halo19
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Post by halo19 on Jun 27, 2004 12:56:56 GMT -5
I just thought I'd dedicate a whole topic to this band. They were really brilliant. Only two albums, Unknown Pleasures and Closer were made, but those both remain classic. It's great depressing music, Ian Curtis was a great singer. Although it's really his suicide that got them their name, their music shows you what they were capable. Even songs that didn't make those albums, like "Dead Souls" are even classic.
And unlike other bands around, just about every JD-influenced band is great. Their music seems timeless.
Well, after JD, there was New Order, who have been around for years.
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Post by ClassicCase on Jun 28, 2004 6:25:10 GMT -5
How could I ever forget that group? I remember a friend of mine who turned me in to the new wave/alternative scene about this. It was back in '88 that I was working nights at KPXI in Mt. Pleasant, TX (I know...there I go showing my age again!) and he would mix in some of the alternative artists within our top 40 format (my program director at the time thought that it was a bad idea to add "oddball" acts with this format). He (my friend) had a single that he put in rotation that happens to be a hit in the UK somewhere and we were trying to bring chart life to the song. If you can remember a song called Never Tear Us Apart Again, I believe it was on a black labeled 45 (kind of like a 45 version of an LP). It was awesome long before they changed up as New Order which before then, I learned of three years prior. Good choice of this topic.
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Post by Ragin on Jun 28, 2004 7:11:55 GMT -5
I actually liked New Order a bit better, but I do like Joy Division. Yes it is depressing music, but it is really interesting.
I guess I must have both albums, I have two cds by them and was looking for more, but those titles don't seem right to me for some reason.
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Post by SyrupBoy on Jun 28, 2004 7:29:13 GMT -5
I actually liked New Order a bit better, but I do like Joy Division. Yes it is depressing music, but it is really interesting. I guess I must have both albums, I have two cds by them and was looking for more, but those titles don't seem right to me for some reason. One of the albums you have might be Substance, which was their singles collection. That is by far their biggest selling album.
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Post by Ragin on Jun 28, 2004 9:02:54 GMT -5
One of the albums you have might be Substance, which was their singles collection. That is by far their biggest selling album. There's a Substance for Joy Division? I actually didn't know that. No, I have Unkown Pleasures for sure, but it seemed that the other CD I had was a title different than Closer, but it definitely wasn't substance I would've noticed that immediately.
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Post by halo19 on Jun 28, 2004 11:00:28 GMT -5
It could have possibly been the more recent compilation, Permanent, perhaps. I think Still was the half b-side and half live album, but I don't have it so I'm not sure.
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Post by strong4PMB! on Jun 28, 2004 11:05:06 GMT -5
I like them because Joy Enriquez's largest Yahoo! Group is located in the 'Joy Division' category.
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Post by Ragin on Jun 28, 2004 11:05:15 GMT -5
I don't know what I was thinking, but Closer, is, in fact the other one I have. So I do have their two albums.
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