NEW ORDER (JOY DIVISION) BLUE MONDAY RARE SEALED ORIG '83 ROUGH TRADE 12" SINGLE

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173

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·       NEW ORDER – BLUE MONDAY c/w THE BEACH - ORIGINAL BRITISH PRESSING - ORIGINAL 1983 FACTORY RECORDS 12" STEREO SINGLE FACTUS-10

·       ORIGINAL U.K. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·       BELIEVED TO BE PRESSED ON THE ORIGINAL BLACK FACTORY LABEL WITH SILVER PRINT

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.K. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL DIE-CUT COVER.

·       COVER HAS A NIFTY 'HYPE' (ADVERTISEMENT) STICKER STILL AFFIXED TO THE SHRINK WRAP (ONE ON EACH SIDE).

·       Original die-cut cover with thick silver inner sleeve, with color coding on one side. The colored strip is not random:- it spells out the Catalog#, band name and both song titles; the back cover of "Power, Corruption and Lies" has the same color coding, done with the alphabet (a decoder ring).

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 5.

(?PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get. GUARANTEED!)

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1. “Blue Monday” is about Monday, May 19, 1980, the day that the three surviving members of Joy Division learned that singer Ian Curtis had hung himself. The Happy Mondays’ name was conceived as an antidote to that.

2. The track was designed to be played on autopilot. Because New Order hated doing encores, they wanted to concoct a track that could be played by machines so they could get backstage and start drinking sooner.

3. The song contains a mistake: Gillian Gilbert accidentally left out a note while programming everything into her keyboards so the melody is out of syncy with the beat. But the result was too much of a bother to fix. And besides, it sounded pretty good.

4. The song features a then-new sampler called an Emulator 1 for use on the song. Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris learned how to use it by recording farts. You heard me.

5. The keyboard sounds on the long extro were sampled from a track called “Uranium” on Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity album from 1975.

6. The band was blitzed on acid for some of the sessions: Once they got their parts down, the producer and the engineers sent them across the street to a pub so they could work in peace.

8. This quickly became the biggest-selling 12-inch single in history, moving well over 3 million copies worldwide.

9. However, thanks to a wildly ambitious bit of expensive packaging, New Order and Factory Records lost 30 pence on every copy that was sold.

10. It seems like there are about 8 million different versions and mixes of the song.

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               THE RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE SINGLE IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ?click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)          The record comes in its original, custom, inner sleeve, which is UNIQUE to this record

(c)             The record is apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type), vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                               THE COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ?SHRINK WRAP (PERFORATED, LOOSE-FITTING PLASTIC BAGGY)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine (nothing significant)

-        Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease) in one of the corners.

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER

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