Joy Division - Decades

trish keenan

Plus près de toi mon Dieu

What is the meaning of the word closer?

impossible to confuse with Bee Gees "staying alive" song...

All young men have weights on their shoulders for decades waiting for the eternal conflicts .

Legend

Espectacular

He's singing about the 'soul-trap'...

Listening to this in 1983. Anyone else?

Here because of James O'Barr The Crow. Great music. Great artist.

I think this song is about the end of world War 2, but from the point of view of the Germans.

how can so much pain and beauty create such a perfect match?

My favourite one. The Beginning is : Its all over now baby blue. ❤😢

Dark, hounting and tells you the truth...

As you drive into Manchester from east lancs then through Salford..think I,me right..anyway...you get some tunnels just before deansgate...I had gone over from Blackburn and got lost...supposed to be picking some bits up from Trafford Park for a mini digger..anyway...I was playing this as I drove through....can,t explain...maybe someone else has.. it was GOOD...Be wrong to describe it any other way...IAN would be happy with that...anyway...found Trafford Park...scored a decent teenth from Hulme,...and got nicked haveing a tout in car...xr2 as well...all in all...one of my best errands at work I ever had...apart from being nicked....hang on...no...he let me off...threw it in bushes and told me to think hard about what I was Doing....A666 after Bolton..a laybye...might still be there...full bag on foil...ah well...thinking about it,.. havent got a clue why I had decades on...but no other track would be suitable...I have had some moments...lol

wow

I bought this album in 1984 when I was in high school. I still have it. So glad I do.

This song haunts me

😌 this song lifts me to another place...after decades and for ever

Joy Cipriano...

They were the Buzzcocks support @ City Hall Newcastle, we hardly ever bothered support bands had another pint in the City Hall bar and missed them, one of my biggest regrets. Love this band, Closer Album is still my No 1 Album of all time, ethereal music sad and uplifting at the same time. Remember so well my Brother saying Ian had died, terrible loss.

44 years. Ciao Ian.

Where have they been…

🏴

He sang the most saddest voice 😥. Don't just listen the lyrics...

Joy Division is the only Cold Wave band I still like. I'm 50 yo.
There is something quite over-talented. A bit mysterious.

JD’s masterpiece, made all the more moving and poignant by placing it at the end of Closer. Both the famous lyrics and the music are unbelievably brilliant — I really can’t think of any other song by anyone that’s comparable to this. But let’s stop this nonsense that the other 3 were essentially Ian’s backing band, because they were all vital, with perhaps Bernard being the first among equals in creating that great sound and music. And then there was Martin Hammett too, yeah.

This sounds like soul of mine

Una cancion sublime.Una para la eternidad.🌀

A big Thankyou to Ian and the rest of the band for this Masterpiece x angela

Ciao Ian

Here are the young men with weight on their shoulders was a reference to the army surplus/charity shop clothes everyone (Bunnymen etc) were wearing

Para mim foram só uns piquinhos...

Just when you think the emotional exhaustion from this album is over and the music can't possibly get more melancholic, this track hits you like a damn knife to the heart. It's been more than 40 years since this record was released and, still, not a single song released ever since comes even close to being this bleak... specially when you put it into the context of Ian's suicide, which happened not long after recording Closer. Just damn.

Still... tears . 2023.

unknown pleasures is the sound of post punk

while closer is the lyrics of it

In such stunning music like this, we understand where we all come from, we are so much more than flesh and bones ♡

Vorrei trovare il termine adatto che renda giustizia a questo capolavoro di canzone ma perdonatemi non lo trovo nessuno rende l idea,artista meraviglioso ultraterreno e ' speciale❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

JOYA DE ROLA

Grande copertina e contenuto strepitoso.

There is a young generation Z girl at work who likes the cheerful boy band One Direction and is always giggling. I intend to tell her about the exciting new boy band called "Joy Division" and that "Decades" and "In a lonely place" are songs that will cheer her up even more.

ジョイデビで一番好きな曲

I'm not a lyrics person usually, but Ian was such a great lyricist

In college there was a bar named Decades up the street. It was all live bands. It was 1981. Now I get it

great sad song

where have you been, Ian?

Amazing song 🎵🎶🎸❤💙

Cool

Where have they been