Comments on: Scratch The Surface :: Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures

By: Bhuvana

Bhuvana — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:13:38 +0000

The album is beautifully composed and it also gives me a great dimensionality to this topic. i am also working with this kind of innovative albums.
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By: jason

jason — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:55:55 +0000

this is a great post on a well deserved topic. i’ve been a joy division fan since the instant i found them, and much of that has to do with the imagery. Closer is another great cover, very stark and bleak yet full of a lot of emotion and depth. something Bauhaus at times also implemented, although they also went to the other end of the spectrum with their art and kept the minimalism to their music.

By: j. neas

j. neas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:34:10 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, mcg.

I’ve wanted those shoes, Kaley. I find it interesting the way the cover art for this album has been appropriated in all sorts of ways recently – I’ve seen tons of people with that pulsar wave on shirts – mostly females. One even with the wave in rainbow colors across it. Really interesting.

By: Kaley

Kaley — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:38:47 +0000

Incredible cover, great read.

Hippies Are Dead, even better than the Zune is on a pair of shoes: http://hypebeast.com/2007/04/new-balance-joy-division/

By: Hippies Are Dead

Hippies Are Dead — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:57:24 +0000

Even better, you can get it on a Zune!

http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/zuneoriginals/joydivision/default.htm

By: mcg

mcg — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:41:10 +0000

jneas sure was a way with words. “The songs on Unknown Pleasures were the pulses, Ian Curtis the pulsar – an eventual white dwarf, snuffed out rather than exploding in a nova.” beautiful.

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:44:36 +0000

No this blog is great! I’ve been reading you for a long time now.

By: m

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:57:30 +0000

With everything going digital it’s good to see team AD shedding light on album covers as a proper medium. Oddly enough there’s only of my favorite albums where I feel the cover complements the music properly. The cover for Godspeed’s F#A# Infinity is the first to come to mind. If the dystopic vision of the cover doesn’t point you to a graceful hell, the narrator’s wallet filled with blood in Dead Flag Blues will definitely send you there.