I thought of you @howard when YT tossed this into my feed this morning. Hooky makes a brief appearance around 8:35.
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love the DMX. GForce makes a really good plugin version.
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I have it. 
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Wow, that was a lot, all the way back to Bach!
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It took me two days to watch the video, but now I did.
I listened to this song at least 2-3 times per week on various parties I went to during all of the 80s and it was just too much.
Couldn’t listen to it for many years and then again, when it played somewhere unexpectedly, in the 90s, 2000s and even later, it immediately brought me back to the 80s.
But in general, I avoid the song, cause: heard to often! In fact, this might be the song I have heard most in my life.
So … this was a very interesting video.
I remember why I did not like it at first (as I thought: “how can the band that was once Joy Division become such a lalala disco band???”) and liked it very much at the same time (as I listened to disco and especially P-funk before I went 100% punk and wave).
This video got me in the “I like Blue Monday” mood again (for the thousands time :-))….
Also: I just realized what a classic this is. Made in 1983 and it still feels fresh to me (though I’ll hate it tomorrow again, probably).
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Thank you for posting this video! It was even more interesting than I expected! Cool!
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I’ll never forget the first time I heard it, in a club while underage, in maybe ‘84. It changed my life, right then and there.
I still listen to it all the time, and Hooky’s spaghetti western bass in it was one of the first bass riffs I figurred out how to play back in the ‘80s, on my bandmate’s bass.
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Did you know Joy Division before or after you heard Blue Monday?
I think it makes a huge difference, if you have listened to Joy Division before, which was always dark and melancholic … and then listening to an upbeat Blue Monday by virtually the same band.
Joy Division was much more than a band in their time (and after). Their music was soundtrack of the life for many “no future” people I knew, especially end of the 70s, beginning of the 70s. It was part of their life (style).
Personally, I felt betrayed at first by New Order at first … but of course, it’s a great track, once you get over it…
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After, and I immediately became a huge fan
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Probably a heretic, but I always liked Orgy’s version better….
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The Smiths did it better 
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I’d rather hear New Order cover How soon is now.
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Hey, that was really good, thank you.
Post a link if you don’t mind.
Sorry, it was joke.
There are some songs which should never be covered, mainly because they form memorable points in my youth:
Kate Bush – Running up that hill (but generally anything by Kate)
The Jam – Eton rifles
Elvis Costello – (I don’t want to go to) Chelsea
Ultravox – Vienna
Yazoo – Don’t go
Queen – Bohemian rhapsody
The Police – King of pain
Big Country – Wonderland
Joy Division - Atmosphere
I did however Google ‘New Order cover How soon is now’ and a couple of hits came up, I watched t.A.T.u.’s version and the first comment was ‘listening to this literally ruined my morning’.
Whatever you do, don’t watch this:
t.A.T.u. — How Soon Is Now (Official HD Video) - YouTube
It’s kind of an exception to the rule but The Light’s cover is amazing. Guess who Hooky brought in for it?
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Not convinced but I am going to see Hooky for the second time in July, as he is playing Britfest (in a field at the bottom of the village I live in). The last time was in the 1970’s.
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I last saw him around ‘89. Got to hang out with him and Rob Gretton backstage
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I’d be ok if everyone stopped covering Gary Jules version of Mad World. Gary nailed it, but that doesn’t mean that there’s still not some potential out there;
Which is not the original but a cover 
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