Best Joy Division Songs
The Top Ten
I love this song but seriously I don't think it's their best one... But definitely one of the best "rock" song ever (if we must rate a piece of art).
Stands as one of the best rock songs of all time. I would then go with Atmosphere and Transmission. So original.
Lyrics to die for! Literally in a way...
Listen to these lyrics - Truth when you know that a relationship has ended!
Love Will Tear Us apart is the best post-punk song ever, and one of the best singles of all time.
A poetic recount of life's futility and inequity; Curtis pulls Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" from the silence.
Such a dark and heavy track. Love the guitar melody and tone.
Turn the lights out and drift away
Dark and ere, one of the greatest songs ever crafted.
The bass and drum combined are electrifying, and Ian Curtis delivers his trademark haunting baritone vocals with fast-paced hooks.
Love that song, it reminds me of stuff. Now the stuff are dead and gone but music remains beautiful
One of the greatest songs ever written. Achingly beautiful, yet driving and decadent.
Saddest, Darkest, most atmospheric, most haunting, with so many fellings
That opening bass line is legitimately chilling. And the emotive tear of Curtis' vocals as the track plateaus. Pretty much a perfect song.
Love will tear us apart and Disorder surely are the tops for lyrics but the guitar on this will never fail to send chills.
Ian sings like a desperate soul trapped in an automaton's body. Haunting. Sad. Touching.
I love it. The power of bass line and desperate voice are wonderful
Probably They're Most Emotional Song. I've never heard of another song with so much raw emotion in it, from the bass traslation to the guitar heaviness to Ian's Vocals (which I think demostrate the true essence of his talent as a singer) and the amazing lyrics... in other words this song has everything for me.
Probably the saddest song I've ever heard. I listened to it on repeat many times after I first heard it. (Transmission is a close second place for me)
Few songs manage to transmit so much feelings like this one, truly the best song of Joy Division
The most perfect of Joy Division's songs; the lyrics (of which there are suprisingly few) co-exist in brilliant and haunting harmony with the score.
A happy, upbeat sounding song with depressing lyrics, I like it.
The lyrics are haunting
It can make me cry...
I can only understate how much I like this song. There isn't a word good enough to describe it. RIP Ian.
In my humble opinion the greatest song of all time, haunting, timeless, brilliant.
Totally moving and chillingly beautiful.
My phone ring tone. That says it all
Love to play this at full volume in my car with windows down and scare people with its dark majesty...
This is one of, if not my favorite Joy Division song. I think it's very underrated.
Amazing
Personally I think NIN's version is better (mostly because of the quality), but this is the original, so it's deathless
Love this song, especially how the rhythm of the drums and the melody of the guitar go along. One of the best Joy Division songs.
I prefer Closer as an album, but this is by far the best Joy Division song, followed by Decades.
It is like Kurt's "Lithium", not greatest but the best, for sure.
Epic song from ian. This could be one ove the best prog rock song in 80's decade.
Taking one last breath, this haunting song makes me feel so much hidden emotions. It always makes me blue whenever I hear it, no matter how much I feel happy before... I can't say I've ever heard a better way to close an album. Thank you. (Please forgive my mistakes English is not my first language)
Hauntingly beautiful song. The sequencing of the three last songs on the album could not have been better chosen.
The synth on this track is magnificent. Few songs can give me the goosebumps as consistently as this one does.
Curtis sings this song as if his soul is leaving his body. Definitely one of the greatest songs of all time
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It builds up constantly, leaving you wanting a climax, but it never comes, it just burns out. And that, in my opinion, is the song's strength, it emphasizes the emotion and the hopelessness of the lyrics.
In my opinion, this is probably their greatest song. The song builds and falls but the bass and drum line drives aggressively unlike any other song by JD. Ian Curtis' depression was also plain as ever in this song.
So much energy in there. Makes you keep on going ahead.
Imagine how excellent this song could've been if they only got the chance to finish fully recording it, it sounds like it could've been their best song yet. Too bad Ian killed himself before they got a chance to finish recording it though.
'If only''. Had ian curtis performed the vocals on this song it would have been remembered as the amazing song it is, potentially my favourite song of all time
Even when Bernie is singing it, you hear Ian's baritone!
If only the mic didn't fail in the first verse
Ere and dark, with those bells it makes this track atmospheric and outstanding.
Intrigating and dark. Just beautiful
Full of powerful rusty chords and great duo of Peter Hook and Ian Curtis vocals
I really like 'no love lost' by joy division because of the intro.. It's very hypnotizing... What a magnificent song!
Fantastic. Especially the one on Ideal For Living with the spacey build-up.
One of the best... top ten certainly
Public Image LTD totally ripped this sound on Metal Box
I put my trust in you
'No words could explain, no actions determine,
Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall. '
dear god
Slow, atmospheric, and depressing. This song is what got be into Joy Division.
THE BEST DARK LYRICS I'VE EVER LISTENED.
MINUTES AWAY FROM COLD AND DEATH
THE BEST SONG
Come on, how can Warsaw be out of top 10?
The song "The Fly" by U2 has been described as a phone call from hell, but this song takes that to much higher levels. A carnival of the grotesque, this song is full of distorted guitars, brilliant vocals and terrifying lyrics, and one of, if not the, best by Joy Division.
Powerful, destructive, and brilliant- Day of the Lords- where time dissapears and oblivion is all. Never has the 'end' or rather 'the start', been so poetic.
"This is the room, the start of it all..."
Back to the good old days, I remember seeing Joy Division about 10-12 times in the good old days. Still the only song in which I cried to, the final performance at Birmingham uni (I was there) and after hearing it in 1981 it was the definitive Joy Division Song
I am glad someone agrees that this is their saddest song, as I included it in an essay about songs for different emtotions, for "sad". The emotion in this song is unparalelled in the joy Division cannon, and the fact that it's the last song Ian performed makes it even sadder.
Their saddest song, and unfourtunatley true