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From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley)
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Subject: New Order and Joy Division, contd
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Date: Thu, 11-Aug-83 12:00:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 11 12:00:53 1983
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Something was missing from the last article on New Order and Joy Division:
 JD's music is indeed very depressing.  "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is
probably the most musically upbeat song, which makes its very depressing
lyrics more poignant.  It would be fair to call most JD songs dirges.
  When Ian Curtis committed suicide, the band lost its main creative force.
The record company became rather ghoulish, releasing anything and everything
Curtis had something to do with ("Still" is a reflection of this), so you
may well find several recorded versions of the same song.
  New Order's "Movement" is interesting in parts, but doesn't embody despair
and depression like JD's music does (nor was it intended to).