New Order/YMMV

• Covered Up -- Rihanna's "Shut Up and Drive" or Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" would be damn fine pieces of original pop ... if they weren't just re-lyriced rehashes of "Blue Monday".
  • The version of Can't Get You Out of My Head that samples Blue Monday is a remix by Fischerspooner.
  • Divine's "Love Reaction" was terrible and a non-hit, but was also specifically written to rip off "Blue Monday".
  • Also, some people don't know the Orgy cover of "Blue Monday" is a cover. That cover is notable because it takes the first two lines of the chorus-less song and creates a chorus out of thin air.
  • Oddly, "Love Vigilantes" has turned into a bit of an acoustic folk standard. Oysterband did it way back in the 1980s, but the flood of cover versions really began with Iron & Wine's 2009 cover for House, M.D..
• Crowning Music of Awesome -- Substance, from start to finish - "Blue Monday," "True Faith," "Bizarre Love Triangle," and "The Perfect Kiss" are especially noteworthy.
  • The original version of Ceremony (on the collector's edition of Movement and the singles discs) on max volume.
• Creator Breakdown -- The grief over Ian's death was the driving force behind Movement; the album is very much laying Ian to rest and the band moving on creatively.
• Epic Riff -- One writer called the intro to "Blue Monday" 'The most recognizable sonic signature of the decade'.
• Fanon Discontinuity -- Goes both ways. Some New Order fans ignore Joy Division, and vice versa.
• Fan Nickname -- Peter Hook is also known as "Hooky". Bernard Sumner is "Barney", after a bootlegged live performance that got his name wrong in the credits.
• Growing the Beard -- The "Everything's Gone Green" and "Temptation" singles, where the band was influenced more by electronica rather than copying the old Joy Division sound.
• Replacement Scrappy -- What many fans think of Gillian's replacement, Phil Cunningham.
• True Art Is Angsty -- While not as dark and depressing as Joy Division, New Order still contains the angst that made New Order such a big hit.