Hearing Joy Division live may challenge any assumptions you have about the band. Though they have been appropriated by pasty-faced cry babies because of the unfortunately titled "Love Will Tear Us Apart Again" and pioneering use of cemetery photography, their live recordings strip away the weak goth pretensions that have attached to their music. What is heard on these recordings is not a feeble, suffering band, but a raging one.
Joy Division - Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979«These songs are nothing if not tough. Everything is sped up. It's loose and raw. There is a primal passion in the music that matches the intensity of Ian Curtis' singing.
On "Disorder," when he cries, "I got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it out somehow," it is not sterile and haunted like it is on Unknown Pleasures but has the kick of man who is exorcising something un-namable. On "Insight," after Curtis barks "I'm not afraid anymore," and that cheesy laser beam keyboard part kicks in, it's not really cheesy. The rapid synth pings are coupled with a prominent, dissonant base riff which creates an off-balance, atonal kind of noise, which is equally appropriate and disorienting. "Shadowplay" explodes with a huge burst of guitar distortion, and Bernard Sumner's guitar licks are racked with tension. He likewise generates a terrible amount of noise on "Day of the Lords." »
On "Disorder," when he cries, "I got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it out somehow," it is not sterile and haunted like it is on Unknown Pleasures but has the kick of man who is exorcising something un-namable. On "Insight," after Curtis barks "I'm not afraid anymore," and that cheesy laser beam keyboard part kicks in, it's not really cheesy. The rapid synth pings are coupled with a prominent, dissonant base riff which creates an off-balance, atonal kind of noise, which is equally appropriate and disorienting. "Shadowplay" explodes with a huge burst of guitar distortion, and Bernard Sumner's guitar licks are racked with tension. He likewise generates a terrible amount of noise on "Day of the Lords." »
Só os comecei a ouvir há cerca de meio ano, sendo o "Unknown Pleasures" o único que conheço bem - as poucas audições do "Closer" foram sabotadas por um certo asco aos teclados manhosos.
Sempre pensei que fosse mais uma das bandas cheia de teclados cheesy tipo raios laser e músicas choramingas que aquelas estranhas figuras que habitam os Limbos e os Ébans por esse país fora veneram religiosamente pela temática das letras ou pelo suicídio do tipo, mas, abstraindo-me disso, não consigo deixar de gostar disto.
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