This is the Holy Grail as far as I am concerned.

Just from looking at how tired he looks you can see how Steve is basically a drumming machine. One of the best drummers ever

Had this show on vhs in the early 80s. People have no idea what it was like listening to bands like JD/NO back in the 80s. Music was so inaccessible because good music went underground in the 80s in the US. We'd drive to downtown Houston and see layers of mysterious bootleg NO/JD, there werent online catalogs or even anyone to ask what the records were exactly. It lent a deep layer of obscurity and discovery to it, where an underground album from 5 years ago might as well have been a rock record from 50 years ago. Anyone you could find who listened to them was instantly your friend, like a secret handshake. I miss being at the vanguard of something so exciting and exclusive, most people never experience this in anything. Adult life is kind of boring in some ways lol.

*My neighbors liked this song so much they threw bricks through my windows so they can hear it better*

The people in the crowd were witnessing history during this performance

This version is insane. That guitar is magic

This is so good. So ahead of the time. It just worked. Hooky's bass is mesmerizing as always. Barney is wasted. Stephen looks zoned out. You can tell the band is still searching for its identity after Ian's death. The music was so harrowing, yet danceable. You just want to move a body part to this music. That was Joy Division, then New Order. Just amazing music. This is so raw. They played so much. They did it their way. Playing songs live before as they developed them. Then releasing them as singles along the way. Then playing them in different ways live. Never the same gig. Hooky says in the early days, they could just make music all the time. Even after Ian died. They always could make great music. They would come up with whole songs during rehearsal sessions. Just by bringing together what each one had been thinking about and working on. And this is what they would come up with. Music like this. Stephen made a lot of this music. On the sequencers. He's such an amazing drummer and producer. He's where it's at. And the reason Bernard worked as singer is because he never played when Ian sang. He played when the vocals weren't there. Hooky always played when Ian sang. So that remained the same as did Barney's guitar playing. That's how New Order worked. But that's also why they were so different from Joy Division. But still the same at the core.

Mr Morris is a magical drummer.

Hurt. Loss. Pain. Perseverance. In no particular order.

Geezus.. 1981.. I can't even imagine what it was like hearing this.. Did anyone sound like this back then? Almost 40 years on and it still feels edgy, raw... Just fkin awesome..

amazing. Like watching the band transform from JD to NO right in front of you. So clear they're still searching for their new identity but they've clearly broken away from the JD mold.

When I was studying in Leuven (Belgium) in the mid 90s I ordered this VHS in a now disappeared indie record store (Pumpkin Records). Cost me an arm and a leg, and I had to watch it on my parent's VHS player when they were out. . This was pre-internet for the masses, and definitely pre mp3. How times have changed :-)

this is so good.. considering this was 1981.. 35 years ago.. they were so ahead of their time..

If could marry that synth pattern I wouldn’t hesitate to do it

7th time played live, 2nd time with vocals. True birth of New Order. Beautiful!

I've always thought Temptation was the song where they cast off the mantel of Joy Division and became something else. Before this, they were searching for something new and mourning the loss of Ian. After this, they went on to write some classic bittersweet pop songs and eventually became one of the biggest bands of the 80's. Back when they played this in NYC, Barney would sometimes try lyrics out for new songs off the top of his head. Think the immediacy of playing songs live in front of an audience would force him to sing stuff that he wouldn't when he was doing it consciously. Remember him talking about it in an interview back then. [I've been a massive fan since 1980 when I was only 10 years old, because I have a family connection to employees of the band.]

I consume every version of this song that I can get my hands on, and never get tired of it except for covers of course, covers suck. I first heard this song when I was 15, on substance 87, and it perfectly defines my mental state.

Lethal, you can't just let someone come across this by searching KZfaq without a warning 😍

I can’t believe I have just now discovered this live version. It’s so good it hurts.

Welcome to the new wave, 1980s. These guys led the way, cementing themselves as all-time greats in the process

No smile, no tears, just pure pain! Ian Curtis R.I.P!

This is beautiful . New Order at their best .

We saw a New Order gig in the UK in 1984, an amazing night. They finished with Temptation, the crowd of 2,000 went wild. Ahead of everyone else, they created brilliant New Wave tracks, that were also great to dance to..

36 years ago today : ) My favorite New Order performance

Best version. Bernie’s guitar solo is amazing.

waaaaaaay away of their time along with timeless masterpieces. one of the best, most talented bands ever...

Everthing about this music says temptation...dark, chaotic, Brilliant!!

Saw them at Salford University around this time, green and blue lights: mesmerising, almost sacred.

I listen to this song every day.

I love this version of "Temptation" the original, is the best to me. New Order is one of the best live bands too.

EVEN NOW WATCHING THIS LIVE VIDEO, IT APPEARS THAT THE BAND WAS MAKING THE SONG UP AS THEY WENT ALONG....

Seen this gig live. It feels like it was yesterday. Also have the original VHS tape realese. But no equipment to play it.

I went to a bar and was only 15. So I got to see many of the Band's and got many of the Tapes that are now CD'S. I have been very lucky to have my life and would not change it for anything. All the Autographs the awesome times I had the people I got to hang out with. Loved it. 🥰🤘

Hooky during his Hans Gruber phase

this is simply amazing. the fact that it's 1981 makes it even more so.

Barney's like a man possessed here. Fucking momentous

i've always thought the studio versions don't capture it adequately. this 'tavas shevchenko' live video version is my favourite by miles. it's a yearning song and the "i've never met anyone quite like you before - it's the last time/it's the first time" in this is still a gut punch after all these years.

EPIC version

this is soo guud! been listening like once a week for a year, no kidding!!

Here's what I think the lyrics are People hate people like you People hate people like you People hate people like you Up, down, turn around Hit the floor, hurt the ground Tonight we're gonna be alright Tonight we're gonna get uptight Up, down, turn around Hit the floor, hurt the ground Tonight we're gonna... People hate people like you People hurt people like me Bolts from above hurt the people down below Bolts from above hurt the people down below Bolts from above hurt the people down below Bolts from above... Three ways, four ways, anyway you hit the floor Three ways, four ways, hit the door Three ways, four ways, anyway you hit the floor It's the last time, it's the last time Oh, it's the last time Oh, it's the last time Oh, it's the last time Oh, it's the last time Oh, up, down, turn around Hit the floor, hurt the ground Oh, up, down, turn around Hit the floor, hurt the ground Oh, up, down, turn around Hit the floor, hurt the ground Tonight's gonna be alright And I've never met anyone quite like you before No, I've never met anyone quite like you before No, I've never met anyone quite like you before No, I've never met anyone quite like you before It's the first time Oh, it's the first time Oh, it's the first time Oh, it's the first time Oh, it's the first time Oh, it's the first time Oh, it's the first time And it's going away It's going away around the bend

THE GREATEST NEW WAVE DANCE SONG EVER! I DARE YOU TO DANCE TO THE ORIGINAL 1982 VERSION ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND NOT END UP DRIPPING SWEAT BY THE END! I'M SO GLAD THEY CHANGED THE LYRICS FOR THE SEMINAL 1982 VERSION

I will not say this again: "This is so sweet!"

still, and aways my favorite

For decades I thought this song was telling me I'd be alright. And then my now-ex "left" me (he of the blue/grey/green eyes, who I loved and still do love so damned much), and I'm finally needing to accept the song as an awesome thing in and of itself even as accepting it was not a mile marker for me and my own life, a portent or sign.....but just an inspired and awesome song despite the fact it had (apparently temporary) special meaning to me. What an awesome song......I hit the ground, i did.....but I bounced back! Though I admit it still hurts that my then-all now-ex has inevitably said uncountable times (to her, not me) "oh I've never met anyone quite like you before"....... Good for her.....but I was so....unspeakably happy when I thought those words from his mouth meant me.......

Is there a better performance by anybody????!!!!!!!! Staggering!!!!!

joy division goes proto goth disco AMAZING EARLY VERSION NEW ORDER F O R E V E R.

Really glad things like this were documented and recorded, I think even though there's not a lot of late 70's Joy Division footage floating around, we're fortunate to have a vast amount of concert videos of New Order from the early and mid 80's, which makes me happy :)

the riff at 4:25 is the greatest thing I have ever heard ...

Ésto es muy fuerte... emoción pura. registro histórico. Gracias.

Just fantastic

I love the drum machine on this version and the first seconds at the beginning remind me Terminator's theme haha, awesome this footage is a treasure

Absolutely fantastic, still have the Taras Shevchenko VHS and the version of Everythings Gone Green still blows me away.

I have the DVD of this. Glad to see it here.

Con este video he visto la transición de JD a New Order... Excelente! Amé esta versión de Temptation (más que las siguientes) ❤️🌹

Birth of 80s 90s 2000s music raw authentic and original! Wish I had been there? Seen them in 1983 at hacienda so probably should be happy?!

New Order was great, Timeless party and driving music. RIP Ian..

Perfect Bernard ❤

I remember hearing this version for the first time many years ago. "Temptation" had already been my favorite New Order song ever (as I remains today) and was pleasantly surprised that the music was nearly same; just the lyrics had to be tweaked; which they were several months later.

Stephen Morris (the drummer...and more) writes about this performance in Volume II of his biography 'Fast Forward, Well worth a read, along with Peter Hook' 'Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division' and 'Substance: Inside New Order'.

i love this versionnn!

Simple the Best sound when you need it in your life.

Wonderful!!!!

They all look so young....apart from Hooky! Thanks for posting. All these years of following NO and this was the first time I've seen this footage.

Brilliant . . . thanks uploaders.

This is a gem! Thanks for posting. I would love to see the entire set.

Oh wow, thanks for posting this.

BRILLIANT.

Thanks for sharing. They have done something to the sound on this my VHS copy never sounded this good. The video was my 'main' present one christmas. Not complaining mind, definitive version for me.

great upload!!

Brilliant.

At 4:26 Bernie ... Really kicks in and gets more JD than NO..

Вы прекрасны, как боги, New Order

Oh my god, just to relive some of the music of my youth, such great times. The Clash at SUNY Binghamton, Oingo Boingo opening for The B52’s, and the Go Go’s and the Flock of Seagulls.

wonderful !

Tremendo. Emocionante! Sludos y gracias desde Bariloche,Patagonia Argentina.

beautiful.....!!!!

Love this live version 😊

Very interesting version.

This is so sweet...

This needs an "outro-loop"!

Simplesmente fodástico!!! Em 1981!!!!

This is so sweet

Great song

41 years, raw and awesome.

They played in Toronto, this past summer... What can I say but " BRILLIANT "... our children bought us tickets... love it.. xo I do have live video if anyone is interested.

1st time I heard this song it because my favourite song of all time, the energy I felt as I danced to it in 1982 took me away from reality for a few minutes.

these dudes haven't even seen the dark crystal yet!

whoa awesome track and I'm into Taboo and 7 is my lucky number along with all its multiples..

Esta cancion es perfecta

from 8:52 until peter hook take off his bass, crazy bass sounds and echoes

This was the first tour after the death of Ian Curtiss.

My favorite song…period. While the Substance version is my preferred version, the different direction the guitar solo takes at 5:15 really works for me. Really drives home the melancholy feel of the whole song through some utterly gorgeous lyrical guitar work. Wish they would work this bit back into one of the live tours.

Kansas,1977, my first concert, Boston, Foreigner.

The best song ever, New Order adelantados a su tiempo por mucho...

5:05 it all comes together and you can hear the evolution of the band

Very enjoyable find, seems that the lyrics weren't fully formed or fleshed out, but the groove/ instrumental in tact. Love the gurgling synths, probably my favorite New Order song... Temptation

Oh, the good old days of NO's humble beginnings well before egos got in the way splitting them up -- Hooky versus the other three (or The Other Two and Bernie). What a shame.

I like how the drum machine was playing truth at the beginning and triggering the synth, you only had a couple patterns you could save and Depeche Mode used it for their first few shows.

OBRA MAESTRA.. SOOLOVECOOLMUSIC