Joy DivisionBest Joy Division Albums Ranked
8.5
Avg Score
17
Opinions
11
Albums
5
Reviewers
Summary from 17 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Joy Division's catalog across 11 albums from 17 opinions, with an overall average of 8.5/10. The top-rated Joy Division album is Closer (Collector's Edition) (1980) with a 8.9/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master) and The Peel Sessions. The discography on Wavelength spans 1979 to 1991. Love Will Tear Us Apart ranks as the highest-rated Joy Division song on Wavelength with a 10.0/10 average.
Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master)
“Tied to a film-related renewed interest in the band, Joy Division's three formative, formidable works get cleaned up and reissued in deluxe form.”
Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master)
“The music of Joy Division – an art-minded English postpunk band that initially struck reviewers as a tuneful version of PiL – sets forth an even more indelible vision of gloom. In fact, it’s a vision so steeped in deathly fixations that it proved fatal: on May 18th, 1980, the group’s lead singer and lyricist, […]”
Closer (Collector's Edition)
“Johnny Rotten was one of the few terrific antiheroes rock & roll has ever produced: a violent-voiced bantam of a boy who tried to make sense of popular culture by making it suffer the world outside — its moral horror, its self-impelled violation, its social homicide. By contrast, John Lydon — who rose from the […]”
The Best of Joy Division
“Of couse the music's fantastic, but if we actually needed another Joy Division compilation, why not an expanded version of the purposeful singles collection Substance, or at least the British Best of, which included a second disc of Peel Sessions?”
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