What's your favourite Joy Division record ?
 

Mine is Substance.

Unknown Pleasures

Unknown Pleasures. I like Closer a lot too but it's too bleak and depressing for everyday listening.

unknown pleasures is one of my all time favorite albums, so that wins by miles.

closer has some boring songs on it.

Unknown Pleasures.

Substance for me as well.

Mainly because of "Transmission" and "Digital"

Unknown Pleasures

Substance is a close second

pleasures.

3..5..4...1...2...5...GO!

substance forever

closer because of the whole bigger picture surrounding the album

still because of the live tracks

i have the heart and soul box set. it is amazing!!!!!!

yeah.

heart and soul is basically indispensable.

Pleasures, mostly for my vinyl cracked from the beginning and it adds to the music and what the band conveyed.
Closer never cracked.

Closer for me, though Unknown Pleasures has been getting more play in recent months. Closer made such a gigantic impact on me as a teen that it will always be my favorite, and it has my favorite songs on it. Though Unknown has "Day Of The Lords" on it which is like whoa.
I also really love the Warsaw demos bootleg LP I have, especially for its version of "No Love Lost," which has different lyrics and is musically superior IMO to the version on Substance.

Unknown Pleasures mainly because of Disorder and New Dawn Fades...

new dawn fades is my fucking JAM.

Oh, man. New Dawn Fades is a total masterpiece. You're not kidding.

Disorder is my favorite jam

Yeah, Disorder is terrific.

substance, followed by unknown pleasures.

Unknown pleasures

i dont know any of them
am i missing something?
never really felt like i have to listen to any of their albums..

Yes you really miss out (unless you're not a fan of post-punk - which is in my opinion would be surprising when you like Sonic Youth).

yeah, you're missing out.

unknown pleasures is such a perfect record.. all the songs just sound... right. i can't explain it.

Yes.

to be honest, no. i mean like i really love their music but to say that it is important that your missing something is retarded, because its just music. people think you need to listen to all this "classic" shit and everyone wants everyone else to listen to these albums that they think will change their lives. but they wont. its just music. it doesnt really fucking matter if you ever listen to them at all...

someones cranky

music DOES affect people and ehance people's lives, so he could very well be missing out on something that will make his day better, if nothing else.

anyway, anyone heard jah division - dub will tear us apart?

i agree. but its really not that big of a deal..

yeah i actually like jah division. you can watch live performances of them on punkcast.com

im just sick of you

ever heard of the ignore button?

no, but i like your sig too much. what is it from?

i can answer that quiestion altho its not my sig.
that pic is from a classic jean paul belmondo movie, but i dont knwo the exact title.

but on topic now: ive never been into this sort of music .. guitars and crazy, new wave-ish synth lines..
nahh..
i know their biggest hit (if that is the one) 'love will tear us apart', and this song really irritates me. its good in a certain way, but still, id never listen to it again and again..
i think thats the reason ive never checked out any of their albums.

"Love will tear us apart" is far from their best song in my opinion (I love the lyrics though).

*BUZZER*
WRONG

jean-luc godard's "a bout de souffle" (aka breathless)

Closer for me, although I've not listened to Joy Division in a very long time.

BTW, surely choosing Substance is like choosing Screaming Fields of Sonic Love as your favourite SY album? (As in, it's a compilation, not a "real" album.)

Unknown Pleasures. I love that album so much.

That's why I entitled the thread "favourite record" and not "favourite album". In my opinion Substance includes so many of their best songs it can't be left out of the poll.

Closer...

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