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David_Dovey:
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--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 15 Feb 2010, 21:51 ---Anyway, Unknown Pleasures is better than Closer, boy. You wack.
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Wrong.
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There you are.
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oh my god that could not have been more perfect.
anyway regardless of what Hook and Sumner think about the album, I've actually been listening to Joy Division a lot recently after reading the quite excellent 33 1/3 book about Unknown Pleasures (although it'd probably be pretty boring to anyone who had read much about their history elsewhere). I've come to the conclusion that were it not for the way the record sounds, Joy Division wouldn't be half as influential as they are today. Don't get me wrong, they still had the songs and obviously no amount of studio bullshittery can make up for a lack of good tunes, but Unknown Pleasures had stuff that was pretty much alien compared to anything else being made at the time, and it matched the oppressive darkness of Ian Curtis' lyrics one hundred per cent. Say what you will about Martin Hannett, but I honestly think Joy Division's enduring popularity is largely in part thanks to his work.
Inlander:
Thanks for this exciting heads up about what's new in 1980!
Meanwhile in 2010 just this afternoon I found out that Fionn Regan's got something new coming out called the Shadow of an Empire, according to my local record store, and I couldn't be more pleased because I've genuinedly been wondering what he's up to and if he had any new music in the works ever since I first heard and fell in love with the End of History a couple of years ago.
De_El:
@Dovey
I basically knew half of the stuff I read in the Unknown Pleasures 33 1/3 by the time I read it, but I loved it anyway, because I was/am obsessed. I really wish I had the time and money for more of those books; I've read the one for Let It Be (Replacements) and for Endtroducing... but I really want to read the one for Master of Reality cus John Darnielle wrote it.
SWOON! at My Gravitas:
The s/t debut of "Blood of Heroes," an industrial super-group featuring Justin Broadrick, is coming out in April.
They have clips of songs out already. Sounds interesting, at the very least.
David_Dovey:
--- Quote from: De_El on 17 Feb 2010, 09:22 ---@Dovey
I basically knew half of the stuff I read in the Unknown Pleasures 33 1/3 by the time I read it, but I loved it anyway, because I was/am obsessed. I really wish I had the time and money for more of those books; I've read the one for Let It Be (Replacements) and for Endtroducing... but I really want to read the one for Master of Reality cus John Darnielle wrote it.
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I am lucky enough to work at an educational institute that has recently engaged in a campaign to expand their library exponentially, and part of the many wonderful and interesting acquisitions have been a whole whack of the 33 1/3 books. Unfortunately we don't have the Master of Reality one either but I'm gonna hassle the management about that because aside from Darnielle writing it it also happens to be my favourite Sabbath album. You can actually read enough of it to tell that it is very, very good (and really more of a novel than a critical essay like most 33 1/3 books) on Amazon.
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