Closer - Joy Division
 

I got this album a couple weeks ago and have listened to it a couple times (as well). Its really, theres something totally here, a whole style I've yet to grasp that im sure when I start to taste it will hit me full on. Just like Radiohead. I like it alot and was happy to find it used in my local record shop.

I'd like to hear other people's input about this album because I know Joy Division contributed alot to the music world in a very short time.

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well it will hit you for decades. bernard's guitar work still sounds great. now prepare yourself for "unknown pleasures" and "atmosphere". enjoy. :-)

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it's radder than rad. i find it superior to 'unknown pleasures'.

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ROFL!!!

Closer is just one of the 10 best albums of the 20th century.

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You may enjoy Interpol.

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and Editors:D

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I've been diggin Chairs Missing and 154 by Wire which have a Closer vibe.

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Joy Division had more intensity than any other band from the last 30 years, I'd say. Except maybe later period Talk Talk. You might want to check out the whole early eighties Factory Records catalogue, Caprice. Bands like Section 25, A Certain Ratio, This Heat, and Crispy Ambulance.

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Those names are exactly what I need, thanks. I love Talk Talk

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my favourite thing about them, and maybe you may read this and then think "oh i hear it", was the direction they took their music. at the time alot of rock music was turning to complete cheese/crap, most punk groups were playing in simple major scale chord progressions, but joy division made very bleak and atmospheric rock. their albums are mostly rough and unpolished recordings, and the musicianship isn't always great either, but the chemistry they had makes up for that. it was an introverterted and honest style that skipped fake details and just expressed how these angsty depressed and sensitive guys felt.


they were also the beginning of that werid concept genre "post punk".

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It was shameful how many bands tried to imitate the tension, nervousness, anxiety, discomfort and depression of Joy Division. Most of them just ended up sounding like miserablist wankers. And this is coming from a guy who's into the miserablist wanking and the melodramatic aspect of eighties music, so in a strange way that's really saying something good about Joy Division.
Anyone read the new Paul Morley essay collection on them called "Piece by Piece"? Just picked it up but haven't dug in just yet.