Showing posts with label Joy Division. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joy Division. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2011
Joy Division - Transmission
ORIGINATION Heart And Soul
RECORDED IN 1979
LAST LISTENED TO two days ago
RATING ★★★★★
Is it about the power of music? An illustration of how it can give us the energy to transcend our difficulties? Or is it simply about dancing to forget them? It is tempting to let the history of Joy Division dictate the answer to this. Perhaps that is unfair. Better instead to just dance.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Joy Division - Means To An End
ORIGINATION Closer CD
LAST LISTENED TO last night
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT goodie goodie yum yum
RATING ★★★★★
It seems appropriate that on such a bleak morning, grey, overcast and lifeless, that Joy Division would be in my head. There is and almost certainly always will be an association between their music, their sound, and darkness; a near-tangible miasma of unhappiness, of gloom, that is inescapable. For me this makes them difficult to listen to, which is unfortunate because they made some very good music.
Means To An End is from their second (and in some ways last) album. To my untrained ears, it seems typical of their sound. Hooky's bass is front and centre, driving the tune, framed by machine-like drums, whilst jagged, skeletal guitar breaks around the incessant rhythm. Over it all is Ian Curtis, the dark centre.
I don't listen to Joy Division very often and I doubt I ever will.
LAST LISTENED TO last night
CHANCE OF WAKING TO IT goodie goodie yum yum
RATING ★★★★★
It seems appropriate that on such a bleak morning, grey, overcast and lifeless, that Joy Division would be in my head. There is and almost certainly always will be an association between their music, their sound, and darkness; a near-tangible miasma of unhappiness, of gloom, that is inescapable. For me this makes them difficult to listen to, which is unfortunate because they made some very good music.
Means To An End is from their second (and in some ways last) album. To my untrained ears, it seems typical of their sound. Hooky's bass is front and centre, driving the tune, framed by machine-like drums, whilst jagged, skeletal guitar breaks around the incessant rhythm. Over it all is Ian Curtis, the dark centre.
I don't listen to Joy Division very often and I doubt I ever will.
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