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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Day 6 - Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division


Day 6 of 10: My all time favorite albums that are STILL in rotation. It's "Unknown Pleasures" by Joy Division. There's a reason you still see people wearing t-shirts with the cover art of this album everywhere you go: It's because musically and culturally, this album represented a major shift. Joy Division - previously Warsaw - started out as just another punk band when they formed in 1976. But from the first thwack of Stephen Morris's drums to that high, compact bass riff from Peter Hook, the opening track "Disorder" represented something alien for the times. Add in Bernard Sumner's crisp guitar line and then -- boom -- Ian Curtis arrives with a line that spoke to a generation of lost souls: "I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand." A musical revolution was born, thanks in no small part to the production of the mercurial genius Martin Hannett. (For reference, see this scene in 24 Hour Party People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90j6V8EjSuI or the story of how Hannett forces Morris to record one drum strike at a time in order to make his beat.)
Unknown Pleasures travels through this alien soundscape and includes more dystopian classics like "Shadowplay" and "She's Lost Control". The sad triumphalism of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" would come later in the band’s tragically short lifetime, as would its metamorphosis to experimentation in electronica as New Order after Curtis's suicide. But Unknown Pleasures signaled a singer -- and a band -- with something different to say -- something echoed through the decades that followed in other post-punk and goth bands.
Unknown Pleasures shows that music could be paradoxically bleak and beautiful, all while lacking none of the ferocity and power of hard rock. You'd be forgiven if you were inclined to meekly play this in a dark basement somewhere, but Unknown Pleasures sounds best and deserves to be played loud.

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