Atmosphere (track) by Joy Division

Atmosphere by Joy Division
Year: 1988
From the album Substance (track #9)
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91/100 (from 192 votes)
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 91.4/100, a mean average of 90.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 92.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.3.

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From 04/02/2016 18:13
Every line is as powerful as the previous. It's heartbreaking and achingly beautiful at the same time. Oddly enough I've always found it's not the words that make you cry, it's that glistening synth chorus that stabs you right where it hurts.

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From 09/19/2015 01:12
This is the ultimate Joy Division song, featuring Ian Curtis in a unique mood, bleak but not hopeless as in much of Unknown Pleasures but unusually romantic as well. His anthemic refrain is delivered within the frame of a brilliant production by Martin Hannett that mirrors the artwork of the great "Atmosphere/Dead Souls" single by conveying the sonic equivalent of snowfall in a pine forest. The chord progression that carries this song is basic, and conveys a very simple sense of forward motion, but under the combined weight of Curtis's most vulnerable lyrics, the frosty blurs and chimes of instrumentation that back him up, and the historical implications of Joy Division's last release before their singer's suicide, the aforementioned progression accrues emotional significance.
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From 05/24/2013 15:36
Just wow. This is a truly amazing song. Curtis' voice just makes it that much more emotional and deep. You can hear the raw emotion in his vocal.
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