Discovering Joy Division at the same time as New Order called for, unbelievably, solomonic choices. If you were serious — young male (always male) music fans during the Poppy Bush Interozone were very serious — you gave New Order some shade. To learn that three-fourths of Joy Division comprised New Order and recorded that music astonished me. I didn’t listen to Joy Division often. Still don’t. It is impossible for me to re-listen to “Decades” — it works like a sand dredger.
1. Transmission
2. Decades
3. Isolation
4. Shadowplay
5. Heart and Soul
6. Love Will Tears Us Apart
7. Atmosphere
8. She’s Lost Control
9. Disorder
10. Atrocity Exhibition
11. Digital
12. These Days
Humanizing The Vacuum 