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Joy Division

A little something about Joy Division
For a band that was to release only one album before the death of its lead singer, Joy Division has had an incredible influence on the past 15 years of popular music. Ian Curtis committed suicide on May 18, 1980. The following month, Love Will Tear Us Apart was released, the song that was to be the band's most successful work. It would also be one of the most covered, and copied, songs of the 1980s. Joy Division's dark, atmospheric sound would be echoed in the work of such acts as the Cure, Tears for Fears, Echo and the Bunnymen, and more recently Nine Inch Nails, not to mention the countless gothic bands that have tried to imitate Joy Division's pounding drums, dreamy guitar, and Ian Curtis' distant vocal style. Another point worth noting is that Joy Division was the band that put Manchester indie label Factory Records on the map. Factory would play an important role in the spread of the new wave sound, overseeing early works of such bands as Big in Japan, Echo and the Bunnymen, and Cabaret Voltaire. Joy Division's genius can be heard most directly in the works of the remaining members of the band, who have been hugely successful under the name New Order. Bernard Sumner has also worked on a number of other projects, the most notable of which being Electronic, sharing the bill with Neil Tenant and guitar god Johny Marr 

Love will tear us apart

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.

Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Why is the bedroom so cold
turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed
our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal
that we've kept through our lives.

Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Do you cry out in your sleep,
all my failings expose?
Gets a taste in my mouth
as desperation takes hold.
Why is it something so good
just can't function no more?

Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again...