Even anecdotally, that conclusion has some big holes in it:

Mick and Keith by all rights should be dead, but they aren't.

Deerhoof put a whole bunch of tracks up on their web site.

Is this a movies or music post? Who knows.

I saw Control, the Ian Curtis movie Friday night. Really well acted, and beautifully shot in B&W. It's mostly about the personal decline of Curtis. There's very little about the development of their sound, but a fair amount of coverage of the band live. Martin Hannett appears in one brief studio scene close to the end of the film, and isn't mentioned otherwise.

I've been thinking a lot about Joy Division since. It's meant recontextualizing the band, since personally they're tied to the mid-1980's when I was really discovering that music. And by that time, they were mythical. But really, the music of the 1980's was their legacy. Ian Curtis died in 1980, when I was only 10, listening to Rick Springfield and the BeeGees. It blows my mind a little to think of that music existing alongside all the top-40 radio that I associate with the late '70s, and that it's survived.

The other thing is that I also realized that what Joy Division music I had is gone. I think I had Closer and a later singles album on cassette, and I've been sloughing off that collection over the past few years, since I have no way of playing anymore.

ETA: Also the movie brought back the horrors of late70s/early 80s fashion. Pleated pants made of what I could tell were horrible scratchy polyblends. Shudder.

I really love the early Joy Division stuff that's collected on Substance.

Particularly "Warsaw" (from when that was their band name). But also (of course) "Transmission."

But also (of course) "Transmission."

I love the Low cover of "Transmission."

Thanks for the Deerhoof heads-up, Tom.

Mr. Yuck song: [link]

I haven't heard this since 1976, I think. I'm surprised at how well I remember it (I've been earwormed with it before I went out and found this mp3).

Mr. Yuck wikipedia page: [link]

A memorably scary psychedelic public service announcement was also produced in the 1970s featuring the theme song, becoming a pop-culture icon unto itself for a number of generations.

Awesome homemade video: TMBG Puppets in “Ana Ng”

Vancouver artist Mizushima Hine created a wonderful stop-motion video of the classic They Might Be Giants song “Ana Ng”.

Siouxsie and Budgie divorced?! How did I not find out about this earlier? I'm ... wow. I'm actually shook up by this.

I wondered what was behind the new solo album instead of a Creatures record.