Closer (Joy Division)

Closer is the second and last album of new wave group Joy Division released. It is a dark album from 1980 .

Joy Division, which from 1977 to 1980 and was the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis was raised, has made ​​two studio albums. The first album Unknown Pleasures in 1979 and Closer album from 1980 . In Closer was greater use of synthesizers and studio effects. The band members of Joy Division had promised each other to release the tape when one of them would die. After Curtis' death, the band was so lifted. The other members have continued making music, but under the band name New Order .

Closer will be a farewell album of Ian Curtis seen. Curtis writes in this album, which has very little to no optimism, his personal problems aside. The singer suffered fromepilepsy and depression and wrote in this album on these themes. The album was issued after Curtis on May 18 1980 hanged. In the United Kingdom achieved this album 6th in the UK Albums Chart.

Closer is still considered a classic. In kink FM's Top 100 album of all time this album ends often high, as Unknown Pleasures .

Content

 * 1 Tracklist
 * 1.1 Side 1
 * 1.2 Ready 2
 * 2 Musicians
 * 3 External links

Side 1 [ edit ]

 * 1) Atrocity Exhibition
 * 2) Isolation
 * 3) Passover
 * 4) Colony
 * 5) A Means to an End

Side 2 [ edit ]

 * 1) Heart and Soul
 * 2) Twenty Four Hours
 * 3) The Eternal
 * 4) Decades

[Musicians edit ]

 * Ian Curtis - Singing
 * Bernard Summer - guitar, synthesizer
 * Peter Hooke - Bass
 * Stephen Morris - Drums