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2,020 Albums You Must Hear Before the World Ends (2020 items)
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My Favorite Music Albums (142 items)
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Depression turned into music (29 items)
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My 600 Favorite Albums Of All Time (600 items)
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Joy Division - Decades

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Description: 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. The band's reverberating mesh of minor-key lines and Curtis's tremorous bass voice are doomy enough on their own, and attention to the words reveals references to blacker-than-black stories by J.G. Ballard and Joseph Conrad; the void and its terrors were splitting Curtis apart from the inside. "I put my trust in you," he sings, and his voice leaves no doubt that that trust has been betrayed. But the music, grim and powerful as it is, point ... (more)
Manufacturer: Factory
Release date: 18 July 1980
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0639842821926 UPC: 639842821926
Tags: 1980 (8), Post-Punk (8), 1980s (5), UK (3), Punk (2), 1980's (2), England (2), Manchester (1), Goth (1), English (1), Post Punk (1), Rock (1), Gothic Rock (1), Album (1), United Kingdom (1), Bought 2008 (1), Owned On CD (1), Joy Divison (1)
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My Favourite Albums (565 music items)
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Depression turned into music (29 music items)

"Ian Curtis, the vocalist of the band was seriously depressed while recording Closer-album and he commited suicide before the album was released. "


dongabo added this to a list 2 years, 4 months ago
Rate Your Music: BEST 100 albums of all time (100 music items)

"✪4.10 / 5.0✪ 32,779 Ratings/Puntuaciones 569 Reviews/Reseñas"


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Great Albums of the 1980s (40 music items)
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The Final Albums (178 music items)

"Released: July 18, 1980 "


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My Favorite Albums: 1980 (11 music items)
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Coolest Album Covers (61 music items)
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Joy Division - Top 15 (20 music items)
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500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die! (500 music items)

"The title rhymes with bulldozer, and the morbid Brit post-punkers’ graceful final album sees arachnid synths augmenting pitiless guitars and drums. Ian Curtis does a fine impression of a man abandoned by everyone, including God. Interpol think they sound like this. Standout track: “Isolation”"


ToonHead2102 added this to a list 7 years, 10 months ago
2,020 Albums You Must Hear Before the World Ends (2020 music items)

"CLOSER (1980) JOY DIVISION Review coming soon... FAV TRACKS: "Heart and Soul"; "Atrocity Exhibition"; "The Eternal"; "A Means to An End"; "Twenty Four Hours"; "Decades"; "Isolation"; "Colony"; "Passover" "


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Favorite Songs of All Time: 1980-1981 (173 music items)

""Isolation""


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My Favorite Albums: 1980 (17 music items)
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Top Albuns (42 music items)
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Favorite Lyrics (13 music items)

"Heart and Soul Written by Ian Curtis Instincts that can still betray us A journey that leads to the sun Soulless and bent on destruction A struggle between right and wrong You take my place in the showdown I'll observe witha pitiful eye I'll humbly ask for forgiveness A request well beyond you and I Heart and soul, one will burn Heart and soul, one will burn An abyss that laughs at creation A circus complete with all fools Foundations that lasted the ages Then ripped apart at their roots B"


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So How Was High School? (52 music items)

"Twenty Four Hours"