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A must have for any Joy Division fan, excellent production quality.
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great buy, thanks!
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really good remastering effort
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Closer remains one of my favourite albums. I encountered Joy Division late, in fact after Ian Curtis had died. Closer brought me closer, not only to the band's music, but to some of the facets of this enigmatic, deeply moving song-writer and singer. Closer, to my mind, is the high point of his considerable achievement. I already had two different versions of the album -- on vinyl and cd. So why buy another? Part of it was impulse. Having just seen the film Control (look out for this one when it begins to appear on dvd, E-Bayers!), I wandered into a record shop and noticed that there was a remastered version of the album, but at GBP22 it seemed a terrible indulgence to a whim! I did what I would normally do in such cases: look to E-Bay, and a more reasonably priced copy. I found it within a minute of searching, and it arrived a couple of days later. Having listened to it, I can understand why one should have the remastered version, and (as a bonus) a live London performance by Joy Division. I can even see why one might spend 22 quid on the album. But I didn't, and that's the beauty of E-Bay! The album itself: haunting, lyrics so straight and true that they would provide a compass for anyone who has loved, lost, or just asked the eternal question: 'what's the point of it all?' Twenty Four Hours sums it up: 'So this is permanence, love's shattered pride/ What once was innocence, turned on its side/ A cloud hangs over me, marks every move,/ Deep in the memory, of what once was love.' Tearing, searing, questioning, answering; and all in a language that's highly personal and, at the same time, universal. Had Ian Curtis not died before its release, it would still have been Joy Division's masterpiece. But because he did, it is all the more poignant as a result. A final, enduring statement from a sadly young artist. It is also a consumate affirmation of that cliche 'live fast, die young', but with a sobering, moving twist: 'Now that I've realised how it's all gone wrong,/ Gotta find some therapy, this treatment takes too long./ Deep in the heart of where sympathy held sway,/ Gotta find my destiny, before it gets too late.' There are only a few true examples of genius in modern music. One is Hendrix, whose twenty-something years brought with it an entire lifetime's magnificent creation. The other is Ian Curtis, who in the span of his own twenty-something years and just three albums (I leave aside the live one) said all he had to say, and in a unremittingly honest, deeply touching way; an artist who did indeed bring us closer. Requiescat In Pace (may he rest in peace).Read full review
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