Blue Monday sounded like it was being beamed in from another planet in the clubs in '83.

The band that was spawned from Joy Division after Ian Curtis passed away. This song was massive in UK clubs.

Discovering New Order, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Violent Femmes, Nine Inch Nails, Siouxie & the Banshees, etc. was such a revelation to me in high school. New Wave/Alternative sound was so different. Nothing like it on the radio, which had some rap, but a lot of big hair rock bands and pop like Madonna or Michael Jackson. I became addicted to the local college radio station and 120 Minutes on Mtv. Awesome memories, thank you!

I hear this song, I hit the dance floor HARD! This song is nearly 40 years old and is still an absolute banger of a tune!

When this track first came out, it changed British music. Was everywhere! New Order were Joy Division but after the lead singer died, they formed New Order and this was their first track.

One of the most iconic and ground breaking bands of all time. The first band to make the BASS as the lead instead of the guitar. I would suggest "CRYSTAL" by them which spawned the name KILLERS for the band the KILLERS .

I was a nightclub DJ in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was lucky enough to be performing when this song came out. It was originally only available as a 12 inch single and was in the UK charts with the best part of a whole year. It was quite often played more than once each night and worked well with bands like Joy Division, Gary Numan, orchestral manoeuvres in the dark, depeche mode , blancmange , Ultravox, Human League, Visage, Duran Duran and the cure.

The lyrics are about a person who cynically rejects someone who has rejected him before. Hence "Tell me how does it feel when your heart grows cold?"

Oh man, danced to this so much back in 1983 onwards. Such great times. And well done on spotting the colour coding.

I'm a grandma now but I danced to this song EVERY weekend in college in Cincinnati's Cliftons in the 80's. OMG.😊

New Order are an English ElectroPop group from the 80s, and help pioneered the scene along with Talk talk. True Faith is an aw3some track!

New Order was instrumental in making the dance floor cool again. As others have said they formed from the ashes of Joy Division, themselves a hugely influential post punk/ goth band, after singer Ian Curtis died by suicide on the eve of their first ever U.S. tour. The band had decided when they formed that if anyone left the band for any reason they would break up. They chose to stay together under a new name, and changed the course of dance clubs around the world.

As far as i know the best selling 12" Vinyl record of all time.

Aw man,,thanks for taking me back to 1986,I was 21...a time I'd love to REALLY go back to. Things were so much better then~!!

The Orgy cover of this is actually really good. Its a much different vibe from this, but still a good version. Worth reacting to.

BLUE MONDAY !!!!! Oh these sweet memories of going clubbing and dancing the night away to songs like this classic, and whenever the DJ put this on.... the dance floor got packed in a second.

a classic 80's song that pioneered this style, "Rocket" by Herbie Hancock

YES..all of it💕😹 watching you two dance is everything! This is exactly what the dance floors looked like for this song, everyone flooded the floor, they started saving it for the last song of the night cuz it was so huge ...so add alcohol exhaustion and crazy 80s fashion and yeah that was quite the show lol

I like what you guys are doing appreciating the music I grew up with..I'm 62 and we had and still do the greatest music..another 50 years they'll still be listening to this music..mark my word ..we probably won't be around but it will happen. Keep it up

Saw them live in the 80's. It was a triple bill of New Order, Public Image Ltd, and the Sugarcubes. Great show

Awesome synth pop from the 1980s. Great on the dance floor with the lights and the crowd dancing body to body.

We used to hang out in a hard rock club in Belfast in the early 00s and this still completely went off every time

Manchester,England band,and yes,this IS the original. It has been remixed many times as you can imagine.

Blue Monday. In the day, the dance floor was packed! Fave club tune. New Order is the original band.

I was in junior high from 1983 to 1986...it was an experience....lol...

One of my favorite songs of all time. New Order was the best band of the 1980s, by far.

I've gotten to see New Order live 6 times in my life (and met them in person) and to say this song goes off would be an understatement.... very important band in my life

Hey Guys, The Madonna song you mentioned is a sample from an ABBA song. Madonna’s song is “Hung Up” ABBA’s song is “Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! (A man after midnight)”

Yes the band orgy did a cover of this song in the late 90s it would be so cool if you guys react to it

On the Brad & Lex reaction to this, they kept saying that it brings out your inner robot. And the first thing you guys start doing IS the robot! Love your channel and SOOOO Love this song! If you don't dance to this tune, you're dead inside!

It was the 80s when with just a car with a stereo system, a bottle of vodka and some drugs we had a big party in the street. Other songs you could react to are : «Bizarre Love Triangle» "True Faith" ''Sub Culture'' ''Face Up'' ''Temptation'' ''The Perfect Kiss''

Dance party 😁. Definitely danced to this one when the clubs did new wave throwback nights. “True Faith” and “Bizarre Love Triangle” are some other good ones.

New order were co owners of the Hacienda in Manchester , I had many a very smiley 😊 night in there . The first house venue in the uk spawned rave culture , a fact of the 90s was that football violence was down because everyone was on ecstasy .

You must listen to Joy Division! I suggest "She's Lost Control" or "Love Will Tear Us Apart" or "Transmission"... Ian Curtis was an interesting singer....

New Wave was for the cool people. It filled club floors because we wanted to dance. What a great time to be in your 20’s. 😁

Omg egyption lover....that was way back...boy do i remember the club days fondly

It would've been a rare sight indeed for a mulletted, macho-man glasses fellow to be a New Order fanatic back then... always interesting how context and clique boundaries get "lost" over time!

Orgy did a really great cover of this song. I was really impressed when I saw them play it live. You two should react to more New Order. Also check out Joy Division, the band they were in before forming New Order after Ian Curtis died. Awesome reaction🤘🏼

That was the funniest reaction I’ve ever seen. I needed that laugh lol almost chocked on my Red Bull lol

You (obviously) can’t understand how game changing this was in the early eighties. It was from another planet! F ing amazing!

Historically (and humorously): Blue Monday is the highest selling 12" single of all time BUT due to the costly multi cut out gatefold (record sleeve) done so to look a floppy disk, Factory Records/New Order wound up LOSING 5 British pounds for every copy sold.

Love this song and it's on my playlist for several months since I found it again. Love you guys so much, you look like so much fun to be around and listen to music together. Thank you for being you!

I love that you've got around to Blue Monday. Been waiting for it... To go along side this, you need to have a listen to "West End Girls" by the Pet hop Boys.

You're right, Orgy made a cover of this song. This is the original from 1983.

You're right in each letter having a color/shape code. The album released around the time they released this single (weird practice of releasing singles and then not including them in albums), the amazing Power, Corruption and Lies, has its title spelled out in the color code and there's no name or title in it.

This record was the one that made 12 inch singles a thing. And it cost so much to print the cover, they lost 10 cents on every one they sold. Classic.

Favourite band ever. Seen em. Live 5 times and at the Hacienda in 1985 last time at heaton park in 2021

Such a good song! I went to 80s night at the bar/pinball arcade a few weeks ago and of course they played this one! Everyone was on the dancefloor for sure! Lots of fun cause i grew up in the 80s! Good choice guys!❤️🤓👍

Some of the best episodes of All in the Family are when George Jefferson and Archie Bunker interacted! It would so get cancelled in modern times

Would love to hear you guys react to an Orgy song! Yesterday they posted on up Facebook that it's the 25th anniversary date of their first album release, Candyass. Songs like Stitches, Fiend, and Dissention are so underrated because casual music listeners only remember them for their Blue Monday cover.

This is such a groundbreaking track. Do you know how hard it was to fit in all the samples back in the day? Without this there's no house and no EDM. And it's still a banger 40 years later!

FYI All in the Family was not a black show. Archie Bunker was a bigoted character that learned how not to be over the course of the show. He had a liberal son in law (and daughter), a black neighbor, George Jefferson and encountered transwomen and gay men. A very popular show in the 70's. Maude was another spin off show.

15:05 Hollywood, I think you meant poetic, not prophetic? So after Joy Division singer Ian Curtis committed suicide, the remaining members reformed as New Order. I wish I was around when this came out as I heard it got heavy play in the dance clubs. Also the cover by Orgy? Like me, I know you guys appreciate when someone can take an existing song and put their own particular flavor on it and Orgy definitely did that. Also gotta get to Age of Consent, Bizarre Love Triangle, and one of my favorites, True Faith

I was obsessed with Orgy ; so when they covered the original song, I was so stoked. I've always loved new wave music.

You guys are the bomb!! Especially love the guy in white shirt's energy. Would be a blast to dance with. Gotta play this LOUD!! Danced our a$$es off to this killer song in the day. Will when I'm 80 too!! ♥️

Omg....you two are so awesome....I am 56 years young for my age..and nearly lost it at 9mins over the beatin comment.....love always, dj Tommy Walker, Terre Haute, Indiana...

I saw New Order and P.I.L. in 1989🎉 Great. Show

Used to play this when our daughters were little! 😹 It was “the get up and go” song 🎶

The song by Madonna is called "Hung Up."

Thumbs up for the dancing.

Interesting documentary on the band and scene at the time - which spawned the Nightclub the Hacienda in Manchester. Funny thing, anyone doing the robot or the Egyptian dance is not getting into the club playing this music :)

Thanks guys , memories are flooding back .👍👍👍👍👍👍

Guaranteed to fill a dance floor all over the world from the day of release to now .

This song is the most sold 12" single of alll times, with over 700000 copies sold. I love how they used a Kraftwerk sample in the song, (Kraftwerk - Uranium), and I love that sound of the guitar. edit: a cover of this song was used for the Wonder Woman 1984 trailer aswell

on a dancefloor with a high quality system this track STILL slaps haaaaaaaard

CLASSIC!! So many great covers too! Orgy's was about mid-90s, they were on Korn's Family Values Tour via '98? I think? There's also a slow version from the Walking Tall remake w/ The Rock. If y'all don't plan on reacting to them in future, I'll send them to you, y'all gotta give them a listen!!!!!! 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

Biggest selling 12” single of all time apparently

All in the Family was one of the best TV shows ever.

Great reaction as usual guys!!😎 Another tune from New Order that needs a reaction is True Faith, great video to it as well!!😎😎

Hollywood, I wish you would've been there in the 80's! We needed those dance moves to these types of songs

One of the gems,along with Depeche Mode,Pet shop Boys,Kraftwerk,and Royksopp.I love it !❤

This track is as old as I am (1983. Crazy!), but this classic still goes hard!

Thanks for doing this song! My local Goth community just got hit with some very bad news of a beloved person passing and his wife he left behind who is heart broken... Doing this song means a lot to me right now... This song was actually made bc of Ian Curtis's death.... Look into it. It's very interesting and honestly makes you think of how complicated death is or at least for the family and friends left behind who have to cope with the loss..

The BEST SELLING SINGLE in Music History!.....The GODFATHER of electronic Dance Music !From the Ruins of JOY DEVISION they started NEW ORDER and when this Song came out 1983 !!!!,it changed the music scene forever !!!!.....Orgy did the Cover Version in 1998!....7.25 Minutes,at that time the LONGEST SINGLE ever in British Chart History!!!!!.....but as always,NONE of these Bands would exist without my Hometown Heroes KRAFTWERK !!!!

24 Hour Party People is definitely a movie worth checking out.

You guys NEED to give their album "Substance: 1987" a listen. It'll blow your mind.

Dropped my first ever bean to this tune so it has a big place in my heart…❤

You guys are funny😂. Classic song from New Order. Great reaction 👍

All in the Family. The Jefferson were Archie Bunker's neighbors.

You guys should have been in a nightclub in 1983/84. When this song came on...EVERYONE was up dancing.

When they re-released this in the 90s I was lucky enough to be working at Alexandra Palace and they were on the bill with chemical brothers and Deelite "Goove is in the heat" it was a mad night.

Time goes by was sampled from Abba's Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie a man after midnight :)

In a similar vein...try, - " SAGA - On The Loose ". Great reaction to a very HUGE dance tune back in the day.

Loving Hollywood's dance moves 😂

The Madonna song "Hung up" had elements from ABBA's 1970s song "Gimme Giime Gimme a man after midnight".

Love the dance moves 🤣 reminds me of myself when I listen to this

Are there still Humans out there,who did NOT know this Song ?????

🎶Leeds are falling apart... again🎶

The 12” Single came with the floppy disk sleeve design. Ultimately New Order made a loss with each sold as they refused to compromise with the art work. They are known for their art and music productions. A great band

Dude just imagine being in a dance club mid 80’s and this came on. Every club went insane. Pioneers and legends.

Never got to see New Order, but loved seeing Peter Hook performing this live at a music festival as part of his set. Brings back so many memories - when Top of the Pops was must see TV :) Note, that wasn’t the original music video - which is very trippy. That’s definitely a much more recent lyric video - and I might be wrong, but I think that was a remastered version of the track too as there were a couple of moments where the sound was subtly different to what I expected after hearing this so many times - but that might have been from listening to it on the phone which might have done some of its own reprocessing of the sound.

Respect for you guys for listening first before comment , Epic Band ,tragic but great history.

I love your deep music knowledge Smokey. You seem like a younger version of me. You've got me on the wrassslin' though.

If you want to see a REALLY cool cover of this, look up Orkestra Obsolete's version. All played on antique instruments. It's amazing.

Your silent face by New Order is a must.

that robot dancing was perfection love seeing people vibe to what i grewup on since my dad was playing this. and also you noticed the coilor coordination before i did damn

The only version of this song i knew was organized. This made me think of the revenge of the nerds band.

That guitar riff is like an Ennio's future cowboy western film ost written in 2088.

Not sure anyone had pointed this out but the floppy disk was used because it was what the sequencers used to hold the samples. The art director saw them use the disks and took the idea for the cover from that.

Madonna "Humg up" - ABBA "Gimme a man after midnight".