Mp3 | Blue Monday (2011 Total Version)

Despite becoming the , the song was famously a money-loser for Factory Records. The sleeve design was so expensive to produce that the label reportedly lost between 2p and £1 on every copy sold. The band didn't realize it was a hit until they saw the massive sales figures, which ironically put the label in further debt.

: A cold, sequencer-driven melody that defined the transition from post-punk to alternative dance. Blue Monday (2011 Total Version) MP3

: Designer Peter Saville created a die-cut sleeve that looked like a 5.25-inch computer disk. A Financial "Failure" Turned Masterpiece Despite becoming the , the song was famously

The story of "Blue Monday" began in as a technical experiment. The band—Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Gillian Gilbert—wanted to create an encore song they could program to play automatically, allowing them to leave the stage while the music continued. : A cold, sequencer-driven melody that defined the

Using equipment that was groundbreaking at the time, they built the track around: