Yeah, I heard of Joy Division after I had first heard New Order. In 1980, I was 10 and still listening to Rick Springfield.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Sue - May 18, 2010 10:23:43 am PDT #3009 of 6436
hip deep in pie
Cass - May 18, 2010 10:26:36 am PDT #3010 of 6436
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Sue, KEXP has been playing Joy Division and contemporaries all morning. I, too, am totally regressing.
Hey, maybe that's why 'Trick's popped up with two so far. Though now we're at Metallica. 'Trick's random like that.
tommyrot - May 18, 2010 10:36:55 am PDT #3011 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In 1980, I was 10 and still listening to Rick Springfield.
In 1980 I was 15 and was listening mostly to music my college-age brother was listening to: Pink Floyd, The Cars, The Police, Devo....
I really didn't start buying a lot of albums of my own until I graduated from high school. I bought a lot of David Bowie and more Pink Floyd. Then I started getting into "college" music after hearing a college radio program on Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground in 1985.
Daisy Jane - May 18, 2010 10:38:49 am PDT #3012 of 6436
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
In 1980, I was five, and I'm pretty sure I was in love with that Elvira song. Ooom-papa-ooom-papa-maw-maw.
megan walker - May 18, 2010 11:18:02 am PDT #3013 of 6436
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My brother was a big Joy Division fan in high school (and Devo, Gary Numan, The Dead Kennedys...). Of course, that was when he wore all black.
My sister-in-law occasionally emails me and my sister to apologize for him (when he plays her something he used to subject us to repeatedly). Landscape's "Norman Bates" was the latest.
Atropa - May 18, 2010 11:21:27 am PDT #3014 of 6436
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I respect the enormous impact that Joy Division had on my chosen subculture. Thank you, Ian Curtis, for helping create the modern Goth movement. I just wish I liked your voice.
megan walker - May 18, 2010 11:25:31 am PDT #3015 of 6436
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
For the brief period that my brother sung in a crappy garage band, I told him he sounded exactly like the lead singer in Joy Division. He took it as a compliment. It was not.
tommyrot - May 18, 2010 11:28:36 am PDT #3016 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I dunno - I like Ian's voice. I mean, I think it works for the band.
Atropa - May 18, 2010 11:31:19 am PDT #3017 of 6436
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I have strange dislikes for certain vocalists. Ian Curtis, Thom Yorke (but I liked him on the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack), Mick Jagger ... oh, and the Ian Curtis clone who fronts Interpol. Ugh.
tommyrot - May 18, 2010 11:34:36 am PDT #3018 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Do you like Tow Waits? Bob Dylan? Lou Reed?
Just curious, as those are probably the most commonly cited male vocalists when someone says "I hate his voice."
Let's see - who are the female vocalists that are polarizing? Victoria Williams? Maybe Kate Bush?