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  • Que lastima, me encanta su musica, te hace viajar ....Grande Iam Curtis.

  • Sally, if you can read this, I'm very sorry - but the only thing I could do was walk away in silence. I love you, and always will, and I'm deeply, truly sorry.

  • This is the best song ever...

  • I love Joy division. So much.

  • !!!!!!!!!

  • One aspect I don't like about this video is the negative/positive symbols on the little hooded figures. I think their colour alone does an adequate job, insofar as it shows them as opposite to each other. And we know their opposite when they leave in their groups of colour, off the left and right sides of the screen. I am not sure that the plus and minus signs are needed; they're too literal. Does anyone have any views on them? (I love the rest of the video, it's very powerful.)

  • @ilikedrums55 its all about the duality of life eg depression and happiness theres duality in nearly everything except bliss, apparently has no opposite (enlightenment) atleast thats what i think this visdeo is about

  • @ilikedrums55 I don't know that much about Joy Division--just at the point of exploring them on youtube--but I feel those symbols fit in with the time and the general mood of their music (and other bands--Talking Heads come to mind). kind of ironically rigid (like his dancing). could even be seen as a comment on the neo-fascism going around at that time (labels, badges) . I could be completely off. I don't know about joy divisions (a)politics. It's just that I just saw 24-Hour Party People....

  • This is to my daughters.

  • I know it will sound cliché to most but I dedicate this song to someone who remains an important part of my life but decided I´m no longer part of hers and decided to walk away...in silence.

  • I dedicate this song to my friend who recently died.

  • einfach genial

  • love you ian!

  • beautiful song, it's pining for a better world but resigned makes me want to clap my hands to wake up and move forward before I succumb to a beautiful sleep of hopelessness.....a beautiful hopelessness

  • Who let the Jawas on set?

  • Im not likey to have a baby, but if I could... I'd like my baby to be as beautiful as Ian Curtis

  • such a great song..like all Ian Curtis's lyrics they cut deep into your every fibre!!!!

  • @Umezawa91 Listen to this song on any day you like.

  • grew up round the corner from Ian.

  • One of the few songs that only the outsider can understand

  • Seriously who are the 21 people that disliked this?. They need to be shown their mortality by being beaten within a half inch of their lives. This song brings tears to your eyes.

  • @9eyeh8chu9 SO TRUE SON SO FUCKIN EASY TO SEE

  • @GabiSeth

    What you ain't religous ?

    flippen Jewsus

  • shut up and kiss me

  • I seduced my X to this song...haha

  • ACID!!!!!

  • ian was literally the shakspeare of music

  • music at its most honest and sincerest form, i feel honerd to be graced by such music that has echode through the age and has reached me here, in 2010.

    ian had no idea his music would live on. little did he know it did.

    23 is too young and too bleak.

  • Is this song about suicide?..

  • Thoughts with you Debs & Nat.....XX

  • Heath Kirchart!

  • help me

  • THIS MASTERPIECE ALONE IS ENOUGH FOR IAN CURTIS TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST ARTISTS EVER! IAN CUSTIS LIVES!

  • @charly9927  I agree!The greatest voice ever - our beloved Ian!

  • Man, this video always reminds me of Star Wars

  • of course it was going to end in suicide he had epilepsy remember? He wasnt in control they were ;) Great music though, such a short life i guess. But he made history and he will live on in history.

  • @GabiSeth I agree with my g*y lover earlier that this track makes c u m fall out of from the back of my arse. It’s eerie and I should shut the f*ck up and just listen to the song without trying too hard by listing loads of words that don’t make me sound interesting. Isolation, Confusion, f*ck off. I'm pretty sure Ian Curtis really liked retarded pseudo-psychologists twatting on about his feelings.

  • To me, this is the finest achievement of western civilisation.

  • it mirrors the desolate urban manchester back streets of the 70,s perfectly.....its our music

  • @sydilligaf yeah mine to mucka let joy division send me on my merry way

  • ironic how he "walked away in silance" the way Kurt Cobain claimed " I swear I don't own a gun"

    Both should still be here:(

  • Love it

  • My fucking FUNERAL SOUNDTRACK.

  • @sydilligaf so right ~~~

  • @GabiSeth I concur!

  • sin palabras..para la poesia del alma...Tankx !lionbonifacy

  • Heath Kirchart, Don't walk away.

    Stay Gold

  • @kousol12 what?

  • @kousol12 Ian Custis probably does live...but alas Ian CURTIS is 6 feet under

  • such an amazing combination of music and ians vioce just pulls you right in.joy division is one of the bands you can never grow tired of.

  • Caminhar em silencio -Não se afaste em silencio.

    Veja o perigo -sempre perigo.

    sua confusão -minha ilusão.

    Não se afaste.

  • This is such a silly video which does the song no favours.

  • don't walk away.In silence...

  • Real MACC lads.... I visit his old house most days.

  • these comments are hilarious

  • goddamn hipsters. this is nothing to worship! form your own opinions for once.

  • this reminds me of the start of original star wars

  • FUCK YOU, WHY ISN'T THIS SONG FOREVER?

  • HEATH!

  • Great song, but why the kkk guys? They aren't nazi's are they?

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  • EPIC

    

  • A classic! One of Joy Division's greatest.

  • i dont understand the video

  • The most beautiful Joy Division song, my heart cries everytime.

  • this is my favorite Joy Division video. Kurdt Cobain once said this was his inspiration for the heart shaped box video.

  • I love this song so much. It's prophetic nature is scary. I'm always curious what was really going on in his head, the boy could seriously write. But call me what you want, the little people(right out of Spaceballs-little dinks...are stupid.

  • come to think of it;joy division influenced bands like the killers and carolina liar 

  • HEATH KIRCHART=BOSS

  • @Bollies4Life no andrew reynolds= boss but heath kirchart = fucking gnarly as shit

  • this song just leaves me feeling strange, its hard to put into words.

  • I feel whole! Tell me you feel the same! And don't lie!

  • @RuBbErRoOmChAoS lucky you!!

  • healt Kirchart's part in Emerica Stay Gold ( skateboard video ) almost mad me cry because of this song.... so sad ! Anyway can someone tell me if healt kirchart as quit skating? because this is like a part that resume is whole career.

  • @islandofskateboard When they say "retire" that probably just means he wont have major parts in videos anymore. Im sure he will still skate for fun or show up in videos, dont worry. No skateboarder who ever really loves the sport could ever just quit it...i dont think i could..

  • Sensationell!

  • Das schönste Lied ...

  • Fais chier .. Devrait être là ...

  • Amazing. Beautiful and always makes me cry.

  • can't believe this is 20 years old. it seems just like yesterday

  • @hogangolfwales Try 30 years . . . time flies . . . no matter, great, timeless tune

  • Considering he hung himself on camera-you mike not want to know what his lyrics really mean. Just saying

  • @evilattempt I thought he killed himself in his house in Macclesfield and was found the next morning by his wife??? how was it on camera?

  • This is music, this is real.

  • rip ian<3

  • Usually I like to know what lyrics mean, but with Joy Division i'm happy with the ambiguity. I don't want to know exactly what Ian Curtis is saying. To me, it matters what I take from them.

  • all i need is plastic teeth and a bucket full of speed. dang still love that song

  • bono smells bad

  • best song

  • Beautiful

    

  • this track always talked to me about the dangers of our society not to talk about mental illness Ian was the most amazing of us but he fell dont let it happen to yours

  • dabei kriege ich immer gänsehaut

  • MERCI IAN !!!!

  • This is the first time I have ever seen a Joy Division music video. Chills. Absolute chills.

  • in silent

  • Unhappy Birthday today, -since he decided to walk in silence...! His confusion is my illusion to go back in time and replace the darkness with no danger at all ...Missing everything...!

  • please dont hold back, say what you really think x

  • :) .

  • RIP IAN CURTIS: love will tear us apart

  • dying in silence

  • Why is every one saying that they wish Ian Curtis was still alive?

    He made his choice and made the break, his death was what makes his music even more tragic and heart breaking, and authentic.

  • L-E-G-E-N-D-A-R-Y....

  • This video is very symbolic to life and the grip evil has had over humanity as we know it, the tall cone being humanity and the two sets of good an evil.

    Eventually evil drops humanity freeing it from its shackles, I only wish Ian could be with us in 2012 but I am sure he is doing work behind the scenes to insure humanity will prevail.

  • @dmcd808 Nothing is going to happen in 2012. Holy shit.

  • @dmcd808 what. the. fuck.

  • @dmcd808

    you're fuckin crazy. did you know that?

  • Crazy, well allot of people called Ian Curtis crazy as well as Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison, on this basis we shall all agree that crazy is a good thing!

  • @dmcd808 honestly dude? Do you really believe anything is going to happen in 2012? Just because the Mayan Calender predicted it? The Mayans believed they had to sacrifice a person each morning to make sure the sun (their god) would come up. The Mayans have stopped sacrificing people for almost more than 2000 years now and the sun is still coming up each day. Maybe you should sacrifice yourself in 2011 just to make sure and to make my day.

    no nonsence, just music Joy Division rules! enough said

  • Chill Winston.....

  • @whackthedog lol wtf are you talking about, and how did it relate to JD\? no nonsense? lol your all nonsense.

  • @whackthedog Very well said!

  • @whackthedog the maya were better astronomist than us. I think that something (not the end of the world, but something) will happen between 2012/2013

  • @Umezawa91

    smell the fucking flowers that's what

  • @oldbag010101 keep doing a douche

  • @Umezawa91

    what on the left hand side

  • @Umezawa91

    I ain't sleeping

  • @Umezawa91

    cool , what was you're name again Zimbabwe 91

  • @oldbag010101 keep going, douche

  • @oldbag010101 Troll.

  • @shrimpythebodyguard2

    How Dare YOU ?

  • @whackthedog I think that i will listen this song during the 21th of December in 2012

  • @Umezawa91 21st :)

  • Jawas or Druids.....the pain exudes like forbidden fruit

  • wOw great video - it fits wonderfully with the song :)

  • it just leaves me aching for more of it

    i want him to start singing "people like you find it easy..." at the end

  • the best ever - after all this time i miss you joy division i will never forget these beautiful songs

  • ian have a lot of problems not only with his girlfriend, his brain , his family...

  • this song is gut-wrenching.....open soul searching....Ian never got a chance to find the answers he was looking for.....If only everyone in the US was aware of the greatness of Joy Division.

  • A deep travel into infinite emotions of emptiness and loss.

  • Simply a masterpiece.

  • THIS song is the MASTERPIECE of JOY DIVISION!!!!!!! only the good die young!!!

    the band is amazing,great and captures pure darkness!! my favourite 100tunes in my life contains 20 songs from JOY DIVISION. x-cellent song! x-cellent band!greetz from

    vienna!

  • @royalnash

    your mum sucks fuck off and die you cunt

  • aww love joy division, love this song, its so sad

    ian curtis R.I.P

    why did he killed himself? he issoo good and had everything going for him.

    i dont understand why you did that.

    i love you ian curtis.

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  • @17lizabeth

    he had a tragic life my dear, an addiction, a medical condition which caused him seizures, torn between a wife and a french mistress who he couldnt give up though he loved his wife. he wanted to leave JD , it was all getting too big for him,but was not allowed he felt his life was out of control and not his own anymore. he hung himself in his kitchen after his wife walked out telling him she wanted a divorce which he didnt want. tragic for one so young and brilliant so now you know.

  • @81chinesedragon

    I'm sorry, but I don't buy into the victimhood schtick-- our lives are own creation, and at some point one must take responsibility for their choices. His wife wanted a divorce b/c he had a mistress; that's a pretty good reason in my book. His inability to make a choice between them and the fallout that resulted is HIS responsibility and no one else's. This isn't to say that his or any suicide is not a loss, but c'mon.

  • @81chinesedragon

    I'm sorry, but I don't buy into the victimhood schtick-- our lives are own creation, and at some point one must take responsibility for their choices. His wife wanted a divorce b/c he had a mistress; that's a pretty good reason in my book. His inability to make a choice between them and the fallout that resulted is HIS responsibility and no one else's. This isn't to say that his or any suicide is not a loss, but c'mon.

  • @hereandnow51

    everyones a fucking victiM

  • We need Joy Division Atmosphere with lyrics. There are no songs on Youtube with the lyrics...

  • They are my heart.And i could not live without my heart.

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  • this song seems to come from so far away doesn't it?

    It has a very 'spacial" feeling, do you agree?

    there's a band from the 80s, very big in Brazil, that has a few songs like JD, even the singing... one of those is "Tempo Perdido" , also one of their greates hits. "Angra dos Reis" too is a hit that reminds me of JD somehow (the band is "Legião urbana", "Urban Legion").

    check it out here on youtube (they won't let you post a link in here)

  • Don`t Walk Away!!!

  • great band

  • My boyfriend and I recently made this one of our songs. Like the title suggest it sets the Atmosphere perfetly. Pure Magic!

  • MAGIC!

  • when i listen to Joy Division i'm either bowing my head down in sadness or holding my head up high in amazement and lovingness. so beautiful!!

  • @krisisH96 i know what you mean, theres great beauty to be found in sadness. Afterall it's thew impermancence of life that makes it so magnifecent and I wish you the best in yours.

  • @krisisH96 couldn't have said it better.

  • @krisisH96

    OR if youre listening to Closer you're attempting suicide

  • @krisisH96 What a reall really spot on coment mate, same for me. Very beautiful.

  • ...

  • Are those children in the robes? Makes it even more sad.

  • Such an amazing song...the first time i played this to my mate, he shread a tear and he'd never even heard of joy division

  • RIP Ian, I remember this record well my mate, Griffs Bar Halifax very early eighties

  • R.I.P. Ian. Hopefully wherever you are, you are at peace.

  • RIP Ian. 5-18-80

  • IAN CURTIS DIED TODAY

  • Just Come Back From Seeing Peter Hook At Factory. Amazing!

  • just finished his biography today, it was great just reading his lyrics and just knowing that he meant every word he wrote. I find it saddening that he felt it was worst to be alive than it was to be dead. ian curtis RIP Legend

  • Meravigliosa. Grazie, Ian. R.I.P

  • Such a strikingly talented musician gone at such a young age. I think this is my favorite Joy Division song.

  • RIP. will always live on through his fantastic music.

  • RIP. will always live on through his fantastic music.

  • RIP Ian.

    "We are all mortal" - JFK

  • Beau!!

  • R.I.P IAN Never forgotten You live on in your music Sleep well Mate

  • rest in peace!

  • Hey Ian,

    Hope you're allright now, wherever you are !

    30 years... - teardrops !

    Love from Jon !