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Ian curtis

conditor

12 Jul 18 21:44

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anxious When: 12 Jul 18 21:58

38 years ago , a great band and very sad what happened to him RIP

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smirnoff2therescue When: 12 Jul 18 22:21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt3mJtgJc

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smirnoff2therescue When: 12 Jul 18 22:23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz233gJSzK0

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bungalow bill When: 12 Jul 18 22:30

geez, where does the time go?

Still my two favourite albums, Closer and Unknown Pleasures.

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Facts When: 12 Jul 18 22:39

RIP ian - a terrible loss.

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anxious When: 12 Jul 18 22:41

Ironically Ian Curtis i think said the Album Closer was a disaster , for fans the book Unknown PLeasures Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook is a great read

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Facts When: 12 Jul 18 22:43

It's ok.

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Shanelee1966 When: 13 Jul 18 09:39

Ironically Ian Curtis i think said the Album Closer was a disaster ,

He was struggling quite bad at the time.

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screaming from beneaththewaves When: 13 Jul 18 19:32

I think the whole band was a bit miffed that neither LP actually sounded like a Joy Division record. They're both very good records (and Unknown Pleasures a truly great one), but they were very good Martin Hannett records, and didn't really convey the intensity and violence of the band's music live. Mind you, none of the live recordings seem to either, for some reason.

I was lucky enough to see one of the band's last performances, at the Lyceum in the Strand in Feb. 1980, and you just knew, right then, you were witnessing something very rare and special. What nailed the song 'Wilderness', for instance, wasn't just the sight and sound of Hooky, legs akimbo, extracting every ounce of filthy, rumbling power his finger could get as it slid the length of the Rickenbacker around his ankles, but also the contrast with the huge, anguished, commanding presence to his right of Curtis, delicately miming the act of wiping a tear from his eye.

You don't get any of that on a record. I think the only song on which Hannett really caught the sound of the band was Dead Souls. Typically they went and stuck the track on the B-side of a French-label single.

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flushgordon1 When: 14 Jul 18 07:59

He was a bit of a feck up.

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lucienelachance74 When: 14 Jul 18 10:00

The Joy Division Peel session 1979 is worth a listen to get more of a feeling how they sounded live. The version of Colony in particular...

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screaming from beneaththewaves When: 14 Jul 18 10:39

Good point, lucien. That session got rather forgotten at the time, with the later Hannett versions of the songs soon appearing on vinyl.

It may be the reason I always found the Closer LP and the Love Will Tear Us Apart single a bit disappointing.

Wish I weren't deaf now. I'd love to listen to the version of Twenty-Four Hours on that session again.

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Poppydog. When: 18 May 20 20:42

40 years ago today.

18-05-1980

(Peel announces Ian's death - https://youtu.be/9WHbmzMUaAI)