Ceremony - Joy Division
Ceremony
This is why events unnerve meThey find it all, a different story
Notice whom for wheels are turning
Turn again and turn towards this time
All she ask is the strength to hold me
Then again the same old story
World will travel, oh so quickly
Travel first and lean towards this time
Oh, I'll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time
Watching her, these things she said
The times she cried
Too frail to wake this time
Oh I'll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows, it's got to be this time
Avenues all lined with trees
Picture me and then you start watching
Watching forever, forever
Watching love grow, forever
Letting me know, forever
Joy Division
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Bit of trivia.
'Closer'
Did you notice that track 1 'Atrocity Exhibition' is a reference to J. G. Ballard's notorious collection of short stories titled 'The Atrocity Exhibition'?
On a related topic, have you checked Warsaw out?
It was an earlier incarnation of Joy Division:
http://www.amazon.com/Warsaw-Joy-Division/dp/B0000075Z9/ref=sr_1_5/104-4037265-6963901?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1190361623&sr=1-5
Would I recommend J. G. Ballard's collection? Well, only if you are into edgy experimental writing. A lot of it are discordant passages and more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atrocity_Exhibition
It is most famous for an essay in it titled 'Why I want to fuck Ronald Reagan'.
In this essay written in the 60s, Ballard compared Reagan's face to a phallus and predicted that he will one day be the president of the USA. Twenty years later, that came true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Want_to_Fuck_Ronald_Reagan
Hahahahah. Fun eh?
http://www.amazon.com/Atrocity-Exhibition-J-G-Ballard/dp/1889307033/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-4037265-6963901?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190362087&sr=8-2
Guess what? The book is in print.
And I have seen it frequently in the bookstores here over the years. Heheheh.
Ian Curtis did read the book, apparently liked it enough to write a song with that title.
Warsaw was named after a David Bowie song, Warszawa. But they didn't want to be seen as copying another band who goes by the name Warsaw Pakt. So they renamed themselves as Joy Division.
I have just about everything that JD released because of their Heart and Soul box set. Read "Touching From A Distance" by Deborah Curtis too. Great insight.
I found Ballard a little too heavy for me. I'm quite a light lit person...in fact, I might not even enjoy Ulysses by James Joyce....these books look forbidding.
Wow! Okay, I am astounded that you went to read Deborah Curtis. I was thinking 'exploitation' at the timing of that book. Can't remember the exact reasons. I avoided buying JD after Permanent. I have read reviews that the other concert CDs that came later were very very exploitative being recordings of bad concerts that should not have been released. Of course, that should not matter because one wants a capture or a piece of that time... The true atmosphere rather than a perfect concert. Heheh.
I don't have much JD stuff. Here is what I have:
Joy Division - Closer
Joy Division - Love will tear us apart 1995
Joy Division - The Peel Sessions: January 1979
Joy Division - The Peel Sessions: November 1979
Joy Division - Permanent: Joy Division 1995
Joy Division - Still
Joy Division - Unknown pleasures
No boxed sets. No later releases.
The book '24 Hour People' is available at HMV at the Heeren. Heheh.
Joyce! Oh dear! That is forbidding! Ballard heavy? The Atrocity Exhibition, Vermillion Sands, etc may be somewhat advant garde but his other novels aren't.
You're amazing!
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