They snap with anxious, neurotic electricity, as I’m sure they did back in the late seventies at the band’s live gigs. I, however, found the live performances of the Joy Division’s songs in the movie to be captivating. If you’re a Joy Division purist, you may not appreciate these “alternative takes”. A bit of internet research revealed that this is due to the songs being recreated for the movie, by the actors playing members of the band. In Control, Joy Division’s songs sounded much more alive than I remembered. Compared to the music produced by New Order from 1985 onward, Joy Division’s songs for the most part sounded as if they were recorded in Dracula’s basement. (Both songs are always in heavy rotation on SiriusXM’s First Wave channel.) Most of my resistance was due to the underproduced sound of Joy Division’s songs. Prior to seeing Control, the only other Joy Division song I knew was “Transmission”. I’ve always liked that song, but I never really appreciated Joy Division’s other material. Like most fans of post-punk and new wave, I was familiar with “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, with its melancholy, romantic fatalism.
As a longtime fan of New Order, I never really was into Joy Division.
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