Insight (track)
by Joy Division
Year: 1979
From the album Unknown Pleasures (track #4)
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Insight appears on the following album(s) by Joy Division:
- Unknown Pleasures (track #4) (this album) (1979)
- Heart And Soul (track #6) (compilation) (1997)
- Heart And Soul (track #47) (compilation) (1997)
- Peel Sessions (track #2) (compilation) (1990)
- Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979 (track #3) (2001)
- The Complete BBC Recordings (track #2) (compilation) (2000)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 5 hours ago |  serpico | 3,280 | 92/100 |
| ! | 06/01/2026 12:23 | Bjartmar03 | 3,167 | 80/100 |
| ! | 04/22/2026 04:50 | Sonoffatboy | 3,958 | 81/100 |
| ! | 03/22/2026 23:17 | Exist-en-ciel | 148,670 | 71/100 |
| ! | 01/23/2026 18:35 |  VictorVale | 43,963 | 89/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.4/100, a mean average of 83.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.1.
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Love the weird synths on this one. Feels kinda apocalytic. Some parts could have been improved, but it's still great.
Good track with nice bridge and melodic bass with early use of snyth and drum machine sound
PatrickD 01/02/2014 07:10 | #99495
Nice tune but the vocals are really something awful.
The ending is cool, but the song itself is a bit too repetitive
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