Joy Division Nominated For Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame

The dubious Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame is holding a popularity contest — sorry, democracy event — to select who gets included on the rolls of the famous, and this year, Joy Division has been nominated. You can vote here for this post-punk/new-age/proto-industrial band.

Joy Division emerged in 1976 from Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The band — singer Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bass player Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris — was originally named Warsaw and gained fame for songs like “Interzone,” “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” and “She’s Lost Control.”

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35 thoughts on “Joy Division Nominated For Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame”

  1. SERIOUS QUESTIONER says:

    Hello Brett

    Would you consider the last Sacramentum album “Thy Black Destiny” a mere speed metal album?

    seriously,

    Serious Questioner

    1. It’s in the zone where Merciless The Awakening was, a really great album that basically made Mercyful Fate with the newer rigid rhythms of speed metal and technique borrowed from proto-death/black bands like Hellhammer, Sarcofago, Slayer, Bathory, and Sodom.

  2. We'll always have Graveland says:

    I feel like Joy Division is the least dubious of it’s genre, I hate The Cure with a passion (although I make an exception for Disintegration).

    1. The Cure was more of a return to normal pop stylings in the template of the new sound. I guess I rate them as fairly OK for normie music but I don’t know why I would bother to listen (this applies to nearly all rock, pop, techno, and jazz and to all hip-hop and metalcore).

      1. CapnCrunch says:

        Normies like Varg? He’s a big fan of The Cure.

      2. why bother says:

        this applies to damn near everything

    2. Carthago delenda est says:

      Joy Division were really unimpressive at writing, but at least their (small) output was harmonious and aesthetically well produced (a couple of tracks from Closer are in my opinion very good). The Cure are tedious and self-indulgent, for some reason I’m forever meeting girls (good looking, bad looking) who like them: I rejoice at your hate.

      1. It ain’t Celtic Frost or Slayer fer sure mah nilla

        1. Carthago delenda est says:

          Of course they’re not! Celtic Frost still amazes me after all these years, still fresh.
          (Mr. Stevens: what’s your favourite by Cenotaph, the 1st or the 2nd? Thanks!)

          1. The Gloomy Reflections of Our Hidden Sorrows is what I listen to the most, although I appreciate their other work. But TGRoOHS has a certain atmosphere and vision of the world that is appealing to me.

      2. will to madame flowers says:

        were you even born when The Cure released their first?
        The Cure were brilliant at a time when punk was turning into dance music.
        They went another way, much better.

        1. Carthago delenda est says:

          Were you even born when Monteverdi wrote “Vespro della beata vergine”? So what?
          Talking Heads were brilliant, Brian Eno was brillant. Joy Division weren’t brilliant as musicians, but they had a tone and very good lyrics (often inspired by great literature, such as Kingsley Amis or Nikolaj Gogol) – see: “Disorder”, “Heart And Soul”, “Dead Souls”.
          The Cure had “The Lovecats” and a haircut: I just liked ’em when I was fourteen.

          1. boo radley says:

            The Cure’s early run of albums – 17 Seconds, Faith, Pornography – were a far cry from Lovecats. The Cure went pop before rediscovering some form on Disintegration.

            Also worth checking out is Echo and the Bunnymen’s “Heaven up Here”, Siouxsie and the Banshees “Kaleidoscope” and Warning’s “Warning” and “Electric Eyes”.

            1. This was our 64,000th comment. Good work.

  3. Robert Smith says:

    I gave this band a chance a few years ago, but it didn’t take. Later on I realized that there is such a thing not liking something but recognizing that, for better or worse, they are good at what they do. This applies to everything from junk food to serial killers to boy bands. Give credit where credit is do, but then if necessary go in and clean house with hollow points and whatnot if necessary. Not that it applies here. Maybe that’s just a clumsy way of saying know thy enemy.

    Anyway, aside from King Crimson’s 80’s stuff – which was mostly so-so – this is the only track that’s kind of in that style that still resonates with me. In all fairness I’m pretty sure my stupid head is combining nostalgia and the visual aspect of the video to rise to the degree of a guilty pleasure. But it is kind of a cool re-make of a song. I think I mentioned it in some other topic. Enjoy! Or – in all likelihood – don’t.

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

  4. Rape all famous white dykes like maddow Ruby rose ECT... says:

    Hitler’s plans included the Four Year Plan, Generalplan Ost, and the New Order, which were intended to establish a German-dominated Europe.
    The Four Year Plan
    A series of economic measures to rearm Germany and make it self-sufficient by 1940
    Hermann Göring was in charge of the plan, which cut across the responsibilities of several cabinet ministries
    Generalplan Ost
    A plan to establish a “German and Aryan” community in Eastern Europe
    The plan called for the forced deportation of hundreds of millions of people and the slaughter of millions of Slavs, Romanis, and Jews
    The New Order
    A plan to establish a pan-German racial state in Central and Eastern Europe
    The plan included the colonization of Central and Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, and the expulsion or enslavement of Slavic peoples
    The plan was a major factor in the start of World War II
    Hitler’s plans were part of the alternative governmental structure created by the Nazi Party…SOUNDS COOL HUH?

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    And bring back slavery hahahaha

    Roll out haterbots…

    1. In the 10k year view, Slavs are simply the latest incursion of Homo hallbergensis into the Dragon People and should probably be shipped into Asia to continue raising the percentage of modern human among the Asiatics.

    2. will to tirpitz says:

      love these weird nazi rants I see on here. Amusing.
      everyone associated with Hitler (including Hitler himself) was a bumbling idiot poorly suited to run a pet shop-let alone the world.
      Not one of the inner circle had the intelligence or look of the “master race” they were trying to create.
      A weak desk clerk hypochondriac who weighed 120 lbs wearing glasses. So NOT the poster child of a perfect aryan specimen.
      A fat cross dressing slob who was an ace but was incompetent as commander of the luftwaffe.
      Bormann-a farmer turned bureaucrat. Nothing really special in anyway.
      Hess? lol. wackjob.
      Speer? Maybe the smartest and least incompetent of all high rankers.
      And Adolph? what more can be said about the pill popping, mentally impaired vegetarian buffoon who completely lost the war on every level? nothing. Moron of the highest level.
      The wehrmacht was responsible for Germany’s success. Men like Guderian, Manstein and Donitz.
      I am sure I’ll get a response defending the dumbasses who ran the Reich into the ground…
      but the reality is the war was lost by hitler and his stooges who thought they knew warfare.
      Hate the jews all you want or slavs or anyone else.
      But if you think Hitler or any of his sycophants were superior to anyone-slavs, jews, blacks
      you are pretty fucking stupid.

      1. Or we could all just grow up and point out that every system since the Kings has been a failure.

        1. Anal Rapist says:

          What would you do if you had a rectal refraction?

        2. Sigh (JPN) says:

          “Grow up”, “Be honest” etc. I’m sure that will convince people to see things your way…

          1. You assume people are convinced by reality or logic and are not simply choosing whatever philosophy conveniently justifies their lifestyles.

            1. Tedium (NOR) says:

              It’s a fairly useful assumption about people that might actually matter. About people in general, no.

              1. White pussy stinks and reeks of a fetid putrid ass like of creamy sewer onion ass but beats naggers pussy definitely hahaha says:

                STFU ALMOST EVERYONE SUCKS ASS…

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                hawaiian/estonian/raprockzilla
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                Egyptian metal police

                I hate black women

                Why?

                Too loud
                Too rude
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                Too angry
                Too mean spiritedness
                Too dumb
                Too interruptive

                Naggers should be forced to fuck Japan or another race…

                Any way to make blacks less annoying Brett huh?

                Any way to force naggers to fuk they women?

                1. Bong (USA) says:

                  YOU most certainly suck, that’s for sure.

            2. Fletch says:

              Everyone follows their own logic, even yourself, you ain’t got no damn monopoly, asswipe.

              1. I deny the objective/subjective dichotomy.

        3. will to tirpitz says:

          or we can “grow up” and understand that race, ethnicity or gender doesn’t matter.
          only ideology.
          There are blacks, jews, Indians, hispanics that share my ideology.
          I consider them allies
          Conversely there plenty of whites-my race-that I loathe.
          My apologies for the anti-Hitler rant.
          I love all things pertaining to ww2 Germany. From the military to the tech. Have a Tirpitz model I need to star working on.
          But the goofy “master race” crap is tripe. Never understood the whole hero worship of a band of misfits that collectively didn’t have enough leadership experience or intellect to run a deli.
          Almost as bad as a whole economic system created to protect the “worker” written by 2 dudes that never put in a hard days labor in their lives

          1. Ideology is horseshit. It generally exists to rationalize what people want to believe is true, and this is determined by genetics.

  5. Otoboke Beaver Lover says:

    Warsaw kicked ass! And a great band name to boot. Only the demos rock though. the guitar work of Sumner (“Bernard”) is great on the demos while at the same time it’s clear he could hardly play=good, excellent combination. Joy Division….think I’ll pass…the dutchie on the left hand side…

  6. Scarjo needs her pussy licked by my black Hawaiian Estonian RAPROCK band who she must say owww shit I wanna bust their cherries with my tounge baby hahaha Hallie Jackson joins in toooo says:

    Hahaha

    Why does Hitler hate cartoons soo much?

    Yiping yip yip yip that’s Jews folks!!!

    Dat dattta data daaaa dit….

    So says the

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    MAN WASPS U GOT JOKES ABOUT LESBIAN JEWS TAKING A SHIT IM CURIOUS ABOUT IT HAHA!!!

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    Egyptian metal police

    I hate wigga spigga chigga neggaz

    Any way Brett legally or murderously to stop Latinos from breeding out the fucking planet
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  7. Brodo Faggins says:

    Brett, what is your opinion on Vangelis? Especially, music in the cyclical and contemolative style like Memories of Green, Reve, Le Singe Bleu etc.

    1. Everything I’ve heard has been interesting. Good sense of melody, probably needed more of a Tangerine Dream style format.

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    Dear Trump

    Please kill

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    Deathcore
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    How wud ya kill nu metal dudes if you had a black metal army?

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    So says

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    Hey Brett what’s yr take on hyperghamy

    Should I kill all women and mankind for this fact huh?

    I think I hate beaners nuiggherz women wiggers for a reason ok?

    88 hahaha everything must burn hahaha

    1. We call “wiggers” by the politically-correct term “wolored people” now.

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