I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t really start listening to New Order until the beginning of 2009. At the end of 2008 I saw Control, the Joy Division biopic. I found that it made me curious about the aftermath for the other band members after Ian Curtis’ suicide. New Order is legendary but I didn’t know where to begin with their massive discography. There seemed to be several different “greatest hits” albums so I finally just purchased the Singles collection and loved it.

Coincidentally, right around this time our veterinarian called and asked if we would be willing to foster an albino ferret they had recovered. One of their nurses’ friends found it in the yard of her apartment complex, cornered by a cat. We were the only ferret owners the vet knew well enough to call, so we drove up to Alpharetta, GA and picked him up. It took about 24 hours for us to realize we weren’t going to give him back.

After a lot of name juggling we finally settled on “Ood,” after the strange aliens from Doctor Who. His red eyes and stationary staring were very un-ferret like, so the name seemed appropriate. What does this bizarre ferret have to do with New Order you ask? “Temptation” has the lyric, “Oh you’ve got green eyes, oh you’ve got blue eyes, oh you’ve got grey eyes…”  With Ood war dancing happily in the office one night while we were listening to New Order, the lyrics quickly became, “Ood you’ve got red eyes…” A year later and I’m happy to report that he’s almost adjusted from the post traumatic state he was in when we first adopted him.

He’s still damn weird though. “Oh I’ve never met anyone quite like you before.”

There’s a blip of “Temptation” posted here.

It is also the first track in my 2009 Retrospective mix on 8tracks.com.