Playlouder - Music is the Network

There are some bands who really only got it together with a few songs, and JD is one of them. Quite a lot of their music is in my view fumbling - interesting to a historian looking for the seeds of the fleeting greatness they attained, but mostly unlistenable.

heh

I like Joy Division covers

cover versions

I dislike their album covers

what - live the souvenir duvet?

s/live/like/

you been spying on me?

you missed 'She's lost Control' off that list, Alex

ok fair point

I could go back and add it

ut people may see this chat

I also personally think Love Will Tear Us Apart is good, but overrated

no - you are wrong

not to the same extent as fucking 'Imagine' (Which is both terrible and overrated)

people like it the most because it hasa melody, which they didn't often manage

but overrated nonetheless

nope

still wrong

what do you think of it, paul?

it's underrated

oh hello Mr Curtis

it oculdn't be much more highly rated, surely?

didn't see you ther

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lots of people like it because it's a little bit pop

nice of hi to contribute

nly if it was rated as highly as imagine

yes

Suzanna and her Magical Orchestra covered it - you know you've arrived when that happened

it doesn't figure at the top of many 'best songs of all time' lists

but is it THAT good?

we were discussing how highly rated it is

not whether being highly rated is good

Is it, for example, as good as 'In a big country' by Big Country?

oh

it's rated pretty damn highly

most highly rated songs of the 80s

but surely things are accuratel rated according to goodness

off the top of my head

I know things I write about are

anyway

a best of jd is a very good idea - as good as it was last time they did it

and the time beofre

indeed

can't have too much of a good thing

Apart from possibly cake

and beer

but you can have too much of a variable quality thing - hence best ofs

Steely Dan were always high quality - so a best of is a good thing for a different reason

like not having to choose shampoo

(not the band)

(who really don't warrant a best of)

no

There's people like Smog, and Mogwai that i'd really like a best-of of

because they released so much it's difficult to know where to start

oh, and bloody Yo La Tengo

Yo la bloody tengo

yes

I'd like a best-of of Tom Waits

please

aah yes, me too

we should get someone who knows about him to compile one

Cormac Heron does I think

if we had tom waits music on playlouder, someone could do a playlist

i might do a 'best of electrelane'

aah

invite him!

oh, you already did

I like a band with irony in their name. Used to be a time when I held a special place in my heart for 'da Division' but you can see where I'm going with this as the emos came along and ruined that for me, too.

i think closer is a pretty magnificent collection of songs myself.

it's the 30th greatest alternative album ever

I don't need 30 albums in my life. I've already got 12

is definately maybe at number 1?

definitely not

see what I did there?

Velvet Underground. Plus JoyDiv have 2 in there - one top ten - which my unaquiline eye missed before

an uneagle would presumably be something like a naked mole rat