divisions

Unknown Pleasures
$14.98
I don't know where to start on here, with such an album, which will take you places no other album I know of can possibly do, the way it sounds. It will tap into your darkness and POSSIBLY clarify it; Joy Division before this had made one superb album which was never released, the "Warsaw" LP; after this they would do the highly overrated Closer album; this is their pinnacle.

It's a shame that no lyrics come with this CD: "I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand" "there's no room for the weak...where will it end?" "I remember, when we were young" "I try to get to you, you treat me like this"

None of these lyrics, as great as they are, do justice on paper; they need to be heard when matched up with the incredible, atmospheric music and its absolutely superb production.

Ian Curtis' voice never sounded better to me than on Day Of The Lords, although his yearning forlorn voice on Insight is wonderful (not afraid anymore? he sounds very afraid)

This album is a trip into the darkness, of depression, of rejection, despair, and other feelings which may make more straight-forward rock-oriented fans of music dismiss it without even listening, but I am one of those mostly-rock fans primarily, and absolutely love this album; overall I do prefer side A to side B (which I think was labeled Inside and Outside on my old vinyl, hard to remember).

I recommend this highly as I can, and then would say get the MP3s of Warsaw, that's more straight-ahead "punk", sort of. (Some great songs on there are All Of This For You, They Walked In Line, and Ice Age; the version of Ice Age on Still cannnot even come close or compare)
Atmosphere and Dead Souls are two songs I need to get again, and probably will very soon!

Everything everybody is saying about the greatness of this album is true;
it's incredible.

It helps you get in touch with your repressed sad feelings, and for this sole reason I am not too sure how I would recommend it for anyone dangerously depressed already; they'd be better off with some early Stiff Little Fingers or something else to give them hope, which may not necessarily be found on here.

Nevertheless, a totally SUPERB album; a masterpiece.

Oh yeah --and I HATE Goth. This album is not "goth", it in fact really defies classification, I feel. Except as an enduring, timeless masterpiece.

Divisions
$19.95
Casini Division. By the twenty-fourth century technology has changed many humans into almost Gods. However, a dispute between the humans and the post-humans devastate the planet. The post-humans move off planet but hostilities remain high as a cold war continues though most of the open hostiles have somewhat abated. In that climate, the Casini Division that protects earth plans an assault to eradicate the Post-humans who pose a threat from space. Spaceship Commander Ellen May Ngewthu of the Casini Division seeks an alliance with the interstellar colony New Mars before the post-humans can do so.

Sky Road. In the twentieth century former Communist American expatriate Myra Godwin-Davidova leads her tiny high-tech socialist paradise while others want to conquer it. Her only hope to protect her people lies in obsolete nuclear weapons hidden years ago in the planet's Earth orbit. Several centuries later Clovis colha Gree lives in a utopian world in which violence is non existent; the rustic community fears electronic devices as they remember what happened during the Fall that some insist it was the Deliverance. Now the scientific tinkers are constructing a controversial spaceship; the first since Maya had to decide nuclear war or not.

This is a reprint of the "The Second Half of The Fall Revolution" published in the mid 1990s. Each entry is fast-paced, but focuses on a dismal future for mankind that is cleverly tied back to the politics of the late twentieth century although some might detest the clearly Anti-American stance. The tales are well written with the military battles in space incredibly vivid and the key cast members coming across as fully developed. Although it pays to at least read THE STONE CANAL before this pair of novels, fans will appreciate the dark science fiction thrillers CASINI DIVISION and SKY ROAD.

Harriet Klausner

Heart and Soul
$64.98
This is absolutely one of the best catalogs I've heard in years. A must for any Joy Division fan. Cannot say enough great things about this collection. Do yourself a favor and get this catalog!!!

Joy Division (The Miriam Collection)
$24.95
Apart from the significant absence of Curtis's wife, this is about as full a report on the genesis,productivity and impact of this Manchester band. Even those who aren't devotees of this bleak, funereal chanting will discover something triumphant in the story. Far from superceeding Corbin's re-creation of the life and times with his beautifully haunting film,Control, I reckon it makes a wonderful companion piece. Further,the quality, the cutting, the drama in both, are so eloquently stated that its likely you'll be up for viewing the two in tandem.