Comments on: Unknown Pleasures or Closer? http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/05/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/ Music and culture, mostly. Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:40:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: me http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/05/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/comment-page-1/#comment-73395 me Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:45:24 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/04/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/#comment-73395 Funnily enough I've never warmed to Atmosphere and really don't get on with the video! Funnily enough I’ve never warmed to Atmosphere and really don’t get on with the video!

]]> By: exc1t3r http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/05/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/comment-page-1/#comment-73142 exc1t3r Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:23:40 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/04/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/#comment-73142 "Unknown Pleasures" is really cool and stuff, but "Closer" is much stronger lyrically. Still - "Atmosphere" is the greatest. Especially with the video. Absolute perfection. “Unknown Pleasures” is really cool and stuff, but “Closer” is much stronger lyrically. Still – “Atmosphere” is the greatest. Especially with the video. Absolute perfection.

]]> By: 11V http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/05/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/comment-page-1/#comment-250 11V Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:39:20 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/04/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/#comment-250 Heh, well we agree on 50% of that then... I was listening to Low on the way into work today and loving it - the A side that is, it's the B side I'm less keen on, I just don't find those synth textures gripping enough, but then I was never a fan of Tangerine Dream, which it slightly reminds me of. Actually it's just Warszawa and Art Decade -I love New Career in a New Town, Weeping Wall and Subterraneans. Heh, well we agree on 50% of that then… I was listening to Low on the way into work today and loving it – the A side that is, it’s the B side I’m less keen on, I just don’t find those synth textures gripping enough, but then I was never a fan of Tangerine Dream, which it slightly reminds me of. Actually it’s just Warszawa and Art Decade -I love New Career in a New Town, Weeping Wall and Subterraneans.

]]> By: Gutta http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/05/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Gutta Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:29:01 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/04/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/#comment-249 'Closer' ...and 'Low' ;-) ‘Closer’

…and ‘Low’

;-)

]]> By: 11V http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/05/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/comment-page-1/#comment-234 11V Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:24:16 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2006/04/04/unknown-pleasures-or-closer/#comment-234 Another thing I was struck by in the overview of Saville's work was how fortunate he was to have had a band like Joy Division to design for. The commissioners of his later work are just not of their calibre - the quote makes it clear that he's aware of this. The marriage of the brilliance of the visual and the musical is what ultimately makes the work transcendant. No amount of clever, even brilliant design for the likes of Suede, Gay Dad or - sadly - New Order will ever achieve that. Another thing I was struck by in the overview of Saville’s work was how fortunate he was to have had a band like Joy Division to design for. The commissioners of his later work are just not of their calibre – the quote makes it clear that he’s aware of this. The marriage of the brilliance of the visual and the musical is what ultimately makes the work transcendant. No amount of clever, even brilliant design for the likes of Suede, Gay Dad or – sadly – New Order will ever achieve that.

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