Blue Monday

Statistically, this is the "grimmest and hopeless Day of the year." Blue Monday.

Do you know how many times I had to sing this stupid song at Tower Records? Do any of you remember Tower Records? It was a shining edifice of Musical nirvana, well before Nirvana. The Yellow and orange Roof, the stacks of cassettes, Vinyl, and later, CDs... most everything from every genre of music could be found. Alas, Tower went the way of most mom and pop stores, knuckled under by the deep discounters, and the all-in-one stores like Borders and Barnes & Nobles. Asking the retailers at these stores for a particular song is worse than pulling teeth with a Jeep.

Anyway, back to New Order's "Blue Monday." Nowhere in the song does it say, "Blue Monday." Quite irritating. Of course, once you knew that, many of the other song titles made sense. From the manufactured drum machine / clap track, to the synthesized backup chorale, this song was all about the 80s. And as I covered earlier, not all about the 80s was good.

This song was amazing to dance to, however. Every club I went to, this song would pack the dance floor. Never mind that no one knew the name of the song for about a year. Never mind that everything but the vocals was done off a MiniMoog, a Casio Drum Machine and a Roland Keyboard. never mind that no one had heard of the Band... it was a song, it had a great driving beat, and pretty much sounded like parts of every other song.


"...How does it feel when your heart grows cold?"

Interesting.
-om