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I’m supposed to not like stuff from that class structure, wrong, I like people from any structure when they are honest. I liked Joy Division at the time, very early lot, and all that nonsense about the singer killing himself was like well, ‘how fashionable, but how stupid’!
Q A lot of people think Joy Division are depressing, but I don’t find them depressing at all.
No not all. What, it’s depressing to solve your problems? Is it depressing to know you have emotions, are these depressing, NO! I love them (laughs). To me music isn’t just there to make you happy, it’s to make you feel everything possible, including suicidal, which in its on weird way can be helpful.
Q I’ve heard that said about PiL too, but I don’t know how they could find it depressing.
On the first album that line from ‘Theme’, “I wish I could die, I will survive” they used that here years back in a psychiatric clinic and it actually helped people with suicidal tendencies because they could relate directly to the emotion in it. It was like, ‘somebody else feels that too’, so for it to be seen as nihilistic is completely wrong, it’s a cry for help song. And that’s what Joy Division were. If it’s depressing it’s because you’re trying to hide some of your emotions, you can’t do that, you have to deal with everything, human beings that’s why we are here and frivolity and love tities, just create problems.
