Joy Division: Classic Or Dud?

OMD went down some interesting sartorial avenues before settling on their look.

https://www.electricity-club.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/omd-pretend1.png

whoah.

anniversary of Ian's passing btw.

I love how Paul Humphreys transformed from Hawkwind drummer to bank clerk.

Difficult to think of "Peter Hook" and "fun" in the same sentence.

Thought the revive was to do with this... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/18/new-order-singer-criticises-ludicrous-nhs-mental-health-waiting-lists

there's this Dutch JD cover band called Joy Division Undercover and they kinda rule IMHO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwmQMekyHJc

That's kinda cool.

This could be an alternate timeline where IC gave up music, moved to Amsterdam to open his bookshop with Annik then decided to play some old songs with a bunch of younger musicians 40-odd years later.

i can not say i hate them and they did not put out much but thank GOD stings cousin bernard did not sing leads on this as he ruined new order and electronic and his guest vocals with 808 state and chemical brothers!

Band lacks JD's feverish pulse, but damn that singer is uncanny.

xp lol... well it is definitely hard to think of him singing most JD material, though "Ceremony" is about my favorite thing ever

i was trying to find among the many New Order threads a recently (i think) pasted grudgingly positive review talking about Barney's lyrics. Where was that?

wow that singer gets freakishly close to the Curtis croon, drummer is nowhere close to Morris tho

Then again, who is close to Morris?

xpost IIRC, there is someone on this board who considers Sumner one of the greatest lyricists of his generation...

Indeed, it all plays out here: bernard sumner?!

Good evening!

thanks ZZ! & AS

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I was listening recently to a NO playlist I put together, and what struck me was that while Ian was miles away the better lyricist (nothing Bernard Sumner has ever written comes close to the lyrics of "Ceremony"), I have a much stronger emotional connection to Sumner.

nothing Bernard Sumner has ever written comes close to the lyrics of "Ceremony"

Though, almost certainly, quite a lot of Ceremony is Sumner's lyrics, or at least his adaptation of what he could make out from the recordings that existed.

"Then again, who is close to Morris?"

there is/was a bay area based JD cover band called Dead Souls and their last drummer killed it. she's now the drummer in my band, I'm happy to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYMxmtrfbmU

I saw a fantastic jd cover band in sf on NYE in like 2003, wonder if it was them…

Someone has turned my dream of seeing The Fonz dance to “Disorder” by Joy Division into a reality.

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— Disastro (@DeadAstroman) July 1, 2022

i. it has terrific rhythmic poise, and.
ii. is pitch-perfect in its invocation of mockable faux innocence, as a mask for actual genuinely (silly but knowingly silly) belief
i like mark s, but like a lot of his posts his reading is--how you say in UK?--too clever by half.

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i too like mark s and his reading is exactly the right amount of clever (by half)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7IpgFIz9ng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxY3FtlLc-M

That Fonz video is amazing

such passion Fonzzie

this was posted in the 77 albs, very well done!

https://www.reverbnation.com/djrudec/song/19246485-joy-division-vs-doors-break-on

depressing crap

https://pouria.dev/unknown-pleasures

neat but...should've picked a song on the album!

https://bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-470---joy-division---ian-curtis---a-handwritten-letter-november-1979/?lot=50168