What exactly is "Blue Monday" about?

All I know is, it was an old Fats Domino song.

What exactly is "Blue Monday" about?


Not the Fats Domino Version.  The 80's New Order version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_%28New_Order_song%29

As with many of New Order's songs, the meaning of "Blue Monday"'s lyric has been the subject of much debate. Although Bernard Sumner never publicly discusses his lyrics, many people have surmised that "Blue Monday" concerns the suicide of Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis and the effect it had on his former bandmates. However, comparisons with the lyrics and the aftereffects of cocaine have also been made, which would fit in with the potentially drug related themes of many other New Order tracks (another legend has it that the band was on LSD while recording it, and after they finished the producers took them to a caf

...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 Kinda prefer the Razormaid! Version.

All I know is, it was an old Fats Domino song.
This is a totally different song.

All I know is, it was an old Fats Domino song.


I'd like to hear Fats Domino sing that actually   ;D  are you thinking of Blueberry Hill?
I see he did do a  song called Blue Monday.

I'd like to hear Fats Domino sing that actually   ;D  are you thinking of Blueberry Hill?
I see he did do a  song called Blue Monday.
By pure coincidence I heard Fats Domino and his Blue Monday starts with the lyrics, "Blue Monday how I hate Blue Monday, Got to work like a slave all day", and then goes on about beating his socks, and New Order's starts with "How does it feel, To treat me like you do", along the title never been mentioned in the lyrics.

Meh, prolly has something to do with buggery!
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(I mean, whenever anyone asks what the meaning is behind any song by any British synth-pop band, somebody always brings up buggery. That's what they said about Depeche Mode's "Strangelove," fr'instance. You know what they said the name "Pet Shop Boys" referred to? I'm not going to tell, but it wasn't true!)