New Order “Blue Monday”

One Song

Hartbeat

Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Onesong, Comedy, Music

4.9 • 876 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This time on One Song, Diallo and Luxxury dig into the biggest selling 12 inch single of all-time: Blue Monday, by New Order. The guys break down how the song was created, its surprising disco influences, and one of the most nonchalant vocal performances ever recorded.

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0:00.0	I'm actor, director, writer, and sometimes DJ Diallo Riddle.
0:05.0	And I'm producer DJ and sometimes guy on TikTok who whispers interpolation.
0:09.0	Luxury.
0:10.0	And this is one song.
0:14.0	The show where we deconstruct and celebrate some of your favorite songs from the past 60 years in music history
0:20.0	and tell you why
0:21.4	they deserve one more listen. We promise you'll never hear these songs the same way again.
0:29.8	D'all, how have you been? I've been going back and listening to Chuckie Booker Games, which is the
0:37.0	song that Mark Morrison used for Return
0:41.5	to the Mac.
0:46.1	Okay.
0:46.9	And what's funny to me is that...
0:48.5	Is a sample?
0:49.3	It's a sample, yeah.
0:50.3	And first of all, the Chuckie Booker music video is insane. Like, it's got so many early 90s music video tropes, like, girl standing by window while the curtain blows. Like, it's just got some really great 90. Yeah. Some great. But, like, I would encourage listeners to go back and discover Chuckie Booker's games because it is a phenomenal song and it's
1:12.7	one of those rare instances where the song
1:14.6	that sampled it sampled it only like three
1:16.7	years later. Oh wow. Like it wasn't that
1:18.6	much like it wasn't in the
1:20.6	world for like 20 years like it typically
1:22.6	it was like three years later. I wonder
1:24.5	Chuckie, I mean did Chuckie Booker get paid?
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