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intereact!Joy Division
Retail Price (not our price): $11.98
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Manufacturer: Qwest / Wea
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 |
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5
1) Dark but compelling [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Hey, this is weird! This has pop hooks on it! And it's a Joy Division record! It's actually a lot like the Talking Heads or Devo or something like that, only the lyrics are depressing as hell rather than paranoid and Ian Curtis sounds like Jim Morrison rather than Tom Verlaine. From a songwriter's perspective, this is a better album than Closer, but I think I have to give Closer the edge for sheer catharsis alone. This is more mechanical, cold, and impersonal - except on the intense "New Dawn Fades", when Curtis starts screaming. It also has a damn great guitar part, I'll add. Yes, that is a very good song. So is the resident classic, "She's Lost Control", which perfects the blend of Krautrock, New Wave, and Goth-rock: bleak, but catchy - the same goes for "Disorder" and the melodic single "Candidate". "Shadowplay" is fantastic as well, the closest this band ever came to flat-out punk. Only the last three songs fail to make much of an impact, and god do they suck: "Wilderness" at least has cool lyrics; but there's nothing to save either the chaotic, amelodic "I Remember Nothing" or the all-too-experimental "Interzone". Let's forget all about those and focus on the goods, shall we?2) Shades of Grey [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This is an album that displays emtion in each of its song. Unlike many of todays artist who pose for certain look or stlye, Joy Division were about channeling their emotions through their music. Unknown Pleasures, a landmark album the world was not ready for its time of release and yet still an album that sounds fresh and not dated. From the opening track Disorder to the track I Rememeber Nothing, the album is a sonic venture unlike the world has seen. She's Lost Control alone a track that makes you feel like you are on the edge of losing control. Seeing footage of Ian Curtis perform SLC is simply shocking. As the beat of the Stephen Morris drums fuel the gyrations of what seems to be an Ian Curtis in a state of epilepsy, one can wonder how Ian didnt lose control there and then. Whereas the power of Shadowplay can be summoned up in one lyric "In the Shadowplay acting out your own death.." Unknown Pleasures offers us a view into Joy Divisions world. A dystopia in shades of grey.3) Track Listing Peculiar [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Amazon sort out your track listing for this album you dense sick motherfu$$ers..........and remember to clean your teeth afterwards. This album desrves much much better than to be tagged with incorrect information being unique in its genre or rather inventing its own genre unlike yourselves.........I tell ya wat if you lot were a river i'd dam you.4) correct track listing [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Amazon tsk tsk tsk... you got the product description and track listing wrong! Get with it guys!REAL track listing:1.Disorder - 3:32 2.Day of the Lords - 4:50 3.Candidate - 3:05 4.Insight - 4:29 5.New Dawn Fades - 4:48 6.She's Lost Control - 3:57 7.Shadowplay - 3:56 8.Wilderness - 2:38 9.Interzone - 2:16 10.I Remember Nothing - 5:525) innovative pioneers [Rating: 5 out of 5]
highly influental and can never be compared to. so many artists try to cover their songs and all seem to fail miserably to grasp the sound, especially all the electronic artists. give it up!! get off your computer and play some instruments if you want to cover a band like joy division!am i the only one that notices that amazon has the track list wrong? or did the band change the titles at one point?