Joy Division: Classic Or Dud?

...while at the other end of things, you prob don't need the entire side 2 of Closer to make the point.

Want to keep the first two tracks at least for their punky immediacy....the comp is for a young chap who could be put off initially by the doomy baritone and sparse first album production.

Have taken off the live version of 'Digital', 'Interzone' and 'Heart and Soul'.

Still need to lose one longish track.

Down to 'The Eternal' and 'Decades'.

I love em both. They go together!

Which one should I chuck?

"The Eternal"

Have taken off ... 'Heart and Soul'.

WHAT

NO

who could be put off initially by the doomy baritone and sparse first album production

actual lols @ this

ahahaha that steel drum cover is AWESOME

better than the original?

Dud. I mean, classic.

Saw this on someone's tumblr. Don't know if it's a photoshop or not, but it looks real. And, if that's the case, WTF MAN?

http://i56.tinypic.com/f4rbxw.jpg

Actually, I take that back. The edge on the near side kind of betrays its photoshoppedness.

she's lost control...of her joint banking account and visiting rights

looks like a photoshop phriday kind of thing

A bunch of my mates went to that "Peter Hook and friends" thing last night and there was varius "well it was good... but it was like a good cover band". Im like, WTF did you think it was going to be, jesus.

a bad cover band.

Hahha exactly. Apparently they played this 20 min self indulgent wank video before they came on that was all random new order clips and really poorly made? The audience all started to shout abuse, haha.

It's anti-performance theory. Hook's a secret academic.

can someone tell me what's considered the canonical/best joy division biography?

i quite liked mick middles biography on ian curtis called "torn apart". but obviously it centers on the singer. it is an easy and still rather rewarding read.

ty alex, i'll look into it now!

yesterday I turned on the radio and there was some post-punk rock stuff and I got all Man Yells At Clouds in my mind about "fuckin young kids from Brooklyn starting bands, is that all you know how to do is bite Joy Division" and then the singer came in and he was like "Iiiiiii'm living in the ice age" and I was like "oh ahem lol"

hahaha

the one by his widow is decent, markers. though you will finish it and think she's boring and he was a cunt.

I want to listen to that radio station.

WXYC Chapel Hill - probably has an internet stream & is frankly awesome every day

"the one by his widow is decent, markers. though you will finish it and think she's boring and he was a cunt."
it gives a different perspective that's true but it does not shed a lot of light on the music. i don't even remember if she liked it.

Mickey, Mickey will tear us apart. Again.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/316843_2193118826704_1209155925_31961468_2136553259_n.jpg

"Radiodisney/Goofy transmission"

Epcot City Exhibition

Ice Age

http://blog.silive.com/sinotebook/2009/09/large_BARA1.jpg

When figures from the past stand tall
And mocking voices ring the hall
Imperialistic house of prayer
Conquistadors who took their share

THEY KEEP CALLING ME
THEY KEEP CALLING ME
M-O-U-S-E
KEEP ON CALLING ME

^^^ omfg

looool

fucking horrifying

Also remarkable is that Hook and Sumner first started playing music in 1976 and by 1979 had released Unknown Pleasures.

I would totally rock that shirt. also, thanks for bumping this thread and reminding me that I need to put Closer in my car.

also also:

WXYC Chapel Hill - probably has an internet stream & is frankly awesome every day

PS I'm sure this has been brought up before but: how do y'all say Closer in yr heads/is there an established 'correct' reading?

you know it man xp

it's "closer" in the sense of "nearer to," with the sibilant s, though I'm guessing this is something people have internet arguments about now, which is a good argument in favor of the pre-internet age

Joy Division - Closer

I thought it was "clo-say"

RICK ROSS'S FORTHCOMING NEW ALBUM... CLO-SAY FEAT. 50 TYSON

Clearly it's both at the same time, suggesting convergence at the end. That's how puns work, no?

― Michael Train, Monday, March 22, 2010 1:00 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

^^^ this, to me. but I still always pronounced "clozer", I guess b/c it came to me thoroughly prepackaged as "Joy Division's final album"?

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/7505002523769-1.jpeg

http://shirtsofsatan.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/ola_arabic.jpg

ha!

http://cdn.buzznet.com/media/jjr/2011/02/greene-starbucks//ashley-greene-starbucks-lax-01.jpg

I saw the Mickey Joy Division shirt in the gift shop of the Aerosmith rollercoaster in November. I didn't realize it was Mickey, though, until I looked at my photos later!

Aerosmith rollercoaster

i keep getting stuck on these two words...is there an Aerosmith-themed ride at Disney World? Whoa!!

the aerosmith ride at disney is fucking awesome tbh http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

you said it, Dave!

Please. I beg of you. STOP.

http://peterhook.co.uk/#/news/peter-hook-and-the-light-perform-still-for-the-first-ever-time-may-18th-19th-the-factory-mcr