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- Posted: 08/03/2015 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1708): Closer by Joy Division
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Today's album of the day
Closer by Joy Division (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1980.
Country: 
Overall rank: 64
Average rating: 85/100 (from 912 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Atrocity Exhibition
2. Isolation
3. Passover
4. Colony
5. A Means To An End
6. Heart & Soul
7. Twenty Four Hours
8. The Eternal
9. Decades
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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HazeyTwilight
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- Posted: 08/03/2015 20:09
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One of the most haunting albums ever created.
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- Posted: 08/04/2015 05:22
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decent, not much more
pretty boring and uneventful
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- Posted: 08/04/2015 08:37
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There was a time when I preferred "Closer" to "Unknown Pleasures". Not anymore, but it's still the more haunting album between the two in my opinion and still damned good.
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- Posted: 08/04/2015 15:18
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| Precedent wrote: | decent, not much more
pretty boring and uneventful |
it's not the polyvocal, schizophrenic masterpiece that is Drake's Take Care, that's for sure
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meccalecca
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- Posted: 08/04/2015 15:37
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| permafrost wrote: | | Precedent wrote: | decent, not much more
pretty boring and uneventful |
it's not the polyvocal, schizophrenic masterpiece that is Drake's Take Care, that's for sure |
That's like comparing Twin Peaks to Degrassi. The cult of Jimmy Brooks is bigger than Scientology
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- Posted: 08/04/2015 15:53
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| meccalecca wrote: | | That's like comparing Twin Peaks to Degrassi. The cult of Jimmy Brooks is bigger than Scientology |
no reason to be so mean to Degrassi as to compare it to Drake's musical output. i'm thinking more the Lifetime remake of Full House. or even just Full House would do.
not to derail this thread completely, though, I've recently rediscovered Closer, and though I've always enjoyed it and occasionally thought it incredible, it's pretty firmly entrenched itself as a masterpiece at this point. the keyboard explosion at the beginning of "Isolation" would be enough to cement the reputation of any band, but literally every track oozes the grimdark atmospheres of Unknown Pleasures but with a little bit more of a punk rock kick to them. it's a much more unique and well-aging style and works like some sort of cosmic egg of the material New Order would later play around with to occasionally matching extents. unfortunately, they would never match the track-for-track full-length excellence of this release.
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