A Brilliant Old-Timey Cover of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ Only Using Instruments Available in 1933

In honor of the 33rd anniversary of the release of the New Order song “Blue Monday”, the talented Orkestra Obsolete played an old-timey version of the song for BBC Arts as if it were released 50 years earlier using only instruments available in 1933. Among the instruments played in the cover version were a dulcimer, a pump organ, a zither, a musical saw and a glass harp.

New Order’s Blue Monday was released #onthisday in 1983, and its cutting-edge electronic groove changed pop forever. But what would it have sounded like if it had been made 50 years earlier? Using only instruments available in the 1930s, Orkestra Obsolete present this classic track as you’ve never heard it before…