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“The difference is Ian Curtis.”
“And at the time he was writing “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” his life was collapsing in on him.”
“But Joy Division was simply transcendent.”
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“Punk and post-punk had an almost reflexive distrust of the pop love song.”
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“It’s one secret of the song’s surprisingly dynamic energy: the drone of Curtis’s voice pitched against the melodic riffs coming from Sumner and Hook.”
““Love Will Tear Us Apart” is a heartbreaking document of the death of a relationship that feels for all the world like the death of the self: a death that’s witnessed and coolly dissected from outside, but from which one can hardly break free.”
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“It’s also some of the last music that Joy Division ever made: by the time the single came out, Curtis was dead by his own hand and the remaining members, who had vowed to break up the band if any of the founders left, would shortly form a new one—New Order.”
“The first is their drone-like quality; at moments in the song his vocal cords seem to be vibrating sympathetically to Hook’s bass and Bernard Sumner’s synth.”
“People go nuts for that song when we play it live, but it really is quite dark.” It’s the darkness of a lonely voice crying out, “I’m fucked”—or maybe, even more powerfully, “we’re fucked.” __________________________________ Excerpt from the book Punk in 50 Pieces by Kevin Dettmar.”
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“It’s this that Bernard Sumner has in mind when he calls “Love Will Tear Us Apart” “one of the most beautiful love songs ever written.” “It’s not a love song for the sake of it,” he writes in his memoir, “it’s no vacuous paean to pretend heartbreak or anything like that.”
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