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Originally Posted by Caprice
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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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".