New Order - Elegia (Live at the International Centre, Toronto, Canada, 1985)

New Order's live performance of Elegia in 1985.

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[parvuspeach]

when feeling older i listen to this and remember we were privileged to live and witness through such things.

[Then.]

A mournful tune for Ian that is haunting but absolutely brilliant and pure skill

[canadude]

My teenage daughter was watching Stranger Things and I as a New Order fan since 1987 had to chime in about the source of the song

[shawarmagames]

this song stuck with me after playing MGSV Phantom Pain.

[russellpanken]

I used to play this on Loop on my cassette player and go to sleep to it

[through_the_animus]

I was born in a small village. I was still a child when we were raided by soldiers - foreign soldiers. Torn from my elders I was made to speak their language. With each new post my masters changed along with the words they made me speak. With each change - I changed too. My thoughts, personality, How I saw right and wrong... Words Can Kill."

-Metal Gear Solid V
The Phantom Pain

[michaelwilson]

Like R.E.M.'s I.R.S. years, New Order's Factory years are absolutely magical. I just wish there was film footage of the band recording songs in the studio for the 1988 Salvation soundtrack. That album's version of Let's Go is one of my favorites.

[danmang]

Such a good song my favorite of New Order

[jorrinn]

I'v got the seventeen min version of this linked on my phone.

[blindboygaming]

First heard this on CSI. Thanks Jerry.

[maximillianlylat]

I learned of this song from the short film More. Its just so haunting and emotional.

[ILLRICARDO]

"I was born in a small village. I was still a child when we were raided by soldiers - foreign soldiers. Torn from my elders I was made to speak their language. With each new post my masters changed along with the words they made me speak. With each change - I changed too. My thoughts, personality, How I saw right and wrong... Words Can Kill."

"Time and again the country was ruled by a foreign tongue. When he was a young boy he lost his native language. The bedrock for any developing child. His country, His family, His face - His identity. Everything was stolen from him."

"Since ancient times every civilizations ruler has had the same idea. When people unite under one will - they become stronger than the sums of their parts. And what do rulers use to bring people together? Language."

"This world will become one - I have found the way. Race, Tribal affiliations, National borders. Even our faces will be irrelevant. The world that The Boss envisioned will finally become a reality. And it will make mankind whole again..."

"America is a country of ;liberty. A meeting of immigrants. Instead of simply assimilating its citizens live alongside others. So the major sought a system that used information: Words - To control the subconscious."

"In his eyes the greatest symbiotic parasite the worlds ever known isn't microbial - it's linguistic. Words are what keep civilization, our world - alive. Free the world, Not by taking mens lives. But by taking their tongues."

"With this i'll rid the world of infestation. Sans Lingua Franca - The world will be torn asunder, And then it shall be free."

"The chain of retaliation is what will truly bind this world together as one"

"*Les Enfants Terrible* Zero called it"

[Santisaez]

LOVE New Order (my favorite band since ages) and Love Elegia, who not!. But Ialways felt Elegia´s sound is pretty different than the typical New Order´s sound. Maybe the closest point beetwen new Order and....Mike Oldfield??? Weird. But nice. New Order is, or was, the fucking best.

[simoncotton]

Reminds me of Mike oldfield exorcist tune

[Paraguaydiamond]

WHERE THEY TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM JOY DIVISION'S SHADOW BY WEARING SHORTS ON STAGE?