Tag: joy division
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Love Will Keep Us Together or Tear Us Apart
Captain & Tenille have divorced, so maybe this Malcolm McLaren bootleg with Joy Division was prophetic. (Will play this on a future Radio Clash btw, forgot for the last one, would’ve fit in great too…)
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Factory Records – a business, a partnership, a joke
I’d never seen this – New Order making a documentary about themselves for Channel 4 in 1984 about Factory Records. Interesting interviews, and highlights that the story of Factory Records and Tony Wilson was as much a construct as anything, e.g. evil label boss vs disaffected band members which although constantly moaning still stayed with…
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Love Did Tear Us Apart
Not sure why non-Doctor-Who-returning Christopher Eccleston is in this (originally from I Am Kloot video my googling hands tell me) but it seems to work even better here in reverse accompanying Colatron’s double mashup of two versions of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ (the Joy Division original and Nerina Pallot’s cover) – something that shouldn’t…
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He’s lost control again
Heard South Africa’s Spoek Mathambo do an amazing version of Joy Division’s Control on 6Music this morning, here’s the original cover which is quite different, initially seems quite strange but very crazy by the end. An amazing video, also.
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The New Division
Oh this pushes all the right buttons on a rainy Sunday – chillwave/shoegaze summer vibes, great video, epic sound and a band that’s truly independent and self released (and on Bandcamp! Yay!), and mashup/remix friendly hence the great unofficial videos. The album shows a darker and more electronic side in places, I can hear the…
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LCD Division Joy Soundsystem
I know LCD Soundsystem covered Joy Division, but two unrelated-except-in-my-strange-head covers appear in my inbox today, one via Niallist – Joyce Division – She’s Lost Control (it’s a car crash! I don’t mean musically, oh just listen to it you’ll get what I mean) and Dunproofin’s cover of LCD Soundsystem’s Tribulations. I like Andy’s covers,…