Joy Division - Closer
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Artist: Joy DivisionBrand: JOY DIVISION
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Collector's Edition, Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2007-10-30
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Dead Souls
- Glass
- A Means To An End
- Twenty Four Hours
- Passover
- Insight
- Colony
- These Days
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Isolation
- The Eternal
- Digital
- Heart And Soul
- Twenty Four Hours
- The Eternal
- Decades
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Isolation
- Passover
- Colony
- A Means To An End
Music reviews of Closer
Music Review: Internal debate on this record
Rating: 5 Stars
I'm sitting here two weeks before Christmas debating whether to buy this CD for my 21 year old son. He loves rock and roll, and he's in a band and writes music, and he is as of now blissfully unaware of Joy Division.
Is it right to give this record to somebody? Is Christmas the right time to do it? People who have heard this record will know exactly why I ask these questions. There is no more gut wrenching work of art in existence in all the world than "Closer." Period. "Decades" is the most gloriously sad moment of human emotion ever captured for posterity. The despondent and exhausted refrain of, "Where have they been," repeated deep amidst the swirl of ether-like synths is so bone-chillingly haunting that it simply cannot be described. It must be heard to be believed.
I always imagined "Decades" to be the final cut on the record. It would seem most fitting there. But the album lists no A or B side to confirm it. Such obfuscation only seemed perfect at the time. It was better not knowing. It wasn't important which side got played first, by the time both sides had been played, the listener came out the other side feeling the same way. The sadness and the pain saturates, it permeates, it envelopes and there is no, repeat, no redemption or hope anywhere in the process. This is as complete and stunning an impression of personal and internal despair as you will ever find.
Don't listen to this record if you are depressed or suicidal! It is too painful.
And, yet, remarkably, it is great rock and roll. The production is coldly distant, as if recorded in a church. The arrangements are simple, rhythmic, spare, and repetitive, and each instrument comes through the ambient reverb with stark and remarkable clarity. Ian Curtis' vocals fly through like arrows. The band has punk energy and can slash like a chainsain one moment and then chunk and lurch the next. This is a first class rock band churning out first class rock and roll songs. And then the band can bathe you in the lushness of "Decades."
It is important that anyone who loves rock and roll, or even art, at some point listen to this record. For a full of understanding the human condition, it is that important. Whether to own it, and to listen to it repeatedly is healthy, that's an individual thing.
So, still I'm left, wondering if this makes a good Christmas gift. Well, maybe not. It seems that a Christmas gift ought to be a bit more joyful. But at some point, this record will end up in his collection.
Scott
Description of Closer
2007 digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of the influential Manchester quartet's 1980 album. Joy Division's influence on modern music is not only based around the band's unique sound, but also their vision, their personalities and their intense and troubled vocalist, Ian Curtis who committed suicide on the eve of their first tour of the U.S. Disc One features the original album containing nine tracks including 'Heart And Soul', 'Isolation' and 'Passover'. Disc Two features 11 tracks recorded live at ULU in February of 1980. Rhino UK.Alternative Rock CDs
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