A cry for help, a hint of anaesthesia has to be one of the greatest opening lines ever.

after listening to Closer for forty years and loving it, the production and music never ceases to amaze me.

There is something so real and hurtfull In Ians voice and words, damn that he had to end his Journey so early.

This Joy song drives me crazy and Stephen Morris's drums are amazing!!!

Joy Division, a group of young men not realizing the masterpieces they were creating with their angst.

This is music from another planet

As a Franz Kafka fan, im gonna say i’m starting to fall in love with Curtis

Estoy físicamente discapacitado por un accidente automovilístico hace 18 años desde entonces, la música es mi apoyo, gracias :-)

This song speaks to me, more than any other. I had a very dysfunctional family like the one he's talking about. It's soul-crushing.

A masterpiece of music and angst. Love it.

What a voice

That bass line...

Un capolavoro sottostimato sia per la purezza del suono sia per il testo intriso di quel esistenzialismo che tanto spaventa le menti ottuse

Immortal song and album 🦇

Joy Division were great!!! They will always be. I just felt for Ian Curtis, so talented ,but yet so tortured. R.I.P. Ian. 💜♥️💜

Superb visual interpretation of JD’s masterpiece. Ian Curtis and Franz Kafka would be proud!😬

No words can really describe; in any case, God bless, thank you- it's as though he gave us permission to confront, admonish all trauma. I remember hearing this for the first time in Kuwait, that for me feels like a century ago.

Beautiful song

Best lyricist ever!

you can’t say he’s a bad songwriter

Ian Curtis worked with alot of children with serious problems and which alot of parents couldnt cope with and put there children into the system and didnt want much too do with them ,songs like colony ,shes lost control ,eternal and many more are about these children .

There are No words to explain how much I Love this Album. The most personal album aff all time.

If only "Unknown Pleasures Reimagined" had just been like this without so much video out of context.

Great and cool hit, I can feel the darkness inside me..

They finally realized that joy division music doesn't need any actors or other bullshit

So love this song.

Such greatness

Best band ever

This song made me read a book.

"That's very good Jack, because, uh, for some people, solitude and isolation can, of itself become a problem." -Stuart Ullman, Kubrick's "The Shining"

I couldn't listen to Closer for a very long time....found it too difficult (family issues, suicide etc....) but i do listen to it when I need to (If that makes sense) the album despite knowing it's a cry for help from Ian is an absolute masterpiece. All four of them are at the zenith of their abilities. A far better album than Unknown Pleasures (and that in it's self is a great album)

In this Colony, like ants, no conscious, but God take you by the hand and make you understand... in this Colony. This is the final act of the individual: Sisyphus: a figure from Greek mythology who, as king of Corinth, became infamous for his general trickery and twice cheating death. He ultimately got his comeuppance when Zeus dealt him the eternal punishment of forever rolling a boulder up a hill in the depths of Hades.

I love you Ian Curtis

Hooky 🤘🏽

awesome!!

This remaster is revelatory. Cheers!

What a beefy song, one of my favs from them. Amazing band and album

Fantastic. 👏👏👏🇧🇷

Esse baixo tão perfeito 🖤

*it's a remarkable machine!*

I screamed this song in the midst of a mental breakdown one time.

Wine is simple trickery, but a wine chalice is often pure wealth. A wise person soon understands to hide their wealth, so they fill their chalices with wine and pass them around for all to sip from. To hide gold, people often fashion it into unrecognizable objects, like keys, chalices, utensils, dishes, and hearts.

very good!!!!

The rhythm in this track is so fuckin class! ⚡️🔥💥🙌

The band needs to be inducted into the RNR Hall of Fame. Rip Ian Curtis.

today, I'm officially in joy

Ótimo vídeo, from Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷 aliás eu estava vendo o filme hoje

💜💜💜

One day you’ll forget to gather your wits, You’ll forget to collect all your sharps. You’ll wane in darkness and drop all your tips, then reside into some murky old harps. -Francis Aodh

just fucking beautiful

*The Fire Upside Down* Gather the knowledge! Leave thy wake! Bind the others! Crash through the gates! Place the fires above the waters. Gather the building mists. The mist is portal, filled with spirits. So communicate your final wish. What is you destination? What is your final desire? What is the wish you serve? To leave thy wake, to gather the knowledge, to crash the gates, and to bind the others! -Francis Sooner

KOOL!

Dark soul, bright brain🤘

It’s not that the world can’t engineer. No. There is only one way to form matter. That is the right way. It’s that the world is socially disappointing.

*Simple Programs* In computer hacking, the term "vampire" is used to describe a security threat that drains a system's resources or steals personal information. Here are some examples of vampire attacks: Vampire attack This attack drains the batteries of wireless sensors by sending the same amount of data as usual, but in a different way. For example, the attack could involve configuring sensors to connect to each other, using data that the sensors are designed to send back, or changing the list of names to make the parcel go in loops. Be informed!

And the masses think Kurt Cobain started angst...try again kids.

A reference perhaps to Kafka's "In the Penal Colony"? (Also referenced in The Mothers of Invention's "We're Only In It For The Money|")

fav JD song

Nice

*The Social Cards* Life is like a card game. Socializing is competitive in nature because we deal with resources, sexuality, labor, and the rules of the game. Competitive games become explosive at times. By eliminating the rule books and selling peace we garnish an angle on the other player's hands.

Paper heyday. Secret metals. Ooooh! I’m scared!

*People may ask why are they alive? What are they doing here? What is life?* The truth is really not that difficult to comprehend. You were summoned here, along with everyone else, by the ancients, to suffer and do labor simply for being less intelligent than them. That is the way and the hierarchy of the universe. If you want to move up you must simply work at it until you surpass their knowledge.

BR🇧🇷 sempre presente!

These guys could have been as big as U2. There I said it.

If push came to shove I would say that Colony is my least favorite track on Closer, but it doesn't mean that I don't like the track, I prefer the peel sessions version more than the album version. The peel one has got a kind of heavy metal vibe to it.

*Defining the Secret Noble Cause* Why are revenge and justice so intertwined with humanity and society? What is the true underlying cause of revenge? After careful consideration one may begin to unravel to the true underlying cause of justice and revenge. Revenge is actually a simple matter. Revenge has to do with the delicate balance of life within the sustainability of nature. This means revenge is about the disruption of wealth and information in both the individual and society as a whole. When wealth and the balance of living (which means the daily provisions and necessities that require labor and thought) in either is disrupted it sparks and requires the act of revenge which is justice. This is the true secret seed of all governmental institutions. -Francis Blake

come to brazil

Masterpíece

I hear so much Jim Morrison in his lyrics

Kafkacore

Would love to hear Thou cover this.

Has this been remastered? (or what) whoa

A cruel wind that bows down to our lunacy

*The Photog* Life is just so complex. This inhuman beehive's hour, a grail, a spirit, and a flower. Why not build the biggest ever, phallic symbol tower? -Francis Blake

*Surreal Justice* Trust the world and you shall reap its rewards. Reality is a modern art movement. Speak honestly and people will love you for it. The vast truth is more twisted, misaligned, gnarled, and formless. Creativity breaks the rules then rearranges them. Integrity in engineering sells products not advertising. Architecture dreams of math. Art is intuitive and automatic.

While "Unknown Pleasures" is my favorite UK post-punk LP I can only listen to "Closer" in its entirety once every two (or three) years. NOT an easy album to take! (Hell, Floyd's "Wall" is a laff-fest compared to "Closer"...)

niiice

What Ian Curtis did in his twenties takes most people to reach their fifties or older to understand

*Are Demons Real?* "Separating the Light from the Dark" Are demons real, or do they just exist as metaphors? The answer to both questions is yes. The reason is simple. One simply asks the question, "does art imitate life or does life imitate art?" When creating a work of art or poetry or a story one first begins to ascribe a list of traits, color schemes, animals, characteristics, situations, even numbers that fit and follow the creation of one's demon or devil as a character or subject. These traits exist as real in the world, therefore demons and devils are real simply because the world and people carry these traits and characteristics. When one identifies with a character such as a Devil it is empowering those traits in oneself and changes a person as they begin to surround themselves with these aspects and it grows exponentially make these traits more real. Evil is immortal simply because one cannot take this list of traits and eliminate them from the world. They are intertwined in mankind and nature and will exist forever. -Francis Blake

...and all because,Ian Curtis.😢

Just a brutal album... All the songs set you up for twenty four hours ... then it's over ...

*Why is harmony dangerous?* "Gunpowders and Portals" Harmony is fire. Fire is harmony. It is the binding element of two distant polarities. Harmony is the act of creation and it is destructive to those of a lesser consciousness. All things in the universe are conscious on a grand separating scale. Mankind has only a few fires and fires are also a portal. There are other conscious elements in the universe that create harmony, thus binding two separate entities in a scale of polarity unavailable to mankind, in their alternate state they create a doorway or portal. If two entities are bound together by another, their separation can create instability which can be explosive in nature.

I’M JUST KIDDING!!!!

If We are to be Divided by Joy-I choose the path to New Order

Anyone else hear purple Haze in the beginning

Στην λευκη με αγαπη αλεξανδρος 1991 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

*The Witch Expression* Mirna's mind is an icy battle calling forth all sorts, all people, dicey demons, angels, agents, to drive upon her enemy. She's sitting cross-legged on the floor, her expression is fated blank. There's someone she can't quite explain, project up high to overthrow. Then society closes in, she's withdrawn to a witch battle so she's lost in scatterbrains, as a limply laying expression. -Aldec the Alchemist, Nib C-2

🤟💀🥀🏴‍☠️💘

*Why do some people suffer attacks and some don't?* "Bilbo's Ring or Dagda Mor* This has to do partially with a shared proximity in the Astral Planes. A common attacker needs to feel two things before an attack. These are sympathy or empathy. When a person resides in a higher (lower numbered) plane they tend to slip through unseen like Bilbo wearing Sauron's ring of power. Though most people tend to travel through several Planes it is when they cross over or leave that they are the most vulnerable to a physical attack, thus if a person is working on a transcendental understanding and leaving a certain Plane they are more susceptible to being noticed because the Plane is being disturbed. The only way to kill a god is to set a course for their physical body with the understanding that one is less. This makes it a rare hunting to kill a transcendental being. When they say God and Satan are locked in battle forever people wonder why they aren't just killed in society. This is how they slip through mostly unseen. The same theory applied to a sexual death which most deny because of common definitions. An example of this is the simple spell for wiping rifles with assaetofida and saying the esoteric spell that makes rifles discharge funny like seen in the Salem Witch Trials. It provides a sort of simple baptism in an esoteric definition that cause rifles to miss, though it is a weaker spell and can go wrong. -Aldec the Foul

*The Secret Key to Alchemy and Mysticism* "Kickstarting Nature's Draw Through Complexity" The key to all alchemy is deceiving but not hard to fashion. The ancients believed that they could summon gods and spirits through complexity. They used the secret corridors of metalsmithing to create complex objects like grails to conduct their ritual practices. Not only did they summon the gods but they brought about the generation of the birth and death of all humans by summoning them from the Celestial into the Earth. They believed in immortality and religious philosophy such as reincarnation, but this is only revealed through becoming a metalsmith, as one would fulfill their summoning and hold the keys to returning to a Celestial realm. The point is the summon all of humanity and trap them on earth indefinitely making them gods. The mysticism in alchemy further covers this up but dangles its key. Here one may interpret the woodcuts of artist like "William Blake." This lies in the vast tradition of "Creation" which is really the inspiration of complexity unto other creative acts. The Greek created men with iron, the Devil taught men originally to metalsmith in times way before Genesis, and the Pythagoreans locked men into a "Wheel of Rebirth" in mathematics whereby the alchemists were closest to the truth of all things. The draw of nature unto Celestial Beings without artistic endeavors is weak. The alchemists sought to multiply this draw through the ultimate complexity which would have been the transmutation of base metals, thus summoning greater beings into a cycle of birth and death whereby they would hold the keys. "As above, so below" Note* The Caduceus in alchemic traditions is another sort of taunting mystery by which the alchemists mock the uninitiated by which the truly wealthy live a life without labor closer to the reality of Earth. People without the keys to alchemy seek the opportunity of a life without labor and enriched without chemical addictions in the truth of the pineal gland and the spiritual. It is only here the keys to the complexity of the metalsmith become revealed in society. The Ouroboros is the social result of this kind of power, much like described in the Greek philosophy of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. It is interesting that the final proof of the alchemic world and, thus immortality, is related to the discovery of one's prior identities in rebirth and also their knowledge of origin Celestial origins that allows for the eye to awaken in next-life possibilities. The substance of the mind becomes more easily worked in Karmic physics unto new births. Who am I, so to speak? Am I Roger bacon, Nicholas Flamel, and where have I been? This is partially revealed in the poetic talents of automatic writing unaided in one's youth that brings evidence of past intelligence, though without name like a mask. -Jeremy Nienow "You say it's your birthday? It's my birthday, too...": -The Beatles Earth is the biggest party that ever existed. The entire Celestial universe will be affected, forever. Any final battle or Armageddon will simply further justify its cause through the desire of all good beings.

the 2020 remastered is not on CD?

Near perfect album.

*The Black Bishop* "A Competitive Genesis of the Mysteries" At the end of all knowledge lies the place nobody like to go to. It is the end that justified the beginning. It completes the circle in a recurring idiocy. It is the artistic drop-off point, supposedly so intelligent that it has become irrelevant is a state of mind as warped as it inception. Here it is, the end of all knowledge and ambition as twisted as a Lovecraftian portal. There are two immortals. There are those who complete the way of knowledge and those who never attempt it. Writing wisdom is no easy task, while reading it can be. One reads grimoires or religious works and doesn't realize they have human authors working at that level. They often cheapen down their writing to affect a broader audience, but pickling up a pen at that level is nearly impossible. How does one begin to write a manual that holds the keys to all religious knowledge? How does one create a religious following the size of traditional religions? I can only give pity to the layman who tries without a vast interpretation under their belt. Grimoires promise these secrets but are often deadly and seen as poison, still they are religious works written by some human interpretation. "Herein, lie all the mysteries, but be warned, for they are threefold in their recurrences!" "As above, so below." -Thoth 1. The end justifies the means. The means justify themselves. These are the two to legal extremes. 2. Two for the makers, one for the fools. Here lies the birth of math and economics. 3. The more you know, the less you show. This especially concerns those who dream. 4. Help to keep the mysteries, for those under them bring treasures. 5. I summon thee for wine, and from wine you are summoned. This concerns the true birth of Jesus. 6. A screen is a screen, no matter how high or how low. A screen is a calling. It screens out those below. As high as the stars or under the dirt, a screen is complexity that those under shall work. This concerns ambition and drive in men, which the true purpose and form of Creation. 7. A man who sees only a mirror sees only himself in others. Instead, make the mirror in all its forms. The you will see the other, though owning a man will sometimes send him to the healers, especially when you look at him and he doesn't notice. This is the key to miracles. 8. Females are born of Lilith. They only generate to the lesser. 9. A god is made of paper and reeds. It is here by which they summon the spirits. 10. "As above, so below" has to do with the digestion of information which requires relaxed humility. Christianity tried to monopolize it through humility to the Bible, thus imparting torture to millions. -Francis Blake

Paragon post-punk.

I’ve spent the last 39 years thinking the lyrics were radically different

*What is true meaning of harmony in the Yin and Yang?* First, here, we must understand the dangers of peace and tranquility, especially in political control and magic. Tranquility is the pure appropriation of truth and power and magic. Tranquility is pure evil. It is when evil takes it one step further and peace begins to reign across the land whole they hold the power. One can only witness its clarity through transcending its achievement. Then one understands its true danger. Magic is achieved through the clarity and truth of the mind in the vast interconnectedness. One only achieves tranquility and peace after the battle for the truth is completed. The true harmony in yin and yang is the appropriation of this power, truth, and magic. It is where one achieves the truth of magic through chaotic witness, then uses it to create tranquility in an everlasting machine of truth. The more one witnesses chaos, especially in the interconnectedness of nature, the more they create tranquility through the truth. It also works in reversal where one witnesses tranquility and avoids its dangers by creating chaos. It is sometimes important to define the specific types of chaos one is after. These can include miracles, superstition, climbs into power, even weather which are then bound by understanding in clarity. A greater authority restores peace and tranquility to the land, but peace is deception. It is when there is no room for growth or battle and everyone is under complete control. -Francis Sooner

"Joy." Yeah, That's all the comment.

*Discordia* "Restoring the Bow's Tension" "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of God" Matt: 5 Firstly, what is the true nature of interconnectedness, or the "Force" if you will? The nature of the Force is to restore balance. When one proponent is up, it is the Force's nature to return it down. Therefore, when people feel unequal they strive for equality, sometimes through war and violence or perhaps, through achievement and grandeur. Violence, crime, and racial inequality are a proponent of nature. It would be an unnatural abomination for there to be one humanity that always gets along. Instead, nature breeds diversity and conflict in order to hide any justification of harmony. When one strives for peace it is an action written against the very natural course of life itself. Peace and harmony and unity are a never-ending battle that can never be won. Instead, one achieves true harmony through an understanding of discord. When the world has an illusion of harmony the possibility of violent retaliation grows exponentially like a balance filled rocks that is heavy on one side. The more people who embrace a constant discord, thus, the more harmony the world achieves. Likewise, a man who is poor in spirit may not feel the need for ambition because he is already equal. -Aldec

"What do you do?" "I'm a writer." "So, you sell impossible hope to poor people and bury the truth for yourself?" "No. As a scribe I am considered a god by the laws of Thoth." 'That seems sort of evil." "They don't call them 'goods and services' for nothing. People who work the land and even wealthy landowners pretend to a sort of evil whereby they transcend "good" but evil is really an aspect of the truth. Often the wealthy mistake religion and fiction as hope for poor people because they would experience evil for themselves. This however, is not true." "Okay. So what is the truth?" "The truth is the trail of the scribe and the writer by which he discovers the vast argument and holds his conjecture until it is so relevant it lives on forever. First, one must discover the arguments. Only then can one realize their place in it."

*Muggles on the Shelf* You woke up as a muggle in a vast witchcraft war. You may as well say that 9 out of 10 muggles agree there is no witchcraft while you're fighting off the spells. Do you want to know what "Muggle" really means? It means you lost the witchcraft war, buddy.