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Description: Genre: Indie Rock & Punk - New Wave & Post-punk / Artist: Joy Division / Audio CD released 2007-09-17 at Wea / Disc #1 ... more 1 Disorder 2 Day Of The Lords 3 Candidate 4 Insight 5 New Dawn Fades 6 She's Lost Control 7 Shadowplay 8 Wilderness 9 Interzone 10 I Remember Nothing Disc #2 Tracklisting 1 Dead Souls 2 Only Mistake 3 Insight 4 Candidate 5 Wilderness 6 She's Lost Control 7 Shadowplay 8 Disorder 9 Interzone 10 Atrocity Exhibition 11 Novelty 12 Transmission Newest Review: ... will not be to everyone's taste. It is definitely not easy listening. It consists of nine tracks, with a strong theme of ... more |
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by dave27 - written on 19/03/02 (Very useful, 136 readings)
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Steel and glass, austere and brutal, punctuating the doomy, booming silence of the empty warehouse at the end of the world, symbols of the industrial depression of England in the 70's and 80's, the soundtrack for the Great Unforgotten Hordes and their introverted, careworn lives. Cometh the hour, cometh the men, and into this laden, desolate landscape came four grim faced youths in raincoats with a beat and a voice and a harsh, addictive melody, right for the time, right for the place. Joy Division were everything to some people, wilfully obscure to many, and unknown to most, fashionably hip and cool in their desolation and separateness, taking ...
by mo79 - written on 05/05/01 (Very useful, 139 readings)
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Note: The version of 'Unknown Pleasures' I'm reviewing is part of disc 1 of Joy Division's 'Heart and soul' box set, therefore my reviewing is limited to audio content only. 'Unknown Pleasures', a record released at the end of the 70's (when I was born), and at the brink of the 80's. A magnificent record swaying between the end of a decade and the start of another one. It was a record that erected a pole for many good bands to follow. Out of all the late 70's punk bands, Joy Division were one of the few different ones, and good ones. Their concern didn't reside in being politically agressive, rather ...
by sandyback75 - written on 02/09/06 (Very useful, 764 readings)
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The music history of 1980 is dominated by the death of a great musical genius. If you didn't know that this review was of a Joy Division album you might be thinking Mr John Lennon, however I refer to a lesser known but in my opinion greater musical talent, one Ian Kevin Curtis. For on the 18th of May 1980, he took his own life by hanging. Born out of the post punk era, the band originally known as Warsaw first became known on the Manchester scene in 1976. They were signed to Tony Wilson's new record label Factory in 1977, and started to write their first album. The line up consisted of : Ian Curtis : Vocals Bernard Sumner : ...
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