JOY DIVISION: Unknown Pleasures QWEST 12" LP 33 RPM USA
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Retrospective critical writing on the album has been virtually unanimous in its praise. In 1994, Jon Savage described the music as "a definitive Northern Gothic statement: guilt-ridden, romantic, claustrophobic".[5] Analysing Curtis's work, music journalist Richard Cook remarked in 1983: "sex has disappeared from these unknown pleasures; it is an aftermath of passion where everything's (perhaps) lost".[50] Stuart Maconie of Select deemed Unknown Pleasures "music without a past or a future but with the muscularity of all great rock" and "one of the greatest first albums ever."[47]
Ned Raggett, reviewing the album for AllMusic, described Unknown Pleasures as "All visceral, all emotional, all theatrical, all perfect—one of the best albums ever."[16] Robert Christgau said that it was Curtis's "passionate gravity that makes the clumsy, disquieting music so convincing".[41] Colin Larkin called the music "distinctive and disturbing" in his Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2011), while highlighting "She's Lost Control", where Curtis was "at his most manically arresting".[42] In relation to the remastered re-released album in 2007, the British music magazine NME described the album as "simply one of the best records ever made, and is still powerful enough to floor you 28 years on".[43]
In 2000 it was voted number 249 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[51] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[52]
Peter Hook and The Light have played the Unknown Pleasures album in its entirety on several of their concert tours, and have recorded and released live albums of some of their gigs.[53] Hook also named one of his books Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division in 2012.[54]
In 2019 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the album, several music videos of the tracks were commissioned with critical reception ranging from mediocre to bad saying that they were “completely missing the point of the album”.
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