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Joy Division – Heart and Soul
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“Heart and Soul” is a spacious, reverb-laden track built around an electronic bass line from Peter Hook and a skittering drum rhythm from Stephen Morris. Ian Curtis sings in his
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Kendra Smith – Heart and Soul
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[Verse 1] / Instincts that can still betray us / A journey that leads to the sun / Soulless and bent on destruction / A struggle between right and wrong / You take my place in the
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Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
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[Verse 1] / So this is permanence, love's shattered pride / What once was innocence, turned on its side / A cloud hangs over me, marks every move / Deep in the memory, of what once
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Joy Division – These Days (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Morning seems strange, almost out of place / Searched hard for you and your special ways / [Chorus] / These days, these days / [Verse 2] / Spent all my time, learnt a
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The Wombats – Let's Dance to Joy Division
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The second single from the 2007 album The Wombats Proudly Present: A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation. The song is based on an evening when lead singer Matthew Murphy danced on
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Joy Division – Decades
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[Verse 1] / Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders / Here are the young men, well where have they been? / We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber / Pushed
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Joy Division – Atrocity Exhibition
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The title of this track comes from J.G. Ballard’s disturbing, surrealistic short story collection The Atrocity Exhibition, which sees a name-changing protagonist creating bizarre
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Joy Division – Isolation
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“Isolation” is probably the Joy Division track that is most prophetic of the group’s New Order future, with its relatively upbeat feel and bright-sounding synths. However, the
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Joy Division – The Eternal (Live) [Encore]
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[Verse 1] / Procession moves on, the shouting is over / Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone / Sitting in sound as they sit 'round their table / Scattering flowers washed
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Joy Division – Colony (Live)
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[Verse 1] / A cry for help, a hint of anesthesia / The sound from broken homes, we used to always meet here / I want for hell break loose, couldn't find another reminder / It's
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Joy Division – Ceremony (rehearsal)
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This is why it's called unnerving / Would you say the same old story? / This is why the wheels are turning / Turn away and turn again this time / Listen now the savior's calling
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Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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The lyrics ostensibly reflect the problems in Ian Curtis’s marriage to Deborah Curtis, as well as his general frame of mind in the time leading up to his suicide in May 1980.
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Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live)
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[Verse 1] / When routine bites hard and ambitions are low / And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow / And we're changing our ways, taking different roads / [Chorus
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Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours (Live)
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[Verse 1] / So this is permanence, love's shattered pride / What once was innocence, turned on its side / A cloud hangs over me, marks every move / Deep in the memory, of what once
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Joy Division – Passover
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The title of “Passover” refers to the Jewish celebration of the same name, and more specifically to the Biblical story it commemorates, in which the enslaved Israelites painted
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Thursday – Ian Curtis
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The title refers to Joy Division’s vocalist Ian Curtis.
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Joy Division – Isolation (Live)
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[Verse 1] / In fear every day, every evening / He comes from a cloud from above / Occasions secluded for reason / Painstaking devotion and love / Surrendered to self preservation
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Joy Division – The Eternal
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Arguably the bleakest thing the band ever recorded, “The Eternal” is a slow and atmospheric track built around a repetitive bassline and reverb-laden drums and piano. According to
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Joy Division – A Means to an End
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[Verse 1] / A legacy so far removed / One day will be improved / Eternal rights we left behind / We were the better kind / Two the same, set free too / [Chorus] / I always looked
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Versus – Twenty Four Hours
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[Verse 1] / So this is permanence, love-shattered pride / What once was innocence, turned on its side / A cloud hangs over me, marks every move / Deep in the memory, of what once
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Rhema Singers and Band (Ft. Marty Blackwelder) – Joy In My Heart
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[Intro] / If you want joy, real joy, wonderful joy / Let Jesus come into your heart / [Verse 1] / One day I was walking in a world of sin / No rest for my weary soul / Then I met a
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Joy Division – Colony
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[Verse 1] / A cry for help, a hint of anesthesia / The sound from broken homes / We used to always meet here / As he lays asleep, she takes him in her arms / Some things I have to
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Joy Division – Passover (Live)
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[Verse 1] / This is a crisis I knew had to come / Destroying the balance I kept / Moving, unsettling, and turning around / Wondering what will come next / Is this the role that you
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Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart Covers
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See all of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division’s covers
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Ab-Soul (Ft. Mac Miller & Rapsody) – The Law
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The penultimate track to Soul’s Thelemic tribute to women is delivered over lighthearted and celebratory production. The track samples a song by Angie Stone called “Brotha,” which
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