'The Worst of Joy Division'

RedKen wrote:

exactly - a lot of people have been complaining of 'negative threads', but i think we all agree that the worse of JD/NO is so much better than most others best. This thread and my 'Worst of NO' are only for fun and something to do... for the record i think the live stuff on Still is my worse of JD.

Thank you.

Nothing they did was awful, but two tracks don't really work for me.

1. Failures. A straight ahead thrash would be fine but Barney never nails the Stooges feel, and they don't really do anything interesting with the rest of the song to compensate.

2. Exercise One. Not terrible, but never catches fire.

Wilderness From Safety To Where Komakino Means To An End These Days

Christopher Owens wrote:

NO Regret wrote: Worse this, worse that. Next it will be the "Worse thread?" thread.

hey, now thats an idea!:\ohwell:

Cheer up.

This thread is a companion piece to 'The Worst of New Order', so it's great to hear other choices.

I love the irony. "Cheer Up" and were discussing the "worse of Joy Divison".

Anyway Ill get off my high horse. Except to say that I think quite a few JD songs sound unfinished. Lack of chorus's, same chord sequence throughtout songs, etc.

I for one really like 'Komakino' and 'These Days'...early New Order seems to stem from these tracks as much as they do from 'Isolation' and 'Decades'.

I dont know why i dont like it but "these day's". First heard it on the b side of LWTUA and just never realy got to grips with it. I always seem to skip this track now but i realy cant put my finger on the reason why.:\ohwell:

Hello from Germany, the only song I skip is "Failures of the Modern Man". Apart from this, I'm not able to not like everything they ever did, the magic is always there, even in Songs like Gutz and Inside the Line.

Dirk

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "The Only Mistake" so i will... er... have. Absolute turgid crap.

I can recall Brian Edge (who wrote Pleasures & Wayward Distractions, the excellent JD/NO history) describing Novelty as "slovenly heavy metal" but it's pretty damned good nontheless in my opinion. I don't think they ever committed anything truly abymsal to tape.

Certainly the Warsaw and dead early stuff is a bit ragged but then everyone starts somewhere. That a band can go from (say) Failures to Transmission and then to Atmosphere within a few short years is awesome. Their legacy is solid gold compared to that of most bands.

Wasim wrote: From Safety To Where is quality, arguably better than a couple of tracks the band kept on Unknown Pleasures.

Thank God! I'm a big FSTW fan as well, Hooky and Steve in particular are brilliant on this track. In terms of officially released/recorded output, JD were pretty sold, there's not much bad stuff there at all. My least loved JD fave might be Komakino, but by the barest of margins. CTB

of the nation?

or, lack of information?

neither technically nor poetically did NO go wrong in this song!

"Passover" is fecking awesome...to me it means women, beers and memories, which may or may not be related...

The worst JD song is "The Drawback"

The Worst:

1. ATROCITY EXHIBITION
2. I REMEMBER NOTHING

These two are on my nerves (the original album versions). Oddly enough, I feel that way only for the last 5 years. When I first heard the albums they were alright to me

My favourites ARE: DECADES HEART AND SOUL THE ETERNAL NEW DAWN FADES THE DRAWBACK WALKED IN LINE DISORDER DEAD SOULS