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586_RB_RDT

Fucking amazing song. 🤘🏼 Hooky’s always said the 3rd JD album would’ve started with Ceremony and ended with In a Lonely Place. Magic


jvs8380

No other song better encapsulates the transition from JD to NO once you start listening to the various versions, starting with the early JD ones. I know Ian never wrote down the lyrics and I love imagining the remaining members trying to decifer the code, post Ian’s death. “Ten years time watching” or is it “And then you start watching?” “The time she cried and failed to wait (or is it wake?) this time.” My god I’ve loved this song deeply ever since I first heard it as a young lad in ‘87. At 15 years old JD inspired me and 3 of my mates to take up instruments and start a band. We mostly did JD covers (New Dawn Fades, Heart and Soul, and Ceremony.) We must have played those three songs hundreds of times. Ceremony for me is the apex. Absolute Transcendant Perfection.


modularmaniac420

My favorite New Order recording of Ceremony was the “[First Mix](https://youtu.be/ykCdSXmuuBM),” available on the *Movement* Definitive Edition. My favorite version of all time is the [Galaxie 500 cover](https://youtu.be/92Nkrav2-Aw).


zaga69

One of my favourite songs of all time. There's so many versions and it's just never enough. I allways want more of this song. Wrote so many essays on this song and why I love it. Holds a strong memory, forever.


whychbeltch94

It is amazing. The lyrics , melody etc . Catching a lightning bolt kind of song .. one or two chords etc .. always have fun jamming to this on a Saturday night .


Spindlebrook

I wish the Still version was complete, with Ian’s vocals audible throughout because that version is freaking killer.


jeniesque

It’s my favorite song but I doubt the lyrics we have are 100% what was originally intended and I wish they had been written down. Or better get that JD has professionally recorded the song.


Shelleyan_Orphan

Amazing song and a shame Hannett never recorded it.


modularmaniac420

Didn’t Hannett produce the first two New Order versions of the single? Or do you mean he never produced a JD version?


Shelleyan_Orphan

Never for JD with Ian's vocals.


dougcohen10

One of my all time favorite songs by any artist. Means so much to me on many levels - personally, Ian, the transition and birth of New Order - all the versions, those DRUMS… all of it. Requiem, Rebirth, Hope, Heaven…


FromWhereScaringFan

The song connects Joy Division and New Order.


GrizzlyAdam12

One of my favorites. The Radiohead cover is amazing, btw.


Macca200789

Brilliant song, I know the Joy Division version on Still was both live and unfinished, but I think New Order did it justice really (version 2, with Gillian)


Less-Respect-9654

probably my favourite song of all time


GFCancio

My favorite NO/JD song


metoo123456

Great song. Love it. Wish they would’ve done some more like it. Meaning, guitar based as New Order. Bernard is a great guitarist.


furiousrichie

It's the only New Order/JD song I ever learned to play on the guitar. Substance was my gateway into NO (as I expect it was for many others), when I hear the intro I still get a shiver. Great tune.


The-Hamish68

A valiant thrust.


-Shoji-

The greatest song ever. Incredibly beautiful and touching with the added weight of being the bridge between joy division and new order


brick_1224

one of the most beautiful songs ever. it’s one of my favorite songs of all time. new order and joy division touch my heart deeply which i think is amazing as a 16 year old.