# New Order — Blue Monday

New Order’s Blue Monday (1983) appears on 4 of our lists — Madchester, Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records, The Waxonia Desk — Both Rooms, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, highest at No. 2 in Madchester. Every verdict, in full.

- **Released:** 1983
- **Label:** Factory
- **On:** Madchester, Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records, The Waxonia Desk — Both Rooms, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29
- **Artist:** [New Order](https://waxonia.com/artist/new-order/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/new-order--blue-monday/

## What 4 lists say

### No. 2 in [Madchester](https://waxonia.com/genre/madchester/)

Five years early, and the reason everything after it was possible. A guitar band making a twelve-inch club record on sequencers, in packaging that lost money on every copy sold.

### Picked by [Laurent Garnier — A Life in Twenty-One Records](https://waxonia.com/selection/laurent-garnier-a-life-in-records/)

The classic of classics. I first danced to it at sixteen at La Piscine, a new wave club in Paris; two years later I was in England playing the Haçienda and hanging around with the band. A whole chapter sits in it.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — Both Rooms](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-both-rooms/)

The record that made the argument first and made every later version of it easier. A guitar band bought a sequencer, never explained itself, and sold it in a sleeve that lost money on every copy.

### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/)

A guitar band making a club twelve-inch on sequencers, in packaging that lost money per copy. Five years early and the reason so much else was possible.

## Listen

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