Joy division are not shit.

Joy division are one of those bands that are like Bob Dylan, the songs are brilliant but the execution is a wee bit skewiff. Dont get me wrong, most of the factory records peoples are great and I do own everything ever recorded by joy division thanks to a really awesome box set, but lots of people dont like them, so this is an attempt to ease the people that think Joy division are shit into the world of the Ian Curtis & co.



Baron Zen... 'they walked in line'

Wavves like, isn't it? If you can give me a solitary reason why a song about the holocaust can't be turned into a naughties surf rock classic then fuck off and read a blog about how life isn't fair because people are turning songs about the holocaust into naughties surf rock classics, I'm sure one exists.





Technova... 'Atmosphere'

Lovely, anyone who knows anything about my taste in music will know that this song is the closest thing I will ever get to an orgasm since the accident that rendered me not only impotent but almost female, you don't have to listen to it if you have ever listened to Andrew Weatherall's Fabric album

*Side Note: I am aware that for my entire life I have failed to use the apostrophe correctly and for that I am sorry, if you go back and re-read all my other blogs, try to understand that I didn't mean 2 of everything, I meant it in terms of ownership...apologies.*



Low, the cheeky shoegaze (yes, sorry, shoegaze again) take it down a notch but keep it close to the melody of the original, but my fave version of this is an almost complete re-imagining by Billy Corgan... how I gish wish that I could hate the Smashing Pumpkins, but they are good, they are the pinnacle of grunge, (fuck off nirvana fans!) they took on the sound of bands like suicide and my bloody valentine and made it that bit more palatable, so here goes...



Here is Radiohead performing Cermeony, from the album Closer, as was they walked in line... nuff said.



Below is probably my fave version of Transmission I have ever heard, someone who I worked with once asked me if I had 'heard that cover of joy division on youtube' I knew exactly which one he meant when I heard it, but thats because we had that kind of relationship, this is also the reason why my bum hole is an inch wider than it should be, but that, along with the cucumber is a seperate story.



Shove that up your ears you bummers.