“Love Will Tear Us Apart,” probably Joy Division’s most recognized track, is sort of sweet, depending on how you look at it. When routine bites hard and ambitions are lowĪnd resentment rides high but emotions won’t growĪnd we’re changing our ways, taking different roads With Tony Robbins-optimistic lines like “Fought for good, stood side by side/Our friendship never died,” it takes Curtis’ dry, wailing delivery to make you realize something about this relationship went way wrong.
On paper, the first two verses of Closer’s “Means to an End” would definitely be the most uplifting material to come out of the English foursome. But as Curtis points out, it can be pleasant enough just to reflect on those memories without being crushed by reality. Sure, it’s a bummer to find yourself in your mid-20s and realize that you’re not going to be a pro NBA player. Well, it’s either about that or one woman’s struggle with crippling addiction-that’s the listener’s call. penned a feel-good number about a young woman’s night out on the town.
Sorry Lady Gaga, but decades before you couldn’t “see straight anymore” and clung to a dancing passerby on “Just Dance,” Curtis and co. Take a look below, and let us know what we missed in the comment section.Īnd she’s clinging to the nearest passerby In honor of what would be frontman Ian Curtis’ 56th birthday, we’ve compiled a group of the band’s tracks that are the most uplifting-er, the least depressing. We’ve pored over Joy Division’s discography to take a look at some of those moments. Although the band’s time together was eye-blink fast, they left behind a discography and legacy that’s undeniably great but equally dark.īut in dark subject matter, there’s always a lighter side. No one’s questioning the fact that Joy Division’s catalog isn’t exactly the most positive, uplifting group of songs out there.
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