Ceremony (by Joy Division/New Order): General Info
Member Since
9/2/2007
Band Members
Ian Curtis (Vocals), Bernard Sumner (Guitar), Peter Hook (Bass), Stephen Morris (Drums)
Sounds Like
Joy Division/New Order
New Order - Ceremony
New Order - Cremony (Live at NYC appearing on the Taras Schevchenko VHS and on the 316 DVD) this was the first time that NO played a JD song
New Order - Ceremony Live 1984 at Barcelona
New Order - Ceremony Live At Finsbury Park 9th June 02
This is a tribute space for the best song ever written, of course by Joy Division, and later performed by New Order. The history of this song begins at the last days of joy division, actually the last song written by Ian Curtis, JD only had recorded this song twice, the first one is a crappy demo where the music rolled the main paper on the song and Ian's lyrics are not perceptable, the second one is the STILL's version recorded live in Birmingham University on May 2nd 1980, the engineer that night mixed the vocals far too low for the first half of the song, making Ian Curtis inaudible and thus ruining one of only two recordings the band made of the song.
A year later after Ian's Death New Order finally recorded the song in studio, in March 1981, the first version of "Ceremony" was released on Factory Records (FAC 33). Martin Hannett (Joy Division's producer) produced the record. Peter Saville designed the sleeve graphics.The 7" record was issued in a stamped gold-bronze sleeve. The 12" sleeve was a completely separate design: typography on a green background. In September 1981, "Ceremony" was re-recorded. Gillian Gilbert played keyboards on the recording, just before she formally joined the group. Martin Hannett produced the record. The single was re-issued as a 12" only in September 1981 with the same catalogue number (FAC 33).The sleeve (pictured) was changed to a light cream with a vertical blue stripe, though with the same motif and typography as the original 12" single. After supply of the re-designed sleeve ran out, copies of the originally-designed sleeve were re-used.[citation needed] Accordingly, the two versions of the song were packaged indisciminately in the original sleeve. However, the run-groove notation (phrases pressed onto the vinyl) differ according to the version. The original says "Watching love grow forever".[citation needed] The re-recording says "This is why events unnerve me".[citation needed] Both phrases are excerpts from the lyrics in "Ceremony".There are significant differences in the recordings. The original is approximately 4:34 in length while the re-recording is 4:23. The original has a much more "Joy Division" sound, with throbbing bass, distorted guitar, spacy vocals, and solid drums also contributing a wash of cymbals.In the re-recording the bass is diminished, cymbals restrained, and the vocals are "drier". The guitar has a sound typical of that used on the album Movement. Drum hits in the opening verse are dramatically panned in the mix. There is a greater contrast between verse and chorus, with the latter sections reaching some of the emotional pitch of the original.The re-recorded version was used on all subsequent compilations until the 2005 compilation Singles
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