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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 06/08/2013 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#934): 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: 61
Average rating: 85/100 (from 568 votes).
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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Jasonconfused
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- #2
- Posted: 06/08/2013 20:20
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As an album, I prefer Closer, but Unknown Pleasures has my favorite Joy Division song, Day of the Lords.
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junodog4
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- #3
- Posted: 06/08/2013 20:25
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BEA's love affair with Joy Division actually convinced me to give them another listen. Shock of all shocks, I've been converted.
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MrFrogger
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- #4
- Posted: 06/08/2013 20:28
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Absolutely brilliant band, brilliant album, but you've heard this whole speech before, so i'll save you the trouble and shut up.
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drakonium
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- #5
- Posted: 06/08/2013 22:36
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Brilliant, obviously. I slightly prefer Unknown Pleasures, but my love for both albums is limitless.
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GeevyDallas
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- Posted: 06/08/2013 22:41
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| drakonium wrote: | | Brilliant, obviously. I slightly prefer Unknown Pleasures, but my love for both albums is limitless. |
I agree,Unknown Pleasures is slightly better.I prefer it's more immediate sound,it cuts through a room,whereas closer sort of swirls through it and fills it up,but it's nice to have both,I usually listen to them back to back and thus why I felt the need to compare them here.In terms of song writing I've never been big on lyrics and can't really see the progression here that many allude to.
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Hayden
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- Posted: 06/08/2013 22:44
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Both Unknown Pleasures and Closer range from the 20-30th position on my chart, but I only allow one on at a time. It's been Closer for a long time though.
Decades, Isolation and Twenty-Four Hours still give me chills.. Fantastic album. I found it on vinyl the other day too  Going to go back and buy it soon.
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Norman Bates
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- Posted: 06/08/2013 22:48
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It's second to Unknown Pleasures in only one way: I can listen to it only when I'm the mood for taking in the utter despair in which it plunges me. Which is not so often nowadays. That said, the record's a masterpiece.
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- Posted: 06/08/2013 23:15
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Masterpiece by one of the best bands ever, as you already know. Joy Division usually gets me dancing. I've stolen my thrash metal enthusiastic friend's "cutting trees"-dance move - where you pretend to cut trees with your hands - for Heart and Soul. It's used for fast metal parts, but I can't think of a moment for which it fits more perfectly to than for Stephen Morris' repeated three-in-a-row snare hits in that song. Best thing I've ever heard produced by a drumset
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Jasonconfused
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- Posted: 06/08/2013 23:22
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| Balance wrote: | | Masterpiece by one of the best bands ever, as you already know. Joy Division usually gets me dancing. I've stolen my thrash metal enthusiastic friend's "cutting trees"-dance move - where you pretend to cut trees with your hands - for Heart and Soul. It's used for fast metal parts, but I can't think of a moment for which it fits more perfectly to than for Stephen Morris' repeated three-in-a-row snare hits in that song. Best thing I've ever heard produced by a drumset |
Can you elaborate on this "cutting trees" move? Maybe a video or something. I've been to several thrash metal shows and I'm not quite sure what dance move you're referring to.
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