New Order - Ceremony

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Upon its release did you feel that this was the last hurrah , the sound merely a reminder that 'he' was gone?
Or in the midst of tragedy and shock ,far from a new dawn fading something was happening?

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I thought it was great. Different to Joy Division with its twisting layers of guitar and bass, but reminiscent in some ways too particularly with the deep echoey vocals. Of course, at the time, we didn't know it had already been recorded by Joy Division.

[Charlie O.]

By the time I heard it, Movement was out, so... I kind of discovered JD and NO all at once, as JD hadn't had a huge US presence in real time.

Great record. And such a happy, hopeful-sounding thing - strange to think that this was among Curtis' last songs. (Of course, the b-side was a different story, or rather the same old story.)

[fange]

^Yes, what Charlie said. Love it.

[DarknessFish]

I didn't experience it in anything like real time, I was 5 or 6 when it came out and was mainly listening to Tuvan throat singing, gamelan, and zydeco. However, it's a great, great song, and would've been one of Joy Division's highlights if there were a decent recording of it. It's almost as if there was a step-backwards though with Movement, "Ceremony" fits more as a part of the trajectory that would head towards Power, Corruption & Lies anyway, whereas Movement is a band struggling to shake off the old sound, struggling with direction.

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Great early clip of them doing it. I didn't know Gillian played guitar.

[Johnny Fartpants]

I remember buying the single when it came out, with the gold sleeve. I thought it was wonderful then and it's only got better with age. Those last few lines are heartbreaking when you're in a melancholy mood, knowing what Ian Curtis was about to do shortly afterwards.

I think Ceremony and Leave Me Alone from the Power, Corruption and Lies album are almost two halves of one song. Both beautiful and achingly sad at the same time. It's widely rumoured that Leave Me Alone was one of the last lyrics written by Curtis, but he doesn't receive a writing credit for it, so may just be a myth.

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It's probably just me but does Morris use that drum pattern?!? In too many songs. I seem to hear it alot, like i said it's probably just me.

It has a pleasant flow with a certain navel gazing melancholy to it. I've always like it.