I just listened to 'closer' by Joy Divison....
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northernhord
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An incredibly uplifting cut indeed
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Pigeon said:Yeah, man. Russ Abbott.
You sick sick sick cunt!!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Pigeon said:I suck what?
Sphincter by the look of it, you Russ Abbott-loving weirdo!
A lot of credit must be given to hannetts production - really good chapter on joy division in depth in simon reynolds' excellent history of post punk 'rip it up and start again'...nice quote from hannett....'hash....is good for the ears'. For techy nerds who can allow reynolds some poetic licence its fascinating e.g. his application of a micro-second delay to the drums which isnt audible but creates a sense of enclosed space 'a vaulted sound,like music that was recorded in a mausoleum'
saucisson said:
Indeed, wasn't hannett regarded by some as being the unofficial fifth member of the group?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
RenegadeDog said:
Sort of.
Depending on who tells the story he was either, as you say, the "unofficial fifth member", or (as I've seen claimed by various other 3rd parties) "that interfering bastard who dubs synths and effects onto the masters while the band are asleep".
damnhippie
shark sandwich
saucisson said:
that's it exactly! the kind of feeling of dead air and stone...
btw, cheers violent panda.
Wide Eyed Angel
Forgeddaboudit!
Not listened to this album for ages, remember being most fond of the ones that use some for of timescale in their titles, especially 24 hours
Celticbhoy
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Got to agree with Wide Eyed Angel, "24hrs" is a fucking storming track, my personal favourite from that album. I remember listening to Peel, when he announced Ian's death...god is that twenty six years....that was the same year Malcolm Owen from the Ruts OD'd , Peel dropped that one on me as well as i remember..i was 17,just left school.. seems so long ago.
I guess they were both 'In a Rut' and they certainly got out of it.
R.I.P.
I guess they were both 'In a Rut' and they certainly got out of it.
R.I.P.
ViolentPanda said:Sort of.
Depending on who tells the story he was either, as you say, the "unofficial fifth member", or (as I've seen claimed by various other 3rd parties) "that interfering bastard who dubs synths and effects onto the masters while the band are asleep".
I guess that explains the rather different sounds between the two studio albums and some of the other stuff...
On a different note, I have just realised that I have made one of those "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" type listening errors over one of their lines. In the song "A Means to an End", where it says "Set free too", all these years I thought he was saying "Jeffrey too"...
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