This is the best version. Gritty, dusty, raw, perfectly balanced... transition chords are more fluid than in later more metallic versions. Timeless. A masterpiece.

One of the most beautiful tunes ever written

I don't know why why this moves me. I could listen to Ceremony all day.

@oceanriver123

Жыл бұрын

Me too.

@heidemonteith

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes I do

@Jjorgorson

6 ай бұрын

Same

@yonasaraujo9933

3 ай бұрын

I am doing that these days.

@brianj4201

3 ай бұрын

Listen to the Joy Division version and then this version. It feels like this version is for a funeral procession and it's beautiful.

The metamorphosis of Joy Division survivors into New Order is certainly one of the most intriguing and haunting of all stories in music. There are miracles here among the tragedy!

@737sunset

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the death of Ian Curtis was certainly tragic. As a child of the 80's New Order is an outstanding band and an important part of memories of my youth. I often wonder what they would have been with Ian Curtis or perhaps they never would've been at all. However, as you said they are a miracle.

@Vini.domingos

2 жыл бұрын

I do like new order pretty much, they do have been one of the greatest bands of 80s. Anyway, I love joy division. And I can hear from them in this song how much they loved joy division too...

@markaguzmanartist630

Жыл бұрын

I know when i started with New Order loved all thier music , then my friend jennifer told me that they started as Joy divission i just had to get all thier early stuff they are fantastic very crearive

@46ASM

Жыл бұрын

But but me joy division whithout Ian Curtis is like Queen whithout Freddy Mercury

@laurentchapalain3098

Жыл бұрын

@@Vini.domingos it because this is the last song made by Joy Division ( Lyrics from Ian C) broadcasted a couple of days before Ian death...and the first single of New Order in March 81.

The greatest single of all time. Need I say more.

@c.1211

3 жыл бұрын

Enough said!👍😃

@dieselfeesul4928

3 жыл бұрын

nope

@vv247

3 жыл бұрын

Agree, I still have my 7"

@kaikister-luka7965

3 жыл бұрын

nay

@Lyndanet

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite New Order Song

It never grows old. The song is immortal- Joy Division is immortal

I watched Peter Hook and the Light last weekend and they played this as their third last song (Transmission and then Love Will Tear Us Apart followed). The way the crowd responded made my heart sing and there was some real sadness and emotion when he sang "where did he go?". Tearing up again just thinking about how Peter sang that line.

@mazrio128

Жыл бұрын

Wow ❤

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, Word 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.

@brianshea4177

8 ай бұрын

Thank you. Such a beautiful song.

@lxdead5585

8 ай бұрын

@@brianshea4177 Sir, I should thank You! I woke up morning, I saw Your comment and I could listen to this great track while I was preparing myself to work. Thank You.

I was 14 when living in a small town in North Appalachia when i I fell in love with this band. Soul warming,thanks.

@trudywretched

4 жыл бұрын

Fell in love is the only way to describe it... you're right... I was a similar age... many many years ago... This band's music means more to me than i can express

@gillesdescoins7271

2 жыл бұрын

Titre de légende

@jumofi

2 жыл бұрын

Almost as you. I was 13. It was 1988.

@btsdancestudio5691

2 жыл бұрын

@@jumofi 17/18 1993 (Was given Substance Double Tape)!

The older I get, the more New Order and Joy Division music grows on me. They were way ahead of their times, not only when it comes to music, but lyrics too. RIP Ian.

Definitely in my top 10 songs of all time.

@SmithsnMoz

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!! Top 5 in my list!

@amyburton566

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! I cannot get enough of this tune!xx

@vectorthurm

2 жыл бұрын

Why so many artists cover it..truest compliment by colleagues!

Nothing brings back those beautiful, ethereal times like this song. Thank you, New Order.

Shivers still to this day. Every single time I hear it!

Je plane à chaque fois ! Quel chef d'oeuvre !!!

I had a fallout with Bernie outside his house in the 90s still one of my favourite bands

My favourite of all time. Amazing, so much lyrical and musical emotion, love the song structure. This is what I consider a perfect song.

The hauntingly beautiful black and white images elevate the sublime music into something overwhelming and cathartic, for me at least. A stroke of genius.

I can feel Ian's soul through this song, and I don't know how to describe it

Barney's meticulous guitar work here made this the supreme send off it was intended to be. Never forgetting Hannett's genius touch here

Those drums too!

This is just an absolute epic tune, omg every time I hear Bernards guitar 👌... beautiful song...

I love New Order so much! Their music brings back so many wonderful memories.

watching love grow/forever.... and ever and ever and ever.....

the best music ever....what a gret tune!

Haunting, elegiac, beautiful.....

I love this song

The greatest version.

This has been my No1 song since I first heard it in 87. Brilliant.

Wetlands are neither land nor water, they are what is in between land and water. Ceremony is that place Joy Division, it is Ian's spirit alive after his death and the remaining members of Joy Division grieving Ian's death but trying to soldier on in the midst of that grief. The reason this so g hits people so deep and so hard is that sooner or later) we all lose something or someone we love and must find our way forward beyond the loss

@mazrio128

Жыл бұрын

Dude thank you. I’m Crying now

@margaretr6847

Ай бұрын

Perfectly articulated

this is by far the best new order song

@huwevans6129

2 жыл бұрын

steady on there brother of kevin

@stevendebruin4902

2 жыл бұрын

@@huwevans6129 i count him as my cousin and go man city

@fabionick4230

Жыл бұрын

This is basically a Joy Division song. They played live with Ian Curtis.

@davesheldon2874

11 ай бұрын

its joy division

I’ve always liked this version the best! There is a certain rawness to the bass and guitar that makes it superior to the later releases IMO.

I just adore this track

Thank you,Ian..never forgotten

What a tune....

I was there ...... I'm still there a majestic tune.

takes me back to their first gig , heaven :-)

beautiful

Ceremony is incredible live it looks like football game match the crowd goes in a frenzy it's sight to behold

@stevendebruin4902

2 жыл бұрын

i dont fuckin care but what is in my head phones and this song is righteous.

❤❤❤❤

My favourite song of all time

Original (order, new)VERSION, FOREVER FOR FOREVER HEAVEN UP HERE THIS TIME

This is an absolute masterpiece. Joy Division were and still are like no one.

first album the best they got to mainstream

I’ve always loved this song. I didn’t realize I was a wee bairn when this song came out.

You can sense the sadness is so real in this song post Ian Curtis's demise thank goodness they kept going to give us gems like this to give us hope

@HeedTheLorax

Жыл бұрын

This is the last song Ian wrote 😢

If only things had tuned out different,RIP Ian Curtis

In the me of JESUS LOVE IT! 💕 💕 😘 💕 ❤️ 💜 MI EPOCA DE JOVEN Y AUN LA SIGO ESCUCHANDO SUPER MEGA BAND NEW ORDER !!MEXICO BAJA

From the Ashes. Came New Order!

Absolutely beautiful, pairs with elegia really well.

Love this version. But, the Rehearsal, with Ian Curtis makes me travel

@jules2713

2 ай бұрын

Check out the AI version if you haven't! Studio music with Ian vocals!

New Order re-recorded "Ceremony" and released it as their first single because they all hated the single that the producer and the engineer had mixed. The guitars were all muted, you can hardly hear Peter Hook's bass, and Ian Curtis's lyrics are almost impossible to decipher unless you know them beforehand. Bernard Sumner had to get a hold of the master tapes and separate out the vocal track, slow it down, listen to it repeatedly, and transcribe it. Ian Curtis hated the single too. So, this is what Joy Division wanted "Ceremony" to sound like, and New Order did it to both honour Ian and to correct the fuck ups of the producer and the engineer. After this, New Order released "Everything's Gone Green," and "Temptation," (the 12" version of which is my favourite New Order song,) both of which were complete departures from the sound of "Ceremony." They re-recorded "Ceremony" for "Substance 1987" and it was radically different to this version. :)

@michaelfenton3923

3 жыл бұрын

Ian Curtis never heard the single version, so i don't know how he could hate it.

@cameroncroft8200

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelfenton3923 I stand corrected. The rest of the band hated the sound of the original version of Ceremony as Joy Division, and so re-record it as their first single as New Order. Bernard Sumner had to separate the vocal track and slow it down, listening to it repeatedly, in order to transcribe Curtis's lyrics.

@microbip

3 жыл бұрын

@@cameroncroft8200 so which is your favorite..this version or the one in the Substance Album. I prefer the latter

@cameroncroft8200

3 жыл бұрын

@@microbip I think I prefer this version. I love the Substance version, but this one is more raw and even though it sounds a bit like Joy Division - I love to think that this is the effect New Order intended.

@microbip

3 жыл бұрын

@@cameroncroft8200 Understood. Thanks for your perspective

Thank you for uploading this. I have a bronze sleeve 7" of this and hadn't heard it in a long time. Great haunting version, much better than the one that appeared on Movement.

彼らの曲でも特に好き アトモスフィアが冷たくて澄んでる

GREATEST VERSION EVER!

@richardswheatley4330

Жыл бұрын

Joy Division’s original is better.

@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp

Жыл бұрын

@@richardswheatley4330 Sorry I love JD more than my first child... But The New Order Version is superior

@richardswheatley4330

Жыл бұрын

@@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp it’s more catchy and more poppy. But it is definitely far from what the writer intended.

@WilliamHBaird-eq2hp

Жыл бұрын

@@richardswheatley4330 I wont debate that as I like both.

all those pictures, how I envy being there, watching such great History written... I wonder if those there realize how lucky they were...

I feel like this is the song I’ll hear as I’m dying....

@geoffaustin9385

3 жыл бұрын

It's the song you will hear getting louder and louder as the gates of Heaven swing open

@amyburton566

2 жыл бұрын

I will take that a step further. I want it played at my funeral.xx

@Fonzbot6650

2 жыл бұрын

This or boys don't cry for me.

@rhalex43

2 жыл бұрын

As one life and one world ends, new ones begin.

@linoportelli8240

2 жыл бұрын

@@amyburton566 It's written into my will :)

Excellently excellent

It is.....heavenly.

We deserved a decent Joy Division recording of this song...

The only song that makes me feel hopeful and hopeless at the same time.

Just amazing as always ❤

Transmission best song ever recorded

Awesome channel ❤

MASTERPIECE

I love this song more than my life :V

Paul. County Laois, Ireland. My darlin'. RIP.🌹

When music sounded genuine and sincere. None of this celebrity bullshit.

@bettyderick1817

2 жыл бұрын

nipsey Tupac, been awhile and it's like music stop,

I found this beautiful rock song in Sophia Coppola's movie "Marie Antoinette"!

The original version was recorded with Ian's voice. After Ian's dead, New Order re-recorded the song with Gillian.

Why did nobody tune the bass? Anyway, what a song.

Wish I could've heard a clean copy of the JOY DIVISION VERSION with Curtis singing lead.

@Skyrilla

4 жыл бұрын

There are three recordings in existence. Look them up.

@SmithsnMoz

4 жыл бұрын

@@Skyrilla .. Yes, but none are clean .

@Skyrilla

4 жыл бұрын

@@SmithsnMoz That's the tragic beauty and mystery of it.

@DaveAnchovies

3 жыл бұрын

Love JD but, imo, the first New Order song. Just prefer Bernie singing it

@Skyrilla

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaveAnchovies Probably because the quality of every other original recording has been gobshite... which came with their own charm and intrigue. I guess you don't understand the magic, or maybe you just prefer clean listening.

Прекрасная композиция, исполнение... Но Иена Кертиса не превзойти, он- уникален! Разносторонне развитая личность, стремящаяся к недосягаемым высотам. Поэт и вокалист со своим видением мира, оригинальной манерой исполнения

@mazrio128

Жыл бұрын

Ian is God

Disponible avec la voix de Ian Curtis sur l'album still (live)

2nd the comment on greatest single ever

The only New Order Song i can hear….

Epic❤

Best version, better only with Ian on vocal

esta canción es especial para la voz de Peter hook, nadie como el para cantarla

It on the rare white verison , as well also with adiffent 12inch mix of a lonely place 👽😎😊

Beauty

Does this version have different lyrics than the final version? I only seem to remember parts of each version.

I LOVE THAT ITS NICE AND BLASTING! NO ONE WANTS TO ROCK IT ANYMORE IT SEEMS BUT ME??? WHY? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE THESE DAYS? ESPECIALLY THE YOUNG PEOPLE? (THEY SHOULD BE ROCKIN IT?? WHAT?) STRANGE OCCURANCE GOINGS ON?? ITS LIKE EVERYONE IS TURNING INTO ZOMBIES OR SOMETHING? ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS WORK AND MONEY AND LIPSTICK OR SELFIES? KIDS GOING TO EXTREMES AND HANGING OFF BUILDINGS AND STUFF FOR SNAP SHOTS??? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THEM?? I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND IT? I LOVE THAT YOU ROCK IT! THANKS FOR THE MUSIC! I LOVE IT FOR SURE!! I'M STILL ROCKIN IT HARD!!! THANKS! D : ) SMILEY! LOVES IT! THANKS! ROCK IT HARD! : ) SMILEY!

I miss Ian.

Thank you Ian, I hate that this band had to die like the floyd.

Beg to differ; songwriting, recording, demo and live original was by Joy Division. And while I’m not 100% sure, I’m gonna make a wild guess and attribute the lions share of this song’s existence to Curtis.

@mazrio128

Жыл бұрын

Facts: Me and you and the band know this.

@mazrio128

Жыл бұрын

We can’t attack Ian’s band mates. Just every other cuck posting .

best

💓💓💓💓💓💔💔💔

❤🎸🎶🌟🎶🎸❤

Interessante que, o New Order começou muito parecido com o Joy Division , e depois obtendo sua própria identidade na voz do Bernard 👍👍

Do you have the link to download Ceremony in the quality of the video?

Lo maximmo

@MrSchalkoholic

5 жыл бұрын

Joyorder!!!

Même dieu n’aurait pas fait mieux….éternité ´pour ce groupe….💔

No Peter took🙀

Not the “original”, in the bootleg recordings of Ian singing this song the lyrics are different

@sappy9320

2 жыл бұрын

they are denoting / acknowledging that this is the original march 1980 recording, and not the second version from september 1980. this is technically new order's original version

Gostly song

I love this song but your title is actually wrong unless you were talking about the 1st the 1st time it was released by new order. You see the band used to go by another name until they had their lead singer kill himself oh because he was dealing with epilepsy andother issue and couldn't handle it anymore. The original version of ceremony was actually put out by a band called Joy Division. It's a slower version of the song but I think that new order did it Justice and think it was pretty cool that they took a song written by the band but song by their mate who was now dead and honored him and honored him by redoing this song in the new band. Pretty sweet

original version ??...sheesh Joy Division (which later became New Order after singer died) did it before that and they redid it....Joy Division has three recorded versions of "Ceremony" in existence. The first is a live version, available on the Still album, from their final concert at High Hall, Birmingham University on 2 May 1980. The second, available on the Heart and Soul four-disc box set is from a rehearsal tape made in April/May 1980. The third is a version recorded at the soundcheck on the afternoon of 2 May 1980. Bernard sang this song but some pictures are of Ian singing - why ??

@drewp.weiner5065

4 жыл бұрын

Original as in the first of two studio records New Order did of this song 🙄

I get the Ian Curtis thing,but he shouldn't be in the footage

@user-dnf83n0s8sg9u

9 ай бұрын

Why? He's a writer on the song

😆😆

not the same without ian...

@anieabeesminjbail6579

2 жыл бұрын

maybe just maybe