Just finished watching the documentary, Joy Division, about the band. Fucking crazy. Control, a movie about them, came out at about the same time. They are both really good. The concert footage is INSANE. This one woman said their music was the original ambient, not so much music as the sounds around them, a reflection, a lovesong or hatesong for their city, for dirty Manchester, poor and made of rubble. There is something unsettling about the whole thing, the band itself, this tribute to them, the way they carried on, became New Order, after Ian killed himself. But when you listen to them, it feels like you're floating, like you're not quite human or something, and its amazing and terrifying and exhilirating all at the same time.
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