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  • I probably would have hated these guys in the 80's but I have grown a huge respect for them.

  • when i was a young bloke Joy Div took my highs and lows and put them onto plastic. So now, 30 years later, i can think the same and remember .But from my arm chair..

  • Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuune!!!!!

    

  • Weirdly, the intro always reminds me of the Shadows 'Apache'. Refracted, twisted & warped through 20 odd years & Curtis' imagination into this strange dream. Why do I like it so much? It's like a doorway into some other place, scary & exhilarating, nothing safe. It connects past present & future together. A minor masterpiece.

    Needs to be louder though.

  • Anybody else read the book by Gogol just because Ian wrote this song after it?

  • Fucking brilliant

  • temazo <3.

  • a great band they were. This song just aches...

  • So classy.

  • i think that the only person not influenced probably by the pistols was ian it seems that he was set on doing something anyway with that talent for writting..either singing or poetry i think he might have been what is called today..autistic..as well as trying to come to terms with his epilepsy....at 23 i was married with a son......add fame...a misstress...epilepsy...respons­ability..expectation...dailly schedules....anyway we can all speculate....im 47 now and ians still my icon..god bless.

  • Joy division along with the Cure and Suioxie and the Banshies started the darkwave scene. In fact Joy Division started as a punk band called The Stiff Kittens. It was just a branch off the punk era. Hence the industrial, darkwave/goth, ska, techno, punk, pop split. And if you must know it all comes from Classical which all comes from feeling so we must all be kinda the same

  • How can you not like this song? dear god the lyrics and the video is also amazing ...

  • Joy Division got me through a lot of hard times!

  • This is wery modernistic

  • This band has influenced so many great bands such as Bono of U2, Trent Reznor of NIN, The Cure, Moby, the Smiths, Bloc Party, Radiohead, Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Pepper...list is just too long.

  • @rshankle56 The Drums actually!

  • @vitam25 Thanks...Ill check them out.

    I'm just glad that Trent Reznor NIN covered this song and introduced a new generation to such an amazing band.

  • Well i m french , discovered this song when i was 17 , i don't understand why many compare sex pistols with joy division , both created their own way and people can still take what they want in their songs ,revolt or inner feelings , depends of your state of mind of the moment !

    I think this song is the vynil version ,sounds more powerful than cd version , i must have listen this song 150 or 200 times ,and that radiohead was influenced by them (national anthem)

  • Weird, I've been a Joy Division fan for years, and have always liked the Nine Inch Nails version of this song, but never even knew this existed. Glad I found it!

  • hes talking about aliens man... wfffffffft.....

  • id def agree JOY DIVISION are light years ahead of The sex pistols who are far ovverated and no great shakes really ! wud rather listen to THE stooges than the pistols any day !

  • They were each accomplished musicians and performers. And together, like all important rock bands, became greater than the sum of their parts. Hence, with Ian's death, the band went. But for two or three years, they WERE the cutting edge, they were it. Shocking to think it was all over by 1980. The 80's produced a plethara of JD-influenced music. I still feel they have an underrated place in history.

  • Sid Vicious had nothing compared to Peter Hook ... JS.

  • I'm not sure Martin Hannett was involved in the production of this song. The voice of Ian kicks ass as always.

  • I love Ian Curtis...R.I.P.

  • JLWing: What? Are you kidding me? What's wrong with Ian Curtis' singing? It's not the most technically proficient, but it's expressive and honest, and the lyrics are always great.

    svagana: I don't think Martin Hannet quite "owes his existance" to Ian Curtis. He was born without any help from Ian. I think you mean that he owes his recognition as a producer to Ian Curtis, by producting his band's albums.

  • NIN missed the freakin mark big time when they covered this song for The Crow soundtrack. But... I'm not a NIN fan.

  • @MiskatonicDreamer i've just heard the original for the first time today, after hearing NIN's cover 17 years ago... rythmically and production wise the NIN is better, but the singing is better on the original. Plus the song is brilliantly written, so full marks to Joy Division.

  • I keep wanting to take this song seriously and then the singer breaks in and I think "This HAS to be a joke!".

  • A great song from Joy Division. Martin Hannet , Joy Division and the New Order owe their existance to a person called Ian Curtis. You've all forgotten of... Ian Curtis!

  • Uber-great song by brilliant band-not dead-not forgotten

  • Actually dtrellis, this song is sorta about prank callers; the spanish waiters at the tapas bar. Look up the story behind this song...

  • I wasnt always a massive fan of Joy Division but for some reason recently, I am really starting to like them. I just love the fact they say the Sex Pistols and where like "this is shit, we can do better" and history was made. (The dude from Simply Red was at that gig as well, which is fairly disturbing. This Smiths and the Buzzcocks where there too, quite and eerie phenomenon dont you think.)

  • Goddamn prank callers.

  • They were inspired to form the band by the Sex Pistols concert at the Lesser Free Trade Hall, but they are miles away from the Sex Pistols in terms of brilliance, creativity, and fucking awesomeness. The music speaks, it's genius!!! They put the Sex Pistols to shame; the student has become the master.

  • @janus2059 indeed they´re

  • @janus2059 I agree,this one many best of unknown bands.

  • @janus2059 Whats your point? They saw the Pistols and were inspired to make music! Double win! Why would you even compare the two. Without the Sex Pistols no Joy Division !

  • @janus2059 Some things just don't need to be compared

  • @janus2059 everyone puts the sex pistols to shame!! sex pistols WERE the first boy band!! they were simply each one found by a man and put together! simple as that they were a product is all!!

  • @janus2059, they weren't even students. the only thing attributable to the sex pistols is maybe the lyrics. the music wasn't even comparable in their early days.

  • fuck we have 3 dead souls!

  • One of my favorite songs by Joy Division.

  • you should post this on peter hooks facebook page. i think he would dig it. good comp of vids.

  • @skag73 Its a videocompilation used in Joy Division documentary.

  • they keep calling me!!!

  • Gars dar ein fhuer Ian Curtis zkolz fhuer Paul Banks sem ivnilz..

  • Just watched 24 Hour Party People and felt compelled to listen to some more Joy Division.

  • nice work - thankyou

  • NIN did a good version too, I like a lot of the music from JD. I think Love will tear us apart rocks! New dawn fades...they got some gooders! There should have been more.....

  • My number 1 song by Joy Division ! amazing sounds

  • Ein Astronaut's version is pretty sick which brought me here. I think his cover is even better TBH.

  • i think NIN did a pretty good cover of this song

  • @hmmm2009Interesting wow some person would have a problem with that whatever there both good joy division is great and NIN did pretty good i dont see the problem

  • @SilverburstPerez

    Yeahh, normaly i Hate Covers but NIN did it really Good, Excuse my English.

  • @SilverburstPerez Yeah I think they did too

  • haunting track. terrific.

  • There's just one guy, THE ONE, who dares to thumb down this song.

    Let me just tell him "Congratulations dude, welcome among the dead souls X) !"

  • So much better live.

  • Thanks for sharing. The video is effective.

  • a true legend who could scribble words down on paper and turn them into classic songs..this man had talent and if they was still around today would be one of the best bands of our generation...r.i.p ian curtis the music still sounds so refreshing now as it did back then....

  • Wicked song - wicked video - Wicked upload thanks!

  • Oh come on?! Who the heck would "dislike" this song and/or video? Geez ...

  • Ian didn't have an addiction, he was depressed from having epilepsy, he couldn't take it anymore. He didn't want to be in the band any longer cuz performing took so much out of him. The stress of the growing fame, touring, late nights, and the divorce from his wife took a toll on him. Just as it said in his suicide note, he just didn't know how to cope.

  • For every person who commited suicide always has a suicide note. I believe this song is what expressed Ian's darkness and inner pain.

  • FUCKING AWSOME!!!

    What more can I say.

  • They keep calling me.

  • Awesome video, good job to who ever did it. And as far as the comment he was a prick, what makes him a prick, the fact that he cheated on his wife???? Is it because he is a guy and cheated on a woman??? Women cheat on men every day and they are not called pricks. They are just victims to a bad relationship. Screw that noise. Long live "THE PRICK". Ian curtis you are and will always be an idol in my eyes.

  • Awesome video, good job to who ever did it. And as far as the comment he was a prick, what makes him a prick, the fact that he cheated on his wife???? Is it because he is a guy and cheated on a woman??? Women cheat on men every day and they are not called pricks. They are just victims to a bad relationship. Screw that noise. Long live "THE PRICK". Ian curtis you are and will always be an idol in my eyes.

  • JOY DIVISON IS THE SHIT

  • yeah!!

  • i never liked the vocals its the power of the song and simple destructive behaviour that makes this song so charming gotta love the riffs. yeah the producer was good too. hahaha :P ok so what about trent reznor doing this cover its good... but he never did beat ian curtis in making it so tragic and hopeless.

  • @HorusEye0 Agreed. Everything you said in that post I agree with.

  • the drums wish they were as good as this

  • This sounds so fresh and new. Love it, love it, love it!

  • any junkie is a selfish prick! Trent was too, just about how u turn ur life around and make what is u do have meaning. Ian did, just a lost soul but he left something worth listening to.

  • @artiswitness i'm not so much disagreeing with you..it is just that i think you have a narrow minded view about relating people to their drug addicftion(s) and Ian was not a drug addict..just because you become addicted to a certain drug does not mean you are a "selfish prick" it means you have a disease..called addiction,no matter what that addiction is..yes,the addiction makes you selfish...but that isn't that persons' total character..just my opinion...at least he left so much behind 4 us

  • @JoyDivisiongirl agree entirely with what you said , a drug addicts character cannot be defined as "selfish prick" and calling them selfish pricks isnt doing anything to help . and as for ian curtis being a drug addict im baffled , depression killed ian curtis

  • @conorl858 i totally agree with what you just said too! he was a talented,intelligent,sensitive and complex person who also had so many troubles in his life...depression,the epilepsy,his marriage and the new found fame...in some ways i relate to him,although our lives are totally different,yet in his writings i feel like he is speaking for me in so many ways,for that i shall always be grateful and feel a connection with him and Joy Divisions music.

  • @artiswitness ian curtis wasnt a drug addict

  • @ShotgunScream It's not about singing/the quality of the voice....it's about what was said. You obviosly have never watched Control/24 Hour Party People/Joy Division the short film OR any film related to Joy Division, if so, you would have seen why he is such an inspiration to so many people & why Tony Wilson was so close to him

  • One of the pinnacles of humankind this song

  • i really hope that he now can rest in very well peaces!!!

  • A true masterclass in great music. One of the best. Rest in Peace Ian Curtis.

  • i must admit i don`t think i ever heard a better song in my whole life (and my radio is ON all day long..)

  • I don't know HOW they've done it especially after Control got made and came out but these Joy Division songs just do not date. They sound clean, remastered, and made in 2011. Obviously someone made a deal with the devil.....

  • @jrmetmoi Martin Hannet: Genius producer

  • Stop callin' me.....I changed my number....Tired of you callin' me

  • good to see where one of my favorite songs derived from!

  • FANTASTIC VIDEO.....witty and interestingly flowing....thumbs up

  • Love the reference to "House of Dolls". Good vid.

  • Just raw

  • Sometimes things come just together..... JD had brilliant raw talent right from the start

  • Jeez it's compulsive

  • Tapas restaurant? Jeez? I always thought this was inspired by 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God'.  If it wasn't it should've been anyways...

  • wow. breathtaking

  • I like Ceremony the best.

  • Apparently, Ian wrote this song after a bad night out at a Tapas restaurant in Manchester. He had a row with a couple of Spanish waiters whom he claimed had short-changed him; hence the line: “Conquistadors who took their share”.

    A week later he ended up calling the restaurant to get some resolution to the situation. This backfired as the waiters got hold of his phone number and made a few abusive phone calls to him, hence the repeated lines:

    “They keep calling me, keep on calling me”.

  • @tooklees ha! really? that's turned me off a little bit, feels slightly less dramatic now

  • @bachelorfox Yes. The lines: “A duel of personalities That stretch all true realities” was Curtis recalling angrily mouthing off on the phone to the waiters about what he’d like to violently do to them because of the money loss. The reality was that he was a peaceful guy and these words were said in chagrin. His guilt about this unseemly episode later resurfaced on “Closer”.

  • @tooklees crikey. how much did he lose?? maybe the tapas was disappointing. am pretty infatuated with this song

  • Nine Inch Nails version gets a well deserved 2nd place to this corker.

  • Joy Division should still be here

    Its sad Ian decided to end his life so early.

    They create such an Atmosphere and you don't hear that alot in bands these days....

    Pun intended....( think about it...all puns are intended. Otherwise you wouldn't have to say "No Pun Intended" because clearly it was)

  • WISPRWORLD/YOUTUBE MYSPACE/WISPRWORLD

  • this footage is from the Joy Division documentary.

  • Must say, I think this is their best.

  • Best fucking band ever!!!!!!!

  • the music cerimony is the best

  • No doubt the best guitar intro ever, really builds the song up then Ian just blows it away. Powerful!

  • how can do yo to destroy a soul?

  • @Naldonaldonaldo

    A better question: How can you create one?

  • Very well done compilation video -- nice job and thanks...

    Everyone should also check out stuqqle's video version and my comments there...

  • The best song of Joy Division!!! Ian Curtis FOREVER....

  • @jsptron My favorite songs of Joy Divison are " Dead Souls ", and " Disorder "

  • @eazzy93

    Haha, mine aswell!

    An old friend of mine hinted me on this band, but I never really dwelved into Joy Division until now. Why the fuck did I wait so long?! This band is awesome!

  • @jsptron

    soundtrack of my youth. this one was the most intense of all intense jd songs.

  • @jsptron NO DOUBT! A true classic and the best Joy Division song for me along with Twenty Four Hours and Incubation...they are rock legends and much like Nirvana dissolved way too soon and both for the same circumstance (suicide)....

  • such a good song

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