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Joy Division – Exercise One
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[Verse 1] / When you're looking at life in a strange new room / Maybe drowning soon, is this the start of it all? / Turn on your TV, turn down your pulse / Turn away from it all
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Joy Division – Transmission
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[Intro] / Radio, live transmission / Radio, live transmission / [Verse 1] / Listen to the silence, let it ring on / Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun / We would have a
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Joy Division – A Means to an End [Live At Birmingham University]
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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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Joy Division – Dead Souls
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An examination of the internal and external crises facing Ian Curtis, “Dead Souls'” opens with one of the singer’s most despairing lines: a plea for the certainty that he has
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Joy Division – Digital
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This song first appeared on “A Factory Sample,” the first vinyl record released by Factory Records. It was also the last song played live by Joy Division at their Birmingham
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Joy Division – Exercise One [The Peel Sessions (1986)]
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[Verse 1] / When you're looking at life / In a strange new room / Maybe drowning soon / Is this the start of it all? / Turn on your TV / Turn down your pulse / Turn away from it
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Joy Division – Colony [The Peel Sessions (1987)]
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A cry for help, a hint of anaesthesia / 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 do, but I
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Joy Division – Ceremony (Live at Birmingham University, Birmingham, 2nd May 1980)
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One of the primary and captivating differences between the initial Joy Division version of ‘Ceremony’ and New Order’s take are the lyrics. Curtis’s original lyrics were never
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Joy Division – 24 Hours [The Peel Sessions (1987)]
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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 was love
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Joy Division – Decades [Live At Birmingham University]
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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 – Transmission [The Peel Sessions (1986)]
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[Intro] / Radio, live transmission / Radio, live transmission / [Verse 1] / Listen to the silence, let it ring on / Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun / We would have a
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Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart [The Peel Sessions (1987)]
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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 – The Kill
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[Verse 1] / Moved in a hired car and I find no way to run / Adds every moment longer, had no time for fun / [Chorus] / Just something that I knew I had to do / But through it all I
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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 – The Only Mistake
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Ian Curtis speaks on how a certain new relationship is similar to a previous one where he has a “tendency just to take” from a woman until the breaking point. This couple had an
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Joy Division – Walked in Line
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Ian Curtis, Stephen Morris, Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner settled stated that all their fathers had fought in World War II. That’s why
Joy Division talks a lot about Nazism in
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Joy Division – Ice Age
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One of the first and most punk-oriented songs in the Joy Division catalogue, it was written and first recorded when the band was still called Warsaw. The nuclear war theme would
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Joy Division – The Sound of Music
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[Verse 1] / See my true reflection cut off my own connections / I can see life getting harder / So sad is this sensation, reverse the situation / I can't see it getting better / [
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Joy Division – Something Must Break
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Two ways to choose / A razor's edge / Remain behind / Go straight ahead / Room full of people / Room for just one / If I can't break
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Joy Division – Sound of Music [The Peel Sessions (1987)]
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[Verse 1] / See my true reflection cut off my own connections / I can see life getting harder / So sad is this sensation, reverse the situation / I can't see it getting better / [
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Joy Division – Glass
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[Verse 1] / Hearts fail / Young hearts fail / Anytime, pressurised / Overheat, overtired / Take it quick, take it neat / Clasp your hands, touch your feet / Take it quick, take it
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crimson//chaos. – Interview with crimson//chaos. – the future of London underground
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First crimson//chaos. interview was taken by Nientees and released August 2nd in 2020.
• Russian version on VK
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Pansy Division – Ring Of Joy
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With a mirror in your hand / Lay down on your bed / Throw your legs in the air / And see what's around the bend / Take a good long look / At a buried treasure / There between your
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Frederick Douglass – My Bondage and My Freedom (Chap. 13)
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The Vicissitudes of Slave Life / DEATH OF OLD MASTER'S SON RICHARD, SPEEDILY FOLLOWED BY THAT OF OLD / MASTER—VALUATION AND DIVISION OF ALL THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING THE / SLAVES—MY
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John Ruskin – A Joy For Ever (Lecture I)
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Lecture I / The Discovery and Application of Art / A Lecture delivered at Manchester, July 10, 1857. / 1. Among the various characteristics of the age in which we live, as compared
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John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion (Book 3: Chapter 20)
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INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION / BOOK THIRD. / THE MODE OF OBTAINING THE GRACE OF CHRIST. THE BENEFITS IT CONFERS, AND THE EFFECTS RESULTING FROM IT. / CHAPTER 20. / OF
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Gertrude Stein – Tender Buttons ("FOOD")
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ROASTBEEF; MUTTON; BREAKFAST; SUGAR; CRANBERRIES; MILK; EGGS; APPLE; TAILS; LUNCH; CUPS; RHUBARB; SINGLE; FISH; CAKE; CUSTARD; POTATOES; ASPARAGUS; BUTTER; END OF SUMMER; SAUSAGES
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The Bangles – Manic Monday
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After Prince became a fan of The Bangles song “Hero Takes A Fall”, he offered the group two songs to record – “Jealous Girl” or “Manic Monday”. They chose “Manic Monday” and
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T.F. Thiselton Dyer – Folk-lore of Shakespeare - Chapter I. Fairies
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FOLK-LORE OF SHAKESPEARE. / CHAPTER I. / FAIRIES. / The wealth of Shakespeare's luxuriant imagination and glowing language seems to have been poured forth in the graphic accounts
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Ricky Bascom – 8th Grade Athiest
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[Verse 1] / I was on Youtube / And this is what they reccomend / I saw the Sam Harrises / I saw the Richard Dawkins / And it just made no sense / This was when I became a hater
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The Genius Community’s 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
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Pusha T, Lana Del Rey and J.Cole all made the list, but who will be at the top?
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Plato – The Republic (Book 8)
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Plato begins with his Theory of the Forms. He begins with Universals and then asserts that the Universals are the cause of the particulars. This theory is then applied to human
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Supreme Court of the United States (Ft. Justice John Paul Stevens) – Gonzales v. Raich
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545 U.S. 1 (2005) / JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. / California is one of at least nine States that authorize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes.[1
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William Wordsworth – The Prelude (Book. 1)
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‘The Prelude’ is an autobiographical conversation poem and Wordsworth’s Magnum Opus. ‘The Prelude’ is an extremely personal and revealing work on the details of Wordsworth’s life
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John Ruskin – A Joy For Ever (Lecture II)
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Lecture II / The Accumulation and Distribution of Art / Continuation of the previous Lecture; delivered July 13, 1857. / 61. The heads of our subject which remain for our
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Paul Lockhart – A Mathematician’s Lament
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In his 2002 essay, Paul Lockhart strongly criticizes the current math education system, and proposes an intuitive and heuristic-based approach to math in public school.
A research
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Percy Bysshe Shelley – A Defence of Poetry
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Date: 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840.
The essay was written in response to his friend Thomas Love Peacock’s article ‘The Four Ages of Poetry’, which had been
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Friedrich Nietzsche (Ft. H. L. Mencken) – The Antichrist (Full Text)
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1. / —Let us look each other in the face. We are Hyperboreans—we know well enough how remote our place is. “Neither by land nor by water
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Frederick Douglass – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Chapter 8
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In a very short time after I went to live at Baltimore, my old master's youngest son Richard died; and in about three years and six months after his death, my old master, Captain
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Masterworks of Brit Lit – Gulliver's Travels, Part 4
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PART IV. A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS. / CHAPTER I. / The author sets out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his cabin
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