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  • some song are NOT to be touched by others.streets of sorrow/birmingham six from the pogues for example. i allways this was another but Moby is treating this with all the respect it deserves and he should get ,in his turn ,get all respect for his part . so very well done Moby!!!

  • john frusciante

  • his accent makes it sound like a country song but musically it's ok

  • 1:33 'yes I am finally Ian Curtis for real!'

  • female bass player=sexy

    left handed bass=sexier

  • Wow. I thought this would be a mediocre effort to cover an inspiring song, but it is truly unique in its approach and style. This version is as effective as the original in many ways. Different genre, same meaning. Epic cover. Thank you Joy Division; thank you Moby.

  • Great tribute to a legendary band.

    But not as intense as the original though.

    V.O.I.D.MK20

  • I like his version, loved it in Heat!

    The original version will always be THE version, but I like this one.

  • moby go to sleep ... you can't touch that song

  • @FlatFuckingLand You listened to it expecting it to be the original. You should be punished by law.

  • Moby is the man, Congratulations for the Joy Division cover!

  • Well, Ian Curtis' voice is just unreachable, but this is a fine interpretation from Moby, much better than his version from "Heat".

  • Decent but lacks the power, the feeling, of Ian. a subdued version, needs more heart.

  • @4490red He does a more powerful version which relays anger more than anguish. This was a one off.

  • @4490red You might appreciate the cover he did with New Order more.

    Performed with much more gusto.

  • one of the best songs ever...................

  • Fuck you haters, you know shit about Ian Curtis, Moby and music in general.

  • Ian Curtis was a hero? O_O

  • the only thing i liked was the cello. Seriously, Moby seems like he is dead or something, just incredibly soulless, he mistakes the lyrics and sings with a really huge lack of power and emotion. Come on, this is the most melancholic, the saddest, the deepest song in the entire world, feel it, dig it, eat it, be it.

  • @biteofcherry u just dont see it

  • @Letes92 haha this kind of commentary is so funny. seriously, very mature. thank you for adding so much to my life.

  • @biteofcherry i interpreted the song, very funny i know.(:

  • @biteofcherry i interpreted the song, very funny (: it was somehow a quotation corresponding to leo tolstoj.

  • @Letes92 ...uh?? actually I didn't read your opinions about the song, wasn't interested. :P What I said was just an answer to a previous one of yours to a comment of mine.

  • @biteofcherry well i dont understand to whatever you have answered if you didnt even read it ;)

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  • fu ck moby

  • This guy needs to eat some meat. His voice and attitude sucks.

  • shut up you fuckin vegan!!!!

  • This is not a cover, this is a tribute to JD!!! understand it!

    =) good one by the way

  • Bravo! Don't listen to these assholes. I am obsessed with JD but that doesn't mean I don't think people shouldn't cover them. Ian was a man not God, he would have loved the attention!

  • Barry White "I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby" (1973)

  • Not sure if i'm more embarrased about being at the sellout attention whore moby dick's video or his terminally dull "rendition" of the one & only JD, but you would be more rewarded to view John Frusciante's truly solo, stripped down informal tribute.

  • Sorry............not even close.

  • This lacks emotion. Still good though.

  • Only problem I have with this version of the song is that it's sung by a guy who's a millionare without a care in the goddamn world vs a clerk from macclesfield who was living in emotional turmoil and a great deal of pain.

    While I can appreciate the respect and a nod to his taste in music, the passion, pain, and quiet desperation simply do not translate in this version.

    It's like lady gaga trying to sing the blues.

  • @TheWonderDoc and now u cant sing certain songs because of the money you have..what the fuck

  • @Letes92 The point I was making about the money is that I doubt Moby has many worries. he's a wealthy guy singing songs created by a guy that worked as a clerk and trying, or rather failing, to convey the emotions he finds in the original.

  • @TheWonderDoc this song is not about problems money could ever solve

  • @Letes92 If you believe that, I would propose that you do not understand what this song is trying to convey. it's in regards to relationships, introspection, and inner conflict.

    There is a movie called "control" about the life of the original writer, if you watch it, this song and it's meaning will be much clearer.

  • @TheWonderDoc

    and inner conflict etc gets solved by money? "something more/something else" doesnt have to be meant jobwise. i dunno if ian curtis stated something about the song..but it can be meant in a monetary/jobwise-way as well as a spiritual one (sorry for my english). im not someone who denies that money makes happy but for me this song tries to convey things that nobody has the answer or solution to, because there are simply none..nonetheless humans are trying to find them

  • @Letes92 Actually I believe it was about the conflict of him having a young wife and child and being responsible for them as well as feeling guilty for being in love with another chick who was into him for his fame.

    His being in the band, giving his all during the performances, the song is quite literal.

    I won't argue about money making people happ, but I think in this case, it was outside of what money can buy.

  • @TheWonderDoc yeah so we agree?xD those things couldnt be solved by mobys money, so he is just as able to feel those feelings or identify with the lyrics

  • @TheWonderDoc Fortunately you can believe whatever you like. Impose whatever you like into the interpretation, that's the beauty of music

  • "It was me, waiting for me,

    Hoping for something more,

    Me, seeing me this time,

    Hoping for something else" - Epic vision of self

  • That cello make me want to cry.

  • No one shoot me, but I actually prefer Moby's take... and especially the electronic version used on '95's HEAT.

  • @PaulGrantDesigns everybody has an opinion... but this is different... every human loves beauty and aesthetics. You just have to give joy division another listen. Having said this: Moby's cover is absolutely terrific. Really nice nostalgic touch he has going on with those cello's. Lacks that energy but is beautiful for it's very own reasons.

  • would like to hear this one from michael stipe as well

  • Amazing cover of probably my favorite Joy Division song. Haunting... love the cello.

  • He did a very good job covering Joy Division, well done!

    This is quite close to Ian Curtis.

  • This is a very good version. To try to copy the original would have been stupid, but he got the point of the song; the minor chords, the restrained singing, the heavy bass. This version of the song is different. That's what makes it so good. Its also worth remembering that the band playing this version are much better musicians that Joy Division ever were.

    Oh, and for the record, I thought Joy Division were the best band in the world - ever, when I was 15. I'm now 45 and I still do

  • i like the word (TRY).

  • Ian did this, Ian did that. Get a life. This is Moby's version. I am a big Joy Division fan too but I'm not as narrow-minded as some people are.

  • @mavsuarez

    Eh, whatever. You have your opinions and I have mine.

  • lol

  • this version is so fu ckin stupid, moby is stupid, su cks so much... fu ck moby fu ck ur mon, fu ck this world, fu ck fan moby, fu ck fu ck fu ck assoles, moby su ckkkkkkkk

  • @dujo24 to try like joy division would be stupid... he just tried man, do not be so rude on him :)

  • wow, people suck. its a good cover. get the sand out of your vagina. 

  • Joy Division fans are the most stuck up people on the internet, and most of them only know them because of Control

  • @heitmo1

    If I look at some of these comments made by Joy Division fans, it almost makes me feel ashamed to be a Joy Division fan too.

    I love this version by Moby. Probably the best cover of a Joy Division song I ever heard.

  • @pauleau They need to realise that covers don't have to sound like the original. It's almost like they believe it's some sort of holy law that Joy Division shouldn't be covered.

    I agree with you, Moby has made this song his own and it is incredible, the best I've heard.

  • Mistakes were made ! you're right...i'll share a dream about it, for hopes...

  • In the second verse, Ian always built up the song in order to reach a climax. When he sang, "It was me, waiting for me, hoping for something more. Me, seeing me this time, hoping for something else", he would always go all out and sing his heart and soul out.

    Moby didn't build the song up at all. He totally butchered it to pieces. How disappointing. Ian is rolling over in his grave.

  • @NintendoSegaSonyGuy

    bit harsh arnt we? well if you can do any better then post a response. moby inst Ian. how you do a cover is sing it your way. to say "i respect you and your music influenced how I play" Devo covering the rolling stones satisfaction is a good example.

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  • The pain and the anger is completely lost in this version. dont get me wrong i have a great ammount of respect for moby as a musician but this is the wrong song totally. the original (and to a lesser extent john frusciante's version) managed to capture anger, pain, aggresion frustration everything. this just doesnt. sorry moby.

  • this  is rubbish.

  • fu ck moby, that complete rubbish, totally a waste offending the great ian curtis hopefully this idiot dies

  • the bass violin just seems too slow...

  • a loaded gun wont set you free - wow how deep is that !

    RIP Ian

  • Moby actually brings some peace to this troubled poem. But the original feeling is located somewhere far away in another Universe. The truth is: Curtis was one of a kind, and nothing will ever change that.

  • @RAD1CALB - er. Its not supposed to

  • Inhuman

  • It's actually not bad, but Moby is a reasonable man. That makes all the difference. Its done with the right attitude eg " okay, I'm not Ian curtis , I'm a small middle class north american but I can give it some respect" I Like it.

  • MOBY FOREVER!!!!!!! Thumbs up if you agree!

  • anybody who loves how he sings "regret" and "forget" (but especially regret =D)

  • it just doesn't have the same presence as the original version

  • Analyse this listen 2 the song if u don't like it go find what u do like or better still get the original, moby is helping to get Ian Curtis's Lyric's 2 more people, now please tell me what's wrong with that????

  • Let it cry man, you are the human.

  • This should be forbidden.

  • The strings player has clearly never heard the original... Reading music off a sheet does not give it soul

  • @ofMilwaukee I know! Should be haunting not sad. The rest of the band did a good job though.

  • @ofMilwaukee esa es la idea... porque en sí esto es un cover y no una copia del tema... un cover tiene como fin reproducir un tema ya creado, pero según la forma de sentir que el artista que coverea está sintiendo... y disculpa por rebatirte en español, pero es una forma de protesta relacionado al aprendizaje de un idioma, porque yo no me tengo que adaptar a tu idioma, sino que ambos debemos adaptarnos, lo que estoy haciendo en este minuto respondiendote.

  • @ag65qrbk i did adapt. three cheers for google translate. its not the issue of what a cover is, it's that you should only cover songs that are close to your heart, songs that you can twist with how you feel about them. new dawn fades is clearly very close to moby, and he plays it very solemnly. the strings player, however, had no feelings toward the song and therefore gave it no soul

  • cool

  • I got the tribute album that he originally did this for called "A Means To An End" in 1995. Didn't pay much attention to who was on it,and I always thought "that's a really good cover of New Dawn Fades". It's only years and years later that I read the back of the CD and discovered it was Moby. I have a new respect for him as a result.

    Stanton Miranda's cover of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" on that same album is also surprisingly good; although very very different from the original.

  • Fuck you Moby almost as shit as Bimbo.

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  • He loves Joy Division, why does he make such terrible music himself?

  • @SirPwn4lot that's really fuckin funny....

  • Moby sounds like he has phlegm in his throat.

  • Thanks Moby! I got goose bumb's ! AWESOME

  • I find it interesting that for claiming to be such a big JD fan he messes up the lyrics (in the beginning). I appreciate the tribute though.

  • does it better than new order ever did, he has totally respected this song, the respect it deserves, quite impressed, I dont usually like ANYONE covering JD songs,

  • yeah crying

  • i'm normally not very into moby, but this is something else

  • i lvoe ian curtis and moby is a greaat musician

  • cant cover joy division....

  • Ibanez bass?? 

  • flat!!

  • wow he could have a promising career in country

  • I dont like covers of Joy Division, because bands always did them like metal, disco or trash covers. But this one is really good.

  • Interesting to see what someone else does with the formula discovered of accident (as I understand it) by Mr.Curtis and Co. back when The Yellow Submarine simply had To Go.

  • Bravo Mobi, svaka cast covece. Ovo je odsvirano pravo iz duse.

  • @pepsis1987 odlicna obrada,nema sta...

  • What are the chords that he's using here??

  • what are the names of the people playing with him

  • I pretty much hate Moby, and this movie reaffirms it. Covers are usually shit enough. If the artists adds their own touches, and really makes the song their own, they can be pretty decent (see: Jack White on Jolene), but he is a fucking Hack, and on top of it, he tries to mimic (and fails miserably) Ian's haunting gloomy tone instead of taking the song in a new direction.

  • This is one of the most beautiful cover tributes to Ian Curtis I,ve ever heard, actually cry for him RIP Ian

  • Good cover . How Hot is Greta Brinkman on Bass .

  • another thing fighting for freedom another fighting for a nation

  • It kills me how sometimes artist think they are being positive by saying they are not Patriotic. You don't have to be a stereotypical, racist, hateful American to be Patriotic. It might be nice to see Moby be more thoughtful about how many Americans fought and died in wars or other wise to protect all the freedoms and comforts we have as Americans. Just a little more respect and a little less arrogance might be nice.

  • @Flipper79able America has bombed the shit out of nearly every 3rd world country going.. so open ur lil eyes sheeple..

    Moby rocks !!!

  • @blackbird69xxx You obviously completely missed my point. I will explain it to you again even though I am probably wasting my time with your feeble brain. My point was America is not just our government and the White House....it is the people, even Moby. America stands for more than our government it stands for the music we made, the movies, the inventions....everything.

  • @Flipper79able America has not been in a relevant war since WW2.

  • @johnjohnmajortom I agree, but you have also missed the point. Why the hell can't people read what I've said. I refuse to explain it to you.

  • @Flipper79able They're confusing nationalism with patriotism, basically. Louis de Berniere once said that the nationalist is the greatest traitor to his country because he is blind to its faults and can therefore play no part in helping to set them right. A patriot loves his country like a father loves his son; he sees its faults and seeks to correct them. Part of that involves criticisms. So Moby is definitely a patriot; it's just that the word 'patriot' has become such a loaded term.

  • @YakChap Okay.......if all of that is true (I didn't look any of it up) than I think being a patriot is a good thing. Blind obedience is a negative trate when it comes to your country. I also think there should be a separation between disliking your government and it's choices and actually disliking your country. I love America and would never burn our flag but I disagree with politicians regularly. Moby should do a little research. Maybe I should too. At least I'm not too smug to know that.

  • piccologrande uomo

  • This song is all I need those days.

  • Great cover !

  • what is the name of the other members

  • @mobby32

    Stephen Morris

    Peter Hook

    Bernard Sumner

    Ian Curtis

    JOY DIVISION <3

  • @04christopheri wasnt Bernard Sumner's surname Dicken or Albrecht at the time of Joy Division?

  • @Slippy71 He used all sorts of surnames back then when being announced or credited. But Id say the majority of people would know him by Sumner.

  • @Iamfukenripped What do you want to tell me?At the first my comment was wrong posted!2nt.Moby is amazing and maked a very nice tribute, but it is not JD that was the only one thing that I whrote!!!And not MOBY is shit or somethink others.I LOVE Moby anyway please do not whrite when u dont know what is going on, and u find that Joy D. are shit!!!Okay this is your opinion and thats it!its just stupid what u`r doing!

  • Beautiful cover and ...i have something in common with Moby....my fave band too :))

  • Soundman - sort out the levels! Can't hear the main riff on the cello.

  • WWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNN­NNNNDDDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEERRRRR­RRRFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLL­LLL!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • NICE TRIBUTE BUT NOT JOY DIVISION NO ONE CAN MAKE IT BETTER the guys was AMAZING AND ARE STILL!!!RIP Ian K. CURTIS my hero

  • @McLarenMary A the fuk men to that, Joy Division are the shit!.

  • good, but too nice.

  • the climax in the original was the "We'll share a drink..." and he didnt deliver it as I hoped but apart from that, great.

  • hay una pagina de un loco ingles q se llama algo como remember ian o algo asi, en el inicio de la pg te habla de lo q fue ver en vivo a joy y como las letras te volaban la cabeza

  • moby, eres pitero, jajaja

  • Nice version! Upside down lefty on bass!

  • Pretty good tribute to the legend that is Ian Curtis... however, does anybody feel that Moby looks a little tired here?? Just that his eye movements seem to suggest tiredness... maybe it's just me but there you go!

  • very nice.

  • From dark to sensitive. Great Approach.

  • Moby's voice and musical support is far to 'sweet' for this dark, epic song...

    But hey... it's a cover, and I've heard far worse...

  • Ficou muito foda, o Moby é sensacional, e esse som do Joy division em sua voz, ficou lindo!

  • Very good, but missing that dark guitar from Sumner.

  • to zawsze było genialne kurwa

  • booooooooooooooooooo

  • i dont like covers, and you know, this one is good

  • the version in the movie heat is the best...and I cant find it anywhere

  • to jest genialne, kurwa genialne!!!!

  • I like Moby and I think his version of this song is pretty good....well it cant be easy to cover one of the greatest songs ever.

  • Its just a very good version! Moby plays the "pluged" version on a tribute JD cd. Very very nice and very heavy!!!

  • I am not Patriotic by the way. That almost pisses me off as much as someone telling me how patriotic they are. Shut up Moby, I am not impressed.

  • this is a great version, obviously never going to beat the original! on the other hand the john Frusciante version is just awful

  • @Morgahtr hmm I'll have to disagree with you, he plays Bass and Guitar part on 1 instrument, I mean John Frusciante...you should listen to his Joy Division Cover band Still...the band Includes Flea and Josh

  • @johnfrusciantezzz  i never knew he had a joy division cover band! thanks for the info il check them out asap

  • i like Moby

    but cannot beat the original

  • Nice try but no cigar.

  • Greta!

  • FUCK YEAH!

  • The version of this song from the movie Heat, is the best

  • nice tribute

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  • for those slagging this Moby version, have you heard the John Frusciante one off to the right there?

    believe me, you don't want to!

  • Excellent choice, Moby!

  • @MsGraveRobber Music like this isn't even any more about that much taste... it's about aesthetic values. Newton and Einstein. Room and Time.Just lean back and feel the nostalgic touch that the sparkled celloplayer leave behind. Remembrance to one of the few geniuses. This is from a perspective of a fan that sees his great hero to go into tragedy and sums that up afterwards, not about moby trying to give that huge song the same power and vibe like the original.

  • @MsGraveRobber I don't agree with you, but as you said... everyone has their own taste in music.

  • Sometmes the sparse reality of music makes you think.

  • Great effort obviously not as good as the original but still good.

    You can't blame him for trying. For some reason Moby reminds me of a lamb singing this BA BAAAA BA BAAAAA BAA.

  • p.d. deathcamp project version sucked, felt so souless, empty

  • song, not sone, sorry!