I like the killers, however, they did not do a good job when they covered this song. It feels flat and emontionless, like they are just going through the motions. I'm not sure if the killers are dark and moody enough to pull off a tune like this. For the most part I like them as a band, the cover just did not work for me.
So f*cking what if the killers covered Joy Division? Covers don't "ruin" songs, the original is still here to be enjoyed. Joy Division is a timeless band, it makes sense that current day bands feel influenced by them and wanna pay an homage, plus they didn't do a bad job... it's not like Miley Cyrus covered it or something. God, people really need to get over themselves.
This is why I hate these so called "hipsters" they cant even leave a song like this alone, go and bum your arctic chimps and leave ageless music alone.
Leave The Killers alone, geez, they did a decent cover. Sure, it's poppy and bubbly but it doesn't sound bad. It's just different. The problem is that so many people can't stand music different from their personal taste.
I hate the Killers but everytime this song came on I would listen and enjoy it. I couldn't understand why this song had powerful lyrics that wasn't the norm of the Killers brand. A friend of mine insulted me then offered to let me listen to the original. It was Joy Division! This song blew my ears away. I couldn't stop listening to it! Great song!
this version is the best and i don't have anything about the killers, but we came not to discuss only that, do we? and it's sad joy division has less views than the killers.:(
not it's not sad, a lot of joy divion fans have better things to do than people than 12 years olds who listen to the killers... with that said, i love both versions!
If Joe Strummer (Clash) met Ian Curtis in heaven/hell today, and had a drink and chat, Would they be back to Earth ? What for? maybe to join the anti-capitalist protests in Europe , Occupy Wall Street in NY. Maybe.
@MrKatana1100sz Ignore him, lay back and listen to the greatest ever Joy Division, Stranglers, Buzzcocks..( does redpaul79 know who Buzzcocks, Magazine, Associates..are)?? PUB is the word, agree with you, apparently they call it bar!!! Take care MrKatana100sz
@MrKatana1100sz The Stranglers are out of this world. Yes! ;^) Golden Brown, Toiler on the Sea, La Folie,...They say Golden Brown is about the drug. I think it is.,.but i think its about so much more as well. Spirits abounding. ANyone who doesnt know of the Stranglers should check them out!
@MrKatana1100sz i dont know what on earth you're yammering about... who the fuck are the stranglers?... and what's this "pub" shit? it's called a BAR, faggot--
@MrKatana1100sz bullshit--Devo's pointless "cover" (massacre is more like it) of Satisfaction was a lame gimmick novelty record--annoying and lame--only a subnormal could consider that (or any stupid cover) "better" than the one recorded by the song's CREATOR--the very notion is just asinine--you're a smelly douchebag.
@MrKatana1100sz decent points you make. just the same. The original was originally made up by someone and the people covering are just covering. Am i wrong? I completely agree with you on the Devo cover as well though. But that could be because my dad loves the stones version and i think my dad is full of shit. As well as the stones are so overdone at this point, its refreshing to hear something new lol ;) be well. peace and love..
If you love The Horrors and Death From Above 1979 or even Joy Division check out The Deep Transition on here or facebook. You will love them I can assure you of that !
@dannitklover One exeption...there cover of Romeo and Juliet WAS better than the original Dire Straits version!!! But apart from that, couldn't agree with u more :)
@moldyolddough1 I wouldn't go as far as saying that, The Killers has many songs with lyrics that would compare to this. Even though you like Joy Divisions version of Shadowplay better then The Killers, you shouldn't compare them, because they are in two completely different genres. I wont deny that this version is good, but I prefer The Killers's live version best. But that is just my taste, and I respect it if you think this version is better.
@1985Asylum Why compare Joy Division with the Killers? In fact had they never covered this song I doubt anybody would hear any influence in their music.Joy Division were a post-punk group who made music because they had to. The Killers are a pop group who are generally more like Scissor Sisters in sound. They make music for commercial gain primarily. which is fair enough. As for comparing them lyrically, well that's just laughable really. Some covers do improve on the originals sometimes though.
@moldyolddough1 You don't think anybody would hear any influence in their music? The Killers were extremely big long before they covered this song. The Killers is a pop group? Thats wrong, The Killers is a rock band, mate, and they sound far from Scissor Sister, you must have terrible ears to think so.
@1985Asylum I'm not questioning how big the Killers are. I just don't think they should even be mentioned in the same breathe a Joy Division. The Killers are essentially a pop band or pop/rock if you like with little emotional depth that i can hear or see in their music. But my comparing them to the scissor sisters to you is as wide of the mark as you comparing them with Joy Divison.
The Scissor Sisters covered Pink Floyd but that is where comparison begin and end. Its is the same here.
@1985Asylum I meant nobody would consider Joy Division to be an influence on the Killers had they not covered one of their songs. Having said that I cant think of any bands of merit who would cite the Killers as an influence on them and their sound. I have been a music lover for over 30 years and have very varied eclectic tastes indeed but alas the Killers have failed to do anything for me. They just don't have it.
if i puut a gun to your head and told u what to think then maybe youd be justified calling me nazi..douche bag. your opinion is what counts. tell me something i dont know
I am fully supportive that JD were and are the best band, BUT, the Killers did a very good homage to an inspiration of theirs. They weren't stealing the song, they weren't claiming it, just creating a tribute.
Now can everyone get over themselves and stop being music snobs? Thanks.
I've always liked the Killers and thought their version was great. But you can't beat the original. Brandon his has own personal style of music and Ian had his. Ian was a musical genius long before Brandon's time. To me it's not a pissing contest of who did the better version, but simply a tribute to one of rock's most beloved frontmen that is Ian Curtis.
Interpol are the only real successors to Division in modern pop music, Killers are good, but nothing like as good or as similar. They might be influenced, but they didn't truly inherit.
@marcvesper No band is sucessor to another band. All bands (the good ones) are unique. Being influenced is one thing, being the heir of a band is something completely different.
I guess The Killers version of this song would sound good if I took Prozac as it is completely devoid of any real emotional content. Joy Division will still always own this song no matter what. Bands should really think twice before covering any Joy Division songs as they can never reach the depths of soul searching that Ian Curtis had to write the lyrics. Personally The Killers version kind of ruined Shadowplay for a few years as a listening experience for myself.
seems like the killers fans and joy divisions fans dont like each other.. get over it, these are both talented bands and if you dont think so.. dont tak about either of em -.-
@ViciousDeliciousIV I love this song. Joy Division is literally my favorite band. I just dont see why anyone gives a fuck about dislikes, and who dislikes the song. Some people dont like Joy Division, so what? Billions of people dont like Joy Divsion. If I dislike this song, that doesnt in any way take away from the pleasure you get from it. So why do you care? I dont care if this becomes the most disliked video on youtube. Its just a fucking click of a button. Who gives a SHIT?
Some people say they like the killers cover of the song better than the original. lmao.
All doubt should be erased after watching and listening JDs live version of this. Thats my opinion anyway. And like someone said down there a ways...its easy to cover a song thats already written and there. lol
@AbsintheColour People doesn't feel all the same, it's all about how it makes you feel, but nobody's right, all of them are right, you know, telling people how to think it's fucking nazi
@AbsintheColour i mean "as good", okay--but "better?" that would just be absurd. even if the cover is more perfect, it's still just a well polished copy.
@AnuxeL anyone in the world can "re-do" something, adding a little of this and a bit of that, combining elements to "improve" on something, make it more perfect for example, but nothing trumps originality.
@TheGoodStuff2010 it isnt. its bold. it seems darn near impossible. I have nothing personally against it. I think it would be almost as if someone on the street was playing a old song. You wouldnt go up to them and say you suck and arent as good as the original. hahaha. They of course would are just fond of playing the diddy and love the original i suppose.
@AbsintheColour I believed The Killers said they were asked by Joy Division and didn't want to do it because they feared it wouldn't be a good cover. Personally, I really enjoy it and it's alright that some Joy Division fans don't, but I think that some of them are miffed that another band (or not the one that wanted) covered the song. Artists do it all of the time and The Killers aren't any different. They should be happy the group is being open to more fans.
@AbsintheColour The most important guy from JD has s been dead for 30years!? If killers asked they must asked a clairvoyance!? all this comparence is crap!!? face it today's generation has nothing to contribute only COPY!!!
@MysterCD Never liked the Killers. Pretty common band for nowadays in my opinion. Ian checked out of his own will also. Effin sucks, but he kinda lost his say when he did that. It was a selfish thing to do. Much love to him and to some extent i think your right about him being the most important in the band. It was his poetry, his voice. You cant disrespect the musical side of it either. They were a team and couldnt have succeeded one without the other.
@MysterCD again, i agree. Sucks that the bands need to keep relevent and popular overpowers their artistic integrity a bit. Itd be nice if they could find a better way
I've always thought that Unknown Pleasures is a great rock album but by the time they were recording stuff like Passover, Komakino, Atrocity Exhibition and Something Must Break, Ceremony, In A Lonely Place about a year later they were so good by then they are pretty much an artistic high watermark of the 2nd half of the 20th C. Listen to a track like Passover - it's just a few guitar lines hung over a void. It sounds like nothing else in creation. They were truly out on their own by then.
sorry. but its the truth. theres nothing i love more than to see my beloved killers get up there and rock the skirt off a song that lacked.....character.... :)
@Smallville357 the killers versoin has a crap beat no soul in the vocal the killers are technically better musicians but iain curtis lived breathed and wrote those words you only have your beloved killers because of joy division british music has mostly lead the way ie the beatles you gave us the monkeys ones so real the other fake just like killers shadow play and by the way i like the killers
just chillax bro. im just expressing my opinions. to me, iain curtis's voice doesnt have the same character and animation, the same tone and intensity as brandon. and thats why i dont like this version as much. i love joy divison and somtimes, only being a 14 year old chick, i get totally bugged for my taste in music and so i must be naive to think that displaying my opinions in the most respectful way possible would ever be looked upon as "legal". BEING HONEST IS A CRIME!!
@GAREMPOTS ye but the killers have all this recording wizardry like most bands this is as real as it gets its ok too express your opinoin for sure but i have the right too say you are not right you like most people your age prob heard killers firstman a was your age when joy divisoin started i also write record and play doesnt make me an expert but i know whats going on in the recording and joy divisoin werent the best players around musicianship wise but the diffrence its easy too cover a song
THATS NOT IT YOU DUMBASS! JEEZ. that has nothing to do with it. take justin bieber for example...possibly the biggest homo-in-denial there is. HATE HIM. HATE HATE HATE HIM...freakin gangsta wannabe...hes sucha douche. anyways....brandon flowers is just very special. and joy division is as well. i just think that the killers, overall, did a great job of covering this song and by saying this, i may even prefer their version. kapish!?
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dang9669 6 hours ago
In the center of the city in the night, I found the Geritol man.
hoibsh 6 days ago
What i love about JD is their sound fuckin unique, thats why they are one of my fav bands cuz no other band on earth sounds like them that bass man
morrisjuan 1 week ago
THIS IS FUCKING ORGASMIC¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
senayaelfa 3 weeks ago 3
I like the killers, however, they did not do a good job when they covered this song. It feels flat and emontionless, like they are just going through the motions. I'm not sure if the killers are dark and moody enough to pull off a tune like this. For the most part I like them as a band, the cover just did not work for me.
MrTheo1627 3 weeks ago
i just want to bring ian curtis back to life, have sex with him, then kill myself<3
phoney98 1 month ago 5
@phoney98 What!! bringing him back from the dead isn't the mess up part, it the killing him!! why on earth would you kill that god. :)
CssOrZ 3 weeks ago
@CssOrZ Messed*
CssOrZ 3 weeks ago
@CssOrZ i said i'd kill MYSELF, just as ian curtis killed himself. listening to iggy pop, washing line as noose and everything<3
phoney98 3 weeks ago
@phoney98 your super creepy :D
MaaaarrJ 3 weeks ago
@phoney98 No....?
TTDMFfreaknew 2 weeks ago
@phoney98 ur living in a dream world , but you could kill thy self if its what you want , id like that!!
mrcepticcuntflaps 1 week ago
Top comment is about hating -.- FAIL.
Gelenthar 1 month ago
i dont play drums but this makes me wanna get a set and bang the shit out of the china
TAYGUNOV 1 month ago
Why do people always feel the need to argue on youtube? Just shut up and enjoy the music. Sheesh!
CaliforniaGirl088 1 month ago 4
Seriously a BMW commercial in this video, in a JOY DIVISIONS VIDEO??
haylin13 1 month ago
So f*cking what if the killers covered Joy Division? Covers don't "ruin" songs, the original is still here to be enjoyed. Joy Division is a timeless band, it makes sense that current day bands feel influenced by them and wanna pay an homage, plus they didn't do a bad job... it's not like Miley Cyrus covered it or something. God, people really need to get over themselves.
anamulleer 1 month ago 8
i hate the killers. man.
skinnypuppy81 1 month ago
This is why I hate these so called "hipsters" they cant even leave a song like this alone, go and bum your arctic chimps and leave ageless music alone.
spakasam 1 month ago
aw. the track skips.
kellwych 1 month ago
check out my cover of this song on my channel
FilmRanter1993 1 month ago
Leave The Killers alone, geez, they did a decent cover. Sure, it's poppy and bubbly but it doesn't sound bad. It's just different. The problem is that so many people can't stand music different from their personal taste.
RamenSkull123 2 months ago 26
what the fuck is the killers?
ohgr919 2 months ago
juste génial , 33 ans et indémodable ...
JEROME17770 2 months ago
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fuckyourselfyeah 2 months ago
I hate the Killers but everytime this song came on I would listen and enjoy it. I couldn't understand why this song had powerful lyrics that wasn't the norm of the Killers brand. A friend of mine insulted me then offered to let me listen to the original. It was Joy Division! This song blew my ears away. I couldn't stop listening to it! Great song!
malkuth3 2 months ago
στα βαθη των ωκεανων οπου ολες οι ελπιδες βουλιαξαν ,ψαχνοντας για σενα....
Teknosun 2 months ago 6
@Teknosun ετσι
NickHaVAnaClub 1 month ago
can u stop it with all the 'oh it's sad they have less views than the killers blablabla' they didn't have youtube back then
GoofyAlfie 2 months ago 2
excellent quality, brilliant song. thanks.
nickjveitch 2 months ago
this version is the best and i don't have anything about the killers, but we came not to discuss only that, do we? and it's sad joy division has less views than the killers.:(
AmeRoawr 2 months ago
@AmeRoawr
not it's not sad, a lot of joy divion fans have better things to do than people than 12 years olds who listen to the killers... with that said, i love both versions!
hparas1 1 month ago
This is the better version... no question. So much more raw than the Killers.
gretschdrummer100 2 months ago
the joy division music in thhis track is a lot grugeier and
better but the killers vocals are way better
fitnessbars 2 months ago
which fucking idiots are disliking this!?! Can only imagine it's killers fanboys trying to make it seem their cover is better
GeoffSkates 2 months ago
If Joe Strummer (Clash) met Ian Curtis in heaven/hell today, and had a drink and chat, Would they be back to Earth ? What for? maybe to join the anti-capitalist protests in Europe , Occupy Wall Street in NY. Maybe.
LongfeiAvesani08 2 months ago
44 dislikes?? You fucking gay cunts!!
davedenisetigg 2 months ago
@davedenisetigg gay ? seriously ?
MrTerribleLie 2 months ago
Brian Aubert ,From Silversun Pickups sang It Pretty well I liked it you know like it was ..Different Hahaha Idk >.<
moreno98ify 3 months ago
Guys please, i really don't understand a shit!
Why are you discussin' on such a great song?
Just let the assholes be assholes and enjoy that great song from that great band!
NerothrowsawahisTV 3 months ago 36
@MrKatana1100sz Ignore him, lay back and listen to the greatest ever Joy Division, Stranglers, Buzzcocks..( does redpaul79 know who Buzzcocks, Magazine, Associates..are)?? PUB is the word, agree with you, apparently they call it bar!!! Take care MrKatana100sz
NicBunnymen 3 months ago
Great song by a great band.
pablotepa13 3 months ago
@MrKatana1100sz The Stranglers are out of this world. Yes! ;^) Golden Brown, Toiler on the Sea, La Folie,...They say Golden Brown is about the drug. I think it is.,.but i think its about so much more as well. Spirits abounding. ANyone who doesnt know of the Stranglers should check them out!
AbsintheColour 3 months ago
@MrKatana1100sz i dont know what on earth you're yammering about... who the fuck are the stranglers?... and what's this "pub" shit? it's called a BAR, faggot--
redpaul79 3 months ago
@MrKatana1100sz bullshit--Devo's pointless "cover" (massacre is more like it) of Satisfaction was a lame gimmick novelty record--annoying and lame--only a subnormal could consider that (or any stupid cover) "better" than the one recorded by the song's CREATOR--the very notion is just asinine--you're a smelly douchebag.
redpaul79 3 months ago
@MrKatana1100sz decent points you make. just the same. The original was originally made up by someone and the people covering are just covering. Am i wrong? I completely agree with you on the Devo cover as well though. But that could be because my dad loves the stones version and i think my dad is full of shit. As well as the stones are so overdone at this point, its refreshing to hear something new lol ;) be well. peace and love..
AbsintheColour 3 months ago
goduria
poldarossa 3 months ago
Fuck The Killers. This is 30x better.
xGillzz 3 months ago
Fuck the killers. This is 30x better
xGillzz 3 months ago
this song is sooo good!
samg013 3 months ago
does anyone else notice that it says Joy Division are playing at The Greenside Hotel, Leslie on 21st October 2011? hmmmm.............
greencatsick 3 months ago
sounds like bauhause
o0POSH0o 3 months ago
@o0POSH0o bauhaus copied JD they hairdressers with guitars!
MysterCD 3 months ago
ohmygawd thisisperfection
GermanPeoplePerson 3 months ago 2
i just listened to the killers version. just a shitty waste of time.
Photonzos 3 months ago
If you love The Horrors and Death From Above 1979 or even Joy Division check out The Deep Transition on here or facebook. You will love them I can assure you of that !
RoryAstenBell 4 months ago
I think The Killers cover was a great job :D but the original versions of all songs are better :D always!
the killers is awesome too ;)
dannitklover 4 months ago 2
@dannitklover One exeption...there cover of Romeo and Juliet WAS better than the original Dire Straits version!!! But apart from that, couldn't agree with u more :)
hahamadeyoulook1 4 months ago
oh ian, why did you leave.
daylightsunsets92 4 months ago
Hello guys. I'm RockN8N.
This is my new channel with my own song on it.
Enjoy
This is not a pathetic lie or something, I'm really the same guy as RockN8N. You can check the profiles if you don't believe it.
YukoYukoOfficial 4 months ago
Forty - one dislikes!?What the firetruck?!This song is amazing!What is wrong with those people?
lilithbatcat1 4 months ago
such a fantastic song.
mohawkchild 4 months ago
The Killers have never and wont ever write anything remotely as good as this.
moldyolddough1 4 months ago 47
@moldyolddough1 complete BS. I'm not going to argue over who is better, but that is ridiculous.
TheGoodStuff2010 3 months ago
@moldyolddough1 Totally agree with you . Joy Division the greatest ever.
NicBunnymen 3 months ago
@moldyolddough1 I wouldn't go as far as saying that, The Killers has many songs with lyrics that would compare to this. Even though you like Joy Divisions version of Shadowplay better then The Killers, you shouldn't compare them, because they are in two completely different genres. I wont deny that this version is good, but I prefer The Killers's live version best. But that is just my taste, and I respect it if you think this version is better.
1985Asylum 2 months ago
@1985Asylum Why compare Joy Division with the Killers? In fact had they never covered this song I doubt anybody would hear any influence in their music.Joy Division were a post-punk group who made music because they had to. The Killers are a pop group who are generally more like Scissor Sisters in sound. They make music for commercial gain primarily. which is fair enough. As for comparing them lyrically, well that's just laughable really. Some covers do improve on the originals sometimes though.
moldyolddough1 2 months ago
@moldyolddough1 You don't think anybody would hear any influence in their music? The Killers were extremely big long before they covered this song. The Killers is a pop group? Thats wrong, The Killers is a rock band, mate, and they sound far from Scissor Sister, you must have terrible ears to think so.
1985Asylum 2 months ago
@1985Asylum I'm not questioning how big the Killers are. I just don't think they should even be mentioned in the same breathe a Joy Division. The Killers are essentially a pop band or pop/rock if you like with little emotional depth that i can hear or see in their music. But my comparing them to the scissor sisters to you is as wide of the mark as you comparing them with Joy Divison.
The Scissor Sisters covered Pink Floyd but that is where comparison begin and end. Its is the same here.
moldyolddough1 2 months ago
@1985Asylum I meant nobody would consider Joy Division to be an influence on the Killers had they not covered one of their songs. Having said that I cant think of any bands of merit who would cite the Killers as an influence on them and their sound. I have been a music lover for over 30 years and have very varied eclectic tastes indeed but alas the Killers have failed to do anything for me. They just don't have it.
moldyolddough1 2 months ago
@moldyolddough1
..Bravo !....
pcelamaya13 2 months ago
@moldyolddough1 yeah the killers have no chance, Joy Division is one of the best bands
misfits5656 2 months ago
I like the lyrics, and the music....just not his voice :/
acorn2taco 4 months ago
if i puut a gun to your head and told u what to think then maybe youd be justified calling me nazi..douche bag. your opinion is what counts. tell me something i dont know
AbsintheColour 5 months ago
a nazi? your callin me a nazi due to my opinion? get a grip..smoke a joint...jesus
AbsintheColour 5 months ago
@AbsintheColour press the "reply"button and then type your response :)
Mq7riX 4 months ago
Fukc imagine 30 more years of Ian's creativity,,,
just try to imagine....
ZzZ0ne 5 months ago
Who compare versions is stupid.
PatateTony35 5 months ago 31
Fuck The Killers They Are Wanna Be Joy Division Band Like Interpol
SidMisfit 5 months ago 2
@SidMisfit difference is interpol are actually worth something
Gwilim 4 months ago
@Gwilim But Their Just A Band Too Influenced To Where They Sound Almost Like A Cover Band.
SidMisfit 4 months ago
I am fully supportive that JD were and are the best band, BUT, the Killers did a very good homage to an inspiration of theirs. They weren't stealing the song, they weren't claiming it, just creating a tribute.
Now can everyone get over themselves and stop being music snobs? Thanks.
IndieMimiz 5 months ago
Both versions of the song are great, stop bitching people.
a80a80a80 5 months ago 3
I Soviett Russia, you die for Ian Curtis...
MrPeguin666 5 months ago
I've always liked the Killers and thought their version was great. But you can't beat the original. Brandon his has own personal style of music and Ian had his. Ian was a musical genius long before Brandon's time. To me it's not a pissing contest of who did the better version, but simply a tribute to one of rock's most beloved frontmen that is Ian Curtis.
ryangarrettofficial 5 months ago
Sorry but Killers butchered this awesome song....
richman855 5 months ago 2
Atleast the killers changed the song and just didnt try to be Joy Division
tillyandtiger 5 months ago
This is just great.... >:(
BeatDemon08 5 months ago
@darceyheart Care to expand on that, brainiac? The only reason to even sample the killers is for their weak attempt to emulate or reproduce genius.
ollihp 5 months ago
Interpol are the only real successors to Division in modern pop music, Killers are good, but nothing like as good or as similar. They might be influenced, but they didn't truly inherit.
marcvesper 5 months ago
@marcvesper No band is sucessor to another band. All bands (the good ones) are unique. Being influenced is one thing, being the heir of a band is something completely different.
dalmohern 5 months ago
I guess The Killers version of this song would sound good if I took Prozac as it is completely devoid of any real emotional content. Joy Division will still always own this song no matter what. Bands should really think twice before covering any Joy Division songs as they can never reach the depths of soul searching that Ian Curtis had to write the lyrics. Personally The Killers version kind of ruined Shadowplay for a few years as a listening experience for myself.
Obelisk2323 6 months ago
LMFAO!
BrandonDomoxD 6 months ago
the killers suck ass, stop mentioning them
coochflaps 6 months ago
The killers version is better..
darceyheart 6 months ago
@darceyheart Yeah, well, Joy division did it first and the Killers changed the song way to much to call it shadowplay
Stickman797 6 months ago
@darceyheart yea right.... i'm sure..
juan2232 5 months ago
id love to know the percentage of videos on you tube that contain comments of wankers arguing, its gotta be quite high
awooooogah 6 months ago
Fuck off killer's version, I fucking hate that cover song.
xROTTEDxBRAINx 6 months ago
I was definently born in the wrong decade. I would give anything to have seen JD in person.
another1n 6 months ago
Easy to cover... indeed. Just play...the hard work it`s already made... The original...
And it`s not shit... L know it from myself
Arrotvs 6 months ago
i love the killers and joy division. both version are epic lets just all be friends lol
DARRENC1972 6 months ago 27
@DARRENC1972
I f..ck The Killers so hard!
ThePsioch 3 months ago
best band ever <3
sofithebesT2008 6 months ago
seems like the killers fans and joy divisions fans dont like each other.. get over it, these are both talented bands and if you dont think so.. dont tak about either of em -.-
rongdisk23 6 months ago 3
@rongdisk23 could not have said it better, I like Joy Division, I like The Killers. We don't need to compare them.
G3GabeL 6 months ago
interpol shouldve covered this song!
pbrzombie562 6 months ago
The pride of Manchester, Having heard the shit cover by the killers, Makes me glad to be the age i am.
shedendboy1 6 months ago
but... you can be forgiven..... there is redemption , just think "What would Ian do?"
carol88811 6 months ago
SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO DISLIKED THIS. WHO GIVES A FUCK? I'M GONNA DISLIKE IT JUST TO PISS YOU OFF.
JakeWeirdo12 7 months ago
@JakeWeirdo12 U mad? U one of the people who dislike this song? Wats wrong witchuu?
ViciousDeliciousIV 6 months ago
@ViciousDeliciousIV I love this song. Joy Division is literally my favorite band. I just dont see why anyone gives a fuck about dislikes, and who dislikes the song. Some people dont like Joy Division, so what? Billions of people dont like Joy Divsion. If I dislike this song, that doesnt in any way take away from the pleasure you get from it. So why do you care? I dont care if this becomes the most disliked video on youtube. Its just a fucking click of a button. Who gives a SHIT?
JakeWeirdo12 6 months ago 5
@JakeWeirdo12 I understand what you say. It's true... Liking or disliking ONE VIDEO don't mean disliking ALL THE BAND :/
Just a number, just one click. It doesn't matter really n_n
faefdsedf 6 months ago
WHO are the 38 people who doesn't like this song?????
tessaming 7 months ago
you should check out the new Mirrors video for Look At Me! It's on the Mirrors channel M1rrors
fannyfeatures88 7 months ago
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Killers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PepperDr94 7 months ago
fuck justin,ladi gaaga,
souberk 7 months ago
@souberk ...saying such names in a great video... just, don't talk about them. Thanks in advance.
faefdsedf 6 months ago
Reminds me of my brother who committed suicide a few months ago.
R.I.P. brother, I miss you.
dagonFFF 7 months ago 2
<3
JessicaRosebalen 7 months ago
Some people say they like the killers cover of the song better than the original. lmao.
All doubt should be erased after watching and listening JDs live version of this. Thats my opinion anyway. And like someone said down there a ways...its easy to cover a song thats already written and there. lol
AbsintheColour 7 months ago 44
@AbsintheColour Don't like ur opinion. That's it. Don't like the "Easy to cover" ... You say shit man.
IMangame 6 months ago
@AbsintheColour I would have a hard time naming a song by The Killers, but if we get to hear some live JD, then all well and good!
AtticusStount 6 months ago
@AbsintheColour I just hear both versions... Its just so hard to compare The Killers does sound clearer...
EJL224 6 months ago
@AbsintheColour yes i'd imagine it quite impossible to cover a song that has not yet been written
GiantDoucheNG 5 months ago
@AbsintheColour
ian would hate anyone who wrote "lol" in a sentence
atwax 5 months ago 2
@atwax
lol Just kidding
rufus566 5 months ago
@atwax I doubt that
Gwilim 4 months ago
@AbsintheColour People doesn't feel all the same, it's all about how it makes you feel, but nobody's right, all of them are right, you know, telling people how to think it's fucking nazi
VekmanVictor 5 months ago
@AbsintheColour anyone who "likes a cover song better than the original" is a turd who needs to be flushed
redpaul79 4 months ago
@redpaul79 thats what im thinkin. For the very most part anyway
AbsintheColour 4 months ago
@AbsintheColour i mean "as good", okay--but "better?" that would just be absurd. even if the cover is more perfect, it's still just a well polished copy.
redpaul79 4 months ago 2
@redpaul79 Yes. ;^)
AbsintheColour 4 months ago
@redpaul79 Not necessarily.
AnuxeL 3 months ago in playlist AnuxeL's Favorited Videos
@AnuxeL anyone in the world can "re-do" something, adding a little of this and a bit of that, combining elements to "improve" on something, make it more perfect for example, but nothing trumps originality.
redpaul79 3 months ago
@AbsintheColour True, but it's not easy to make it your own while paying homage to the previous artist.
TheGoodStuff2010 3 months ago
@TheGoodStuff2010 it isnt. its bold. it seems darn near impossible. I have nothing personally against it. I think it would be almost as if someone on the street was playing a old song. You wouldnt go up to them and say you suck and arent as good as the original. hahaha. They of course would are just fond of playing the diddy and love the original i suppose.
AbsintheColour 3 months ago
@AbsintheColour I believed The Killers said they were asked by Joy Division and didn't want to do it because they feared it wouldn't be a good cover. Personally, I really enjoy it and it's alright that some Joy Division fans don't, but I think that some of them are miffed that another band (or not the one that wanted) covered the song. Artists do it all of the time and The Killers aren't any different. They should be happy the group is being open to more fans.
TheGoodStuff2010 3 months ago
@TheGoodStuff2010 sounds good. if the guys from JD asked them then thats how it is.
AbsintheColour 3 months ago
@AbsintheColour The most important guy from JD has s been dead for 30years!? If killers asked they must asked a clairvoyance!? all this comparence is crap!!? face it today's generation has nothing to contribute only COPY!!!
MysterCD 3 months ago
@MysterCD Never liked the Killers. Pretty common band for nowadays in my opinion. Ian checked out of his own will also. Effin sucks, but he kinda lost his say when he did that. It was a selfish thing to do. Much love to him and to some extent i think your right about him being the most important in the band. It was his poetry, his voice. You cant disrespect the musical side of it either. They were a team and couldnt have succeeded one without the other.
AbsintheColour 3 months ago
@AbsintheColour Killers are US wana bees Dont waist your time !!? Snore!!!
MysterCD 3 months ago
@MysterCD again, i agree. Sucks that the bands need to keep relevent and popular overpowers their artistic integrity a bit. Itd be nice if they could find a better way
AbsintheColour 3 months ago
problem with Killers they didn't kill themselves!!? also the UK Editors who even worse copiies!!?
MysterCD 3 months ago
this song is the good representation of my soul...Ian always on my mind
MrDiego881 7 months ago
alt gut gut
Brzosta1961 8 months ago
who wrote the song, the killers or...
WardSennes 8 months ago
@WardSennes No, the killers just made a cover of the song. Ian Curtis wrote it ( the vocalist of Joy Division).
Beckyepo 8 months ago in playlist INDIE ROCK & ALTERNATIVE SONGS 1 3
@WardSennes you should be shot
ryanhennebry 8 months ago in playlist Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures
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@WardSennes you should be shot
ryanhennebry 8 months ago in playlist Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures
@WardSennes ha ha ha ha ha what no it was curtis the killers only destryed it and i quite like killers
GAREMPOTS 8 months ago
Bacon.
ColbyFoote 8 months ago
IAN VIVIRAS POR SIEMPRE HASTA SIEMPRE IAN
FUTURESINFO 8 months ago
@crabroast22 you need your ears cleaned.
666ThaScarecro666 8 months ago
Oh sooooo awesome!!!! I really don't know what's happened, I mean when is there gonna be another great music wave? Or something.....
SVTSuzie 9 months ago
@SVTSuzie I'm afraid not. All we have is people conforming to mainstream stuff, which is, sadly, Justin Bieber etc. :P
wotcherme 9 months ago
I've always thought that Unknown Pleasures is a great rock album but by the time they were recording stuff like Passover, Komakino, Atrocity Exhibition and Something Must Break, Ceremony, In A Lonely Place about a year later they were so good by then they are pretty much an artistic high watermark of the 2nd half of the 20th C. Listen to a track like Passover - it's just a few guitar lines hung over a void. It sounds like nothing else in creation. They were truly out on their own by then.
NormanArches 9 months ago
@NormanArches ye but it was down to the producer he had alot of imput he was great
GAREMPOTS 8 months ago
@JJLippe
Why would you say such stupid shit like that?
Pandas501 9 months ago 2
dont hate me, but my utter love for brandon flowers/killers brought me here....and tbh....i kinda like/love their version better :3 hehe
Smallville357 9 months ago
@Smallville357 Get out.
AStreetwiseAngel 8 months ago
@AStreetwiseAngel
sorry. but its the truth. theres nothing i love more than to see my beloved killers get up there and rock the skirt off a song that lacked.....character.... :)
Smallville357 8 months ago
@Smallville357 the killers versoin has a crap beat no soul in the vocal the killers are technically better musicians but iain curtis lived breathed and wrote those words you only have your beloved killers because of joy division british music has mostly lead the way ie the beatles you gave us the monkeys ones so real the other fake just like killers shadow play and by the way i like the killers
GAREMPOTS 8 months ago 2
@GAREMPOTS
just chillax bro. im just expressing my opinions. to me, iain curtis's voice doesnt have the same character and animation, the same tone and intensity as brandon. and thats why i dont like this version as much. i love joy divison and somtimes, only being a 14 year old chick, i get totally bugged for my taste in music and so i must be naive to think that displaying my opinions in the most respectful way possible would ever be looked upon as "legal". BEING HONEST IS A CRIME!!
Smallville357 8 months ago
@GAREMPOTS ye but the killers have all this recording wizardry like most bands this is as real as it gets its ok too express your opinoin for sure but i have the right too say you are not right you like most people your age prob heard killers firstman a was your age when joy divisoin started i also write record and play doesnt make me an expert but i know whats going on in the recording and joy divisoin werent the best players around musicianship wise but the diffrence its easy too cover a song
GAREMPOTS 8 months ago
@GAREMPOTS It's okay, 14 yo girls like high pitched voices. God forbid someone with a low tenor or baritone voice should sing something.
TheFauxpas42 8 months ago
@TheFauxpas42
THATS NOT IT YOU DUMBASS! JEEZ. that has nothing to do with it. take justin bieber for example...possibly the biggest homo-in-denial there is. HATE HIM. HATE HATE HATE HIM...freakin gangsta wannabe...hes sucha douche. anyways....brandon flowers is just very special. and joy division is as well. i just think that the killers, overall, did a great job of covering this song and by saying this, i may even prefer their version. kapish!?
Smallville357 8 months ago
@TheFauxpas42
btw, nick cave and lou reed are 2 of my favourite artists...so how u like them apples?
Smallville357 8 months ago
@Smallville357 Your an idiot. Read a book.
TheMRseaton 8 months ago
@TheMRseaton
meh. much rather watch the killers version of this song.
Smallville357 8 months ago
@Smallville357 Simple pleasures for simple minds
roe5745 8 months ago
@roe5745
nothing wrong with keeping things simple. rather that that be broke, divorced, or dying....
Smallville357 8 months ago
@Smallville357 no one will ever take you seriously again for that stupid opinion. sorry. but you're lame.
TheFeelin89 6 months ago
@TheFeelin89
no need to be sorry. id much rather be stupid than you.....id call you an idiot but i wouldnt wanna offend idiots.
Smallville357 6 months ago
my uncle saw these back in 78 i wish i had love them.and ian
CryptDoll1 9 months ago
Possibly the greatest song of all time in the "modern era"
donnybrooklads 10 months ago 10
@donnybrooklads so in other words it's not the greatest song of all time? it would be the greatest song of the modern era?
KazakageoftheSand 9 months ago