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	Fallenempire2000 reviews Joy Division
		Joy Division in 1980 was a band at the top of its game, so driven by creativity and new ideas that they released back to back classic albums in the span of less than a year.
		Joy Division is a record store geek's dream come true, and anybody with too much time on their hands who really knows their shit about music will have heard this.
		Joy Division combined the desolate electronics and mechanics of the beginning of 80's new wave and industrial music with the minimalism and deep emotional scars and desperation of late period punk.
	www.angelfire.com /planet/fallenempiretrendy/joydivision.html (1083 words)

	albumvote reviews of Closer by Joy Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Joy Division was at the height of their powers on Closer, equaling and arguably bettering the astonishing Unknown Pleasures, that's how accomplished the four members were.
		Joy Division were finally buried, it contained a few jokes and the newly-confident foursome were beginning to embrace dance.
		Given that 'Closer' is a move away from the guitar based 'Unknown Pleasures' to a sound sometimes ignoring guitars completely (eg, 'isolation'), chances are Joy Division themselves would indeed have done something 'different' through subsequent releases had they only all stayed alive in order to record and write subsequent releases.
	www.albumvote.co.uk /reviews/837.html (3067 words)

	Joy Division History
		Joy Division were certainly an alienating bandintendedly so they never introduced their songs live, they never did encores, they were solemn on stage and immobile, they strangely but deliberately created a distance between themselves and their audience.
		Joy Division were one of the few bands around still capable of actually changing the face of music, and probably the most likely to do so.
		Joy Division's appeal has, however, far outlasted their tragically short life because, if they were miserable, they did miserable differently.
	joydivision.homestead.com /history.html (7936 words)

	New Wave Outpost Message Board - Closer - Joy Division
		For Joy Division, it seemed like a good chance to finally capture some success but for singer Ian Curtis, he was growing weaker and more depressed as his marriage began to disintegrate along with the relationship he was having with a girl from Belgium.
		While Joy Division’s music can be heard in some of the stuff that New Order has done, their influence can be easily traced to bands like Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, the Smashing Pumpkins, and most recently, new groups like Interpol and the Division of Laura Lee.
		While it was their last album, “Closer” was definitely one hell of an album that fond a farewell to its listeners.
	www.nwoutpost.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5003 (1311 words)

	hey cd reviews - joy division - closer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		closer begins with “atrocity exhibition.”; a drum beat full of toms drives the song, while the guitar scrapes the strings with a slide.
		joy division here make the most use of dynamic changes, speeding up and getting louder at the same time.
		interpol have a massive, lush sound, while joy division is strict and sparse.
	www.goshen.edu /~mikess/hey/j/closer.html (276 words)

	Joy Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joy Division was a rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester.
		Joy Division's debut on vinyl was on a compilation in the summer of 1978 called Short Circuit.
		The album cover, designed by Peter Saville based on a graph of 100 consecutive pulses from the pulsar CP 1919, is regarded as a classic of minimalist sleeve design.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joy_Division_(band) (3816 words)

	Joy Division: album reviews and ratings
		In the aftermath of punk, Joy Division invented a glacial new sound which dramatically connected with a country lurching towards an unforgiving era of Thatcherism.
		In contrast to their messages of decay and acceptance (and bemused, bewildered acceptance, not despair, was central to Joy Division's ethos), 'Unknown Pleasures' is fired with the energy and excitement of the band set free in the studio for the first time.
		Closer and the compilation Still were released posthumously as was their Love Will Tear Us Apart single, which took them into the charts and proved the 'proper' singing ability of Curtis.
	www.musicfolio.com /modernrock/joydivision.html (896 words)

	"This is the way, step inside..."
		The album is well received by critics and Joy Division gain an enormous number of fans and taste the rapid increase of their reputation.
		Subsequently it's released the album Still (1981), the compilation Substance (1988) and, in the fifteenth anniversary of Ian's death, the compilation Permanent: Joy Division 1995, the tribute A Means to An End and his life's biography Touching from a Distance written by his widow, Deborah Curtis.
		The English punk movement shocked the world during the 70's, but it was Joy Division's silent storm of musical consciousness and emotional power that proved to be of extreme importance to independent music in the 80's, always leaded by the tortured words of his leader, Ian Curtis.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Bistro/3907/joyd_english.html (669 words)

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		The "joy divisions" refers to the line of huts in which the young deported women were forced to prostitute themselves to nazi officers on leave.
		Joy Divison impressed everybody and according to Mick Middlehurst [The Face, 1980]: "The intensity, the passion of this music completely eclipsed anything the audience had seen in a long, long time." This event was FAC 3 035.
		Joy Division had played two concerts in one day several times before so they figured they could do it again, but Ian who had been increasingly ill the last couple of months was in no condition for one more performance.
	www.vamp.org /Gothic/Text/jd-faq-discog.txt (14173 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Substance 1977-1980: Music: Joy Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Joy Division made a single they treated it as a fresh artefact, rather than pull a track from their albums, which was unforgivable laziness in their eyes.
		Joys Divisions Substance became the home for the bands long out of print singles which demonstrated that the band could bring the same energy to the more focused "7 or "12 released that they did on an album.
		It is the album that got me interested in the band, so I would recommend it to anyone for their first purchase.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Substance-1977-1980-Joy-Division/dp/B00002MDFA (1233 words)

	WhatzUp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Joy Division didn’t really fit the punk scene of the late 70s; although they played with the Clash and Sex Pistols, they didn’t have that energy that made you want to slam dance with your buddies.
		Closer was, and still is, a very dark, yet mellow album.
		Almost too expressive, the heart of the album was the inability to find meaning in things and happiness in life.
	www.whatzup.com /Music/cd051205d.html (297 words)

	Joy Division - Closer Review - sputnikmusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Joy Division are great, this is my favourite album of theirs and contains my favourite Joy Division track: Eternal, its awesome.
		Joy Division is me and like wise I am Joy Division...this is one of the only bands I can connect to in that way.
		I don't have the album because I have several Joy Division compilations, and Unknown Pleasures.
	www.musicianforums.com /sputnik/review_460 (1218 words)

	Amazon.com: Closer: Music: Joy Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In retrospect, the second and final album by this Manchester postpunk band seems to point straight at singer Ian Curtis's suicide, which happened a few months before it was released.
		Joy Division started in 1977, as Warsaw, and quickly improved its sound (with the help of producer Martin Hannet from Factory Records) to its impressive debut album "Unknown Pleasures" (1979).
		Closer is one of those albums I feel is best listened to in the context of the entire album.
	www.amazon.com /Closer-Joy-Division/dp/B000002LGN (1791 words)

	Joy Division MP3 Downloads - Joy Division Music Downloads - Joy Division Music Videos
		But steer away from the rereading of his every lyric after that date, treat Closer as what everyone else thought it was at first -- simply the next album -- and Joy Division's power just seems to have grown.
		It should come as no surprise that there is an album in Nick Cave's oeuvre called Prayers on Fire; a fascination with the dark, (self-)destructive side of religion is more than evident in...
		Another radically different record to file next to his first two, the third solo album by John Foxx focused on fusing the experimental fringe of synth-pop with a melodic preoccupation...
	www.mp3.com /albums/8723/summary.html (542 words)

	Closer by Joy Division CD
		I urge anyone and everyone to listen to this album without just listening, but absorbing all the beauty and tragedy Joy Division brings, and burying it into your very soul.
		Joy Division to me is a totally normal band.
		Both closer and unknown pleasures are a must for anyone who listen any kind of music.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1100272/a/Closer.htm (540 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Closer: Music: Joy Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In retrospect, Closer, the second and final album by this Mancunian band, seems to point straight at singer Ian Curtis's suicide, which happened a few months before it was released.
		The band's reverberating mesh of minor-key lines and Curtis's bass voice are gloomy enough on their own, and attention to the words reveals references to fler-than-fl stories by JG Ballard and Joseph Conrad; the void and its terrors were splitting Curtis apart from the inside.
		This is an extraordinary, exceptional album that's simultaneously depressing due to its circumstance and uplifting due to its beauty.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Closer-Joy-Division/dp/B00002DE4E (1089 words)

	www.myspace.com/joydivision
		Though listed as Joy Division, it was actually a track from the Warsaw days recorded live on October 2, 1977 The song, recorded live, was preceded by Curtis screaming "You all forgot Rudolf Hess" which momentarily stuns the audience into silence.
		New Order is often cited as one of the leading techno and dance music groups of their era, yet their use of traditional rock instruments such as guitars and live drums has reached a level of influence comparable with their landmark electronic works.
		Much of the history of Joy Division was portrayed in the 2002 MGM/United Artists released film 24 Hour Party People which followed the rise and fall of the Factory Records, with whom both Joy Division and New Order were signed.
	myspace.com /joydivision (2440 words)

	Search Results: Joy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	Joy Division studio sessions
		The 11 songs from these sessions were supposed to have been Joy Division's first album, but the deal fell through.
		Joy Division teamed up with Martin Hannett again for the recording of their follow-up to the highly acclaimed debut album.
		It is also a bit unlikely that Joy Division would have decided to record yet more songs so soon after the "Closer" sessions, keeping in mind Ian's fragile health at this time, with several concerts having to be cancelled.
	members.aol.com /lwtua/sessions.htm (1563 words)

	Joy Division
		This is a slightly out of date site listing my Joy Division collection - might be interesting to someone who wants to see the dates each bootleg is a recording of or maybe just some bored person...
		Also includes a copy of the very comprehensive historic Joy Division file by Bernt Rostad in English (link at the end of the article).
		Photos of Joy Division (and New Order) and many other late 70s, early 80s and present new wave, punk, goth, industrial, rock (even disco & country!) bands.
	c.webring.com /hub?ring=joy (418 words)

	T H E E T E R N A L
		However, if you have not been exposed to this medium previously, it might be a good introducton to the form, leading you to explore further into the area of chamber music in general.
		Having said this, Joy Division fans can readily recognize the songs off "Closer," and being fans, can appreciate the interpretation of them as kindred spirits to the intent of Joy Division to evoke a darker mood on their two studio albums, "Unknown Pleasures" as well as "Closer.
		THE ABOVE IMAGES ARE TAKEN FRM THE ENCLOSED PAMPHLET OF The Eternal: Variations on Joy Division by The Nau Ensemble.
	users.net1plus.com /steff/nau.htm (567 words)

	Closer by Joy Division : MusicOutfitter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Joy Division: Ian Curtis (vocals); Bernard Sumner (guitar, keyboards); Peter Hook (bass); Stephen Morris (drums).The news of singer Ian Curtis's suicide still hung in the air when this album was released.
		Given the deep introspective nature of Joy Division's music, his death invested CLOSER with an even greater pessimism.
		Yet there is a fragile beauty in its content and if Curtis's voice seems more distant, it complements the sparse textures created by mesmerizing synthesizer lines and occasional, highly effective, piano.
	www.musicoutfitter.com /store/item/075992584128/closer.html (221 words)

	Russ Pay : Closer Still: A Tribute to Joy Division - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Russ Pay : Closer Still: A Tribute to Joy Division
		closer still: a tribute to joy division - track listing
		closer still: a tribute to joy division - album credits
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	closer - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	Closer - Joy Division - BlamoNet.com
		On their second (and final) studio album, Joy Division build open what they started with 1979's Unknown Pleasures.
		But where that album seemed to have structure, this album seems to go in every direction....
		I remember the first time I heard this album, and the crashing drum intro of the opening track "Atrocity Exhibition"...
	www.blamonet.com /cds/view.php?id=471 (107 words)

	tonevendor.com :. Joy Division - Closer CD
		But steer away from the rereading of his every lyric after that date, treat Closer as what everyone else thought it was at first — simply the next album — and Joy Division's power just seems to have grown.
		Hannett was still producing, but seems to have taken as many chances as the band itself throughout — differing mixes, differing atmospheres, new twists and turns define the entirety of Closer, songs suddenly returned in chopped-up, crumpled form, ending on hiss and random notes.
		Keyboards also took the fore more so than ever — the drowned pianos underpinning Curtis' shadowy moan on "The Eternal," the squirrelly lead synth on the energetic but scared-out-of-its-wits "Isolation,"; and above all else "Decades," the album ender of album enders.
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	Joy Division Lyrics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This band has been very influential, considering the fact that New Order formed from what was left of JD after Curtis died, and considering much of JD's music was inspiration for James O'Barr, who authored "The Crow".......
		Note: The album 'Warsaw' was a self-titled album done before JD was known as JD.
		Joy Division Page This page gives some more stuff to play with.
	www.obscure.org /~vlad/lyrics/joy.division.html (153 words)

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