Its about splitting up with a girl because he's had enough of her treating him badly.

What exactly is "Blue Monday" about?

First time I read the thread, I thought it was "Blue Movie". never mind...

In Denmark "Blue Monday" is the day after Conformation, when the young people go out to celebrate their entering into adulthood

In Denmark "Blue Monday" is the day after Conformation, when the young people go out to celebrate their entering into adulthood
A Monday which none of the young people remember.

What exactly is "Blue Monday" about?


Blue Monday is a common term for washday in the 1930s in the United States. Prior to 1937, laundry was primarily done once a week, by hand. See Good Housekeeping, October 1940, page 105, "The Weeks Washing."

Hope this helps.

Before we had modern laundry detergents with optical brighteners, there was a mysterious little blue bag which was stirred around in the final rinse water on washday. This was laundry bluing or blue. A factory-produced block was the "modern" (mid-19th century onwards), commercial version of older recipes for whitening clothes, with names like stone blue, fig blue, or thumb blue. It disguised any hint of yellow and helped the household linen look whiter than white.  Look up, for example, "Rickette's Blue".  This was called "Blueing".

...but you haven't lived until you beg, borrow, steal, or otherwise get yourself a copy of the "Substance Abuse Mix", and/or the "Re-Ordered" mix.  One's 7:12ish, the other's 9:40ish.  Same song, same samples, just a mix with a slightly-different vocal track.

Both mixes came from DMC (Disco Mix Club) DJ mix service, in 1986.  DJ Dakeyne did 'em.

What makes these mixes distinctive is that they feature dozens of samples from about 30-40 years of movies, music, and pop culture.  Guest appearances by Betty Boop, James Bond, Peter Gunn, Dirty Harry, and Bugs Bunny.  Guest performances from Yello, to Tchaikovsky, Kraftwerk, the Beatles, Danny and the Juniors makes an appearance.  Furthermore - and almost uniquely in sampling-based music - nearly every sample has at least *something* to do with the next one.

Quite probably the high point of sampling culture, before it was shut down by RIAA/MPAA lawyers.  You could spend hours  digging through it to figure out where all the samples came from.


Heh! Reminds me of my piss-poor DJ-ing days when I used to drop 'Do-Re-Mi' from The Sound Of Music soundtrack into the intro...

No-one was impressed then!

...but you haven't lived until you beg, borrow, steal, or otherwise get yourself a copy of the "Substance Abuse Mix", and/or the "Re-Ordered" mix.  One's 7:12ish, the other's 9:40ish.  Same song, same samples, just a mix with a slightly-different vocal track.

Both mixes came from DMC (Disco Mix Club) DJ mix service, in 1986.  DJ Dakeyne did 'em.

What makes these mixes distinctive is that they feature dozens of samples from about 30-40 years of movies, music, and pop culture.  Guest appearances by Betty Boop, James Bond, Peter Gunn, Dirty Harry, and Bugs Bunny.  Guest performances from Yello, to Tchaikovsky, Kraftwerk, the Beatles, Danny and the Juniors makes an appearance.  Furthermore - and almost uniquely in sampling-based music - nearly every sample has at least *something* to do with the next one.

Quite probably the high point of sampling culture, before it was shut down by RIAA/MPAA lawyers.  You could spend hours  digging through it to figure out where all the samples came from.


I have the shorter version but heard the longer version on Hot Mix back when they came out.  Wish I had the 9:40 version.  I could probably re-create it mixing in vocals from the original.

I also have the "Re-Situated" DMC mix of Yazoo's "Situation" which also had samples-o-plenty that had *something* to do with the next...from The Young Ones to The Human League and Madness to The Addams Family.  Good stuff.

Heh! Reminds me of my piss-poor DJ-ing days when I used to drop 'Do-Re-Mi' from The Sound Of Music soundtrack into the intro...

No-one was impressed then!


Damn, that coulda worked!  Just playing at the wrong club. :)


I have the shorter version but heard the longer version on Hot Mix back when they came out.  Wish I had the 9:40 version.  I could probably re-create it mixing in vocals from the original.

I also have the "Re-Situated" DMC mix of Yazoo's "Situation" which also had samples-o-plenty that had *something* to do with the next...from The Young Ones to The Human League and Madness to The Addams Family.  Good stuff.


The 15 seconds where they mash it up (some 20-odd years before "mashup" enters the vocabulary) with the Arthur Baker remix of The Art of Noise's Dragnet theme was one of those moments where I just *jawdropped* and listened in sheer gleeful awe.  (Note to self:  Now that the technology's available, why haven't I mashed that up?), with a close second for a minute or two later where he did the same thing with Vangelis' Pulstar (just before "I am the God of Hellfire, and I bring you...")

The sample-less "Re-Situated" mix (9:16) on the 1993 "The 12 Inch Mixes" was good.  But we're talking about the real thing.

Holy crap, Dakeyne has a blog!

Damn, that coulda worked!  Just playing at the wrong club. :)

The 15 seconds where they mash it up (some 20-odd years before "mashup" enters the vocabulary) with the Arthur Baker remix of The Art of Noise's Dragnet theme was one of those moments where I just *jawdropped* and listened in sheer gleeful awe.  (Note to self:  Now that the technology's available, why haven't I mashed that up?), with a close second for a minute or two later where he did the same thing with Vangelis' Pulstar (just before "I am the God of Hellfire, and I bring you...")

The sample-less "Re-Situated" mix (9:16) on the 1993 "The 12 Inch Mixes" was good.  But we're talking about the real thing.

Holy crap, Dakeyne has a blog!


Dakeyne's blog is awesome!  I dug the story about "Eighteen Strings", a fave track of mine. :)

Blue Monday came out in 1982 which is when the Falkland Islands war between Argentina and Great Britain was. This song was a direct response to it. But it was also half-about (kind of a double-plot) the fans that were upset that N-Order never did encores. Blue describes the fans faces (blue = sad), but also describes the day the war "ended"--I believe the final delcaration of victory by British forces was on a Monday. It was a "blue" day for the Argentines who lost.

Blue Monday came out in 1982 which is when the Falkland Islands war between Argentina and Great Britain was. This song was a direct response to it. But it was also half-about (kind of a double-plot) the fans that were upset that N-Order never did encores. Blue describes the fans faces (blue = sad), but also describes the day the war "ended"--I believe the final delcaration of victory by British forces was on a Monday. It was a "blue" day for the Argentines who lost.

"Booger Bob?!?""

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

You so need to register.  ;)

Every Monday is blue, for that is the day you have to back to work on.

BLUE MONDAY (1922)

135th Street Blues

Music: George Gershwin
Lyrics/libretto: Buddy DeSylva

MIKE
Well, get a move on, you lazy good-for-nothin'
SAM
(sweeps floor)
Yes-sir, yes-sir, boss
(sings)
I must admit altho I don't like Sunday
I have a fit when I go thru Blue Monday
Monday's the one day that my dice lose
they just refuse!
(stops sweeping)
That's when my cares are always bigger!
MIKE
His cares are always bigger
SAM
(sweeps)
I got the blue Monday blues.
Monday's the day your lovin' mama shakes ya
Monda;ys the day the undertaker takes ya
Monday's the day that the wise guys
Choose to sit and snooze.
No use to work that's how I figger
MIKE
His cares are always bigger
SAM
I got the blue Monday blues.


......

Keep quiet, if it wasn't for my singing, you'd hafta close this joint!

Every Monday is blue, for that is the day you have to back to work on.


  Werd...

The phrase "Blue Monday" in New Order's "Blue Monday" does not appear in the song.  Common practice in pop music is to name the song after a chorus lyric or repeated phrase.  I suspect the band chose the title because they liked the phrase and other explanations they may have given over the years have more to do with the band's sarcastic and quirky nature than revealing an profound veracity about what "Blue Monday" REALLY means.

The music was influenced by Italo-disco and American soul, and, of course, Kraftwerk.

What do the lyrics mean?  My best guess: The narrator finds himself in a sour relationship with a demanding partner who dominates and depresses him.  The narrator is in a state of existential despair about what his life can mean when his partner burdens him with so much misery and he wonders how his partner can stand to treat him that way.

Lyrics:

"Blue Monday"

How does it feel
To treat me like you do
When you've laid laid your hands upon me
And told me who you are

I thought I was mistaken
I thought I heard your words
Tell me how do I feel
Tell me now how do I feel

Those who came before me
Lived through their vocations
From the past until completion
They will turn away no more

And I still find it so hard
To say what I need to say
But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me
Just how I should feel today

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortunes
I'd be a heavenly person today

And I thought I was mistaken
And I thought I heard you speak
Tell me how do I feel
Tell me now how should I feel

Now I stand here waiting

I thought I told you to leave me
While I walked down to the beach
Tell me how does it feel
When your heart grows cold
(grows cold, grows cold, grows cold)

The phrase "Blue Monday" in New Order's "Blue Monday" does not appear in the song.  Common practice in pop music is to name the song after a chorus lyric or repeated phrase.  I suspect the band chose the title because they liked the phrase and other explanations they may have given over the years have more to do with the band's sarcastic and quirky nature than revealing an profound veracity about what "Blue Monday" REALLY means.

The music was influenced by Italo-disco and American soul, and, of course, Kraftwerk.

What do the lyrics mean?  My best guess: The narrator finds himself in a sour relationship with a demanding partner who dominates and depresses him.  The narrator is in a state of existential despair about what his life can mean when his partner burdens him with so much misery and he wonders how his partner can stand to treat him that way.

Lyrics:

"Blue Monday"

How does it feel
To treat me like you do
When you've laid laid your hands upon me
And told me who you are

I thought I was mistaken
I thought I heard your words
Tell me how do I feel
Tell me now how do I feel

Those who came before me
Lived through their vocations
From the past until completion
They will turn away no more

And I still find it so hard
To say what I need to say
But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me
Just how I should feel today

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortunes
I'd be a heavenly person today

And I thought I was mistaken
And I thought I heard you speak
Tell me how do I feel
Tell me now how should I feel

Now I stand here waiting

I thought I told you to leave me
While I walked down to the beach
Tell me how does it feel
When your heart grows cold
(grows cold, grows cold, grows cold)
The narrator had a rotten Sunday?

I thought I told you to leave me
While I walked down to the beach


And it also explains why the instrumental version - all 7:19 of it - was "The Beach".  (The singer of "Blue Monday" is finally alone.)

(None of this is inconsistent with the notion of the day after (Catholic) confirmation.  The singer's finally delivered his ultimatum.)

And it also explains why the instrumental version - all 7:19 of it - was "The Beach".  (The singer of "Blue Monday" is finally alone.)

(None of this is inconsistent with the notion of the day after (Catholic) confirmation.  The singer's finally delivered his ultimatum.)


Then shouldn't the song be called "Good Friday"?
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