I recently decided that there is a mourning period in which all Joy Divsion fans must go through before they can appreciate New Order. If you start off as a fan of Joy Division, probably by hearing "She's Lost Control" or "Love Will Tear us Apart," you will start off with a natural bias towards New Order because of the history. Speaking from experience you will feel that New Order and it's fans are destroying the memory of Ian Curtis by turning his clinical, angstfull and melancholic songs about life into marginally more optimistic fare. I went through a period where I would change the channel or station everytime I heard one of their songs and even bad mouthing a clerk at HMV for asking me if I thought the new New Order CD was awesome when I bought "Unknown Pleasures" (the quintessential Joy Division Album). Anyway I finally overcame this when I bought Power Corruption and Lies, an older New Order Album, to speak modestly it altered the way I percieve reality. Oh and by the way, their newer stuff still sucks shit.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
How does it feel?
I recently decided that there is a mourning period in which all Joy Divsion fans must go through before they can appreciate New Order. If you start off as a fan of Joy Division, probably by hearing "She's Lost Control" or "Love Will Tear us Apart," you will start off with a natural bias towards New Order because of the history. Speaking from experience you will feel that New Order and it's fans are destroying the memory of Ian Curtis by turning his clinical, angstfull and melancholic songs about life into marginally more optimistic fare. I went through a period where I would change the channel or station everytime I heard one of their songs and even bad mouthing a clerk at HMV for asking me if I thought the new New Order CD was awesome when I bought "Unknown Pleasures" (the quintessential Joy Division Album). Anyway I finally overcame this when I bought Power Corruption and Lies, an older New Order Album, to speak modestly it altered the way I percieve reality. Oh and by the way, their newer stuff still sucks shit.
