From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V1 #82 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Friday, December 13 2002 Volume 01 : Number 082 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:02:11 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Joy Division and Smiths vs Bunnymen > Any 10 would do, really, but I guess you would have to include the singles > Love Will Tear Us Apart, Atmosphere, She's Lost Control and Transmission, > then some other album tracks (put Failures or Ice Age right next to > Atmosphere to show the band's diversity) I've never gotten "Love Will Tear Us Apart." I *know* it's a huge favourite, but .... She's Lost Control, Transmission, and Failures all yeah -- Transmission is a must. New Dawn Fades, Means To An End, Isolation, Passover, Disorder, Day Of The Lords, No Love Lost, Warsaw, No Love Lost, The Eternal. _Closer_ is a heartbreaking exercise in self-destruction. I could pick *almost* anything off it to show the devastation, pain, and sheer fatigue in Curtis' voice. But I definitely think "Transmission" is more archetypical of Joy Division than "Love Will Tear Us Apart." ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:05:15 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Joy Division and Smiths vs Bunnymen > She's Lost Control, Transmission, and Failures all yeah -- Transmission > is a must. New Dawn Fades, Means To An End, Isolation, Passover, Disorder, > Day Of The Lords, No Love Lost, Warsaw, No Love Lost, The Eternal. Whoops! Can you tell I like "No Love Lost?" "Colony" or "Twenty Four Hours." The definitive noose music. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:00:36 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: Re: seven-seas Joy Division and Smiths vs Bunnymen To me, the song Decades is their ultimate statement. I've heard it a few times recently again and it is the most harrowing piece of music ever recorded. I consider that their Ocean rain. The last song on their last album that ended an era of unsurpassed greatness. Although I do love New Order and all the comeback EATB albums to death. There are some songs on the Cure's Faith and Pornography that are really close in the eerie department. Drowning man, and the Figurehead are good examples. You can tell Curtis's death had a huge stranglehold on the collective consciousness and well being of the post-punk nation. OMD's second album Organisation has a stunner on it too, the song is Statues, one of the most eerie Euro, melancholic synth dirge I have ever heard since Closer, funny it appears on none of their best of albums, but they said that album was inspired by Ian's death, and to me it's their greatest song. A companion to Decades. Andrew - --- Amy Moseley Rupp wrote: > > Any 10 would do, really, but I guess you would > have to include the singles > > Love Will Tear Us Apart, Atmosphere, She's Lost > Control and Transmission, > > then some other album tracks (put Failures or Ice > Age right next to > > Atmosphere to show the band's diversity) > > I've never gotten "Love Will Tear Us Apart." I > *know* it's a huge favourite, > but .... > > She's Lost Control, Transmission, and Failures all > yeah -- Transmission > is a must. New Dawn Fades, Means To An End, > Isolation, Passover, Disorder, > Day Of The Lords, No Love Lost, Warsaw, No Love > Lost, The Eternal. > > _Closer_ is a heartbreaking exercise in > self-destruction. I could > pick *almost* anything off it to show the > devastation, pain, and > sheer fatigue in Curtis' voice. > > But I definitely think "Transmission" is more > archetypical of Joy Division > than "Love Will Tear Us Apart." > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:08:13 -0500 From: "Nate Vanden Brook" Subject: Re: seven-seas Joy Division and Smiths vs Bunnymen > Also, anyone care to chime in on what 10 Joy Division songs would > have be > included in an album or hypothetical show, to give the best > representation > of what that band was all about? 1. The Version of Atmosphere from Disk 3 of the Boxed set (if you have not heard this check it out! It's Fucking amazing!) 2. Isolation 3. Interzone 4.WIlderness 5. The Eternal 6. Warsaw 7.No Love Lost 8. Trasmission 9.Failures 10. Dead Souls ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:10:53 -0500 From: "Nate Vanden Brook" Subject: Re: seven-seas Joy Division and Smiths vs Bunnymen > Whoops! Can you tell I like "No Love Lost?" It's ok Amy that has to be one of their best songs ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 10:11:58 -0500 From: "Nate Vanden Brook" Subject: Re: seven-seas Joy Division and Smiths vs Bunnymen > I've never gotten "Love Will Tear Us Apart." I *know* it's a huge favourite, > but .... What has always done it for me w/ that song is the Line "A Bitter Taste in my mouth. As Desperation Takes holds." ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:17:29 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: Re: seven-seas Bobbleheads Any chance that Bobbleheads will enter the domain of rock music? I don't know about you , but I wouldn't mind seeing a Morrissey or Mac bobblehead under the X-mas tree. Andrew Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:37:43 -0500 From: "Henry Biedenkapp" Subject: seven-seas Joy Division I love all the Joy Division songs. But the one that always stand out in my mind is "Shadowplay". There is not one dud in their studio oeuvre. Live is another story. Henry _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V1 #82 *******************************