If you are exploring post-punk, I strongly recommend The Fall. With 32 studio albums released in their lifetime, one of the most challenging, strange, prolific and creative bands in all of music, covering a lot of different sounds and with frequently fascinating lyrics. Good songs to start with would be "New Face In Hell", "Smile", "English Scheme", "Leave The Capitol", "Prole Art Threat", or "Hip Priest" (used in the climactic scene of the movie The Silence Of The Lambs). Unlike any other band you have heard.
My wife and I recently realised we didn't have any mixed CDs/Playlists that didn't have at least one Joy Division song on it - and then we found one - but it had New Order instead... This track is certainly one of my favourites.
Have you had a chance to look at the Australian duet - Dead Can Dance? - they started out as atmospheric post punk and moved through world and historical music so they have a HUGE variety from dark folk to atmospheric soundscapes.
JD's "Substance" and "Still" albums should be in the list of JD album reactions to do as well. Lots of back catalog there and some live stuff on Still, including their last performance. The funny thing about JD is although they only released two studio albums, there's so much more to them than that!
If you like this sound, may I recommend another British band by the name of Bauhaus, who were around the same time as JD. A gothic band, for sure, with songs like "Bela Lugosi's Dead" [ I recommend the live version] "Stigmata Martyr" and "Dark Entries", to name a few. They also covered songs by David Bowie, T.Rex and Brian Eno. Enjoyed this song by JD, btw, my first time hearing it too.
I was waiting for you to review this track! Knew you would like it! My fav JD song. After UP, I would recommend other fine tracks like Transmission, Warsaw, and Dead Souls. Thanks for the awesome reaction😀
Hey Daniel, I am enjoying your thoughtful, intelligent insights into this seminal album, you really do seem to appreciate what a talented writer and poet Ian Curtis was, a British Tom Waits.
"Welcome back to another...whatever this is." Haw! I love it. Very cool track. I think it's the one I like best so far. I could tell you were digging it.
In the UK the album was a redcognised classic even before Ian Curtis's suicide, unbelievably up until that point not even his band mates paid much attention to the lyrics.
Northerners England are know for a their dour class attitudes compared to the south . The deadness of the urban landscape it's boredom ect the TV version plays with this - today's phobias of the urban - the back rooms . 70s was a lot of white new concrete nobody lived in the centre of the large cities - no Starbucks and hipster lofts then. City centres then were deserted at night . Creepy places to wait for buses in the 70s . Never went out much . Glad I didn't looking back .
Great song, but the album version lacks some power, and I don't think the remaster helped. Check out some of the live versions of Shadowplay, particularly the Les Bains Douche one.
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If you are exploring post-punk, I strongly recommend The Fall. With 32 studio albums released in their lifetime, one of the most challenging, strange, prolific and creative bands in all of music, covering a lot of different sounds and with frequently fascinating lyrics. Good songs to start with would be "New Face In Hell", "Smile", "English Scheme", "Leave The Capitol", "Prole Art Threat", or "Hip Priest" (used in the climactic scene of the movie The Silence Of The Lambs). Unlike any other band you have heard.
fall that,s a blast from the past loved them
My wife and I recently realised we didn't have any mixed CDs/Playlists that didn't have at least one Joy Division song on it - and then we found one - but it had New Order instead... This track is certainly one of my favourites.
Have you had a chance to look at the Australian duet - Dead Can Dance? - they started out as atmospheric post punk and moved through world and historical music so they have a HUGE variety from dark folk to atmospheric soundscapes.
Yes. Dead Can Dance. Way cool.
And the Cocteau Twins
@@tourist1313 oh yeah!!! - 4AD ruled music for a while there - - also the "supergroup" This Mortal coil
This song is amazing! Great bass and wow! those drums! One of their best!
JD's "Substance" and "Still" albums should be in the list of JD album reactions to do as well. Lots of back catalog there and some live stuff on Still, including their last performance. The funny thing about JD is although they only released two studio albums, there's so much more to them than that!
Great lyrics. You are really doing this album justice, I appreciate that. Thanks
So good to see a young person enjoy the music that means so much to 50 year old people like me lol .
If you like this sound, may I recommend another British band by the name of Bauhaus, who were around the same time as JD. A gothic band, for sure, with songs like "Bela Lugosi's Dead" [ I recommend the live version] "Stigmata Martyr" and "Dark Entries", to name a few. They also covered songs by David Bowie, T.Rex and Brian Eno. Enjoyed this song by JD, btw, my first time hearing it too.
I was waiting for you to review this track! Knew you would like it! My fav JD song. After UP, I would recommend other fine tracks like Transmission, Warsaw, and Dead Souls. Thanks for the awesome reaction😀
Hey Daniel, I am enjoying your thoughtful, intelligent insights into this seminal album, you really do seem to appreciate what a talented writer and poet Ian Curtis was, a British Tom Waits.
"Welcome back to another...whatever this is." Haw! I love it. Very cool track. I think it's the one I like best so far. I could tell you were digging it.
In the UK the album was a redcognised classic even before Ian Curtis's suicide, unbelievably up until that point not even his band mates paid much attention to the lyrics.
Otro nivel de post Punk..
That guitar riff was dope af.
Check out The Killers’ cover of this. Do it.
The second album, Closer is just amazing! My favourite track on that album is Twenty Four Hours. Incredible!
Rory Gallagher had a song called Shadow Play (two words). It's a high energy rocker from the 1970s. Peace.
Shadowplay is great. Check out the Killers cover. Pretty good.
the fact is, that Curtis was speaking about his actual feelings...
The next 2 songs Wilderness And Interzone aren’t that long they’re just over 2 minutes long and you could do them back to back
INTERZONE. My favorite.
From this LP, 'Day of the Lords' is my favorite. Please review! Great content!
I actually did the whole album track by track:)
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Bauhaus is your next post punk step
I agree!
In my experience this song is about searching for God but eventually finding him being killed (crucified) by the atrocitities of mankind ever more.
Joy Division is a conspiracy to make us all believe that Joy Division actually exists, tbh
It’s working
Northerners England are know for a their dour class attitudes compared to the south . The deadness of the urban landscape it's boredom ect the TV version plays with this - today's phobias of the urban - the back rooms . 70s was a lot of white new concrete nobody lived in the centre of the large cities - no Starbucks and hipster lofts then. City centres then were deserted at night . Creepy places to wait for buses in the 70s . Never went out much . Glad I didn't looking back .
Great song, but the album version lacks some power, and I don't think the remaster helped. Check out some of the live versions of Shadowplay, particularly the Les Bains Douche one.
Yeah Epic nothing more to say.
Detritus dead and rotting organic matter, such as wood, leaves etc, often lying at the bottom of ponds and rivers broken down by detritus eaters, bugs shrimps etc