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.

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

2. The tempo

3. no worst bit.

4. one of JD's best songs.

5. 100%

"If i had a hammer, I'd... smash the windows of the cars that park illegaly in my lot"

1. Best bit: The drums at the start of the song, especially when turned up loud
2. Worst bit: I dont do it any justice when i try to sing it
3. Why I love it: Its just so amazingly sad and uplifting at the same time
4. Percentage: 95%
5. I have absolutely no idea what the hammer thing is all about

I can't,I just can't.Leave it alone...it's transcendant(is that a word?!)

1. It's beautiful
2. Nothing bad
3. Same as 1.
4. 100%
5. If I had a hammer I'd have one hammer more than before I got it

1. Best bit: The expressiveness of Ian's voice. You can picture him singing it.
2. Worst bit: Absolutely no chance to see it live, ever, done this way.
3. Why I love it: Transcendent. Nothing like it has really been made since, not with that kind of impact.
4. Percentage: 100% (but not if Barney sings. This is one place he shouldn't go, really)
5. take it back to Home Depot for a refund

1. Best bit :the shimmering synths and chime bars.
2. Worst bit : like everyone else, Barney isn't Ian and shouldn't try too hard.and that most people thimk LWTUA is the best JD song.
3. Why you love it transcendental has been used before , but it works for me.
4. Rating in %99
5. Complete this: "If i had a Hummer, I'd...Invade Iraq"

Would love to hear Russ Abbott do JD "Atmosphere" in an Abbott "Atmosphere" stylee.

1. the drums, the bass, the melody
2. none
3. it is a beautiful song
4. A-
5. U Can't Touch This

Indeed*!*

I like the Russ Abbott Song:-

I love a party with an ATMOSPHERE, much more cheery than that depressing Joy Division track :)

Are you having a christmas/new year's party at your house this year Mike?

Prefer the Russ Abbott version

Might have a Shed Party Johnny - Don't yer know !

1.EVERYTHING ! 2.None 3.An overwhelming Masterpiece that makes you feel so uplifted. 4.110 % 5.If i had a hammer i'd hammer my silly head ! And by the way, apart from the Marvelous original, the one 'self-cover' by New Order on 'In Session', back in '98 for dear late JOHN PEEL, does quite make it for me as well. Best regards to all the Noolers and my best season greetings.

Best bit - "people like you...." Worst bit - none. Love/hate - i never tire of hearing it. % - 99. If I had a hammer, it would have been the first West Ham fan I'd have been that close to.

Best bit - every last bit of it Worst bit - the runoff groove Why? - It just does what very few pieces of music do. It weeps, cries, wails, lifts you, drops you, and leaves you emotionally shattered and drained at the end. It exposes all the frailty, desperation and weaknesses we all feel at some time or other. Either way, at the end of it you feel different from before, every time. Rated - 100% Hammer? I'd put it in the toolbox.

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..."

6. the beginning. It simply suggests this is one serious song everybody should listen.

7. The last "Don't walk away", not because it's bad but, it hurts an awuful fucking lot... it's even possible to imagine Ian kneeling down...

8. I discovered the song by watching the video, it was completely apart from what I had litened to until then...

9. it's just perfect.

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first heard this in virgin megastore manchester the day i bought it and just knew it was so special,,, absolutley awesome song,, creaps into your bones ,haunting and beautifull at the same time,

new orders version for the peel session was up there as well,,, this is the first joy division song i heard new order play,, encore at the woolich cornet april 4th 1987 3 days before me birthday ,,,woooooooooow.

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