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	Amazon.co.uk: Unknown Pleasures: Music: Joy Division
		Listening to Unknown Pleasures isn't a depressing or oppressive experience (despite what other people might say.) Intense and dark, yes, and I'd admit to Ian Curtis' lyrics being on the dreary side, but Joy Division knew how to write songs, and the sheer melody of tracks like She's Lost Control and Disorder are positively up-lifting.
		Unknown Pleasures is often described as being raw, desolate, isolated...
		For all the good reviews and dedications of genius that have been awarded to 'Unknown Pleasures', its often easy to forget that this was an album made by a bunch of working class...
	www.amazon.co.uk /Pleasures-Joy-Division/dp/B000042O1H (1802 words)

	Joy Division
		In April of 1979, the band finally committed to tape the frantic performances they were already known to deliver in concert.
		Unknown Pleasures was released one month after it was recorded, and quickly sold roughly 5,000 copies.
		The wall of guitar that enters exactly halfway through the song-- which in many ways plays as a fuck-you to the band's dissatisfaction with Hannett's guitar work on Unknown Pleasures-- is to this day without parallel in its simultaneous beauty, distance and terrifying volume.
	www.worldinmotion.net /joydivision/biography/history.htm (2275 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Unknown Pleasures (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Unknown Pleasures remarks at the start of the film, “Art sets the stage; let the economy perform on it,” but evidence in the movie shows that his assessment is dead wrong.
		While the capitalist culture that dominates Unknown Pleasures seems a bit more exciting than what surrounds it, at the same time it’s made clear that those pleasures all lie on the surface level and are quite disposable.
		Though it’s tough to accept such a thoroughly negative appraisal of a country’s state of affairs, Unknown Pleasures certainly makes a strong case for one (though in all fairness he still finds plenty to laugh at), and in doing so holds up a mirror to the rest of the world.
	www.moviemartyr.com /2002/unknownpleasures.htm (1096 words)

	Amazon.ca: Unknown Pleasures: Music: Joy Division (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Whether Unknown Pleasures or Closer is better I'm not sure, because their both almost flawless.
		"Unknown Pleasures" has proven to be something of a milestone in the world of rock music (much like it's successor, "Closer").
		"Unknown Pleasures" is recommended to fans of post-punk, but anyone is welcome to listen.
	www.amazon.ca /Pleasures-Joy-Division/dp/B000042O1H (1686 words)

	Cine Club: Unknown Pleasures
		Unknown Pleasures is the third and most recent feature from filmmaker Jia Zhangke.
		Like his previous films, Xiao Wu (1997) and Platform (2000), Unknown Pleasures was made without the permission of the Chinese government and, therefore, cannot be shown in the director's homeland.
		Unknown Pleasures was shot on digital video, and if the screen shots below are any indication, it looks like Jia captures some of that alienation even in his compositions, positioning people on opposite edges of the frame and dwarfing individuals against a massive landscape.
	www.longpauses.com /cineclub/2004/07/unknown-pleasures.html (278 words)

	Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division - Song Listings
		If that were all Unknown Pleasures was, it...
		If that were all Unknown Pleasures was, it wouldn't be discussed so much, but the ten songs inside, quite simply, are stone-cold landmarks, the whole album a monument to passion, energy, and cathartic despair.
		The quantum leap from the earliest thrashy singles to Unknown Pleasures can be heard through every note, with Martin Hannett's deservedly famous production -- emphasizing space in the most revelatory way since the dawn of dub -- as much a hallmark as the music itself.
	www.mp3.com /albums/8722/summary.html?from=55302 (512 words)

	Unknown Pleasures - Rotten Tomatoes
		While there are some beautifully shot, subtle moments in the film that encapsulate the desperation and degradation of the characters, the director ends up alienating his audience in an attempt to display the alienation of his characters.
		In its effort to evoke pity, Unknown Pleasures chiefly evokes agitation and frustration.
		The actors in Unknown Pleasures generate sympathy from their sullen good looks as much as any acting ability.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/UnknownPleasures-1121662 (689 words)

	village voice > film > Unknown Pleasures; Stevie; Raising Victor Vargas by J. Hoberman
		The more overtly pop, impressionistic, and improvisational Unknown Pleasures, one of the strongest inclusions in the last New York Film Festival, may be Jia's most concentrated evocation of contemporary China's spiritual malaise.
		Unknown Pleasures takes its Chinese title (which translates as "Free of All Constraints") from a poem by the fourth century B.C. Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi that became a pop hit in 2001.
		Unknown Pleasures suggests a coolly formalist reinvention of neorealism.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0313/hoberman.php (1420 words)

	BFI \| Sight & Sound \| Unknown Pleasures (2002)
		The utter equivalence of form and content is perhaps the chief beauty of Jia Zhang Ke's Unknown Pleasures.
		At first and for quite a stretch, the movie seems little more than a hodgepodge of loosely associated scenes that keep on the same flat emotional plane and refuse to build up narrative momentum.
		Unknown Pleasures shows the tide of individualism in full swell a decade later, and again finds the precise aesthetic means to gauge the distance travelled.
	www.bfi.org.uk /sightandsound/review/1309 (1310 words)

	Unknown Pleasures - Movie Review - Stylus Magazine
		His third feature, Unknown Pleasures, was thankfully picked up by New Yorker Films and has received a very limited U.S. release (which, I supposed, is certainly better than none at all).
		At its most conventional level, a penetrating study of the aimlessness in youth brought about by stifling urban boredom and the consequent idea of romance as a means to uproot that monotony, Unknown Pleasures easily justifies the mountains of superlatives that have been heaped on Jia these past several years.
		Unknown Pleasures is the best film of the year.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /articles/movie_review/unknown-pleasures.htm (825 words)

	Unknown Pleasures \| Watch Trailers, Find Video Clips, Photos and DVD Movie Releases \| VSPOT \| VH1.com
		Unknown Pleasures takes place in China, in the small city of Datong, in 2001, where dis...
		Ambitious writer-director Jia Zhang Ke again captures the complex weave of life in contemporary China in Unknown Pleasures.
		Unknown Pleasures takes place in China, in the small city of Datong, in 2001, where disaffected teenagers look for any kind of excitement to enliven their dreary existence.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/218488/moviemain.jhtml (125 words)

	Bury Me Not: Unknown Pleasures
		If the limits of what’s acceptably enjoyable, as established by canon & coolness, are inherently political, then the guilty pleasure supports that political structure rather than subverting it (as this here paper promises to point out).
		Steve Miller's a good example of a guilty pleasure for me, actually -- or used to be, before all the pleasure was sapped by smply hearing that stuff too much.
		OK, here's a guilty pleasure, and this actually came up in conversation recently, and it falls in line more with "what will the cool kids think" anxiety than "why am I taken in by this song" anxiety....
	www.burymenot.com /2006/04/unknown-pleasures.html (1952 words)

	BBC - Radio 2 - Critical List - Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
		They reconvened with producer Martin Hannett in April 1979, and recorded Unknown Pleasures in less than a week.
		The band, relative novices in the studio, were treated as a blank canvas by Hannett, whose production swathed the instruments in his trademark harsh metallic reverb and augmented Steven Morris' metronomic rhythms with drum machines.
		With Unknown Pleasures they created a template that would spawn hordes of angst ridden, fl clad doom merchants in long overcoats, but few of its imitators matched its disturbing power, which still sounds defiantly strange and vaguely unsettling today.
	bbc.co.uk /radio2/shows/criticallist/must_have_unknown_pleasures.shtml (455 words)

	Unknown Pleasures - Movie Review
		It has the ability to connect with everyone, and perhaps international audiences will connect with the Chinese youth of Unknown Pleasures for the exact same reason.
		Unemployed boys go girl crazy in Unknown Pleasures, and one of them, Xiao Ji (Wu Qiong) falls hard for a singer (Zhao Tao) and sometime prostitute.
		Unknown Pleasures’s rather slight story is placed against the backdrop of apartment complexes being knocked to the ground, underground clubs popping up everywhere with unchecked crime and a Westernized pop-bubble gum sensibility.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/unknownpleasures (444 words)

	Unknown Pleasures review - movie review of the Jia Zhang Ke film starring Zhao Tao
		In the same scene, the filmmaker quotes a picture from fellow director Yu Lik-Wai, Love Will Tear Us Apart, whose title is a reference to a hit from Joy Division.
		Similarly, Unknown Pleasures refers to another title from the mythical Manchester band's discography.
		These unknown pleasures are perhaps those of first loves, including cinema...
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/unknownpleasures.html (522 words)

	Unknown Pleasures - Moviefone
		Ren xiao yao (2002) Unknown Pleasures, directed by Jia Zhangke, powerfully brings home the...
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	movies.aol.com /movie/unknown-pleasures/14215/main (170 words)

	YouTube - Shadowplay by Joy Division, Reanimated
		Ive just listened to Unknown Pleasures for the first time last night and i cant get enough of it.
		unknown pleasures is one of the best covers out there
		This video project was inspired by the famous album cover art of 1979 album, Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" designed by Peter Saville.
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=YgAHhha9HZ8 (563 words)

	Rosa Selvaggia - Fanzine Oscura
		Con Unknown Pleasures confezionarono un vero disco epocale, destinato cioè a cambiare i destini della storia del rock.
		Copertina nera come la pece, schema di onde sismiche come unico elemento decorativo (e straniante, opera del loro grafico, Saville), ma lo stesso nome poi: i “joy divisions” o “reparti gioia” erano le sezioni dei lager nazisti dedicate alla prostitute per la truppa.
		Alla sua uscita, Unknown Pleasures poteva avere solo due destini: troppo diverso, troppo triste per essere capito.
	www.rosaselvaggia.com /1.9.htm (1128 words)

	Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division : Don't Walk Away, In Silence...
		They were signed to Tony Wilson's new record label Factory in 1977, and started to write their first album.
		Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division : A dark, moving piece of music.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/unknown-pleasures-joy-division (277 words)

	NMPFT - Unknown Pleasures: Unwrapping the Royal Photographic Society Collection (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Specific images in the show are related to the equipment that allowed them to be produced including experimental and stereoscopic cameras and a portable darkroom.
		Unknown Pleasures takes place at an important moment in British cultural history with the move of the RPS Collection to the Museum expected in mid-2003.
		This momentous partnership with Royal Photographic Society, will make the Museum one of the greatest resources for the study and appreciation of photography.
	www.nmpft.org.uk /unknownpleasures (203 words)

	Unknown Pleasures - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
		The story, to the degree that there is one, focuses on two young friends, Bin Bin (Wei Wei Zhao) and Xiao Ji (Qiong Wu), and the woman Xiao Ji has a crush on, Qiao Qiao (Tao Zhao).
		Unknown Pleasures refers to a work by the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi.
		Unknown Pleasures seems to have gotten a largely positive response upon its initial release, and I have an idea why.
	www.pajiba.com /unknown-pleasures.htm (826 words)

	Asia Express :: Unknown Pleasures
		La sua attesissima opera terza, Unknown Pleasures (Ren Xiao Yao, dal titolo di una canzone dei Joy Division) è stata accolta alla sua prima cannense nel 2002 dallo sconcerto generale, dall'insoddisfazione e il disappunto di gran parte della critica.
		Figli di un neo-capitalismo eterodiretto, seguaci del mito di un "altrove" che si sposta in continue false prospettive, vittime di un ondivago fluttuare nello scorrere di un'esistenza su cui non hanno presa e non possono aver presa.
		Le riserve e la freddezza con cui molti hanno accolto un'opera svettante come Unknown Pleasures ci paiono evidenza di come Jia, quale degno epigono dell'inarrestabile sperimentazione di un Hou Hsiao-hsien, si sia spinto in avanti nella sua appropriazione e potentissima ridefinizione del linguaggio filmico, e non solo di quello della cinematografia cinese.
	www.asiaexpress.it /fa032.html (510 words)

	AlternativeMusic.com is your best resource for Alternative Music on the Internet
		The deluxe version of Unknown Pleasures contains the remastered CD on the first disc and a second disc featuring the band's set -- all 12 songs -- from its July 13, 1979 gig at Factory.
		Although Hendrix had become a star in the U.K., he was largely unknown in his home country when he played this show.
		So, the set was well chosen to introduce him to an American audience, even if that audience reacted in understandable amazement encountering a style of guitar playing hitherto unimagined and a flamboyant performance that culminated in a guitar doused in lighter fluid and going up in flames.
	www.alternativemusic.com (1210 words)

	New wave
		Avec Unknown Pleasures, on (re)découvre un live à la Factory du 11 avril 1980 qui faisait partie des préférés des collectionneurs depuis des lustres et dont le son, malheureusement, ne sort pas du tout amélioré par la présente livraison.
		La réécoute successive d'Unknown Pleasures et de Closer rappelle que la postérité du groupe repose en partie sur le caractère monolithique (et presque granitique) de l'oeuvre.
		A partir des singles "Digital" et "Atmosphere", puis sur Unknown Pleasures, Martin Hannett mettra subtilement en relief l'aspect mélodique du jeu de basse de Peter Hook et les riffs alcalins de la guitare de Bernard Sumner inlassablement soutenue par la batterie métronomique de Stephen Morris.
	musique.fluctuat.net /blog/tag-new-wave.html (7504 words)

	Ren xiao yao (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		from Vancouver, B.C. Unknown Pleasures, directed by Jia Zhangke, powerfully brings home the spiritual malaise affecting Chinese youth as a result of global capitalism.
		Two 19-year olds, Bin Bin (Zhao Wei Wei) and Xiao Ji (Wy Qiong) are heavily influenced by American culture and seem to exist only for their own immediate pleasure.
		They live on the margins in a city where, according to the director, two-thirds of the population were unemployed in 2001.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0318025 (818 words)

	Unknown Pleasures
		UNKNOWN PLEASURES ruminates on the boredom, longing, and helplessness of two teenage boys in Datong, a small town in northern China.
		While Bin Bin (Zhao Wei Wei) has a serious girlfriend (Zhou Qing Feng) and thinks about a future with her, she is only focused on leaving town and never coming back.
		A moody, sometimes dreamlike film enhanced by its tough and gritty urban landscape, UNKNOWN PLEASURES is a thoughtful work from writer-director Jia Zhang-ke.
	www.sitnema.com /unknown_pleasures.html (702 words)

	Unknown pleasures - Eyatai (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We have a huge catalogue of children's films, box sets, horror, drama, action movies, and much, much more for you to choose from.
		But The Music - Joy Division - T-Shirt - Unknown Pleasures - £14.99 Joy Division - Black T-shirt with Unknown pleasures design on the front and Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures written in small writing on the back - Official Band Merchandise - 5.6oz, 100% cotton preshrunk jersey knit...
		Unknown A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
	www.e-yatai.net /est-e-lauder/pleasures/unknown-pleasures.html (409 words)

	Amazon.com: Unknown Pleasures: Music: Joy Division
		Joy Division's `Unknown Pleasures' arrived in 1979 without warning or fanfare.
		In 1979, many things didn't exist in rock, and Joy Division, with this record, brought them into being.
		First, the idea that rock music could express emotions other than drugs, rebellion, youth, love: `Unknown Pleasures', for the first time in rock, expands the palette to include sadness, murderousness, self-hatred, despair; without apology, without embarrassment - like the entry of Greek Tragedy onto the rock stage.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002LGL (449 words)

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