Joy Division - Day Of The Lords (Official Reimagined Video)

Reimagined video for Day Of The Lords by Joy Division. Part of the 'Unknown Pleasures: Reimagined' series to celebrate the album's 40th anniversary.

Actor - Mat Voorter
Technical assistance - Jonathan Sammon
Edited and produced - Feargal Ward
CGI - Gordon Murphy
Costume design - Adrian Duncan and Feargal Ward

Thanks: Gareth Lennon (Bearpit Karaoke), Niamh, Simone, Elena, Maxe, Frederico & Denise, Martin Wundrack, Sebastian, Lucas and Jens (Selam X).

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Lyrics:

This is the room, the start of it all,
No portrait so fine, only sheets on the wall,
I've seen the nights, filled with bloodsport and pain,
And the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained.

Where will it end? Where will it end?
Where will it end? Where will it end?

These are your friends from childhood, through youth,
Who goaded you on, demanded more proof,
Withdrawal pain is hard, it can do you right in,
So distorted and thin, distorted and thin.

Where will it end? Where will it end?
Where will it end? Where will it end?

This is the car at the edge of the road,
There's nothing disturbed, all the windows are closed,
I guess you were right, when we talked in the heat,
There's no room for the weak, no room for the weak.

Where will it end? Where will it end?
Where will it end? Where will it end?

This is the room, the start of it all,
Through childhood, through youth, I remember it all,
Oh, I've seen the nights filled with bloodsport and pain,
And the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained.

Where will it end? Where will it end?
Where will it end? Where will it end?

[TweedSuit]

If there ever was a band that DIDN’T need videos, JD is certainly that band.

[yruptbi]

I imagine a totally different scene when I listen to this song, just a working man in his empty home with bleak white walls, or a therapist's office with someone devastated sitting on a couch in the middle of the room

[ander]

This new Frozen movie looks a little odd...

[mark-adams]

If you close your eyes, it’s actually quite good...

[jamesjohnson]

this video is so far removed from the visual language associated with the sounds of joy division, and to be honest i think its quite disrespectful to the likes of kevin cummins and peter saville and any other visual artists that were involved with the visual presentation of the band prior to the project. This video is far from celebrating the album, it undermines it.


They should given the opportunity to a young film maker/ visual artist that would have shown a level of respect and responsibility this project deserved. Creatively exploring the sonic landscape of Joy Division in a new visual way whilst still drawing influences from the likes of burroughs, the manchester landscape at the time, brutalism, the depth of ians lyrics etc... and not make something like this ....

[Anonymous-KB]

It would be a better video if the guy was just a normal miserable guy going to work... “where will it end!”

[zeilian]

Nobody:
Director Mat Voorter: Let's film this half-naked dude walking with that leaf scarf through Berlin and throw some effects over it.

[silvercoin]

Can't believe this song is from 1979. These guys were ahead of their time, definitely.

[resterdebout]

Day of the Lords isn't even that abstract, yet someone still imagines weird shit to it.

[paulapierrot]

Ah! So Berlin hipsters made all these disappointing videos? This explains everything.

[Ithinkhighlyofmyself]

I guess if watching these videos is the most masochist thing I'm doing then life ain't so bad after all.

[RockfordRoe]

The bridge summarizes my reactions to the video: "Where will it end?"

[aguy]

I always imagined the song taking place in a trench warfare setting

[stevendphoto]

How a person responds to music, is a deeply personal thing. Many, if not most of you, were exposed to this song many years after it's initial release, this is not your fault, it is just how life unfolds...

I heard this song, when I was about 20, (along with the entire Unknown Pleasures album), when it was first released. This gloomy (later to be called goth) music, touched a part of my soul, that had never been touched in this manner before, it was dark, it was introspective, it forced me to look deep inside myself and it scared me, yet I could not look away, I could not stop listening, I really felt Ian was stimulating a part of me, that had never been exposed before, I loved it, yet in some twisted way, hated how it made me feel, but I was hooked and the bottom line was.... IT MADE ME FEEL....(and it won't end)

[Mancheguache]

Every one of these videos shoud've just trailed around Stockport and Salford filming tedious things...trust me I lived there back in the 80's

[TheObimara]

"Shite" in a Mancunian accent, 40 times. This is dreadful, probably the worst video ever shot in Berlin to support a product of this genre.

[TheSbd]

I've always said (well, for the last 40 years anyway) that I want this track played at my funeral...

[daviddebarros]

" Day Of The Lords " my favorite song of the British band Joy Division .

[fert]

I can’t believe I saw this album on vinyl yesterday and I didn’t buy it.

[octaviomartinavilessanchez]

No es un mal video, pero no es la vibra de Joy Division.