Joy Division

[roman meal]

Sounds like fun, but they don't screen these films where I live..

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/movies/07lim.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin

[fiamme red]

Just saw a trailer for "Control" on Sunday at the Film Forum (I went to see Truffaut's "400 Blows").

[davids]

You gotta move to the big city, boyo! Well, it'll get to Boston before it gets to Portsmouth, anyway...

...I just finished reading the article you linked, and came back here to find your posting. I remember his suicide. I wasn't a big fan then, but good friends were, and they were devastated, one of my best friends to the point of romanticizing the whole thing. Ick.

I only came to appreciate Joy Division after New Order clicked. This is still a high point for me:

On a thousand islands in the sea
I see a thousand people just like me
A hundred unions in the snow
I watch them walking, falling in a row
We live always underground
Its going to be so quiet in here tonight
A thousand islands in the sea
Its a shame

And a hundred years ago
A sailor trod this ground I stood upon
Take me away everyone
When it hurts thou

From my head to my toes
From the words in the book
I see a vision that would bring me luck
From my head to my toes
To my teeth, through my nose
You get these words wrong
You get these words wrong
Every time
You get these words wrong
I just smile

But from my head to my toes
From my knees to my eyes
Every time I watch the sky
For these last few days leave me alone
But for these last few days leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone

http://xs101.xs.to/xs101/06210/New_Order_Power_Corruption_and_Lies.jpg

[roman meal]

If these run in Boston, I'll come down to see them. Are you in or out?

[davids]

If these run in Boston, I'll come down to see them. Are you in or out?
Way in.

[roman meal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LdEM9xhMUM

[ti_boi]

I loved 24 hour party people.....loved it.....such a terrific cast and the players in that orbit included Joy Divison.....but this one looks a little weepy for my taste....and knowing the outcome just kind of makes it a potential downer....But then I have been pleasantly surprised before. We tend to really glamourize the dead rock star....our modern version of the matyr saint dying young for their art...leaving an attractive corpse -- someone please change the plot...it is getting cliche...why can't our geniuses simply retire to the country and farm beets?


That being said I had an immense poster of a gravestone angel from LOVE WILL TEAR US APART

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ii8m1jgn_M

in my apt in college.....ah memories :cool:

[roman meal]

...why can't our geniuses simply retire to the country and farm beets?


Indeed. There seems to be no middle of the road in between the tragic pretty corpse and the bloated Police reunion tour.

That said, I'm excited to see Billy Bragg next week in Northampton, MA.
He seems to still have kept things authentic and below the radar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FknxIkLbn7E

[mosca]

I thought he did a good job of humanizing the characters while maintaining that bleak JD aesthetic. Beautifully photographed of course. And the actors apparently played/sang their own parts in the film, and rather well imho - the performance scenes were a real rush. Thumbs up here.

[crf]

Is Interpol a tribute band?

[davids]

I went the the R&R Hall of Fame yesterday. The scrawled original lyrics to both "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "Leave Me Alone" were in a small exhibit case. Sorta touching, atmo.

[ButtedMoron]

Is Interpol a tribute band?

man when I heard them the 1st time I thought the exact same thing

all these new bands are 80's tributes

I remember being all geeked when rumors were flying about Joy Division doing a US Tour. Was my second year in college and these rumors were said to be true. They were lining up a US Tour on the success of 'Closer"

then Ian has to go and frickin hang himself the day before they leave

I still have "Still", "Closer" and the 'Love Will Tear Us Apart" 12 inch single all on Vinyl

NewOrder's first album was tragic genius. they went downhill right after when they decided to be pop/dance stars

[goonster]

Just saw a trailer for "Control" on Sunday at the Film Forum (I went to see Truffaut's "400 Blows").

The scene of the children watching the puppet show is among my most cherished images of the cinema.

I loved 24 hour party people.....loved it.....

+1

The "reenactments" of JD concerts gave me goosebumps. Fantastic film all around. R.I.P. Tony.

NewOrder's first album was tragic genius. they went downhill right after when they decided to be pop/dance stars

+1

Although "Everything's Gone Green" and "Age of Consent" are fantastic.

[mosca]

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/416234/Joy-Division/overview

http://www.nme.com/news/joy-division/32396

[paczki]

One of my most powerful memories is buying "Transmission", the single, when it came out -- I hadn't heard Joy Division before -- dropping the needle to the record and just being blown away. I can think of other records that have had that impact on me, but very few.

I have to admit that I like "Blue Monday"!