Best Joy Division Songs

Love Will Tear Us apart is the best post-punk song ever, and one of the best singles of all time.

Stands as one of the best rock songs of all time. I would then go with Atmosphere and Transmission. So original.

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).

Through the years, maybe till the day I'm 70 years old this song will still haunt me.

The bass and drum combined are electrifying, and Ian Curtis delivers his trademark haunting baritone vocals with fast-paced hooks.

So sad, so haunting, so atmospheric, so nostalgic, with so many feelings feelings feelings feelings!

Love that song, it reminds me of stuff. Now the stuff are dead and gone but music remains beautiful

One of my all time favourites, along with "They Walked In Line", "Atmosphere".

A poetic recount of life's futility and inequity; Curtis pulls Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" from the silence.

Dark and ere, one of the greatest songs ever crafted. - Quart

Such a dark and heavy track. Love the guitar melody and tone.
Turn the lights out and drift away - LostinSonics

Few songs manage to transmit so much feelings like this one, truly the best song of Joy Division

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)

Prefer the cover by Moby and New Order, but this song is still amazing. - PositronWildhawk

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.

Obviously love will tear us apart is the biggest hit, and it's a really good tune but transmission is my favourite toon for sure

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

I can only understate how much I like this song. There isn't a word good enough to describe it. RIP Ian. - PinkflASHES

In my humble opinion the greatest song of all time, haunting, timeless, brilliant.

Totally moving and chillingly beautiful.

This is just beautiful in every way 👍 - Latestarter2

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.

This is a theme song to when I lose control, again.

It is like Kurt's "Lithium", not greatest but the best, for sure.

A happy, upbeat sounding song with depressing lyrics, I like it.

It can make me cry...

This is one of, if not my favorite Joy Division song. I think it's very underrated.

This is definitely one my favorite joy division songs as it is so well constructed- very underrated in my opinion

Love to play this at full volume in my car with windows down and scare people with its dark majesty...

Amazing

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.

What I would give to hear a clear full recording of ian curtis on vocals, and uncover the lyrics if the lost first verse

Listen to the original new order version, and the two live joy division recordings, add ian curtis' voice to the song and you will see the greatest song never recorded,

If only the mic didn't fail in the first verse

Ere and dark, with those bells it makes this track atmospheric and outstanding. - Quart

Intrigating and dark. Just beautiful

"This is the room, the start of it all..."

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.

Public Image LTD totally ripped this sound on Metal Box

I put my trust in you

Slow, atmospheric, and depressing. This song is what got be into Joy Division.

'No words could explain, no actions determine,
Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall. '
dear god

THE BEST DARK LYRICS I'VE EVER LISTENED.
MINUTES AWAY FROM COLD AND DEATH
THE BEST SONG

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

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.

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

The best

Full of powerful rusty chords and great duo of Peter Hook and Ian Curtis vocals

All time favorite. Beautiful.

This song is Ian saying the "live life to it's fullest" propoganda given out by society so you
Go out and use its facilities instead of saying safely indoors.

Classic post-punk hymn where you already guess the roots of New Order later works. It's also one of the most accessible to the ears of the general public. - n00w

Delivers a harsh, militaristic vibe, definitely one of my favourites.