Joy Division - strange or wonderful?

[NMH]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGKh1_qvYVo&mode=related&search=

 

[Superphil]

Wonderfull

 

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

SHITE!

 

[We're the Stripes]

Just so happens I'm currently listening to New Order.

Joy Division - wonderful.

 

[NMH]

SHITE!

Hmm..... alright KSA, but are these chaps any less strange?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGXn66Ox2GU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEZzaRrMpKc

 

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

Hmm..... alright KSA, but are these chaps any less strange?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGXn66Ox2GU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEZzaRrMpKc

Less strange? No.

To be honest I didn't find JD at all strange, just very very dull.

 

[NMH]

Less strange? No.

To be honest I didn't find JD at all strange, just very very dull.

Okay. Though the latter, of course, were responsible for your signature

 

[REDLAND]

Wonderful by a country mile ..

 

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

Okay. Though the latter, of course, were responsible for your signature

Oh yes I know.

I would much rather listen to Wire than JD or NO. Neither incarnation has ever done a lot for me. Yes, I do think that Blue Monday and True Faith were great singles, and LWTUA was also very good, but the rest of their combined output isn't up to much IMO.

 

[A Melbourne Albion Supporter]

Wonderful

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Where's the option for 'Weird, odd, dead strange AND wonderful'?

 

[bhaexpress]

Where's the option for 'Highly overrated' ?

 

[Buzzer]

Where's the option for 'Highly overrated' ?

Joy Division are/were truly, truly magical.

You had to be there, innit.

 

[Squiggsy]

Closer is the best album of all time.

Decades is one of the best songs of all time.

 

[n1 gull]

Wonderful, wonderful and more wonderful

 

[KPTF]

Simply magnificent! Great songs, great memories, great times.

New Order remain my all-time favourite band but I never tire of playing JD.

 

[bhafc99]

Where's the option for 'Weird, odd, dead strange AND wonderful'?

Agree - they're all of those and more.

 

[Buzzer]

Where's the option for 'Weird, odd, dead strange AND wonderful'?

admittedly they were weird, odd, strange and wonderful but only one of 'ems dead.

Has anyone read his widows biography - Touching from a distance' by the way? A brilliant read. I'd be willing to lend it out for any of the JD fans here.

 

[Lethargic]

Bloody marvellous!

But yes a bit weird but that was par for the times.

 

[NMH]

Oh yes I know.

I would much rather listen to Wire than JD or NO. Neither incarnation has ever done a lot for me. Yes, I do think that Blue Monday and True Faith were great singles, and LWTUA was also very good, but the rest of their combined output isn't up to much IMO.

Mostly got to agree about New Order, a poor OMD imo.
However, having seen both Wire and Joy Division, I have to say that Wire were a complete and utter pale of toss live, and that was after their brilliant album '154'. The gig I went to was issued on an album too!

Joy Division were good live though, a little sinister, exciting and energetic, with that dark forboding inherent in their lyrics and sound. 'Ceremony' was a great single too, issued just after their death as a band.