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The Best of Joy Division [2 CD]Joy Division
Release Date: 04/29/2008
Original Release:
2008
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 1020672_CD
UPC # 081227993085
Label: Rhino Records (USA)
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Performer: Joy Division
Distributor: WEA (Distributor) Notes: Released in 2008, shortly after Rhino reissued Joy Division's only studio albums--UNKNOWN PLEASURES and CLOSER--this well-selected 14-track compilation draws tracks from those two post-punk classics, while also including a number of singles by the brooding U.K. ensemble. Though every song on the collection is indispensable, standout tracks are the spiky "Digital," the ominous "Transmission," and, of course, "Love Will Tear Us Apart," frontman Ian Curtis's swooning synth-pop farewell to the world.
Joy Division virtually defined the term "post-punk." They combined punk's rawness and iconoclasm with an artier sensibility that encompassed poetic lyrics, existentialism, and a dark moody mix of guitars and keyboards that was a major influence on goth and industrial music. After singer Ian Curtis's suicide in 1980, the rest of the band went on to even greater success as the poppier, more electronic-oriented New Order. Although they burned brief, their indelible imprint revived over two decades later as inspiration for a whole movement of indie rock on both sides of the ocean.
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