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Joy Division: Piece by Piece offers a fascinating insight into what it feels like to have a rock legend crystallise inside your own head... A remarkable achievement. --The Independent on Sunday
Another book about Joy Division? No, the book... One engages here with a master of his craft. --The Spectator
Another book about Joy Division? No, the book... One engages here with a master of his craft. --The Spectator
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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a marvelous account of Joy Division's brief but significant career, chronicled by the writer most closely associated with the group.
Over the last thirty years Paul Morley has accumulated an impressive corpus of writing about Joy Division - and this book collects it all, arranged in the most effective manner to evoke the time, the place and those involved.
This is not a dreary procession of dull facts and descriptions of guitar solos - 'Joy Division: Piece By Piece' gets inside, beneath and around its subject matter in a manner that no other contemporary music writer but Paul Morley could achieve.
Neither is it packed with photographs that we've seen time and time again. This is a book about words, thoughts, feelings and a moment that passed far too quickly.
Over the last thirty years Paul Morley has accumulated an impressive corpus of writing about Joy Division - and this book collects it all, arranged in the most effective manner to evoke the time, the place and those involved.
This is not a dreary procession of dull facts and descriptions of guitar solos - 'Joy Division: Piece By Piece' gets inside, beneath and around its subject matter in a manner that no other contemporary music writer but Paul Morley could achieve.
Neither is it packed with photographs that we've seen time and time again. This is a book about words, thoughts, feelings and a moment that passed far too quickly.
17 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Joy Division were the most significant band of the post punk era and Paul Morley the most accomplished music journalist of the period.
Collecting Morley's writing on the band together is a wonderful idea, although I am a little surprised that it hasn't been done before. Like Martin Hannet's production on the Manchester quartet's recordings, Morley's rich prose enhances and highlights the significance of this groundbreaking group.
Morley's insistance on using the full spectrum of language and syntax may go over some reader's heads, but he is a master craftsman and the topography of his development can be charted in this fascinating book.
In an era that sees books by so many writers who have little connection or empathy with their subject matter, it is refreshing to discover a book about a group written by the most appropriate person to chronicle their history.
This is not only a book for fans of Joy Division, it is also recommended for anyone who appreciates well constructed descriptions and prescient observations that sit well among the best music journalism ever committed to print.
Collecting Morley's writing on the band together is a wonderful idea, although I am a little surprised that it hasn't been done before. Like Martin Hannet's production on the Manchester quartet's recordings, Morley's rich prose enhances and highlights the significance of this groundbreaking group.
Morley's insistance on using the full spectrum of language and syntax may go over some reader's heads, but he is a master craftsman and the topography of his development can be charted in this fascinating book.
In an era that sees books by so many writers who have little connection or empathy with their subject matter, it is refreshing to discover a book about a group written by the most appropriate person to chronicle their history.
This is not only a book for fans of Joy Division, it is also recommended for anyone who appreciates well constructed descriptions and prescient observations that sit well among the best music journalism ever committed to print.
15 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Joy Division is probably more important to me than any other group, but the band are ill-served by this hastily assembled mix of Morley's flat, prosaic early writing, and, worse still, his pompous later musings - his attempt to mimic the style of JG Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition is particularly risible. His specialty is to say something vacuous and then paraphrase himself three times. Many of the pieces are repetitious, some barely mention the band at all. What they have in common is that they are chiefly about the writer himself.
I've enjoyed some of Morley's writing in the past, and found his Words and Music book largely infuriating, but with some glimmer of wit, but this is a waste of time. There is more of worth in the 2-3 pages Simon Reynolds writes about the band in the brilliant Rip It Up... than there is in this entire book.
I've enjoyed some of Morley's writing in the past, and found his Words and Music book largely infuriating, but with some glimmer of wit, but this is a waste of time. There is more of worth in the 2-3 pages Simon Reynolds writes about the band in the brilliant Rip It Up... than there is in this entire book.
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More twaddle
Just listen to the records if you like Joy Division , dont bother with this shambles.
Published on 6 Jan 2010 by JimmyDCFC
Overblown, repetitious, pretentious guff +1
Previous reviewer Valdemar had it spot on with the review of this book. In fact it took most of the words from my mouth... Read more
Published on 13 Feb 2008 by Heds
Exceptional
This book is the prefect overview of Joy Division's brief, but overwhelmingly influential existence and Paul Morley is the only person outside of the band who could possibly have... Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2008 by Lee Cowperthwaite
Impeccable
I was standing next to Morley at the ULU gig in 1980. Timing is everything and Morley was in exactly the right place at the right time to be the ideal person to have reported on... Read more
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