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40-Year-Old Songs: Love Will Tear Us Apart

Four Walls @FourWalls (86652) • United States 17 Aug 20

Another Monday is here! At least things started out good, because Uncle Joe posted a video of kittens! Sorry to have such depression on a Monday, but just by “luck of the draw” here’s today’s song that dates back 40...

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Rock Love, Day 22: Love Will Tear Us Apart

Four Walls @FourWalls (86652) • United States 22 Jan 20

Good morning, and welcome to today’s song with “love” in the title as we head to Valentines Day. For your drinking and dancing pleasure may I present a great rock tune with a country-like song title. Here’s today’s super classic...

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Be One of Us #19 - "Leaders of Men"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 7 Dec 19

Hang on, we're rolling! Welcome back to Be One of Us, a random countdown of 50 songs with "of" in the title. We are at #19: "Leaders of Men" by Joy Division. You can see people wearing their t-shirts all over the place, often...

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Call Me

RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (97991) • Daytona Beach, Florida 22 Mar 18

In the year 1980 I was still dancing to songs that were from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. It was hard to let another decade go by but it did bring one of my favorite bands and that was Blondie. That year the biggest song was “Call...

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It's a Music Geek Thing

Four Walls @FourWalls (86652) • United States 14 Mar 18

There is something interesting about music. Hearing a song can bring memories flooding back. We can associate places, events, and people with songs. It's funny how that happens, too. When Warren Zevon died my inbox was...

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Favorite Manchester Bands #3 - Joy Division

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 13 Dec 17

You only have to read this three more times: I have never heard a band from Manchester, England, that I haven't liked. Hence, I am counting down my favorite Manchester bands, and we are at #3: Joy Division. Guitarist Bernard...

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Favorite "Dream" Songs #8 - "Dreams Never End"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 15 Nov 17

I seem to be on an 80's kick with this particular music countdown, which is songs with "dream" in the title. And while not every tune in this series is from that decade, #8 is: "Dreams Never End" by New Order. "Dreams Never End"...

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Favorite "Silent" Songs #8 - "Your Silent Face"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 27 Aug 17

Songs with either "silent" or "silence" in the title is the theme of this particular music countdown, and so far we've paid a visit to legends, namely, Miles Davis, and Simon and Garfunkel. We are at #8: "Your Silent Face," by...

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Favorite Number Songs #1 - "Twenty Four Hours"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 4 Jul 17

Putting the wraps on yet another music series. #1 in my Favorite Number songs countdown (with the number in the title spelled out) is "Twenty Four Hours" by the legendary Joy Division. Listening to the lyrics from "Twenty Four...

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Favorite 80's Dance Songs #1 - "Blue Monday"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 21 Apr 17

After nine not-so-mainstream tunes, we have reached #1 in my Favorite 80's Dance Songs series, and there is a remote chance that you might recognize this one: "Blue Monday" by New Order. When Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis...

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Favorite "Dead" Songs #3 - "Dead Souls"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 15 Dec 16

It's only fitting that, after Nine Inch Nails' cover of Joy Division's "Dead Souls" hit #4 in this countdown, that the original Joy Division version occupies the #3 spot in my Favorite "Dead" Songs series. Post punk band Joy...

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Favorite Cover Songs #3 - "Dead Souls"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 19 Jun 16

#3 in my Favorite Cover Songs series takes us to Cleveland, the birthplace of Nine Inch Nails. Mainly-industrial Nine Inch Nails is, essentially, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Trent Reznor, who began recording in 1988. Nine...

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Film Review – 1599 A True Story Of Elizabethan Court

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 Jun 16

A long local history movie combining dramatized re-enactment, interviews with historians and musicians and a connecting narration provided by Christopher Ecclestone. Salford’s historic Ordsall Hall is a genuine Tudor manor house...

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Top 10 New Order Songs #6 - "Elegia"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 24 Apr 16

#6 in my Top 10 New Order Songs series is a bit of a departure for the band. New Order is highly regarded as an influential electronic dance band, with an 80's output full of alternative dance classic 's (as far as I'm...

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Top 10 New Order Songs #7 - "Dreams Never End"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 23 Apr 16

The 1981 album Movement re-introduced guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris, post-Joy Division, as New Order (keyboardist Gillian Gilbert rounded out the New Order lineup.) Movement is a dark,...

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Into the Groovy #31 - "Blue Monday"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 18 Apr 16

British electronic dance/alternative guitar band New Order's story is well known among fans. When Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis committed suicide on the eve of an American tour, the three surviving members (guitarist Bernard...

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Into the Groovy #21 - "24 Hours"

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43586) • Denver, Colorado 9 Apr 16

When the subject of which band invented goth comes up, two group's pretty much dominate the answer: Bauhaus and Joy Division. Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy, affectionately called "The Grandfather of Goth," has, however, claimed...

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Mixed CDs....need some ideas

crimsonladybug @crimsonladybug (3112) • United States 5 Sep 09

Every now and again I make mixed CDs for my friends, purely for educational purposes .... I'm working on one now that's a bit of a hodge podge of 70's and 80's glam-rock, post punk....well, anywhere he's what I...

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New Order or Joy Division?

jend80 @jend80 (2071) • United Kingdom 10 Oct 08

which do you prefer? and do you think that if Ian had lived and Joy Division had continued that they would've eventually gone in the direction as New Order?

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Myspace band

Pennyoz @Pennyoz (31) • Australia 31 Jan 08

I have just discovered a new band on Myspace called 'Dragons' and they are from the Uk. If you are into bands such as 'Joy Division', 'Depeche Mode' or 'Ultravox, then you will enjoy 'Dragons'. Their lastest songs off their...

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