Fun Music Information -> Joy Division
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Music Jokes:
How did Ian Curtis's mother get Joy Division to stop practising? Flick the lights on and off. Submitted by: LucidLupin
| Sumner: Coming down to the pub then, Ian? Curtis: Nah, think I'll just hang around here. Submitted by: LucidLupin
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Band Name Origins:
- The band started in 1977, after the Sex Pistols played their first gig in Manchester. Guitarist Bernard Albrecht and bassist Peter Hook met while at the show and later formed Stiff Kittens; they placed an ad through a Manchester record store for a singer, and so added Ian Curtis and drummer Steve Brotherdale. Renamed Warsaw [from David Bowie's "Warszawa"], they made their live debut the May after, supporting both Buzzcocks and Penetration at Manchester's Electric Circus. They recorded several demos, then Brotherdale quit the group in August 1977, so came Stephen Morris. The name change to Joy Division in 1977 [because a punk band called 'Warsaw Pakt' existed already] was inspired by the World War II novel, Karol Cetinsky's "The House of Dolls". [In her book, the term "joy division" is used as slang for concentration camps where female inmates were forced to prostitute themselves for the Nazi soldiers]. Submitted by: +samantha+
- The Joy Division was the corps of young women kept in the camp for the pleasure of Nazi officers on leave. Partly due to the name, Joy Division (and later New Order) often had problems with Nazi accusations spreading around in the press. These both puzzled and angered the band, and they did not wish to dignify them with a reply. Far from containing Nazi propaganda, their lyrics preach quite the contrary message. Many other punk bands used much more direct Nazi symbolism with much less press comment. Submitted by: ank
Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | Comments & Submittor Name |
| "Love Will Keep Us Together" | "Love Will Tear Us Apart," Joy Division | And the debate continues. - Jack Ruby Keeler |
Song Parodies:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "Love Will Tear Us Apart" | "Never Work At Wal-Mart Again" | Agrimorfee |
| "Transmission" | "Emissions" | Jim A |
| "Love Will Tear Us Apart" | "Shrub Will Take Us To War" | Jim A |
Bad Choices for On Hold Music:
Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
| She's Lost Control | Bladder Specialist, MD. | Jason C. Reeher |
Duets Not Yet Performed:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| Muskrat Love Captain&Tennille | Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division | Muskrat Love Will Tear Us Apart Maybe things aren't going so well with Muskrat Suzy and Muskrat Sam. | KooKooDee |
| Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division | Never Tear Us Apart INXS | Love Will Never Tear Us Apart I'm surprised no one's thought of this yet.. | **** |
| Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division | Love Will Keep Us Together The Captain and Tennille | Will Love Tear Us Apart Or Keep Us Together? | Hannah M |
If Groups Combined, Their Names Might Be :
The Mighty Clouds of Joy Division
The Mighty Clouds of Joy combined with Joy Division
Uplifting and depressing at the same time.
Submitted By: Christian
Misheard Lyrics:
"Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Misheard Lyrics: When Richard bites hard
Original Lyrics: When routine bites hard
| "something must break"
Misheard Lyrics: i fought for one, took sides for both
Original Lyrics: i paused for one whom signs forbode
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"means to an end"
Misheard Lyrics: stranger ways, frozen pipes OR stranger ways, frozen pies
Original Lyrics: stranger ways, the lows and highs
| "Isolation"
Misheard Lyrics: Each day I'm divorcing your mum
Original Lyrics: Painstaking devotion and love
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| There are additional misheard lyrics available. | |
Misheard Lyrics Story:
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"Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh buttery tart,
and a-fishing we go. Original Lyrics: When routine bites hard,
and ambitions are low. |
Story about this misheard lyric by: Paul Golds Lent a copy of the album to a friend, who then wrote back to me asking why he was singing about fishing, and what was a buttery tart anyway? |
Song Parody Fragments:
"Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Better Lyrics:
Lev...Level Terrace Apart-a-ments
Original Lyrics:
Love...Love will tear us apart, again
Submitted by: nally
Super Long Pop Songs:
"The Eternal" Length: 6:04
A slow, creepy song
Submitted by: Ra'akone
Upbeat Songs With Depressing Lyrics:
"Love Will Tear Us Apart"
The Lyrics: When the routine bites hard and ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high but emotions won't grow And we're changing our ways, taking different roads Then love, love will tear us apart again Why: The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory, and the most remarkable thing about this song in general is the poppiness of the music—in general, Joy Division's songs are very gloomy.
Submitted by: Cat
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