Review: Joy Division

Posted by Mark at 20:39 on 08 May 2008 Reviews A-Z

"After those two records, those two works of art, everything else is merchandising the memory." - Peter Saville The lens of time perverts memory. Now, right now, this very second, we are living in historic times. Across the world, right now, events are happening that will be chronicled in history. But us, we're too busy livin...

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Posted by The Internets at 12:49 on 11/05/08

What, was he busy or something?

:^/

Posted by The Internets at 10:47 on 11/05/08

My God, what a dreadful idea. There must be some suit out there who thought he was making music history, twiddling his biro round his fingers as he gets on the phone to Bernard Sumner's 'people'. BOOYAH!

It's almost as bad as the BBC exec who called Bob Marley's estate asking if Bob would like to appear in their new documentary. In 2006.

Posted by The Internets at 20:21 on 10/05/08

*applauds*
If only Hook was so staunch in his beliefs that he didn't appear in the house-band on Mrs Merton when married to Caroline Ahern.
Hope they don't ever "reunite" with somebody else instead of Curtis, like Led Zeppelin did with Bonzo's kid on drums.
Been listening to Joy Division all weekend thanks to this, cheers for the reminder.

Posted by The Internets at 19:28 on 10/05/08

...in other news New Order were offerd a million quid to headline T in The Park in 2007, as 'Joy Division', as long as the guy who played Ian Curtis in Control sang with them....

needless to say the response was... "Fuck Off".

Posted by The Internets at 20:11 on 09/05/08

Here's a live version of "Transmission", fucking awesome stuff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQ73TOhfMQ&feature=related

And here's "God's Gonna Cut You Down", a song abou fake-ass people who'll get what's coming to them. An assortment of people all lip synching. Most are true to Cash's lifestyle & views whereas a couple are just there to appear cool. I mean Kate Moss...Kate Moss? A vacous clothes horse, yeah you really get what Cash was about. And Justin Timberlake...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0EQlQXoEo

Keef Richards actually looks like a picture somebody drew of Keith Richards based on a Spitting Image puppet.

Posted by The Internets at 19:59 on 09/05/08

Aye, there was a phase when it was "in" to wear old rock tshirts regardless of whether you actually liked the bands or not.
I think the pinnacle of that bullshit was seeing Justin Timberlake wearing an MC5 tshirt on some US magazine.
Actually, I'd like to choke Timberlake on a tshirt for his crimes against actual music made by real people - as opposed to "super producer" shit that he does his Michael Jackson imitation over.
He won the best male vocalist award over Johnny Cash shortly before Cash died and apparently felt so guilty that he, like, cried about it. But then had the sheer fucking nerve to appear in the "God's Gonna Cut You Down" video after Cash died.
Cunt.

Sorry, but it still burns my soul to think Johnny Cash was shunned in favour of that cunting puppet.
So yeah, Joy Division.
Download "Dead Souls" to hear another one of their famous ones that NIN covered for "The Crow" soundtrack.
Oh, and Transmission may just be one of the very best songs ever recorded by anybody who isn't called Mozart, Johnny Cash or in Clutch.

And fuck Justin Timberlake, fuck him up his stupid ass.

Posted by The Internets at 19:49 on 09/05/08

*looks guilty*

I've only got Love Will Tear Us Apart, but I don't claim to like them as much as some. I hate that as well. I remember buying a really cool Ramones t-shirt, being a fan of them and all, and then seeing someone I really hated from school wearing one too.

This has no real relevance to anything other than the fact I like the Ramones. Oh yeah, and Joy Division, or something.

Posted by The Internets at 12:55 on 09/05/08

Control was excellent and had the Whistle Test footage down to a fucking tee complete with Curtis' spaz dancing.
This should be good, a DVD buy if you're a Joy Division fan. They're one of those bands that loads of people claim to like but 85% of them know "Love will tear us apart" and no others.

Posted by The Internets at 21:14 on 08/05/08

Don't forget to leave a few half-finished reviews for the rest of the site to put after you're dead to keep us in reissues in our old age..

Posted by The Internets at 20:59 on 08/05/08

Ditto. Heard only good things. Maybe I'll watch Control and then this and then maybe kill myself.

Posted by The Internets at 20:57 on 08/05/08

Reminds me; I must see Control.

Posted by The Internets at 20:51 on 08/05/08

I'd quite like to see this, but suspect I never will. It certainly won't show in any of my local cinemas (although I am just assuming that, haven't checked or anything). Joy Division are one of those bands I keep meaning to try and get into but never get round to it.

However, I did really REALLY like Meeting People Is Easy, so have the utmost faith in the director to pull off something similar. Plus, with Joy Division you have real tragedy to work with, not just Thom Yorke having a spaz because Japanese journalists keep asking him about 'Creep'.