LemonMirrorSky
War Child
After long having known and enjoyed a lot of New Order's material, I recently decided to get into Joy Division's work after reading somewhere about Ian Curtis' suicide.
Got Unknown Pleasures first. Didn't take too long for me to start enjoying it. Early standouts were Disorder, Day of the Lords, Insight, She's Lost Control, Shadowplay and the non-album single Transmission which I downloaded as as add-on. Candidate and I Remember Nothing took some warming up time. But as early as the second or third run through, I started loving the album in its entirety.
Wasn't the same experience with Closer. Absolutely hated the album after first listen. lol. I don't know how I found the motivation to go back and listen a second time, honestly. I guess the fact that I really loved Unknown Pleasures by this point egged me on. Now after several listens, there are some clear standout tracks in my head: Isolation, A Means To An End, Twenty Four Hours and The Eternal.
I've warmed up to the other tracks as well. I cansee clearly hear clearly and appreciate the repetitive rhythms of Atrocity Exhibition. I have started enjoying the distinct sound of Colony. The atmosphere and stuff going on in the background during Heart and Soul is more memorable now... a track that sounded like a humongous bore initially.
But this process has been long! This is probably the longest I have taken to warm up to any album. I'm amazed at how some music really takes its time to grow on you. I don't know if you need to be in a certain state of mind also to enjoy certain music. Or in a specific geographic place and time. Maybe not but I'm just thinking aloud here. One thing I know from my experience with Closer is that anyone who simply gives up after one listen and finding nothing catchy in it is never going to come back to it. Keeping this is mind, I'm glad I listened to Unknown Pleasures first and NOT Closer. I may have never bothered with JD had I heard Closer first.
Anybody else here with similar thoughts?
Got Unknown Pleasures first. Didn't take too long for me to start enjoying it. Early standouts were Disorder, Day of the Lords, Insight, She's Lost Control, Shadowplay and the non-album single Transmission which I downloaded as as add-on. Candidate and I Remember Nothing took some warming up time. But as early as the second or third run through, I started loving the album in its entirety.
Wasn't the same experience with Closer. Absolutely hated the album after first listen. lol. I don't know how I found the motivation to go back and listen a second time, honestly. I guess the fact that I really loved Unknown Pleasures by this point egged me on. Now after several listens, there are some clear standout tracks in my head: Isolation, A Means To An End, Twenty Four Hours and The Eternal.
I've warmed up to the other tracks as well. I can
But this process has been long! This is probably the longest I have taken to warm up to any album. I'm amazed at how some music really takes its time to grow on you. I don't know if you need to be in a certain state of mind also to enjoy certain music. Or in a specific geographic place and time. Maybe not but I'm just thinking aloud here. One thing I know from my experience with Closer is that anyone who simply gives up after one listen and finding nothing catchy in it is never going to come back to it. Keeping this is mind, I'm glad I listened to Unknown Pleasures first and NOT Closer. I may have never bothered with JD had I heard Closer first.
Anybody else here with similar thoughts?