Electro mood-generators Chromatics, who made one of the best albums of this year, have continued their ridiculously productive streak, dropping a brand-new cover of New Order’s wistful synthpop classic “Ceremony.” It’s pretty faithful to the original, but the way it slowly and lazily sprawls out is new. Ida No, singer for Chromatics’ Italians Do It Better labelmates Glass candy, plays guitar. Download it below.
(via Pitchfork)
The Italians Do It Better compilation After Dark II is coming soon.
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new order cover? why are stereogum and pitchfork making the same mistake? it’s a joy division song released in the still album.
It’s a Joy Division “song” but it was a New Order record. JD never recorded it.
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You’re right. I’d even say “Ceremony” sounds closer to a Joy Division song than a New Order song. However, the New Order version was a few months before Still, and is much more widely known than the Joy Division live or early versions. It’s a tricky question. Calling it a Joy Division cover is probably the most accurate option, but either choice is probably alright.
Here’s one: Do you call “Free as a Bird” and “Real Love” Beatles songs or John Lennon covers? What if someone else covers them? (I think the former would be a “Beatles cover” while the latter would be a Lennon cover.)
everyone knows the Clash version of “Police and Thieves” – very few people know that the Clash was covering the Junior Murvin song Police and Thieves. Just because everyone knows this song as a Clash song doesn’t make it a Clash song.
Does anyone call Soft Cell’s “tainted love” a cover? How about Aretha Franklin’s “Respect”? Regardless of the fact that they are technically covers they have become linked to the artists who made them famous. Considering New Order rose from the ashes of Joy Division and “ceremony” was a hit for them, I’d say it’s theirs.
How about we all just stop being pretentious dicks about this?
As someone old enough to have bought ‘Ceremony’ and ‘Still’ when they came out it’s definitely a New Order record. So there.
therefore the next band that covers hurt from NIN will be in fact covering johnny cash. excellent principle.
Correction – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reqQ7DKa_RY
Correction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reqQ7DKa_RY
Nonsense – Joy Division had recorded it as a demo a couple times – even if they didn’t it still doesn’t make it a New Order Song – New Order covered a Joy Division song – period.
Ian Curtis wrote the lyrics, so its a Joy Divison song.
I dont know why you got downvoted. You can defintely distinguish “Ceremony” from everymother New Order single. That has to be Curtis’ input.
Ian Curtis’ lyrics to Ceremony are different than the New Order ones. New Order took the song but could never fully remember or decipher or find Curtis’ lyrics to it so they wrote new ones.
Actually, I’m completely wrong. Forgive me.
You’re the one making the mistake. New Order wasn’t “covering” Joy Division when they recorded and released the song. It may have been in the works, and even performed, while the band was still called Joy Division, but it was finished, recorded and released as a New Order record. Additionally, this is nothing like someone calling “Tainted Love” a Soft Cell song, or any of the other examples given below, as those were bands covering someone else’s work.
If it were the case that John Lennon had come up with most of, say, “Love Me Do” in the late ’50s, would you insist that The Beatles were covering a Johnny & The Moondogs song?
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You’re right. Cars are overrated. It’ll never stick.
Man, that debut album is killer! “Good Times Roll”->”My Best Friend’s Girl”->”Just What I Needed” is perhaps the best 1,2,3 opening in rock history.
Oh, I see what you did there. Never mind.
agreed…
Pretty good justice here. The original is a masterpiece.
This is NOTHING compared to the Galazie 500 version.
Oops, Galaxie 500!
yeah man. I sort of wish they tackled a song from another genre again. They have a great way of transferring covers to their sound. This one was already really close.
Not bad, but my favorite tribute to “Ceremony” = “Sometimes I Remember” by The Pernice Brothers. That one has just the right twitchy energy.
wait wasn’t their album Kill For Love already a whole album of New Order covers???????
sorry. sorry. just kidding.