Deducing the Favourite Joy Division track of all time - Part 2 - Closer :drummer:
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Select your favourite track from the album Closer ...
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Atrocity Exhibition 1 (2%)
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Isolation 4 (8%)
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Passover 2 (4%)
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Colony 1 (2%)
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A Means to an End 0 (0%)
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Heart and Soul 12 (24%)
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Twenty Four Hours 8 (16%)
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The Eternal 3 (6%)
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Decades 18 (37%)
49 votes · voting closed
i dont know...so many songs......
wheres atmosphere on a cd i love that song
Walk in Silence...dont walk away
i dont know...so many songs......
wheres atmosphere on a cd i love that song
Walk in Silence...dont walk away
Originally posted by KnownPleasures This is really tough. 24 Hours or Decades ?
same here. i will be ok if any of those wins. i went with decades for a nail.
Decades
For me it's to Closer what NDF is to Unknown Pleasures. A mesmerising, ethereal song made all the more, dare I say it, mythical by it's "live" history.
Voted for Colony as I still listen to that one. Has anyone done a thread on JD and NO rip offs i.e. people ripping off JD and NO here's a couple of examples:
U2 - 'bullet the blue sky' rips off the drum line from 'I remember nothing' Art of Noise rips of the Eternal with 'moments in love'
I'm sure there are more...
I don't know what to do with the other threads (apart from Still of course). Maybe 'An Ideal for Living' with Earcom 2 on the same poll. And then maybe the Warsaw album - Permanent can suck my ass!
Decades, but still, nothing compares to Atmosphere and Love Will Tear Us Apart.. and some of my favorites like Dead Souls and No Love Lost 
Originally posted by Spotnick Decades, but still, nothing compares to Atmosphere and Love Will Tear Us Apart.. and some of my favorites like Dead Souls and No Love Lost
I am glad I am not the only one who like No Love Lost - genius!
Heart and Soul or Decades 
... this is a toughy; I'll go for H & S since it has a lesser amount of votes
The Eternal is the best track on the album, although Twenty-Four Hours, Decades come closest, followed by Isolation and A Means to an End.
Definitely one of the hardest polls ever, on one of my all time fave albums, usually go for Isolation or Decades. It's the latter one I voted for today.
I can't believe nobody has voted for Passover on this album either !
(for the benefit of the ultra-serious and unable to appreciate ironic humour out there, well, out there in Bellingham, I voted for Decades and this post is not a serious one)
Decades by a nose over Passover. It's just too beautiful. I love the opening drums on Passover, though. I think I've satrted every JD mix tape or CD I've ever made for anyone with Passover.
Originally posted by robin Decades by a nose over Passover. It's just too beautiful. I love the opening drums on Passover, though. I think I've satrted every JD mix tape or CD I've ever made for anyone with Passover.
You've heard our version, I assume ? Please feel free to be as critical as you like !
(Note to serious types. This is not a plug.)
Originally posted by KnownPleasures > > You've heard our version, I assume ? Please feel free to be as critical as you like ! > >
almost as brilliant as only fools and horses! ;)
Originally posted by AgentWood > Originally posted by KnownPleasures > > You've heard our version, I assume ? Please feel free to be as critical as you like ! > >
almost as brilliant as only fools and horses! ;)
Right, I'll send you ten autographed copies then as punishment 
Originally posted by KnownPleasures **> Originally posted by AgentWood> > > > Originally posted by Known>**Pleasures > > You've heard our version, I assume ? Please feel free to be as critical as you like ! > >
almost as brilliant as only fools and horses! ;)
Right, I'll send you ten autographed copies then as punishment
of which? your song or the TV show?
either way, i already have a nice doorstop, thank you. :p
Decades for me too, just over Heart & Soul. Another very difficult one (but not impossible like Unknown Pleasures).
I never noticed the hi-hat at the end for years, until I got it on CD.
Originally posted by twist The Cross of Iron
That narrows it down to at least two of the songs on this record then ! A Means To An End or Decades.
I voted for "Passover", by far my favorite studio recording of this great band. The lyrics and delivery send shivers up my spine to this day. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
I can't believe no one voted for "A Means to an End". I always assumed this was one of the more popular JD songs by the fans, and I'm assuming you'll find a good crop of the die hards on a New Order board. Here's a mix CD I made for a friend who never heard them before:
Ice Age Shadowplay Love Will Tear Us Apart A Means to an End She's Lost Control (12") Dead Souls Walked In Line Sound of Music (Live Peel Sessions) Ceremony (Live from Still)
I like to keep them short for repeated listens. Yeah, I know I missed 99% of their good stuff, but when she actually buys the 2 studio albums they did, she may be delighted to know that only 1 song each was on her mix CD, and the best of their music was yet to come.
Strange but true.
