Album of the day (#4501): Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division

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Today's album of the day

Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1979.
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Overall rank: 37
Average rating: 86/100 (from 2226 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Disorder
2. Day Of The Lords
3. Candidate
4. Insight
5. New Dawn Fades
6. She's Lost Control
7. Shadowplay
8. Wilderness
9. Interzone
10. I Remember Nothing

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[Skinny]

More and more, as I get older, this record feels a little heavy-handed compared to the stuff they’d produce under the “New Order” banner - which is lighter, cleverer, more exploratory.

A little like Salinger or Tarantino, perhaps part of Joy Division’s purpose - perhaps their central purpose - is to be a gateway drug for nerdy thirteen-year-olds. That isn’t to say they can’t still be appreciated later on, or that their power is somehow diminished. Everybody has to start somewhere.
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[HoldenM]

Yeah. New Order is undoubtedly better, and I think pretty inarguably more influential. That said, this is still a fantastic record. I do wonder if they would have evolved into New Order if Ian Curtis had lived, but whatever the case, this and Closer are brilliant documents all the same, and the band was able to make some monumental music in the aftermath.

Track picks
1. Disorder
6. She's Lost Control
7. Shadowplay
9. Interzone
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