Just twelve more days til our best 666 songs of alltime countdown reaches #1…and then we start with the 1000 best albums of alltime. Here’s Saturday’s song:
Joy Division – 24 Hours
As good a candidate as any for best bassline ever – Peter Hook’s octaves and chords perfectly channel the song’s breathless, manic angst. From Closer, 1981.
July 17, 2010
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Just a little over two weeks til our best 666 songs of alltime countdown reaches #1…and then we start with the 1000 best albums of alltime. Tuesday’s song is #16:
Joy Division – The Eternal
Complete emotional depletion has never been so accurately depicted as in this Mellotron dirge from Closer, 1981. “With children my time is so wastefully spent.” Which raises the obvious question – if Ian Curtis’ doctor hadn’t prescribed him barbituates for his epilepsy, would he still be alive?
July 12, 2010
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Less than a month til our best 666 songs of alltime countdown reaches #1! Sunday’s song was #25:
Joy Division – Passover
“This is the crisis I knew had to come,” Ian Curtis intones. Bernard Albrecht’s mournful, minimalist guitar is equally searing and poignant. From Closer, 1981.
July 5, 2010
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The best 666 songs of alltime countdown continues every day, all the way to #1. Saturday’s song is #54:
Joy Division – Heart & Soul
By the time this hypnotic, swirling dirge opens side two of Closer, it’s obvious how badly everything is going to end: without a doubt, it’s the suicide album to end all suicide albums. “Heart and soul, one will burn.”
June 5, 2010
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The best 666 songs of alltime countdown continues every day, all the way to #1. Tuesday’s song is #72:
Joy Division – Isolation
The goth song that launched a million others, none of which come close to the haunting anguish of this one. Peter Hook’s bassline is classic. From Closer, 1980.
May 18, 2010
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