Unknown Pleasures

I did not like at all, vocals are off key and the songs are not even remotely interesting

I’m not a big Joy Division fan. Liked the first song but they are not really my style of music.

Dire. Thought it was going to be crap and it didn't disappoint.

Just not my cup of tea. Maybe not a bad album altogether but certainly not something I would play for myself, nor would I recommend it to a friend.

Shit.

Flojisimo. una escucha mega nicho pero ademas sin ser buena

No thanks, I'm depressed enough already as it is. And no wonder Ian Curtis killed himself, making such music.

No me gustó, es muy lento y melancólico. A pesar que me suele gustar ese tipo de música, en este no pude disfrutar con ninguna canción

Not my thing

Just no

I did not like a single song on this album. I don't think I will remember any. At least I know I don't like anything from Joy Division except Love Will Tear Us Apart.

I have somehow managed to never listen to this before today. I haven't missed much. Boring, or rather non existent melodies, no variances in energy, I just couldn't get myself to even go through all the songs completely.

I can't stand bellowing masquerading as singing

I despise this late 70s/early 80s moody synth pop. Stuff like this and Depeche mode can just get in the BIN. Honestly who actually likes this kind of music, it's soulless, boring, drab, nothing music. Crap!

Me causou tédio

Could use a little more reverb…

No 1

I feel no joy when I listen to this album

A boring and less enjoyable British version of the Talking Heads? No thanks. This is just bizarre, moody, and so unenjoyable. 2.5/10 (1.25/5)

Just meh, no real comments.

Not my thing. Sloppy guitar, awful singing. I get they were ahead of their time or whatever and a very influential band but I just don’t enjoy listening to this. I’m not a lyrics person. Give me a good melody over lyrics 10/10 times and this album had 0 good melodies. Probably won’t ever listen to joy division again. Album cover is iconic though. 1.3/5 so gotta round down to 1 star ⭐️ 👎🏻

I really did not vibe with this.

Couldn’t even get through it. Not my kind of music. Great drums however that was the only thing I enjoyed about it.

I’m waiting for something good to happen here, but losing what little confidence I have. This is really simplistic shit. Simple guitar, simple base, simple drum. And the synth? I feel like Curtis couldn’t find any adults to back his weird lyrics and creep vibe, so he hit up the local middle school, promising sex and drugs if they’d join his band. There was so much better music coming out around 1980, MY era, and these twits road their coats and made us look like fools. Fuckers! This is cringe.

fuck The Wombats for making me believe you could dance to Joy Division. This was a hot pile of dookie spice and I know all these hoes walking around with Joy Division band tees have never heard a real song from this album bc if they did they’d never rep this trash band. They’re lucky to get 1 star from me.

Not into this style of music apparently

I hated their other album in this project. I hated this one a little less. Too often, they don't care to stay in key with each other, and I hate it.

Miserable and morbid but I’ve heard worse albums. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard joy division and I hope it’s a while before I listen to them again. Respect to anyone who can listen to them regularly and will sit through an album of theirs through choice. It started off okay but after a couple of tracks I just wanted it to end, which is what I imagine a lot of their listeners are thinking but not necessarily about the album or song. The best thing I can say about this album is that it was quite short, thankfully. I guess I’ll never know the pleasures of liking this band

Shadowplay is okay but really this album just sucks.

buns

Alternative music. Weird.

I’ve always seen this shirts. cool shirts. Terrible album.

It was meh.

The defacto hipster T-shirt! The worst parts of Radiohead combined with the worst parts of Interpol. Fav Track: Disorder

About as bleak as music can get. Have seen other reviews that admire the bare, industrial sound of the album but personally it's not for me. I really disliked the sparse nature of the production, the vocals and incessant sound effects. Day of the Lords and Interzone the pick of the tracks. I found Candidate, She's Lost Control, Wilderness and I remember nothing almost unlistenable. I definitely preferred the slightly 'riff-ier' stuff. Really disliked the album, completely not to my taste. Nothing even slightly memorable and won't be revisiting. 3/10.

Wow. I've heard of this group and album before and I thought I'd heard good things, but this was just kinda... bad. The signing on Insight but actually super bad and amateurish. Some parts of the melody were painfully flat and just bad, bad, bad. The rest of the album was alright, but nothing really noteworthy, just kinda meh synthpop. One star.

Fhú, ez nekem mélységesen nem jött be. :D Bizonyos szempontból van azon a szinten, mint az EWaF: soha többet hallani se akarom :D

I didn’t like a single song. If I could do 0 Stars I would.

Didn't do anything for me at all. Not musically interesting, and the singing didn't appeal to me

Not my kind of music, im sure other people enjoy it tho!

Love Will Tear Us Apart = 5 still doesn't save this album from being a 1 (sorry)

Sad noise.

Så besviken, sjukt tråkiga låtar tycker jag, fanns en bra låt Bästa låt: New dawn fades

I do not like Joy Division. I know they are foundational, but so, so many other bands who were influenced by them I have more affinity for. They just sound the same every song, like one big drone.

Not a big fan of this sound at all - never really liked it

Ian Curtis was preventing us from getting New Order. Dreary, sludgy bullshit that certain people think you have to like because it's Joy Division. Fucking shit.

Basically every track is either boring or unlistenable. The guitar riffs are almost cool enough to award 2 stars. Almost. The monotone, off key singing is just unbearable to me. Also, I don't appreciate starting a song with 30 seconds of silence.

I had the same reaction as when I first heard this in the late '80s: Is this a joke?

1979 Goth Rock. Monotone echo-type lead vocals. I tried.

Bei mir hat es nicht gezündet. Langweiliger elektronischer Musikstil ohne spritzige Ideen. Schade

My housemate at uni loved Joy Division and I wouldn't let him play it on my hifi. I was in two minds about listening to this and wondered whether I would realise I had been missing out on something for the last 35 years. I wasn't; this album is as bad as I thought it was back in the 80s. I've no idea why Joy Division are held in such high regard, maybe it is a live band thing. I'll try listening to this in 35 years time to see if I've changed my mind but sincerely doubt it.

God these guys are awful

When will THIS end

I am convinced the people who wear the shirts don’t listen to this band because I hate to say this but it was so bad.

I feel like I've heard this same album before, but it's like a crap version of Depeche Mode.

boring

I've tried and tried so many times over with this album, and I just can't stand it. I've stated before my displeasure (heh) with Joy Division, and as much as I hoped that would change after my (easily) 5th listen, I'm convinced the only reason this album is popular is because of the t-shirts.

Its crazy that with how much I love New Order I feel the opposite way for Joy Division.

Atrocious... Will never listen to again. I want to scrub this boring depressing repetitive nonsense from my memory banks... I would give it fewer than 1 star if I could.

Meh. Not my thing.

Man, fuck this spooky-ass, haunted house, Count Chocula, doom and gloom, oggedy boogedy, creepy crawly, monster mash bullshit and the wolfman it rode in on. Fucking laser beam solos on “Insight”. This sucks. Go smoke cigarettes in a graveyard you techno-goth nerds. 🧛+🤖=💩

really like the instrumentals, hate the vocals. feels weird and sad like i took drugs for the first time and now im paranoid

It felt like I was listening to this album for like three days straight, thought it would never end. 2/10

this was my first time hearing this artists. i wasn't really vibing with the sound BUT i didn't realize the Killers' song "Shadowplay" was original a Joy Division song...so that was a fun discovery

:(

Hard pass. I feel like this is 1) the music playing in every Hot Topic and/or 2) the music Tim played in high school.

No thank you.

Did not like this album - did not make it past song 3

Too empty for me. And can't stand the voice.

Sorry…really did not like.

Okay, this album did nothing for me and I grew up in that era.

altern. Rock, 1979

Sounded like the smiths but worse. 1/10

1. dizorder - 1.5 2. day of the lordz - 1 3. candidate - 0 4. inzight - 0 5. neuu dauun fadez - 0 6. zhez lozt control - 1 7. zhadouu play - 1.5 8. uuildernezz - 0 9. interzone - 1.5 10. i remember nothing - 1

Never heard of them before. First impression very positive. Got stale real fast

Just not for me. Preferred New Order to the Ian Curtis drudgery.

Badly named band. There's no Joy here! Boring songs, pretty bad singing. Not for me.

Couldn't get into it. 1/5

Uhmmm also not my cup of tea. Kinda liked the sound in the album, but not the lyrics really.

i'm sorry aeri!!!!!! i can't help the inner claire in me!!!! i hate this man's voice! 😭

Really basic

These guys make The Cure sound like Katy Perry. What a snoozefest.

wasn't for me -- not really my style

Really not the kind of music I like, largely didn't stick with me like some of the other albums on this list, and actively made listening a bit of a chore, not any notable songs over the others they all kind of blended the same in my opinion; probably great to those that like the genre but definitely not for me

I respect Joy Division for being a stepping stone to what great music we have today.. With that being said, this music is horrible…

very bad! oh my ears

How much did I dislike this album? It was so much more than lead singers voice. But why go on?

Didn't do anything for me. It was ok, but still didn't enjoy it.

The late 70s UK music scene must've been so depressing if you had the slightest touch of taste, all these post-punk bands are just pure dogshit.

Very strange album, not really to my taste. I don't really get it

I really wanted to be into this but I think ultimately not for me

The tracks are as bland as the singers voice and delivery.

Not for me.

I wanna rate it 0. Fuck this piece of crap of a band.

El post punk no es lo mío.

Just kinda funky and weird

Poor Ian Curtis... 23 years old!

The "unknown pleasure" was not listening to this album. What the vocalist lacks in skill he does not make up for in passion. I'd say he needs a bucket to carry the tune but buckets aren't good at carrying keys. Instrumentals are fine but I can hear the same, similar, or (usually) better sound from any garage band or subway station one man band busker

The best thing happened to this band was eventually becoming New Order

Shit

Joy division- They have a thing with the minimal guitar and bass parts. They kind of compliment eachother well but also rub with tension too. I could hear their influence on frusciante and flea. I really didn’t like the vocals. The melodys are not good, the tone is bad, and he’s out of tune a lot too. Disorder- wow those are some bold note choices in the bass, actually my favorite part of the song perfect example of “wrong but strong” Didn’t like the next two songs at all Insight-cool synth toms Shadow play- vocals sound like David Byrne trying to sing like Jim Morrison in the worst way Wilderness- cool bassline and intro. I like the reverb and delay on the drums I remember nothing- I like the ominous vibe and textures of the instrumental and sound effects but the vocals are soooo out of tune. 1.5

Candidate and I remember nothing are possibly the worst vocal performances in recorded history. Day of the lords reminds me of Alvin’s sludgefest. I hated this record. 1.1

Joy divided by zero. Horrendous, I think there's one track on there that I could classify as a song.

I guess it's really just not my jam. Non of the songs really jumped out at me and the whole album kinda just felt like a boring drone

Where's the Joy? This album was pretty depressing.

Jesus christ this was bad. One of those bands you assume have bare good tunes but this was 10 songs of absolute dreary dog poo. Potentially the crappest album so far no 🧢

Boring, droning, morose dross. I could scrap to 2 stars if it wasn’t so iconic. Knocked down to 1 start by the Primark T-shirts.

Why is this on here, this was such a boring album, the sounds were drab, the pace of the music left me wanting more. Boo do better.

All the songs sound the same🤷‍♀️

Niet mijn ding.

I can't quite gather my thoughts enough after listening to this to properly articulate my dislike it's like my melon got dropped on a sidewalk... just unpleasant.

I tried to put aside my highly personal distaste for Joy Division, but my review is still incredibly biased. It was boring as hell. “She’d Lost Control” wasn’t the worst.

ZsasttDd des@Ezdswb

Not my style

1,5. Monotonisempaa soundia saa hakea. Taattua masennusta alusta loppuun.

Not my thing I’m afraid

Trash can music

Dull

Too gay, gayer than culture club.

Really bad. Disorder was the best song on the album and it was at best a 4/10.

Blehhhh

I didn’t like this at all. Vocals were uninspired and for an era of classic rock their sound was woefully lacking.

did not like

Meh