Anyway, Unknown Pleasures is better than Closer, boy. You wack.
Wrong.
There you are.
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.