Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
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trickert
February 13th 2025


520 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Lights are flashing, cars are crashing, getting frequent now

PunkerBlast
February 24th 2025


825 Comments


Ian's dead pan vocals were off putting to me back then. It didn't take too long to appreciate them but at first, golly. Early 2000s me coming off (finding Sunny Day Real Estate) and just looking into a lot of music history in the vein of this kinda music. Joy Division certainly left a legacy.

e210013
February 24th 2025


5924 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Agreed. Joy Division definitely left a legacy.

AnimalForce1
Staff Reviewer
February 24th 2025


1447 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I need to make a proper list of "classic albums I must hear" at some point soon, this one would definitely be at the top

PunkerBlast
February 24th 2025


825 Comments


Yea I would at the time I wound up getting a boxset it had both albums and a bunch of old Warsaw tracks and live tracks from JD. The price wasn't too much that I recall. The Boxset was called "heart and soul."

Hawks
Contributing Reviewer
February 24th 2025


100122 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Animal bro get on it.

tectactoe
February 24th 2025


8444 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

It's crazy that for how good this is, they managed to top it with CLOSER.

AnimalForce1
Staff Reviewer
February 24th 2025


1447 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I've got about a 40-ish minute drive back home after I get off work. Should I listen to this album or Laughing Stock?

tectactoe
February 24th 2025


8444 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Laughing Stock

trickert
February 25th 2025


520 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Unknown Pleasures.

MillionDead
February 25th 2025


5848 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Unknown Pleasures? Closer? How about you discover some "unknown pleasures" and get "closer" to some hoes.



Also, @tec, 24 Hours is such a genius track.

PunkerBlast
February 25th 2025


825 Comments


^ I feel like sex jokes here is inappropriate. Especially where the name came from > Hoes? Is this the Godfather from WWF/E here saying. I got an offer for you, listen to "Closer" or I just took your property of six books and a penlight.

I can't believe I typed that, and I tried to make it a little wrestling funny. I feel like this album is definitely more fun.

AnimalForce1
Staff Reviewer
February 25th 2025


1447 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

It’s funny going back to classic albums like this one that birthed a genre, or at least popularized it. Everything is so much simpler here compared to later post-punk albums, but it’s still so enthralling

MillionDead
February 25th 2025


5848 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Joy Division is one of those groups where you can see the bare essentials of good songwriting on display. It doesn't take much.

AnimalForce1
Staff Reviewer
February 25th 2025


1447 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Listening to this on the way to work, Shadowplay’s intro gave me legit chills

PunkerBlast
February 25th 2025


825 Comments


I looked and there is no review for the live "Preston" show. I got that cd so long ago. It's a concert where everything goes wrong and it still is really enjoyable. As the one soundoffer says. Everything is busted. The music was being played through the bass amp after awhile.

DadKungFu
Staff Reviewer
February 25th 2025


5830 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

FEELING FEELING FEELING FEELING FEELING FEELING FEEEEEEEEEEELING

Hawks
Contributing Reviewer
February 25th 2025


100122 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

HERE COMES TO HOOOOOEEEEEEEE TRAAAAAAIIINNNNNNN!!!!!!



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