In a Lonely Place Joy Division

[brianblessedismyhero]

Really moving elegy, great mastery in making a video simple and tragically intense. Thank you!

[jerkface513]

this song brings out something in me crazy

[StarInvasion]

This is the most haunting tragic insight into Ian Curtis' mind ever. So beautiful.

[JACPUNK]

en que disco se encuentra este tema, alguien sabe? Al menos no recuerdo haberlo escuchado en los dos discos de estudio que sacó J.D. ni en alguna compilacion de las conocidas :S al menos no en las que yo tengo

[morrisjuan]

@JACPUNK no fue sacada en ningun disco o compilacion que yo recuerde viene en el box set HEART and SOUL

[NintendoSegaSonyGuy]

There are at least two full versions of JD "In a Lonely Place" out there. They were both released on the Record Store 12" for the 30th Anniversary of Joy Division.

They are labeled "Take 2" and "Take 3" respectfully, meaning there must be a Take 1 out there somewhere. Someone also uploaded some IALP rehearsals here on Youtube. So that's five versions.

This version that was included on the H&S box set is Take 3, remastered and cut. The last verse was cut for reasons of taste.

[joydivision808]

sounds like a voice from a really old man

[expendedAmmunition]

remarkably well done. most youTube videos fail to capture the essence of the band and song. my favorite bit was, juxtaposed with the atrocities of war, the kid with the gun. that especially fits the JD aesthetic. my props to you.

[NeonSwastika]

Sounds like the Terminator theme, no?

[lamentofthelost]

Sorry guys, but Bush's cover of this song beats the hell out this one.

[absouthern1986]

@lamentofthelost you best be trollin

[obituarybirthday]

The full version of 'In a Lonely Place' was FINALLY released a couple of weeks back for Record Store Day 2011. The single (vinyl only, entitled 'Ceremony / In a Lonely Place') was limited to just 800 copies, but there are quite a few going on eBay so make sure to get one while you can!

[Lone06]

you definitely got the right feel for this song and the first world war trenches

[jamschnitter]

I like this version better than the new order one, it feels older, more industrial fitting perfectly somewhere between the american civil war and ww1. It sounds a lot like Scars of E by Throbbing Gristle as well

[jwmcnew]

Sepulchral - as if Ian Curtis was already dead when he recorded this. Amazing song, but I would never listen to it driving between Blythe and Bakersfield, Cailifornia.

[ErikNL84]

The part where the voice kicks in gives me goosebumps. Very impressive song. Have the New Order version on the Substance 1987 album but this one is more raw. The WW1 footage also contributes to the dark atmosphere, good job!

[iancurtisify]

this song is amazing....it was written days before ian killed himself.....simply about ians life/feelings ( as with many jd songs...especially 24 hrs) the 'love that was special for one' could be his wife...the bit about the noose...well thats obvious. The bush cover of this song is very good too.

[mmfan15]

He died ten years before my birth and he had the same b-day as me :(

RIP Ian.

[DeadSouls6]

Their is no complete version of IALP....at least on youtube! Only the band and collectors have a complete version of this song! The band and Debbie didn't want a complete version in the hands of the public..they felt like it was in bad teste!

[MoriKAshi]

@DeadSouls6: The complete version is this one. It's the only one recorded with Ian singing on it. The last verse is missing because either the tape ran out or someone accidentally pressed "record" over it.

[totopatter]

@DeadSouls6

No way!!! such a shame .. what a track

[ninedosus]

Thank you for all your great comments. Thanks!

[DeadSouls6]

Great Video!

[jackthomasmad]

deep inside

[ZLUGGO]

Fabulous tune!

[2And2AlwaysMakeUp5]

I did listen to this last night in a room by myself, and it really made the entire mood of the song darker than it already is. I found a video somewhere on Facebook with Ian singing the last verse, it sounds authentic, but it is deeply disturbing, I must say.

[marissa56754]

do you have any links?

[2And2AlwaysMakeUp5]

@marissa56754 No, I only watched it once and then lost the link.

[RiotNrrrdUTube]

Ian singing the last verse ("Hangman looks round as he waits / Cord stretches tight, then it breaks") is Out There - Google "ialp_confirmation_30s" for proof.

[61ducygne]

Juste excellent !

[BaronessVonComa]

Thanks for posting! My favourite also...

[JoyDivisionSouth]

18 05 2010

30 years on

lets get atmosphere to number one

[dionysus81085]

there is a facebook group trying to push Love will tear us Apart to the top in the UK, im a Atmosphere junkie myself, but for the cause anything, cheers dude

[perroturcas]

yeah... ian curtis still live!!!!!

[NdownIwardN]

bush did a very good cover too for the crow city of angels soundtrack

[PaulfromHackney]

I had only ever heard New Orders version of this.

This is superb, and the video goes with the music

[knownpleasures]

in death u spend an eternity alone ..or so they say!

[thiefelent]

I can't help but to think Ian knew this was his last song....

[Chulacker]

That lonely place waiting for us,patiently.I guess.

[gioAEKARA]

Great song!

[heavydutydudes]

HEAVY

[Gwilim]

Oh my life I thought I had heard everything they'd ever written and every live version ever recorded. This is new to me. Wow.

[streetlightsonatra]

this song reminds me of turok the nintendo 64 version

[ZeeGooner]

lmaooo woow how brilliant is that man turok soundtrack was haunting in such a wonderful way cold night during winter when no one was home i would endlessly play turko 2 at night hahaha lol.

[snelleeddy10]

i think you are right...

[pimpdawwg]

This is by far the eeriest Joy Division song I have ever heard. When I listen to New Order's version on the Cermony single, I can't help but feel Ian singing through Bernards voice... when he sings that opening line " Caressing the marble and stone" it is like he is in his tomb, wishing you were in there with his because he is lonely, even though he is dead. Creepy

[whatagreenday794]

go away

[secondhanddaylight]

Superb like a Grey Sunset (-_-)

[ps3sucksassballs]

for some reason theres two of this song on youtube . and both take ages to load

[eugeniozanforlini]

gods in Earth

[Portis1Luv]

Modernism is dead, the eulogy of the walking, post modernism walks on wooden legs, and uses a keyboard that it's heart may beat........thank you Joy Division.

[Portis1Luv]

Brilliant. Simply Brilliant.

[landscapeofbones]

I love the footage of the image of a person next to the ship in the ice. It has a very powerful vibe, as does the song itself.

[landscapeofbones]

fuckin love it

[Grave187RIP13]

...Isn't this the last song he wrote?

[Larveiro]

don´t know exactly if it was the last song he WROTE but it was the last he RECORDED... isn´t it fucking sad? it is worth to shed tears (sorry my bad english)

[knownpleasures]

a very disturbing song from the land of death

[micah124]

It has a haunting chill to it. Don't know why but it is a great song.

[123WP0]

this is real as well

[Superlizzana]

Album????????please

[ninedosus]

This is only available on the Heart+Soul box set.

[ps3sucksassballs]

does that one include the full version . all i can find is the half version

[ninedosus]

This is the only JD version of this song.

[HARDHOUSEKILLA]

Incorrect, there is a studio quality recording. I have it. Its about two more minutes of instrumentals.

[obituarybirthday]

Care to share? ;)

[Bendrix27]

@ninedosus

You are wrong. There's a version that goes for about 3 times as long.

[ninedosus]

@Bendrix27 That is the version New Order did later on. The only Ian Curtis one is this one.

[Bendrix27]

@ninedosus

Am I supposed to take your word for it?

Because I don't.

[paulph12002]

@ninedosus It was, until May 2011 when the full version finally surfaced after 31 years.

[gmg65]

speachless

[AlxUrMother]

This song is haunting and brilliant

It has real pain behind it and i think the fact it is only a rehearsal makes it even more real

It makes me sad that record companies nowadays are moving away from supporting artists and have started to support the 'guaranteed sales' the latest musical Nickelodeon star or the winner of the X factor or American Idol, none of the artists designed by the record companies have any real creativity and only guarantee further continuity within the music industry

[HARDHOUSEKILLA]

Joy Division were the greatest band in history both inspirationally as well as innovationally. There will never be another.

[knownpleasures]

wow man that is a brilliant comment! i have been obsessed for the last 18 mths and have no control anymore!

[MAGUS1947]

Couldn't have put it any better myself. I've been a fan since 78 and there has never been a band to equal J D

[MisAnnThorpe]

@HARDHOUSEKILLA CRAP! Joy Divisions legendary status is almost entirely due to Ian Curtis's tragic suicide & the subsequent music press eulogising of the band. Chances are Joy Division would otherwise have become just another good band but with an exceptional lyricist. Remove Curtis & Martin Hannett (the main source of innovation) from the equation & what have you? F@$king New Order! Yes there are some great songs; Atmosphere & The eternal come to mind but seriously, get a sense of perspective!

[garysteel1984]

You don't get music like this these days. Meaningful and to the point.

[ittaiman]

Haunting...

[Rachellynn1992]

My heart hurts when I hear this!

[Paulph04]

Brilliant, and this was just a rehearsal. One can only imagine what a full studio version with Ian on vocals would have been like.

[batmanenquirees]

I mean viewer...semantics right though

[makojeep95]

you are a fucking idiot ... btw ....

[Superlizzana]

Brilliant

[JBF242]

Very good explanation, I feel my same emotion in the listening of these words and this music Curtis was a revelation it there already 20 years old

your work is brilliant

thank you

[craigisageek]

I read that months after Ian's death New Order played this song live with a lone purple light on an empty mic stand - eerie. I've never actually heard this before, what a cracker!

[whittysaurus]

addictave tune

[CPFCEAGLES25]

Words of a man nearing the end, pure art

[gian743]

How I wish you were here with me now

Come vorrei che tu fossi qui con me ora

[Crijevo]

A brilliant song - I only heard New Order's version which is beautiful in its own right. Sadly, JD never made their studio version apart from this sketch variant... This is ultimate sadness.

[allthiseverything]

This is the soundtrack to misery and darkness. Joy Division never fails to amaze me.

[gavroche67]

the video goes fine with the song...it's strange how joy division's music is often compared to war and deep human violence...

[masameus]

I always thought about their music in connection with themes like modern war and the banal violence of modern technological life in general. I have the impression that Curtis was somewhat obsessed with those ideas. He read writers like William S. Burroughs and absorbed something of the atmosphere of those works to his lyrics. I still listen to JD sometimes but I don't have the strength to go too deep any more. It's good to know there are people who deal with those themes but I need escape now.

[gavroche67]

yeah i agree and i understand you, sometimes it's so deep and desperate you just can't take anymore...

[davidbrand999]

I always want it to go much deeper when I hear an extremely dark, depressing, and mysterious song.

I respect your and Masameus's opininion, but it's funny how people can think differently. :-)

[Pierceher]

My friend, maybe Dismantled will help the thirst. Try searching for Dismantled - Cornered.

[babyshambled2008]

great video. i can almost smell the mustard gas.

[PumPumBandit]

i would give a fiver to anyone who could listen to this alone in a dark room.

[mylomaster]

I would not have any problems with it, it's just a exellent piece of music, nothing simulair to it, but still, I wouldn't recommend this song if you don't feel too well, not somehting I would like to play on a funeral (thinking more of 'Boney M - Ma baker :P:P:P)

[shadowplay86]

Been there done that would like my fiver please!

[PumPumBandit]

you just need to find me mwahaha

[modsleix6]

I hear you. Been there and done that too.

[Lisbon1906]

lol i just did

[naivesincerity]

I did last night-wasn't a dark room, but it was dark out and I was home alone!!

It's creepy

[Empyriummann]

Come on Ian Curtis wishes you were there with him (wherever he is now ), he's singing to you.

[derpestarzt]

why did you wrote "control" in the tags?

[ninedosus]

Because that's the name of the Ian Curtis biographical movie that came out recently.

[derpestarzt]

yes i still dont understand why, specially since that movie was so shit.

[allthiseverything]

Control was a stunning film. You obviously haven't seen it.

[DrChemicalX3]

The most depressing piece of music i have ever heard.

[waveeditor84]

One of the darkest songs ever made by Joy Division.

It inspires visions of death...

[Solvinden]

This IS JD with Ian on vocal! It's from the box "Heart and soul" and were found by Steve on his attic.. He didn't remember the reccording..

I agree RIP, Ian Curtis

[samuraiinCfede]

Has a very funeral and military feel...like it...the sparse ambience is similar to a mormonic chant.

[chrislufc]

The song was finished..but the demo tape ran out.

[ninedosus]

Thanks for the information.

[thekillervinny]

i cant see how it wasnt finished

the end of the song is about the end

:(

[gr8mac]

wow... this is really cool!

I only know the New Order version.... but this song seems so much more Joy Division than New Order.

RIP, Ian Curtis.

[gian743]

great! very good job, I love this song and I love Joy Division

[Sabberlackel]

please load the hole song up it´d be cool

[ninedosus]

This is the entire original song. Ian Curtis died before the song could be finished. New Order later finished the song, but I wanted to keep it as Ian Curtis left it :)