the wombats - "let's dance to joy division"

I think it's about dancing to Joy Division?

but why?

Not much else to do in the north of England.

Also - why not?

are they saying "yeah! dance to JD! whoop de whoop!"

or

"you shouldn't dance to their tunes 'cause it's really serious and you don't understand my/ian curtis' pain"

You may wanna try listening to the lyrics, that's usually a good way of finding out if the collection of sounds you've just heard has a narrative thread.

not their best song

I'm back in Liverpool,
And everything seem the same,
But I worked something out last night,
That changed this little boys brain,
A small piece of advice,
That took twenty-two years in the make,
And I will break it for you now,
Please learn from my mistakes,
Please learn from my mistakes.

Lets dance to joy division,
And celebrate the irony,
Everything is going wrong,
But were so happy,
Lets dance to joy division,
And raise our glass to the ceiling,
'Cos this could all go so wrong,
But were just so happy,
Yeah were so happy.

So if you every feeling down,
Grab your purse and take a taxi,
To the darker side of town,
Thats where we'll be,
And we will wait to you and lead you through the dancefloor,
Up to the D.J booth,
You know what to ask for,
You know what to ask for.

Go ask for Joy Division,
And celebrate the irony,
Everything is going wrong,
But were so happy,
Go ask to joy division,
And raise our glass to the ceiling,
'Cos this could all go so wrong,
But were just so happy,
So happy.

So let the love tear us apart,
I've found the cure for a broken heart,
Let it tear us apart,
So let the love tear us apart,
I've found the cure for a broken heart,
Let it tear us apart,
(Let it tear us apart)
So let the love tear us apart,
I've found the cure for a broken heart,
Let it tear us apart,
(Let it tear us apart)
So let the love tear us apart,
I've found the cure for a broken heart,
Let it tear us apart,
Let it tear us apart,
Let it tear us apart.

Lets dance to joy division,
And celebrate the irony,
Everything is going wrong,
But were so happy,
Lets dance to joy division,
And raise our glass to the ceiling,
'Cos this could all go so wrong,
But were just so happy,
Yeah were so happy,
So happy,
Yeah were so happy,
So happy,
Yeah were so happy.

YUCK

"Moving to New York" is a straight-up indie banger

^^this

"indie banger" = oxymoron

Boy howdy, this thread has been a trainwreck!!

-- King Boy Pato, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 08:44 (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

lol indie sucks amirite

Results 1 - 10 of about 48 for "indie banger". (0.06 seconds)

One of which is someone describing a MIA song.

"lol indie sucks amirite"

does now, some pretty cool stuff from the 80s and 90s tho.

^^^even though he's right, ban

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http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z111/HauntyOne/thinout.gif

http://morrisseydance.com/morrissey-dances.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/pandabear01/Morrissey2/c3.gif

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5774/038ze2.gif

http://drogg.vocodex.org/moorisey/006.gif

Is Morrissey being offered an ice cream by Dave "The Bandana" Perry there?

http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/9338/037ii7.gif

did morrissey start working out post-smiths? he looks buffer solo.

The semen of Hispanic twinks and Douglas Coupland has amazing regenerative properties.

morrissey doesn't have sex!

:O

youtube sounds like MJ hibbett

i think if ian curtis was alive now, he'd be a trance dj.

http://www.med.cornell.edu/neuro/patient_care/headache_center/img/holding%20head.jpg

do you have a folder with all those zing pics?

if so, could you sendspace it to me?

k thanx

I'm waiting to see whether any of my friends decide to ironically appreciate this song with me before I pass judgment on it

I really love the elimination of the critical middleman from discourse - now when we we don't like a lyric all we gotta do is quote it and say "YUCK" and hope everybody agrees

i don't really think it warrants any sort of discourse further than "yuck".

furtherthanyuck.blogspot.com

"i don't really think it warrants any sort of discourse further than "yuck" = "really, yuck, I mean it"

what is it that you don't like about it? mind you I don't have a horse in this race, the lyrics by themselves seem a little too Wistfulness Is The New Depth for me, I'm just tilting at the windmill of attitude-over-analysis

and what a large windmill it is

Was this band manufactured via a focus group to appeal to gormless NME reading teenagers?

i never heard this band till i worked in a wombat friendly environment. they are the fucking shittest band i've ever heard. if ever you needed proof that bad rock music is the lowest form of rubbish...

Every jobbing indie DJ in the country should be forced to pay a levy for every time in 2007 when they played this followed by 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. We'd have the deficit sorted in no time.

^ lol a friend of mine had the DJ do this at his wedding

garda took a job at a zoo?

(sorry)

okay why did I decide to listen to this terrible song

this song is such an earworm. desperately trying not to get it in my head, and I think I've succeeded!

I can't understand how anyone who actually liked Joy Division could tolerate this song. It's like an H&M Unknown Pleasures T-shirt.

…with a sticker saying IRONIC on it.

It's like an H&M Unknown Pleasures T-shirt.

Would approve that, at least I'd be able to afford it instead of this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170615776206&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

i never heard this band till i worked in a wombat friendly environment.

Er, a zoo? Or a bar where w/ Australians?

I dunno if I've heard it, but always think of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEag0ss9pFU

when I hear it mentioned.