The original “Blue Monday” never quite won me over. We celebrate the song’s 30th birthday. The original “Blue Monday” never quite won me over. I was never a New Order kinda guy, though New Order had good art work. This adaptation was created by “Orkestra Obsolete” without the Powertron Sequencers, Moog Source synthesizers and Oberheim DMX drum machines used to record the song in the 80s.