Joy Division - Wilderness

[deftones311100]

one of there best tunes. then again all of joy divisions music is one of their best tunes!

[L0veAndSqualor]

I want to dance with Ian Curtis.

[siouxzeigh]

I remember when I first got into Joy Division...waiting for the middle school bus at the end of my street, bundling up in the gloves and hat my mom forced me wear, blasting "Wilderness" on repeat through my lame over-the-ear style headphones, and fulfilling all sorts of stereotypes about teenage angst. Now, ten years later, the song is still on repeat (though, fortunately, the other circumstances have changed--except for my awesome headphones. I stand by that choice.)

[PrinceAntares]

Ian Curtis was a holy man

[radoslaw108]

Fucking divine,or better:))

[djmusicjac]

amazing, awesome tune

[radoslaw108]

One of the greatest band in UK

polishman 1972

[jaagupcool6]

wilderness? shit needs to get done. :D

[pistolpimp36]

Morpheus is listening in with all of us..that bassline just blew a fucking hole through the matrix.

[Johnnytheowl]

they totally ripped off the spice girls

[erikhai1]

@Johnnytheowl The Spice Girls were in diapers when this came out.

[nirb8]

@erikhai1

You're not really good in sarcasm, are you?

[felicetanka]

i think stalin and hitler

are the popes of hate

and lust.

[bluevalium10]

6 people have absolutly no taste in music

[Joskeuu]

Deff liking thise song, only the 3rd one I've heard. I'm catching up here. ^^

[Sadiqa66]

HAIL [M]ORPHEUS !!

[AntiquarianRambles]

I love it when the guitar kicks back in after the solo, it's almost orchestral. And I always preferred it when Ian changed the first line when performing live: "I traveled far and wide / Through courts of ancient kings"...

[crowley611]

Hi Bounty killa, no, the 'Saints with their toys, is sarcastic, the 'Toys' were instruments of torture used by the inquisition. These Bishops were later Canonised - i.e made into Saints, I have no arguement with the Catholic Church today, they do a fine Job. I DO have problems with the Pope being 'infallible' though, no man is above God, or Christ.

[crowley611]

great lyrics, must have been isnpired by the persecution of the Saints by The Catholic Church...

'The Blood of Christ on their Skin..'

The 'saints with their toys ...'

[Bountykilla82]

@crowley611 You mean the same Catholic Church that later made them into saints??? Blame individuals not a whole system of beliefs, just saying

[classicalsasha]

The guitars and bass blend so well in this song. And Ian's voice is like a hovering atmosphere above the whole thing.

[karziflora]

Powerful, Dark and simply PERFECT....Joy Division is my Addiction!!

[pistolpimp36]

Hands down my favorite Joy Division bassline by Hook . Dead Souls comes in second and A means to an End makes it to the third place.

[MrLightlaser258]

Ian was the soul of the band, but he wasnt the whole band. Put more pictures about others, they are same important.

[musictejja]

volim

[YordanaZelenyagora]

Thank you!

[ImTheMoonlight]

Heart-tearing song.

[dietcoke1z]

Seriously LIKE this song!

[chiviriko]

q obra maestra...148 mil  en casi 3 años???

[elektricar122]

F*cking awesome !

[katenzcool]

WHY Did I have to been born in 1994?? AHHH it must have been so amazing to see this band and other great music live back in the 70s

[RHutton2710]

@katenzcool: you're complaining about being 17? You'd be in your fifties now if you had lived in the seventies. Also, you would have worn dodgy flares.

[katenzcool]

@RHutton2710 Don't mind, at least I would have gotten to listen to good music, gotten to see amazing bands like Joy Division and The Beatles live.I couldve been a hippy. I feel so sad that some many of the people my age don't listen to Radiohead or Grizzly Bear even. I mean I have no one to discuss my favourite music with. I would do anything to go back in time at least even to the 90s and be a radiohead fan from the beginning, it must be amazing to see your favourite band change through time.

[Hurt646]

@katenzcool If you think you are having a hard time finding someone to discuss music with, try being into literature... I.m.p.o.s.s.i.b.l.e. to discuss with anyone these days..

[katenzcool]

@Hurt646 I already am into literature, agreed a lot harder to find someone to discuss about.

[dimmiewitson]

@RHutton2710 Dodgy flares? I'll bet you that Herr General Muammar Gaddafi would give his left nut to slip into some elephant bells ca. 1972 right about now!

[VL1302]

Fave JD song, cheers for the post

[nostradamned]

a man with this morals and brains can't live on in this world if he's a hero....something must brake...the crisis he knew had to come...in a lonely place...he will always be my hero when it comes to take responsability...leave this f***ing place

[TheD2JBug]

What did I see there? a brilliant band.

[lallorona67]

This is my favorite Joy Division song my sis gave me this cassette about 18 years ago.I still have it and listen to it ever so often especially on gloomy cool days they just go perfect together ah an a clove. Something about this song the bass and drums and his dark voice. Lovely just lovely. ;-)

[Sudhish86]

I've always wondered why no other bands took the idea to feature the bass as the lead. It's clearly very sexy, as seen here.

[306ness]

@Sudhish86 death from above 1979? tokyo police club? some queens of the stoneage... the get up kids cover of the cure's 'close to me'... or death cab for cutie's take on the smith's 'this charming man' ...

[TheLynx2008]

Dla mnie to jeden z najważniejszych zespołów w historii rocka.A Wilderness to jeden z najważniejszych utworów .Świetna muzyka i piękny tekst.Thanks.

[glyanez]

Awesome bass line, ..........thanks for sharing.

[monia25cimka]

@glyanez

Trochę przypomina ten Nirvany np z Come as U are...:)

[timetopretendable]

cant get enough of this song

[tanpiltanpil]

For me, the greatest Joy Division song

[bakerchillinere07]

Class.

[kondo337]

My birthday is 05/18 ,my 16th Birthday, Ian's Sucide, RIP

[Ponce1390]

This is now my favorite song. 

[hundhun17]

Martin Hannett was drug addict, he was able to understand Ian Curtis's pain and confusion he understood the pain and he was able to help meld it together into a claustrophobic soundscape of what its like to be inside a fucked up head. Hence creating some of the best rock n roll music EVER made.

[KnfRaw]

Fucking insane guitar. That's what a I love about Joy Division. It was never just about the lead singer. If any of the others died, it'd still be game over.

[nobbilc]

@KnfRaw I think Joy Division'd be nothing without those lyrics...

Barney's guitar is pretty special though....

[addylewis]

@nobbilc

Check New Order's "Movement" album...it proves your idea!

[Arax1966]

Great, touching lyrics, wonderful music.

My favouritwe song EVER...

[Sudhish86]

I read a review of UP in which this song was called "terrible". Lol. One more example of why people who review music are clearly unfit for even that task...

[Z1lpE]

@Sudhish86 Where the fuck did you read that, UP is one of the most favorably reviewed albums of all time...

[nobbilc]

@Z1lpE I can't understand why Hooky and Barney don't particularly like (especially Barney) 'Unknown Pleasures' and prefer 'Closer'...

[DallyWhitty]

@nobbilc It's because of the production; dark, "impenetrable," and a vast contrast to the more powerful and aggressive live sound they were pursuing at the time. Hooky has since come to appreciate it, though. I'm not sure about Bernard.

[nobbilc]

@DallyWhitty True...I love the production on 'Ukn Pl' though....I prefer it to 'Closer'...It's gotta be more like a live sound than 'Closer' was ???? And surely more aggressive too ??

'Closer's' more maudlin and a real miseryfest !! ; ) I do like it though...

[0mgwtfbbq21]

i wish that before i die i dream of being in a JD concert in the front row and see all the guys playing and doing performing every song and seeing ian do the dead fly dance and see him get a seizure (not that i enjoy it) to get the full JD live experience :P

[ILZ31989]

i love you Ian. 

[SimplyShadow]

legends.

[falanga67]

Joy Division. Bardzo szkoda że Ian już nie żyje

[queenoftwilight77]

Brilliant video ... amazing song, one of my very favorites!

[jjamo5]

kik as tune! you see the tears in their eyes!

[siliva1]

i did a review on unknown pleasures if anyone is interested go to my channel

[SpringSessionZen]

Great lyrics.

[dionysus81085]

make Joy Division #1 in the UK for 18-05-10, it will have been 30 years since Ian passed, push Love will tear us Apart to the top, there is a facebook group

[dionysus81085]

thank you zek you have put a nice smile on my face because as you said im a twat, in canada we have a saying you are what you eat, cheers to JD

[bobbydylanio]

@dionysus81085 I can't think of anything more unnecessary

[cBedny]

the most nihilistic song ever. sad a bit, but totally genious!

[ivorbigonee]

i think i am nihillistic

[MegaDumkopf]

thank you God for Ian.

[ivorbigonee]

which god?

[crushsatan]

@ivorbigonee

elvis

[ivorbigonee]

haha.

Thats as close to a god i suppose.

[VL1302]

One of my fave tracks.

[tomt0988]

wot a fucking ace track. buzz ye tits off to this

[soulagent09]

genius....perfect punk..and imagnitive lyrics

[cubanzombie]

genius song, the droning bass rolls off of my ears.

[ekulanders]

kick a** bass line

[noodle92993]

@ekulanders the bass is always kickass

[mackdaddy530]

LEGEND .

[syfiasz]

very druged music

[downnwod]

Empyriumman:

You´re wrong....Britney Spears can´t even write her own name..:P

[Rotschlange]

oO...what kind of drug did you take?

[alansready]

this is the most underrated song that jd ever did. it runs chills up my spine

[yddeman]

Haha... funny one ;) This is real, and I wonder if Britney ever even felt a natural emotion...

[venussiren]

amo a joy son la mejor banda de post gotico ke escucharan mis oidos hasta la muerte, fuiste muy grande Ian

[swanstep]

All young bands should listen to this track. You have 2 minutes and 35 sec to play with. Can you, within that tight frame, make something this perfect and intense and intelligent and focussed?

Nice vid. too. Thanks for posting.

[SOMOGYI8230]

One of my all favourite songs from my all favourite album. And it could have been better even (if it wasn't for Martin Hannett, mellowing down the guitars, etc.)!

[Jurassicprince]

awesome.

[slickbnx]

sick track!

[Parnas7]

Best lyricist EVER!

[Portis1Luv]

what did you see there? I saw the saints with their toys...I've traveled far and wide through many different times.......

[cew321]

my mate told me that bernard wrote all the music and lyrics?

[PostcardKittenMeow]

No! - Ian C. wrote the lyrics; the whole band did the music

[ElementaryPhysics]

from a distance seeing friends just washed up on the shore, a picture in my mind of what's to come before the storm.

[guitar19904]

wow kool ive read the same poem in touching from a distance . he was a great song writer

[bajen3]

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL SONG !!!!

[jonanjello]

Hidden gem I recently discovered.

Love this song.

[karziflora]

Every song is a Freaking GEM!!!

Joy Division's Music is my Drug Of Choice, Can't Function Without IT!!!

[crazedsureal]

but would you like Peter Hook if he did get the attention. Then it wouldnt be different or hip to like him. Because he doesnt get the attention and he is different is exactly why you love him.

[Faragnigskni]

does any1else think that Peter Hook doesnt get enough credit and praise??

he's over-shadowed by the genius of Ian Curtis, which if it was any other band Hook would be like God, unfair to a degree

Joy Division= BEST band ever!

[partyCaze]

I am personally a big fan of Peter Hook, in Joy Division and New Order. Unfortunately for him, he was in a band with Ian Curtis, and we all know people have an innate infatuation with singers and frontmen more so than bassists. Also, Peter Hook didn't commit suicide in his early 20's. That always helps your longterm popularity. Just look at what it did for Kurt Cobain. Barf.

[joywritter]

not really, Peter Hook got alot of attention. he was a GREAT bass player and he was loved for the dooming and errie sounds he played on stage.

[joywritter]

*eerie

[guitar19904]

guys just type the name of this song on google and read the lyrics to this song it seriously is a poem its not just a post punk anthem its truely fucking art. amazin ians truely a song writer/poet

[mozza236]

Actually they were one of the first english bands that used the sound box for their drummist.

[lookinatporn1]

LOL...i love that...i will no longer call myself a drummer...I am DRUMMIST!!!!

DO YOU HEAR ME WORLD...A DRUMMIST!!!

YEAH!!!!

[superdog797]

One must not overlook the role drums played in Joy Division's music. Without their drummer, Joy Division's melodies would certainly be less interesting. what's amazing about this band is that despite an overt lack of technicality in their music, when each raw, individual style is put together with each other, it just works.

[partyCaze]

Great point. The strength of Joy Division was their bass and drums. They were the first band who showed me that if you have an awesome bassist and drummer, you don't need a great guitarist. I don't like bands who emphasize on the guitar and neglect bass and drums (like Van Halen, the obnoxious idiot of rock 'n' roll).

[TheDementedbacon]

RIP Ian

[jonafone]

haha well said :P

yeah ur right, theres also slight differences in most songs, just because more than 1 version was recorded, thats what i lvoe about joy division, theres so much there for you to listen to sound wise it just blows me away

[WielkiBialyKrolik]

mine xD

[lashiiiii]

joy divison

[Samoansk8r]

how fucking stupid can you get?

this is JD idiot.

[jdel58]

incredible

[Paulph04]

Stfu. Please.

[Paulph04]

I guess the lesson here is 'Do not feed the trolls'.

[batmanenquirees]

1 Corinthians 14:1

[LePig102]

murdered ?

[pnnorton]

My Profile has a different live performace of Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division. Note this is not a cover by me, its the real deal.

[batmanenquirees]

I traveled far and wide (and this is the only video that doesn't work today on ALL of youtube)...

what did you see there?

I saw "the saints" with their toys...

I saw all knowledge (of Ian Kurtis) destroyed...

(because Ice Age, The Drawback, Walked In Line, this song, etc)

[batmanenquirees]

this is the song that got Ian Curtis murdered

[biohazard791]

yeah except most of them suck ass.

[TheRevivalKid]

arctic monkeys and bloc party are good but sometimes u will get the list "just another INDIE band"

[zurbarab]

. . . with a huge American influence. . in fact, an american accent

[YekAdameRadif]

zurbarab go to hell u dont know shit about this band

[Ulmeyda08]

Joy Division were the absoulute pinicle of 70s English gloom.

[NewRightLondon]

Made in England.

[VL1302]

My fave Joy Division song. Played it often back when it was released. Still do regurarely. Classic!

[kusraback]

God this music is so deep, dark and amazing. The guitars, bass, drums and Ian's voice gets in to my soul so deep ...

[indiebird12]

a poet. In the truest sense of the word.

[Empyriumman]

His lyrics were so powerful.

[indiebird12]

Its just mind boggoling what depression can make one do! In this case suicide. Amazing lyrics, "one sided trials"

[sielwolf02]

Allez Allez and stuff this is it !!noone

[Malinky2Stoatir]

THIS was the very song that brought chills through my body and into my soul, and made me think, who the fuck is this band I GOTTA GET THIS RECORD!

Yes, record. I'm old!

Thankfully I've faired well and everyone thinks I'm in my 20's!

[marakas0]

The best song by my best band...

1 000 000 stars

[cervejoso]

I love this song

[tibohibj]

Thanks:) Never heard this one before. Never ceases to amaze me how many great tracks these guys put out in the space of a couple of years. Metta to Ian, Peter, Bernard and Steve (and Martin and Tony).

[mloaks]

played around on his wife. took his kid's father away. cowards are visionaries...

[heartandsoul1988]

dont judge people you dont know it just makes you look like a cretin

[chukmaty]

dude, if you don't suffer from severe depression, don't judge. Instead keep your head up and be there for a friend who is suffering and just maybe history won't repeat itself.

Very sad that he lost his battle with depression and that his buddies did not see it coming, though I really do not blame them. While he was alive he took his pain to make beautiful art, that is what makes Ian Curtis a legend.

[ps3sucksassballs]

its weird his burden was his gift. he wouldnt of come up with this

[ps3sucksassballs]

and in a way his story is irrelevant , its the music mate .

[brickbat246]

The best track on Unknown Pleasures by a mile!

[mikal9000]

A haunting song. Thanks for posting this, and R.I.P. Ian.

[anarchtype]

truly one of the greatest tracks of all time. many thanks for putting this together.

[MehowM]

UNKNOWN PLEASURES!!!

[serial841]

The blood of christ on their skins

[Fenvox79]

Awesome!

[SICKBOY687]

WHAT A SOUND !!!! ... CANT BE BEAT

[chouwangue]

only 1'000 views ?!? i cant understand... this song...this band...this singer...

[jordancullen]

Superb video and superb song!

[VL1302]

My fave Joy Division track :-)

[thewanderer213]

Next to Heart & Soul...my favorite Joy Division song. Great, great song.