- Robert Smiths commits suicide just before the release of "Pornography"- Ian Curtis is still alive and still the singer of Joy Division, whose guitarist Barney Sumner has however become a more prominent songwriter throughout the years - their three biggest hits, "Blue Monday", "True Faith" and "Regret" all composed by Sumner.
Which band would then have been most likely to appear with 1-2 albums in lots of "Best Albums Of All Time" lists?
Personally, I easily prefer early The Cure to Joy Division. Joy Division may have had a sort of interesting "depressive" style, and they may have been synth pioneers within "dark" musical styles. However, they were never even on level with the best songs on "17 Seconds" and "Faith".
Thus, The Cure are my pick. No doubt about it.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 24 February 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 February 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 24 February 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 24 February 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)
― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 24 February 2006 19:22 (twenty years ago)
― Abu Hamster (noodle vague), Friday, 24 February 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)
― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Friday, 24 February 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)
― wangdangsweetpentangle (teenagequiet), Friday, 24 February 2006 19:26 (twenty years ago)
UP is far superior to anything the Cure (or Joy Division) ever did! Have you and I had the UP vs Closer argument before? I can't remember.
I also pick Joy Division by approximately 180 lumens.
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 24 February 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 24 February 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 24 February 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 February 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)
― Aaron A, Friday, 24 February 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 24 February 2006 20:26 (twenty years ago)
― Harrison Barr (Petar), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)
― Edward Bax (EdBax), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)
Interestingly, even Robert Smith wouldn't agree with this!
Joy Division by a long, long distance.
― dee xtro (dee xtro), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)
― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:56 (twenty years ago)
REGGAETON!!!!!!!!!
― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)
― xero (xero), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)
― p.j. (Henry), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)
― darin (darin), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)
― blunt (blunt), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 24 February 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)
the only way to do this properly is to look at each bands first 2 albums. answers easy then, Joy Division by a mile.
― biz, Friday, 24 February 2006 23:46 (twenty years ago)
― Aaron A, Friday, 24 February 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)
― biz, Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:00 (twenty years ago)
― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)
Joy Division by zillions of miles
― rizzx (Rizz), Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)
― Zora (Zora), Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:48 (twenty years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)
― rizzx (Rizz), Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:00 (twenty years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)
it's an entity that crushes everything Cure's ever done
― rizzx (Rizz), Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:04 (twenty years ago)
― Miranda Leigh (Miranda Leigh), Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:25 (twenty years ago)
the cure have more than 30 singles and good album tracks.
― fatbob, Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:35 (twenty years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 25 February 2006 01:42 (twenty years ago)
Of course, Joy Division's dominance in this question is predictable enough. Rock orthodoxy is so in place, one can predict the dominant opinion without even looking at the thread. Of course the "historically important and canonized" post punk band when win all. It's like the Can Vs. Faust debate. Soon as I saw that I knew Can would have the most supporters despite the fact that most listeners haven't even heard that much post-70s Faust. Hmmmm, let's see, who's the critical darling and most overpraised of the two? Which one has the best hipster magazine coverage?
Likewise, the Cure doesn't stand a chance against Joy Division among male rock enthusiasts. One was sanctified by the press, the other wasn't. Done, done, and done.
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Saturday, 25 February 2006 04:13 (twenty years ago)
― Dan (Geir, You Know Better Than This) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 25 February 2006 05:20 (twenty years ago)
― Okeigh, Saturday, 25 February 2006 05:59 (twenty years ago)
― rizzx (Rizz), Saturday, 25 February 2006 10:46 (twenty years ago)
― Giles Manius (jsoulja), Saturday, 25 February 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)
― rizzx (Rizz), Saturday, 25 February 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)
― retrogurl, Saturday, 25 February 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 25 February 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)
YOU FREAK. ;-)
It's not that hard for me to believe at all -- I'm just so thoroughly inculcated in a happy and extensive love of both that I'm all, "This is like taking sides between pizza and pasta."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 February 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 February 2006 00:48 (twenty years ago)
Well, considering that almost everyone posting on this thread is like 30 and were fans of both bands long before the hipster coverage hit the saturation point, I'm gonna say you're full of shit.
Yeah, I think I had a chance to form opinions before rock orthodoxy set in, liked both Joy Division and the Cure in the early 80s, etc.
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 27 February 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 27 February 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)
― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 27 February 2006 01:05 (twenty years ago)
― cnwb (cnwb), Monday, 27 February 2006 02:34 (twenty years ago)
― JB Young (JB Young), Monday, 27 February 2006 03:05 (twenty years ago)
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Monday, 27 February 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)
No, they're just the best that UK post-punk/new wave scene has to offer outside of Wire in my very humble opinion. And also because I'm a cliched contratian sort.
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Monday, 27 February 2006 03:58 (twenty years ago)
― darin (darin), Monday, 27 February 2006 07:43 (twenty years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 27 February 2006 08:43 (twenty years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 27 February 2006 08:45 (twenty years ago)
Please continue to amuse us with such opinions, James.
**You're culling a lot of atmosphere and darkness from a threadbare rhythm section and some dour theatrics.**
OK, let's thrash this one out. Threadbare rhythm section - pls explain, I can't imagine what you mean. Because what I hear is a powerful & innovative rhythm section - at times it's Steve + Hooky, sometimes Steve + Barney, sometimes Steve alone and sometimes all of them who are driving the music forward. Dour theatrics - I'm not against theatrics, but surely you can hear that IC is beyond that.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 27 February 2006 09:44 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 27 February 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)
yeah this really is trash. that pair could well be one of the greatest rhythm sections of all time. inasmuch as you can call what hooky does merely "rhythm"
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:01 (twenty years ago)
― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 27 February 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 27 February 2006 10:20 (twenty years ago)
You're stretching my psychic powers to breaking point now Doc.
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 27 February 2006 11:59 (twenty years ago)
― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 27 February 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)
― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 27 February 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 04:12 (twenty years ago)
― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 10:49 (twenty years ago)
I can't say that I ever want to hear Carnage Visors again.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)
― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:27 (twenty years ago)
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)
Er, "Primary"?????????
― Dan (Am I The Only Person Who Adores This Song?) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)
Every time I hear Faith I'm in my university hall of residence, late afternoon when you know you should be in lectures, should be in the library, but you're lying on yr bed in a state of gentle meloncholia. Happy days.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:36 (twenty years ago)
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:09 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:15 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)
How about:
does your hairspray lose it's texture in the bedclothes overnight
― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)
"This is a songmurflemumblelowvoicetrailing off...this is called "Cold!""
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)
Definitely.
― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)
― J.H. Malerman (xada_hgla), Sunday, 17 September 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 17 September 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)
:)
I'm not going to make a choice, though, owing to my lack of JD.
― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Sunday, 17 September 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 18 September 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)