ATMOSPHERE

This week it's....

ATMOSPHERE

You can review either the Joy Division or Russ Abbott songs, its up to you!

1. Best bit
2. Worst bit
3. Why you love/hate it
4. Rating in %
5. Complete this: "If i had a hammer, I'd..."

Well hurrah and huzzah as Hugh Laurie might well say! (I'm doing the JD version)

1. Best bit - The third chorus, where the guitar comes crashing in...making an already amazing chorus...orgasmic
2. Worst bit- seems neither Ian nor Barney can actually sing this! Also at reading festival this year i put this on a mix tape, and some girl said it sounded like 'cheesy american road music'
3. Why you love/hate it - It's just so atmospheric! Amazing chorus, rattling drums, bouncing bass
4. Rating in % - 98%
5. Complete this: "If i had a hammer, I'd..." use it on me local McDonalds. Sorry Ronnie!

Almost un-reviewable, this one. Too bloody good.I'll try though..

1. Best bit - that firstclatter of the toms on the JD version. Chills everytime.
2. No worst bit. No, not even the whoops when Barney sings it - that's just Barn.
3. Love it for the bass bits, particularly the lead-in to the chorus. Magic.
4. If I had a Hammer, I'd ask him if he still wore those amazing pants, and if in fact you 'can't touch this' still.

1. Best bit

Seeing a camera shot up a lasses top filmed from ground level when it was played on top of the pops. She was wearing a tight crop top and had a particularly fine set of jiggly bobblies 2. Worst bit

The whole thing 3. Why you love/hate it

Cos it's shite 4. Rating in %

0 5. Complete this: "If i had a hammer, I'd have three in total. I once thought I'd lost mine so bought another, only for the original one to turn up again "

1. Best bit - the shimmering synths right at the very end

2. Worst bit - Barney's whoops

3. Love/hate - used to really like the JD version. NO have tarnished that memory

4. Percentage - 75%

5. If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning. I'd hammer in the evening. I'd hammer Tony Blair's head.

1. Best bit

The first notes on the bass. I love the lyrics, too.

2. Worst bit

The video they made for it afterall. It was grotesque.

3. Why you love/hate it

It is so full of repressed anger and sadness. It is the only JD song I'd rather NO did not play.

4. Rating in %

98%

5. Complete this: "If i had a hammer, I'd..."

Well, I could stop using the heel of my shoe then.

1. The guitar coming in live at reading 98
2. the whooping doesn't fit!
3. Its beautiful
4. 95%
5. I'd be only 17 tools away from the full set.

Best bits are the steady drums and bubbling bass, and Ian's singing and lyrics are totally suited to the music.

Worst bit is that I also agree that Barney's whoops live don't add anything to it for me.

Love it cause it's as moving a piece of music as there is.

Rating 98%

If I had a hammmer..........I'd be well on my way to completing my tool box with the proper tools.

1. best bit - toms in the intro, when ian sings "don't walk away" (3rd verse)

2. worst bit - none i can hear

3. just makes me feel good

4. 99%

5. kill OBL

1. Best bit

Everything about this song. My all-time favorite

2. Worst bit

None but Bernard's whoops are just plain wrong

3. Why you love/hate it

Makes me feel all warm and tingley 4. Rating in %

To steal a sports cliche 110%

5. Complete this: "If i had a hammer, I'd..."

hammer some nails

The Joy Division sound at its best beutiful.

This is the song that will be playing at my funeral (about 50 years from now I hope ;) )... Need I say more?

1. Basically....perfect. One of my top 3 JD songs.
2. the chord progression doesn't resolve at the end on the single version the way it usually does when they play it live. that last chord would make it melt in my ears.
3. Curtis, the rest, Hannett, how it gets stuck in my roommate's head and he yells at me for playing it all the time
4. 100%
5. If I had a hammer, I'd hammer all the live-long day. And then I'd go back to school and get a better job.

all none no idea 100 be going against my shrinks instuctions

Those drums,those lyrics & the hairs standing up on the back of my neck. the only record that "Haunting and Beautiful" truly describes.

1. Everything - it's perfect.
2. See 1 above.
3. Best song by anyone ever. When I actually listen to it it can still turn me into a lump of quivering jelly.
4. 100%
5. I'd inflate it, take it to a football match and hit people with it, humourously.

1. Best bit- The synths and Ians vocals
2. Worst bit- When barney sings it live
3. Why you love/hate it- Because its great music and one of Ians strongest vocal performance.
4. Rating in %- 87.36
5. Complete this: "If i had a hammer, I'd take it round to barneys and threaten to smash his house if he ever sang atmosphere"

1. Best bit - The WHOLE Funking thing!!!
2. Worst bit - There isn't any.
3. Why you love/hate it - It has a high degree of 'Atmosphere...' (The first JD song that I truely LOVED)
4. Rating in % - 100.1
5. Complete this: "If i had a hammer, I'd...smash my skull!!!" - OR...like the early TPK title, I've got a cock like a squashed orange

1. Best Bit- Synth and Ian's voice and lyrics, Stephen's bone rattling drumming.
2. Worst Bit- Respect Barney, Respect Save the whoops and whistles for Bizarre Love Triangle
3. Top JD in my opinion.
4. Rating: 90%

The words "don't walk away...in silence" will be with me for the rest of my life.

this will be my theme at my funeral....

Hank Wiseass© wrote:

1. Best bit

Seeing a camera shot up a lasses top filmed from ground level when it was played on top of the pops. She was wearing a tight crop top and had a particularly fine set of jiggly bobblies 2. Worst bit

The whole thing 3. Why you love/hate it

Cos it's shite 4. Rating in %

0 5. Complete this: "If i had a hammer, I'd have three in total. I once thought I'd lost mine so bought another, only for the original one to turn up again "

I didnt know JD played TOTP? has anyone got footage? It would be great to see the pair of tits jiggling about too (and I dont mean Barney and Hooky )

1. Best bit 2. Worst bit 3. Why you love/hate it 4. Rating in % 5. Complete this: "If i had a hammer, I'd..."

1 Too many (production,music...)but Ian's croon makes it for me.

2 Ends too soon.

3 See number 1

4 500%

5 '..smash up my mum's Donny Osmond collection.'

1. Best bit - when Hooky's bass kicks in
2. Worst bit - there isn't one
3. Love it - such a moving piece of music that it gives me the goosebumps
4. 100%
5. If I had a hammer....I'd hammer on our walls at 7.30 am because that is exactly what my neighbours were doing this morning. Damn their new bathroom. No consideration, some people...

1. That vocal, enough said.
2. Making you realise what a truly awesome band Joy Division were becoming, this song brings home to you that so sad realisation that they never reached their true potential, but who knows?
3. The record, the cover, the whole feeling it produces.
4. Off the scale,
5. Give it as a christmas present to someone i didn't like. some sad DIY freak.

1. The lyrics are the best bit of that song and hookys bass wat a wikied sound

2 is none

3 100%

4 if i had a hammer i would smack all the manufactured bands in the head

Les Dennis and Dustin Gee's backing vocals still bring a tear to my eye.