Joy Division - 01 - Atrocity Exhibition

Joy Division - 01 - Atrocity Exhibition (from Closer) (1980)

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• Division
• 01
• Atrocity
• Exhibition

[leeharveyosmosis]

@NintendoSegaSonyGuy

No, they came to their conclusions because they actually knew Ian and he didn't tell them anything was wrong. He wasn't some "tragic poet" to them- he was just a regular guy. I think it's incredibly smug for any group of outsiders to chastize the suicide victims friends for "not doing something".

[dwossum]

So I have two young children now and I used to sing "This is the way step inside" to my oldest as I would help her get dressed after baths and stuff. She now sings that to her younger brother while helping him.

[decoreh]

World War III will not be played with armies, but with psychiatrists and invisible diseases

this is the way step inside

[pano1955]

If somebody read the book then the intro will sound logic.

[Brollyhero93TOP10]

Reminds me of Throbbing Gristle and The Residents.....

[VOIDMK20]

One of their best tracks.

We step inside. Again and again.

V.O.I.D.MK20

[MrUncreated]

I always loved the drum track of this song. I have not a damn clue how they made the guitar sound so fucked up, but it fits to the theme perfectly.

[kyral210]

@gjac15 your doing it wrong

[MetroidFan621]

@leeharveyosmosis Yeah, I mean think of The Cure for example. Going by the lyrics on albums like Pornography and Disintegration, you'd think Robert Smith was horribly depressed and nihilistic, but he's not really like that in real life. Besides, some people just find it a little easier to be sad than happy, but some live through and others don't. But yeah, not every suicidal person is upfront about being suicidal to the point of talking about it.

[baseballfuries08]

@NintendoSegaSonyGuy I'm not saying you're wrong, but look at the interviews and specially to the documentary about JD. Ian's personality was totally oposse to his songs. He only became depressive after being diagnosted and specially because of the drugs he was taking because of his epilepsy, which made him totally bipolar.

[studmeow]

I saw this album listed in Rolling Stones' 'Top 100 Albums of the Eighties' & went to buy it. First time I ever listened to an artist because of [1] something they said [2] something they did [3] something that was said about them - or a similar condition; rather than anything to do with their work. I like it when that happens, I've found great artists that way: Miles Davis, John Cage, Bjork, Anne Clark...

[studmeow]

@NintendoSegaSonyGuy Some people just have a natural melancholy, like me. There's a difference between that and being suicidal. Maybe they were used to it & just didn't conceive the possibility that he would go that far.