!

Agreed. But Procession might be even more transitional. It's kind of the perfect blend of NO and JD. I think Ceremony is more of an NO song than JD. I think all the did is perform it live a couple times before Ian died. It was fully formed and recorded as NO.

Best song of life

I’ve always felt like this song embodies the difference of joy divisions and new order. They’re like light and day. Joy division is the long lonely night, but new order and ceremony specifically feel like waking up to a brand new beautiful day and feeling a sense of optimism

I think it's Dreams Never End. First part is Joy Division and second part is New Order

same here bro. All time favorite song

the song is amazing, one of my all-time favorites too

Yeah. This song is really kind of like a test to see what kind of people are listening. If you get an emotional response from this song you still have a soul.

It’s rough, it’s raw, and it’s effing awesome! One of my all-time favorites also!

It most definitely was a difficult time for them: Also as well, from reading interviews over the years, many of the group didn’t listen to their first album “Movement” for several years, simply because recording it was such a horrendously difficult time for them emotionally, and the thought of even listening to the album would have brought back bad memories of that time… I remember reading a few interviews, from Hook and Morris, years later, talking about the time they recorded “Movement”, and Martin Hannett (a genius producer, but who could also be a very difficult character at the best of times), went from being difficult to totally off-the-wall unbearable to work with during the recording, and this was a main reason this was the last album they worked with him..

When you made a real mixtape

is not a New Order song

@@richardwallace6313 it’s a new order song as much as it’s a joy division song, don’t be a snob

@@fantabulouso1647 Snob? first, you clearly do no know me, and second it cannot possibly be a New Order song when it was written by someone who was never in New Order. New Order recorded it, performs it, but it is there song only in way that All Along the Watchtower is a Hendrix song.

bull

Temptation.

I recommend "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem.

Don't we all?

I'm one their biggest supporters and I'm sure this is not a good performance or recording and that's what makes it so good. I saw them LIVE a few times in Sydney in the 80's and they were a trillion times better than this performance.

I guess he was syncing with Stephen lol. They are the backbone of the band. Especially for Hooky, he is the sound.

@@DhafinFausta yes, I agree. This performance was exceptionally tight. By the time I heard this during the Low Life tour they were a bit looser, but much louder.

@@charlessomerset9754 think they were all just really nervous so they used all their energy on not screwing up and not much on making a show, i really like that about early New Order

💔💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😢😢😢😢😢😢

As you should.

I hear a lot of anime openings that borrow from this sound

Yes she was a multi-instrumentalist. She mainly played the keyboards, but occasionally she was an a guitarist playing along with or without Bernard Sumner.

No. He was completely off his tits on LCD!

Si era la prima volta, tra l'altro il primo live dei new order dopo la fine dei Joy division...una situazione non facile, a un anno più o meno dalla morte di Ian Curtis nel luogo dove sarebbero dovuti esserci tutti ed esplodere definitivamente. Questo live va valutato più per le emozioni che suscita, di un gruppo che testardamente, goffamente anche prova ad andare avanti nonostante la tragedia. Io la trovo una delle performance più toccanti della storia della musica