Mentions (15)
"Had white trash sex listening to Hole and Joy Division this past weekend and have never felt happier. Walking around with a lightness I haven't felt in years"
"Changing your MSN messenger name to 'dance dance dance dance dance to the radio' Cringing internally at the memory"
"Examples of it done right: Closer by Joy Division, Life After Death by Biggie, self titled by SOPHIE"
"Ask these people what music they listen to and it's generic metalcore or perhaps Nirvana, but Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, Sisters of Mercy, even Siouxsie and the Banshees, are all, for the most part, completely foreign names."
"Joy Division released debut album *Unknown Pleasures*"
"For the longest I believed the lyrics to Disorder were *I've been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?* It's guide. It was always guide."
"After that realization, Joy Division started to sound really good. I don't know how I never heard it before. Curtis's vocals went from grating to affecting overnight. The despair in the music has gone from a literary exercise to practical and relatable."
"The conservative opposition leader in Australia is currently running a 2019-style woke campaign against the prime minister because he was wearing a Joy Division t-shirt and did you know that band is named after something that people find offensive?"
"One of the characters in the 2021 Candy Man only quotes Joy Division song titles and she's the first to die while hooking up with her boss."
"UK indie bands tended to look down on college-educated rich kids. Joy division, stone roses, pulp, the smiths, etc all came from genuinely working class backgrounds, while most of the American indie bands from that era grew up in nice suburbs and formed at universities"
"For the longest I believed the lyrics to Disorder were *I've been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?* It's guide. It was always guide."
"The conservative opposition leader in Australia is currently running a 2019-style woke campaign against the prime minister because he was wearing a Joy Division t-shirt and did you know that band is named after something that people find offensive?"
"One of the characters in the 2021 Candy Man only quotes Joy Division song titles and she's the first to die while hooking up with her boss."
"Joy division, stone roses, pulp, the smiths, etc all came from genuinely working class backgrounds"
"Bowie's Thin White Duke character, Dylan's Christian period, Joy Division's visuals, punk's overall rejection of hippie ideology, etc."