Saturday playlist

Got inspired by the Secret Dance Night poster and set my ipod to Joy Divison for the entire morning. I have around 90 songs from this late 70s super-influential British band and listened to all of them via headphones.

The raw emotion and nerve-y twitchy feeling one gets when immersed in Joy Division is not dissimilar to early Nirvana or early 1950s country-rock. It’s groundbreaking and courageous. One can’t listen to The Killers or The Bravery without hearing Joy Division. In context, I find it ridiculous The Bravery is called what they are. What’s brave about ripping off a relatively mythic band that never played on MTV to a bunch of Americans born after Ian Curtis’s 1980 suicide?

Answer: N-a-d-a.

I don’t mean to hate on Bravery, but had they called themselves something a little less incorrect, I’d like them better. Interpol, for example, they copy Joy Division more than any other band, but not in a pretentious way, there's more honor there.

Anyway, Joy Division are bomb. They don't lift your spirits in a Smiths way. They don't make you laugh. It's smart people music so do with it what you must.

The energy of "Digital" gives me wings--kind of like Red Bull. "Insight" via headphones is ear candy, bouncing back and forth like your skull's a pinball game--in a good way.

And The Taphouse's pool room has a bunch of their stuff on the jukebox :)