Genius Meanings
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Joy Division – She's Lost Control
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Released as both an album cut and, in a hint of where New Order would eventually find itself, “She’s Lost Control” drew inspiration from Ian Curtis’s encounter with an epilepsy
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Joy Division – She’s Lost Control (12" Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Confusion in her eyes that says it all / She's lost control / And she's clinging to the nearest passer by / She's lost control / And she gave away the secrets of her
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Grace Jones – She's Lost Control (long version)
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Confusion in her eyes that says it all / I've lost control / And she's clinging to the nearest passer-by / She's lost control / She gave away the secrets to her past / And said, I'
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Joy Division – Disorder
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“Disorder” kicks things off with drummer Stephen Morris pushing the tempo forward, and Peter Hook entering next with octave jumping basslines. The song is fast, almost punky, and
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Joy Division – Atmosphere (2020 Digital Remaster)
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[Chorus] / Walk in silence / Don't walk away / In silence / [Verse 1] / See the danger / Always danger / Endless talking / Life rebuilding / Don't walk away / [Chorus] / Walk in
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Joy Division – No Love Lost
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This song first appeared on Joy Division’s debut EP An Ideal for Living, afterwards it appeared on the Substance compilation.
Originally the song had a much longer instrumental
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Joy Division – Atmosphere
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The song that John Peel played after announcing Ian Curtis’s death is unbearably close and brooding, but allows the occasional shaft of light. Stephen Morris’s pattering drums
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Joy Division – Insight
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“Insight” is perhaps one of the most overlooked Joy Division songs, and is probably one of their saddest, too. It is the track from Unknown Pleasures that most explicitly deals
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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 – 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 – Novelty
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Joy Division has stated that this song is about the 1970’s punk scene coming to an end.
All the young generation of that era lived for an ideal, the punk ideal. And now that the
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Joy Division – Interzone
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“Interzone” is easily the most straightforward song on Unknown Pleasures. It’s unique in Joy Division’s catalogue, as the lead vocal duties are given to bassist Peter Hook, while
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Joy Division – Candidate
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In this piece, Joy Division makes an analogy between the harshness and difficulties that can be found in the juridic and political procedure to become a leader of men and the
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Joy Division – Shadowplay
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On “Shadowplay”, the guitars launch into a dimension reminiscent of the sonic dimensions that David Bowie and Brian Eno dwelt in during the late 1970s. The band’s sound is echoey
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The Hood Internet – 1979 Samples
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See all of “1979” by The Hood Internet’s samples
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Joy Division – Warsaw
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The song appears to be a lyrical biography of Rudolf Hess, a Nazi and Hitler’s confidante, who later became disillusioned with Hitler’s rule and fled to Scotland in an attempt to
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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 – Day of the Lords
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Unknown Pleasures‘ raw power is still gripping, most notably on the haunting “Day Of The Lords”, which appears to detail the horrors of war.
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Joy Division – New Dawn Fades
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One of the many reasons Unknown Pleasures is the landmark album it is, “New Dawn Fades” was the most overt turn by Joy Division on that record towards an epic rock moment, drawing
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Spoek Mathambo – Control
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Don't you mess with a little girl's dream / 'Cause she's liable to grow up mean / Surprised you to find that I'm laughing / You thought that you'd find me in tears / You thought I'
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Joy Division – Komakino
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This song is likely named, in part, for the Kant Kino–a Berlin-based cinema/live venue which the band played a gig at on 21st January 1980.
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Joy Division – Wilderness
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“Wilderness” is about the ways organised religion can lead people astray and be a hindrance to progress. Like many of the tracks on Unknown Pleasures, it is built on a distinctive
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