Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (Coll) (Dig)
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Free Music Review: a known pleasure
Hit: 5 Stars
a superb re-mastering or rendition of this remarkable record that never tires even after repeated play.Free Music Review: Not really unreleased material
Hit: 4 Stars
BEWARE! If you already own the Heart and Soul box set, then you already own all but 2 of the tracks on this 2 CD set, since Unknown Pleasures is included in its entirety on the box set, and the first 10 tracks on Disc 4 are 10 of the 12 tracks on the bonus live CD. The 2 tracks not on the box set are Shadowplay (in fact previously unreleased from this gig), and Transmission, previously available on the 1988 Atmosphere CD single and on one of the 1995 Love Will Tear Us Apart CD singles. Still a good gig. Actual date and location were The Factory, Hulme, Manchester, July 13, 1979.Free Music Review: most overrated post-punk band ever?
Hit: 2 Stars
in a word, "yes"
someone has to say it- joy division, while not a bad band, is really nothing special given the company of their peers during '79-'81. it baffles me why there are so many reverent (sycophantic, more like) "hosannas" thrown at their feet. face it, if their singer hadn't hung himself then there wouldn't be nearly as much unnecessary reverence thrown their way. anyway, this album, like all of theirs, is a gloomy, "oh god i am miserable and art is a pain on my sensitive soul" affair, and those who consider it deep or profound probably wear trenchcoats during the spring, wish they were vampires, wrote gloomy poetry, and find something erotic about the nazis. in short, they confuse angst with insight. sure, along with bauhaus, the cure, echo and the bunnymen, etc. etc. it was a brave new genre of what we now call post punk, but really, it's not noticeably better than the best of any of these bands. maybe if these bands had killed themselves we'd all be salivating over their alters as well.
fire away, fanboys!
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