{"id":218547,"date":"2025-09-11T16:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218547\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:02:09","slug":"the-nationals-matt-berninger-releases-rocked-up-cover-of-new-orders-blue-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218547\/","title":{"rendered":"The National&#8217;s Matt Berninger releases rocked-up cover of New Order&#8217;s &#8216;Blue Monday&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The National<\/a>\u00a0frontman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/matt-berninger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Berninger<\/a> has released a cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nirvana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Order<\/a>\u2018s \u2018Blue Monday\u2019. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-interviews\/matt-berninger-interview-the-national-get-sunk-art-new-album-3865507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Berninger: All that\u2019s left when you\u2019re gone are your ideas<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He\u2019d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-the-national-matt-berninger-covers-nirvana-all-apologies-and-new-order-blue-monday-3866176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously covered the 1983 hit while on tour <\/a>in support of his recent solo album \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-nationals-matt-berninger-second-solo-album-get-sunk-new-single-tour-dates-3845350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get Sunk<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s released an official studio version, which sees him trade the track\u2019s recognisable synths and electronic drum beat for an acoustic kit. It was recorded at Los Angeles\u2019 Knobworld with production from \u2018Get Sunk\u2019 producer Sean O\u2019Brien. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time Berninger has paid homage to New Order, with The National previously releasing the track<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/listen-to-the-nationals-moving-new-single-new-order-t-shirt-3403426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0\u2018New Order T-Shirt\u2019<\/a>, which appears on the band\u2019s 2023 album\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/the-national-first-two-pages-of-frankenstein-review-3434616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018First Two Pages Of Frankenstein\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-interviews\/matt-berninger-interview-the-national-get-sunk-art-new-album-3865507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new interview with\u00a0NME\u00a0about \u2018Get Sunk\u2019<\/a>, Berninger explained: \u201cI\u2019ve got\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/kurt-cobain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kurt Cobain<\/a>\u2019s notebooks and he was drawing jets and demons and people barfing and cigarette packets, then these incredible lyrics that are going to the centre of his soul \u2013 next to a joke or a dick n\u2019 balls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This came as he discussed the vast amount of work that he still needs to process at home: \u201cI have boxes of notebooks and you open every page and they look kinda like the baseballs \u2013 these goofy little planets of scribbles, different colours, lyrics all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As for the message behind his new solo LP, he told\u00a0NME: \u201cIt\u2019s just saying, \u2018Everything\u2019s going to be OK, fuck it all, you\u2019ve only got a short time to live on this little tiny speck of dust in all the emptiness and all that will be left is your ideas. Your face will be gone, your bones will be gone, your Jeep will be gone, your Grammy will be gone, everything will be gone\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berninger continued: \u201cAll that will be left are the ideas that you left \u2013 and that can be the kindness with which you raised your kids, the kind words you said to a total stranger, that minute you decided not to give someone the finger, that fight you decided not to have. Were you kind? Were you brave? I\u2019m a bad memory for a lot of people, of course I will be. I hope I\u2019m mostly a good memory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National\u00a0frontman\u00a0Matt Berninger has released a cover of New Order\u2018s \u2018Blue Monday\u2019. Check it out below. 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