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“Crystal” was the first single to be released from the 2001 New Order album Get Ready, which entered the UK charts at number 8.

Backing vocals for the track are provided by Dawn Zee, who regularly tours with the band.

The song is tuned flat. Whenever New Order performs this song live, the song’s key is a semitone up.

Singer/guitarist Bernard Sumner originally gifted the song to German record label Mastermind for Success and it was recorded by label artist Corvin Dalek. However, DJ Pete Tong heard the song and declared it to be the best New Order single since “Blue Monday”, leading Sumner to reconsider the gift and have New Order record and release it.

A special version was also released that featured classic New Order and Joy Division songs from the Reading Festival, 30th August 2001. It also includes a brand new cover.

The single was B-sided by a variety of remixes, and an original song titled “Behind Closed Doors”.

At Moby’s 2001 Area One concert, Billy Corgan joined New Order and sang backup vocals on this song.
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  • Get Ready
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  • Singles
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  • Singles (disc 2)
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  • International
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  • MartinCQuet

    This used to make regular appearances on my college radio show circa 2001, The Technicolor Lemur Experience.

    March 2012

  • jeff_stover

    Great track

    March 2012

  • Anti-Pretty

    saweet...

    March 2012

  • emmachino

    this song fills me with an intense nostalgia that no other song can really compare to. and this tune is of course amazing.

    February 2012

  • gabystarlight

    <3

    February 2012

  • Purefrost1

    Very nice...

    January 2012

  • miltonvr

    se escucha muy ruidoso para este gran tema

    January 2012

  • strom-z

    wow haven't heard this in a while and it's so good!

    January 2012

  • Piewl

    pier.. i know that feeling.. I used to skateboard to this song when I was 13.. <3

    December 2011

  • pier007

    I was 16 then. I fucking love driving with this song on.

    December 2011

  • masodikgalamb

    that fucking intro

    November 2011

  • aena_

    LOVE LOVE LOVE !!!

    November 2011

  • aena_

    gosh.. can watch it endlessly

    November 2011

  • JerryZola25

    great track - great album

    November 2011

  • Rinetzko

    Such memories...My teenage theme. Wow. 'I don't know what to say, you don't care anyway.' Such power...

    November 2011

  • tonialouwho

    I KNOW THIS VOICE ANYWHERE I GO...LOVE NEW ORDER

    October 2011

  • thetrogg

    keep it coming

    October 2011

  • paintforfun

    A perfect pop song.

    October 2011

  • robertosaez

    Tremendo Tema!

    September 2011

  • caught_777

    Some of the best memories of my life come along with this songs and it also has the power to come back to me always in the right moment, always when I need it... so fuckin' great, maybe one of the most important songs of my life!! Thanks for this masterpiece, New Order!!

    September 2011
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