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Ceremony (4:22)

Cover of Substance 1987

From Substance 1987 and 38 other releases

Written by Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris & Peter Hook.
Produced by Martin Hannett.

Released February 1981 on Ceremony.

Notes The first New Order track though actually written in the last days of Joy Division. The first version of ‘Ceremony’ was recorded as a 3-piece in September 1980 during New Order’s first US tour. They later re-recorded the track with new member, Gillian Gilbert, which was released in July 1981. The original 3-piece recording is only to be found on the 2005 New Order retrospective Singles. A live version by Joy Division is on the album Still and it’s very rough demo is found on the JD box-set Heart and Soul.
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  • Gabrielavstrz

    The beggining of a new era.

    9 May 4:23pm Reply

  • mroberts60

    so good

    9 May 12:37am Reply

  • DxKnight

    damn so good

    3 May 7:42pm Reply

  • yourhandwriting

    this is what heaven sounds like

    1 May 6:20pm Reply

  • Ezekiel22

    Lovely.

    24 Apr 2:21pm Reply

  • blackcordelias

    possibly my favourite song ever ever ever

    22 Apr 7:50am Reply

  • lococz

    reminds me of my past life

    20 Apr 6:09pm Reply

  • nenhures

    It knocks me down

    4 Mar 10:52pm Reply

  • tomrud73

    one of the best!

    4 Mar 8:58pm Reply

  • Flood25

    bought it on vinyl that time...omg, how time slips away...;)

    26 Feb 11:39pm Reply

  • Davey_UK

    This is a classic! radiohead didnt do a bad cover of this still nothing beats the original

    26 Feb 6:40pm Reply

  • gonzeaux

    Heaven knows it's got to be this time... one of you mentioned that there have been a lot of covers, the Galaxie 500 does it for me. Nice calm memories of walking around my old uni campus at night to that track. Of course the original is wonderful too, it's such a great song. That's all I can say about it really, when a song is this great it doesn't matter who's playing it. Thank you, New Order.

    26 Feb 4:12pm Reply

  • keithhorner1

    This does feel more like a Joy Division song than a New Order one!

    9 Feb 1:08pm Reply

  • Deeecember

    всегда когда слышу эту песню, по коже мурашки

    1 Feb 7:05pm Reply

  • marianalops

    this is the most beautiful song i have ever heard...

    29 Jan 6:05pm Reply

  • kissmenumb

    love this, so beautiful and heartfelt

    17 Jan 12:02pm Reply

  • Ectopants

    This song is perfect. I can't think of anything I would add or take away from it. There have been lots of covers over the years, some of them pretty good, but it's impossible to improve on this.

    13 Jan 7:50am Reply

  • chadhilton

    thanks ian

    13 Jan 6:31am Reply

  • Reginatz

    ...einfach nicht wegzudenken, semplicemente impossibile immaginare

    7 Jan 4:29pm Reply

  • raffy_rillo

    Heaven knows it's got to be this time.

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