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Closer

Joy Division Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (4 Oct 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: LONDON RECORDS
  • ASIN: B00002DE4E
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,444 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Atrocity Exhibition [2007 Re-mastered Album Version] 6:04£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen  3. Passover [2007 Re-mastered Album Version] 4:45£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen  5. A Means To An End [2007 Re-mastered Album Version] 4:09£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Heart And Soul [2007 Re-mastered Album Version] 5:53£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Twenty Four Hours [2007 Re-mastered Album Version] 4:28£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. The Eternal [2007 Re-mastered Album Version] 6:04£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Decades [2007 Re-mastered Album Version] 6:14£0.89  Buy MP3 


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Amazon.co.uk Review

In retrospect, Closer, the second and final album by this Mancunian band, seems to point straight at singer Ian Curtis's suicide, which happened a few months before it was released. The band's reverberating mesh of minor-key lines and Curtis's bass voice are gloomy enough on their own, and attention to the words reveals references to blacker-than-black stories by JG Ballard and Joseph Conrad; the void and its terrors were splitting Curtis apart from the inside. "I put my trust in you," he sings, and his voice leaves no doubt that that trust has been betrayed. But the music, grim and powerful as it is, points to the direction the surviving members took as New Order, incorporating the mechanical gravity of club rhythms. --Douglas Wolk

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This review is for the customer who wondered if there was any big audio upgrade in the latest (and double) CD of 'Closer'. I am aware that it was quite a while ago, when you added your comment to one of the customer reviews. You may well have bought the thing by now.
I shall leave the emotional impressions and memories to others on this occasion. Your reviews are all valid, but Robespierre's question needs answering.
I HAVE just bought the 2CD 'Closer'(cheaply and second-hand). Until I bought the 'Heart And Soul' box around 2000, I had not owned any Joy Division on CD (I am fifty. I bought the original LPs/singles). The box set was just getting less expensive. I think it was given a cheaper reissue at about this time, so the price on the 1997 version took a dip as well. It was this one I bought.
I have just done a side-by-side comparison between the latest 'Closer' and the box set rendition of the same album. Quite revealing, but not for the right reasons. Though a medium-quality hi-fi (using speakers) I find no detectable differences. On headphones (a decent Sennheiser set) I notice maybe a TINY low end boost, very subtle indeed, as it does not change the general sound. This is of course a good thing. There has been no attempt to turn up the volume on this new version. The levels on meters are nigh-on identical. Most pleasingly, the new mastering has not fallen into that 'compress everything' mentality that has blighted many recent remasters (Rolling Stones label Universal remasters - no thanks - I completed my collection with second-hand 90's Virgin remasters). Do however turn the volume down a bit before playing the live disc (or don't). It is LOUD in that way most modern CDs are. Fair play though. As a cassette recording it has no real dynamic range.
One star off for not realeasing the live disc separately, as with 'Preston' and the great 'Les Bains-Douches' CD.
It would seem that the late 90s/2000 Joy Division remasters were done well enough that no major changes have been made. Do not bother, unless you are after the ULU concert disc. Turn up your bass control a tiny bit, if you wish to replicate the only noticeable difference. You won't notice much. Their records were never very bassy anyway.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Still Perfection 10 Sep 2001
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Format:Audio CD
When i first listened to this album, i spent days with songs like Atrocity Exhibition and Heart And Soul playing on repeat. The music is so well crafted, the lyrics are unbelievable and ian curtis' delivers the whole thing off in a way that is impossible for you not to feel emotionally charged. The change from their early days is evident and i personally feel that it is a change for the better. Sumner's use of synthesizers is atmospheric and Hook's bass playing gets beyond playing chords. The drumming from Morris is tight and gives each song a greater edge. Hell i love all the albums but this is just pure genius... not just by Curtis but by the whole band

The best album of the 80s by far.

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Easily one of my favourites. 13 April 2006
By dynamitekid156 VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
This is probably my favourite album ever made. It's simply beautiful. Recorded shortly before Ian Curtis' suicide in May 1980 - and ironically turning him into an icon to this day - it features the best work Joy Division ever made in this form. New Order, much as they tried, never quite measured up, even twenty-six years later.

Greatly assisted by the genius of Martin Hannett and his breathtaking production, the band are on fine, fatalistic form. Ian Curtis is at his lyrical best, especially on the closer, 'Decades,' but the real star here is Bernard Sumner. Always an underrated guitar player, (check out the messy solos on early Warsaw tune 'Failures') on this album he unleashes screeches, stabs of pure noise and wiry single note lines over the top of Peter Hook's ever-chiming bass. He also does a sterling job sitting at the keyboard, playing the album out with his wistful yet heartbreaking line in 'Decades' closing passage.

This is an extraordinary, exceptional album that's simultaneously depressing due to its circumstance and uplifting due to its beauty. Any New Order fan, or indeed any fan of music, is missing out if they don't purchase this astonishing, chilling example of why Ian Curtis is still missed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A terrible beauty
Joy Division's eternal masterpiece. Claustrophobic, very sad, yet hauntingly beautiful with agonisingly self aware lyrics from a young man in his early 20's (much like the lyrics... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Douglas Milne
5.0 out of 5 stars Quite simply the best Joy Division album
I'm the wrong person to ask if your looking for an introduction to Joy Division. I had the luxury of buying all thier stuff as it was released and introduced to me by John Peel. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Cycle2Worker
5.0 out of 5 stars A Fitting Finale
Although different in most respects from any band before or since, an aspect that Joy Division did share with others was that of the difficulty of attempting to capture in a... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Keith M
1.0 out of 5 stars A bit dull
Goes on and on. The singer can't sing. No vocal range. If you like your music to sound "serious" and deep I suggest you stop listening to this dross and try some Asia or Rush... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Unsurprising
Joy Division's work has been compiled and recompiled just as much as someone like Jimi Hendrix. But it is this blankly-titled 1980 LP, which stands as a true monument to the... Read more
Published 13 months ago by S. Bailey
5.0 out of 5 stars Alles Behinderte Außer Rob
Look at " Spliff`s " Die Maurer , it`s similar to all that great Closer TO-stuff. It`s called " Wir Sind Viel Zu Gut ". Read more
Published on 16 April 2011 by Stefan Prediger
5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing nihilistic masterpiece!!
Unknown Pleasures was like a slap in the face musically for me and i
eagerly awaited this album,i was still relatively young (twenties)
and was always looking out for... Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2011 by Avant Aklu
5.0 out of 5 stars Step inside yourself
Distended vocals, booming from a man emotionally split down the middle, fissuring, then eventually finding a psychological release through an expressed illness whilst displaying... Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2011 by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
1.0 out of 5 stars Great album but don't buy this version
It's a wonderful album but I've had two copies of this version and neither played on the PC nor would they load to itunes. Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2010 by C. T. Harnett
5.0 out of 5 stars A creepy Gothic tomb in audio form
People have talked about the album closing with a trilogy of great songs that feel conceptually connected. I've never understood what they were on about. Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2010 by BS on parade
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