What is the most depressing Joy Division song?

[scottcsmith]

Poll question: What is the most depressing Joy Division song?

Which Joy Division song is the most depressing?

[Intelsucks]

1. The album "Closer" is just too damned freaky

Can you say suicide note?

[Fenris]

2. I don't find any of those depressing

"Atmosphere" is one of the saddest things ever written.

ON EDIT: I give you the lyrics

Walk in silence,
Don't walk away, in silence.
See the danger,
Always danger,
Endless talking,
Life rebuilding,
Don't walk away.

Walk in silence,
Don't turn away, in silence.
Your confusion,
My illusion,
Worn like a mask of self-hate,
Confronts and then dies.
Don't walk away.

People like you find it easy,
Naked to see,
Walking on air.
Hunting by the rivers,
Through the streets,
Every corner abandoned too soon,
Set down with due care.
Don't walk away in silence,
Don't walk away.

[scottcsmith]

6. Yeah, I forgot that one

Listening to it right now. Immediately sent chills down my spine.

Joy Division doesn't depress me, exactly, but when I was really into them back in the late 1980s I was very depressed, so I really identified with Ian Curtis' lyrics.

Now that I'm 35 and have had to struggle with mental illness, I came to realize that the album "Closer" is the musical equivalent of a psychotic episode. If someone ever asks me what it's like to have a psychotic episode, I'll say "Give 'Closer' a listen."

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. Yeah. Atmosphere, or maybe Decades

[wysi]

3. Not depressing as such...

... but honest, a window to the soul.

[ixion]

4. Digital

Digital
Feel it closing in, feel it closing in
A fear of whom I call,
hearing someone call
I feel it closing in, I feel it closing in
Day in, day out (6)

I feel it closing in,
As patterns seem to form
I feel it cold and warm
As shadows start to fall
I feel it closing in, I feel it closing in
Day in, day out (5)

I'd have the world to just see
whatever happens to my decorum
And then just fade away
I see you fade away, don't ever fade away
I need you here today
Don't ever fade away (4)
Fade away (7)



Joy Division is one of the greatest bands of all time.

[Whitacre D_WI]

5. We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chambers.

Pushed to the limit, we bribed ourselves in.
Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying.
We saw ourselves now as we never have seen.



I picked "Decades." Though "Atrocity Exhibition" is pretty fucked-up, too.

[asthmaticeog]

7. I voted for 24 Hours

Excercise One is some pretty raw horror distilled onto vinyl, but it's not really depressing as such, just royally messed up and creepy. A Means To An End would be a pretty strong contender, too.

[Rick Myers]

8. All of Them!!!

:evilgrin:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

9. Beat me to it...

Gotta be quick around here these days.

[mitchum]

10. "Atmosphere"

[Colin Ex]

11. Joy Division sucks.

:-)

-C

[asthmaticeog]

13. All right! FLAMEWAR!

:evilgrin: