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

Everything about this performance and the early days of New Order are a triumph to me. They had to overcome so much and just had to "get on with it" because there was no other way. I'm so proud of the lads. I'm so proud of Bernard for taking on the duties of frontman/singer/songwriter even though he had horrible stage fright and it never came natural to him. I'm proud to be a New Order fan and I can't thank them enough for the comfort they've provide for me in the short time I've been a fan. Love Live Joy Division and New Order!!!!

Whether it is 1981 or 2021 Temptation is still a classic.

40 years of New Order and the music is as hot as it was back then, to our enjoyment !!!! Long live to New Order !!!!

Hookie's bass sound is one of the most delicious things in this world. P.s. this song has kept me sane at the end of a relationship.

This is fucking raw. What I hear and see here is a bunch of guys trying to adapt and survive following their friend / lead singer's death. It's something becoming something else. I love this.

Barney still working out the lyrics. Fucking priceless piece of history. For electronic music fans, this is the equivalent to catching the Stones at a Marquee Club gig in '63. Absolutely love this video. Thanks for posting.

This is a work of art. The tentative first half, the halting emotion, the slowly grappling with the audial beauty they had created and then them turning into a well oiled machine by the final few minutes.

Joy Division by another name. Utter genius pride of Manchester. And I’m a Londoner. Hats off to the North.

truly a legendary performance, bernard's botched lyrics, out of tune guitars, and a super early version of temptation, is what created new order

LOVE this song. Gotta share this story.... The year was 1988, I was in high school and heard Blue Monday on the radio and just loved it. So I went to "Record Store" in my local mall and found Blue Monday on a white cassette tape compitation called "Substance 1987". I couldn't wait to hear Blue Monday on my new stereo! I popped in the cassette and it started with Ceremony, then Everything's Gone Green and this track...Temptation. Well, I think the first 4 songs of the album put me in some kind of trance, they were so good and seamlessly went together so well. Perfect for engaging to my high school personality and finding my way in those days. I had a huge crush on this girl, but I was too shy to talk to her "And I've never seen anyone quite like you before" 33 years since that time in my life and THIS album is the album I would take to a desert island if I could only take one. It's still hypnotic. Thank you New Order for producing this amazing music!

People have no idea..how significant or how sad this was in 81.. it was a monumental sound compared to everything else.. so beautiful....

Bernhard sagt in seinem Buch, das es mit diesem Song sowas wie eine spirituelle Verbindung mit den Fans gibt. Ja, stimmt. New Order- ich werde euch immer lieben für das was ihr mir gegeben habt ...

The birth of New Order sound, live

Yes yes yes! Out of all the renditions of Temptation that the band has done (including the original 1982 7 and 12 inch singles, '87 an '98 re-recordings) this one has to be my absolute favorite. There's something just so *innocent* about it, if that makes sense. A few people i know consider this concert to be the one where N.O. stepped out of the foggy and brooding atmosphere of Joy Division; but i consider this specific song to be that moment. The juttering synthesizers, Hooky's storming melodic bass, Bernard's vocals pushing up and out with uncertainty against an absolute juggernaut of an instrumental, it's all there. Even in their appearance, and the stage lighting. It surpasses nostalgia and crushes future expectations into nothing. Shame this version isn't on streaming, or that the whole Taras Svenchenko gig wasn't remastered into a live LP, cause lord knows id buy it in an instant. New Order's my favorite band, and this particular version of Temptation is IMO them at their absolute best

Those Trainspotting peeps have no idea... this song has been a classic forever. And will be forever. So good.

Happiest and saddest song. I love every second of it.

For 10:30 I forgot all about today’s hell hole and remembered what truly is just like Heaven

The sequencer is cracking. New Order always were good at building and layering songs.

Morris is tremendous! Sumner working so damn hard. Hooky and Gilbert lending spiritual support. Whew!!

There’s an air about this performance of both sadness and recovery in-process. Absolutely sublime.

This surely must have been one of the best gigs of all time. I mean, are you all hearing how hard this goes?

Timeless and classically beautiful song!

Best version as far as I concerne. Room for improvisation, so full of life, young and incredible fresh....

It's almost a completely different song. Not sure how much later they recorded it, but it can't have been long. The lyrics changed, Morris' drum fills changed, Hooky's bass changed, and even Barney's guitar parts changed. But it's still Temptation. Astonishing piece of musical history.

Temptation is/was ahead of its time.

This sound was so ahead of its time still a classic dance tune in 2023.

As a young lad in Sheffield, I had Tara Shevchenko bought me on VHS for Xmas by my parents ..This is where it all started for me

Can never get enough of this! Back then and now :)

There are a lot of 80s concert videos that make me wish a had a time machine, but none more than this one!

fantastic song. Played it driving to work this morning and got the required mood lift.

The difficulty with remembering Ian just makes this so much better.

One of the best songs ever! The guitars at 4:24 to 5,50 are just brilliant! At 7:50 to 8,35 the drums are astonishingly good. I imagine 8:47 to the end is what heroin feels like? Sublime, transcendent, magical. This video is such a treat!

This song makes you feel like you're flying...

This is the best new order song and you can’t tell me it isn’t the lyrics the sound the music all fit perfectly it’s like at first glance it’s like you know it’s dancy but the more you listen to it the more it gets sadder and more I guess relatable It’s an important song I listened to

best version of temptation. Truly transcending,

Timeless masterpiece, magnificent live version. ✨💖✨

When Hooky's bass starts to kick in, you know "it's just the start of it all"

My god ! The legend was beginning! Thank you a lot for this piece of art. It's incredible. When my life is too hard i listen your songs and they sustain me and after a few days of this treatment i retrieve the happyness to live.

Definitely one of my favorite New Order songs, it's just so damn good

Saw New Order around the same time as this at the sadly now demolished Plaza Ballroom in Eglinton Toll in Glasgow. A truly magickal experience in every way 👍

Bless these people and Ian for making part of my teenage years soundtrack.

What like most about this is the ad at 5:29. Classic RU-vid _and_ classic New Order. What a treat. 😂 Loved this song since I put Substance on my turntable in 1987. Great, great days 🎉

People who are old enough and lucky enough to have seen new order in their infancy and the raw emotion of every performance are very lucky I am fortunate enough to be a lucky one I love music seen hundreds of groups live but early new order was different level Happy times

Gotta be one my most favourite songs. Love the extended and live versions, such as this, the most.

Live demo. What a gift to the audience.

Been looking for this version for years ever since I saw it on Rage in the 90s. Thankyou! The best and rawest of all of them!

Back they used to literally jam in public. What a band.

I'm from Finland and I must say that during 80's and 90's my religion was Depeche Mode but then there were also 3 perfect groups, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and if we think about New Order they did so many perfect songs that those will stay forever..

I'd like to set my time machine for right there!🌠

I saw them on this tour in Los Angeles and still remember it vividly. I also saw them a year or two later in a roller rink in Orange County CA! Stood right at the front of the stage no problem. Simpler times.

What a gift to have this historic recording from 40+ years ago of this great song.

This is so special to watch and hear! Love this song

Best version!

Of I could give this 100x thumbs up, I would. How on earth this performance is 40+ years old is beyond me. Simply sublime. 😎🙏🏼❤

The Haribo ad, right in the middle, really made this experience complete for me. Cheers.

Hi Future Alex!!!! Have a great day and remember to love yourself and enjoy this song! -From Alex of Autumn of 22.

I lived in NY when the single of this would sometimes get played on the radio-it was so completely different from anything else, and so much better. It came on, and you had a feeling of possibilities for art that had nothing to do with being cool or money-making.

This is a stellar version

Born in the 80s....here in 2023 listening to this early version of one of my all time favourite tracks. Joy Division / New Order were very special indeed.

The last 3 minutes of this are complete and utter perfection

What a start, and what a finish

The song is just so incredibly INTENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks so much a Barney. Just a perfect Job.

80s were filled with innovative artists.

Never thought that back in 94 I'd become fan of one of the greatest bands and my favourite one above all. Regret was my initiation and no regrets from them.

No words, amazing performance brilliant song.

WOW - love the RAWNESS - ty for posting 😀AND got a JD vibe 😀

Wish I could have seen New Order and DMode in their youthful energy!

Best band on earth

If this played in a club today, I would probably be the only one dancing🙃

Watch then perform this live last night in Chicago. Beautiful in all its versions but seeing this video for the first time is transcendent.

What must it have been like in 1981 to hear that music live. Revolutionary at the time for sure 👍 It has stood the test of time, legendary sounds👍

THANK YOU!!! LONG LIVE NEW ORDER!!!!!

Some of Bernards best guitar work, fantastic!😎

Proper trippy at the end! Ace!

Brilliant to the point of perfection! Still listenin' in 2022💙

simply one of the best bands of all time ,RIP ian Curtis. Saw them at selinas back in the 80"s almost spiritual

great times, when the mass culture alone is so full of magic.

This is history material. I'm definitely going to download this and save it somewhere.

gives me chills

Brilliant thanks

Impressive they were able to do this as 20 year olds basically. The song is as good in 2023 as 1996 and 1982.

Love it!😍

Ty ❤ the substance album

Beautiful piece of music. I used to copy Stephen morris drumbeats how I learnt to play drums him and the wonderful Pete De Freitas. 2great drummers from the Norf

...sacred time, sacred song, sacred feeling!!!...

Wow. Amazing.

... they were so compenetrated to reproduce the song they have projected/designed!!!... sacred work!!!...

I remember they wanted to walk off stage with the machines still playing..!

Que Grandes!!⭐⭐⭐ Lo bueno,siempre perdura!!💛💛💛

Possibly the best thing that has *ever* happened in New York City.

NEW ORDER E SEMPRE NEW ORDER NÃO IMPORTA O TEMPO ELES SÃO ATEMPORAIS GRATIDÃO GRATIDÃO GRATIDÃO GRATIDÃO GRATIDÃO

The best band 🥰🥰🥰🥰

I remember first hearing this at The Exit in Chicago in 1982 or 1983 when it was on Wells St. There was so much good music then.

Happy memories BRILLIANT !!!❤

I am blown away.

That characteristic, captivating and enveloping sound of the New Order bass guitar, after more than 40 years, hearing it is still like a trip back in time to those years. In the 80s all the cult UK bands had their characteristic sound, you could recognize a new song on the radio just by the sound of the guitars or bass, in this case Joy Division-New Order, other examples The Chamelons, Big Country, The Jesus and Mary chain, Cocteau Twins, etc., this gave personality to the bands. I still remember when The Cure releases the song In Beetween Days, they copied New Order's bass sound, at first hearing at first everyone said: New Order?

Wacthing from SP Brazil.

Tremendous ending to a classic song!

Thanks. NEW ORDER. ✌😎