Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures ALBUM REVIEW

In this first installment of classics week 2014, Anthony Fantano reviews a shirt.

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FAV TRACKS: DISORDER, DAY OF THE LORDS, INSIGHT, NEW DAWN FADES, SHE'S LOST CONTROL, SHADOWPLAY, I REMEMBER NOTHING

LEAST FAV TRACK: WILDERNESS

JOY DIVISION - UNKNOWN PLEASURES / 1979 / FACTORY RECORDS / POST-PUNK

classic/10

Y'all know this is just my opinion, right? What did you think of this album? Love it? Hate it? Why? What should I review next, eh?

[AnarchyApple]

I like this, it's dark, light, stylish, doesn't shrink in the wash. 10/10 good shirt.

[rossross]

It’s really annoying when you’re wearing this T-shirt in public and someone comes up to you and tries to start a conversation about some band. This has happened to me a few times.

[TheAmericanDragn]

I have to say that "Disorder" is one of my favorite album openers ever!"

[thespartanx]

New Dawn Fades is literally one of the best songs ever made.

[billypilgrim]

The "tss-tss" percussion on She's lost control is actually a spray can

[theneedledrop]

i love new order, so it was really hard not to rant about new order in this video. good job to

[dom]

You put so much detail into a shirt. I'm proud of you

[gravytopic]

I had an unknown pleasures shirt many many years ago. It was properly made, with the graphic small and unobtrusive in the center of the chest -- virtually lost in an ocean of darkness, like on the album cover. Every version of the shirt I've seen since then has the graphic taking up the whole front of the shirt. That's not right.

[tuanjim]

"Dance music with gothic overtones." -Martin Hannett describing Joy Division

[JimJWalker]

Why this band is not in the Rock and Roll hall of fame is a fucking disgrace? Joy Division influenced too many bands to name. They took you to the abyss yet did it in a palatable way, an intellectual way, not like some cheap horror movie scare. No one has come close except perhaps "Pornography" by the Cure.

[WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

Shame that Joy Division had such a short run, and only two studio albums under their belts. They were ahead of the curve

[bigcheese]

I find it weird how musically the 80s started in the late 70s and ended in the early 90s

[josepheastwood]

This album and band are really important to me. I once tried to strike up a conversation with a girl wearing an unknown pleasures shirt she just thought it looked cool and didn't ever hear the album. Kinda bothers me

[pardunk]

It's a good profile picture as well

[DissolvedGirl]

But why are they called Joy Division if they're not happy?

These guys are a total rip off of Interpol.

[creekandseminole]

Honestly, post-punk is one of my favorite genres besides shoegaze and 90's emo.

[daftgeartv]

This album came out 40 years ago today.

[STOP_red_light]

The bleak emptiness of Unknown Pleasures is something else, it's sound is sparse and stripped back, devoid of everything but the essential. There is a sense of space between each instrument being played too (I can't describe this space better than that).

[jayops]

I personally prefer Closer imo. To me, it's way more depressing (especially the second half of the album, holy shit, that's soul crushing), it's deeper, the lyrics are more introspective and tragic, Ian Curtis' haunting alienated-from-the-self vocals are more poignant, and I prefer the more cold and icy production of Closer rather than the doomy cavernous sound of Unknown Pleasures. Don't be mistaken, I love Unknown Pleasures, I just prefer Closer. Fuck I love Joy Division. There will never be a band like them again!

[gorillazarchive]

I live in the town where Ian was born, macclesfield. I dont blame him for being depressed, it's a dead end.