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- Artist: Joy Division
- Single: Transmission / Novelty
- Label: Factory
- Year of Release: 1979
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on 2011-03-23 CharlesMartel Said:
Joy Division never made a truly inspiring or uplifting track. It was not in their nature and Ian Curtis never felt that way to ever make such a thing a possibility. "Transmission" is one of their greatest tracks and yet that refrain says it all -
"Dance, dance, dance to the radio ."
Even when Joy Division sang as close as they ever got to an up-tempo rocker, they still managed to maintain the essence of misery as that line amply demonstrates: the implication being that your life is so false you are not even dancing to real music. If anything summed up the negative influence of mainstream UK radio at the end of the seventies better than this then I have yet to hear it! But what a fantastic track, right from the opening deep bass notes, followed by the taut drumming, you know you are in for a classic.
Rating: 9/10
