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fromOpen Culture
3 weeks ago

Every Filmed and Televised Performance by Joy Division (1978-79)

Brian Eno once said of the Velvet Underground that their first album sold only 30,000 copies, but everyone who bought one started a band. Joy Division's debut Unknown Pleasures sold only 20,000 copies in its initial period of release, but the T‑shirt emblazoned with its cover art - an image of radio waves emanating from a pulsar taken from an astronomy encyclopedia - has long since constituted a commercial-semiotic empire unto itself.
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fromLos Angeles Times
5 months ago

45 years later, New Order's music is 'more successful' than ever - but why? 'It's got soul'

"It was really 'f- the establishment' ... we'd all had a pretty s- time at school and the rebelliousness and didn't like the establishment..."
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fromConsequence
6 months ago

Peter Hook says New Order are a "bad cover version" of themselves now

Peter Hook criticizes New Order's current performances, claiming they sound like bad cover versions without significant elements like basslines.
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