Joy DivisionBest Joy Division Albums Ranked
8.5
Avg Score
33
Opinions
12
Albums
9
Reviewers
Summary from 33 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Joy Division’s catalog across 12 albums from 33 opinions, with an overall average of 8.5/10. The top-rated Joy Division album is Closer (Collector's Edition) (1980) with a 8.9/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master) and The Peel Sessions. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1979 to 1991. Love Will Tear Us Apart ranks as the highest-rated Joy Division song on Rate.fm with a 9.7/10 average.
Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master)
“Tied to a film-related renewed interest in the band, Joy Division's three formative, formidable works get cleaned up and reissued in deluxe form.”
Closer (Collector's Edition)
“Johnny Rotten was one of the few terrific antiheroes rock & roll has ever produced: a violent-voiced bantam of a boy who tried to make sense of popular culture by making it suffer the world outside — its moral horror, its self-impelled violation, its social homicide. By contrast, John Lydon — who rose from the […]”
Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master)
“The music of Joy Division – an art-minded English postpunk band that initially struck reviewers as a tuneful version of PiL – sets forth an even more indelible vision of gloom. In fact, it’s a vision so steeped in deathly fixations that it proved fatal: on May 18th, 1980, the group’s lead singer and lyricist, […]”
Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master)
“- paar nice spacy experimental intros, outros & transitions aber find stimme bissle monoton - insight outro klingt zb nach nem extrem geilen sci fi showdown - shadowplay gibt mir voll jim morrson im rock n' roll weltall vibes - digga ich hätte die ganze zeit lauter hören sollen - das album muss man glaub ich liegend mit geschlossenen augen geniessen -> alta: gleich auf akkupressurmatte so frqnk ocean tape hören”
Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master)
“um disco soturno, meio triste, mefistofélico assim, consigo entender de onde vem as pessoas gostarem disso e principalmente o quanto abriu espaço pra virem coisas nessa pegada mas diferentes que talvez eu até gostasse bem. Apesar disso, não me pegou. Evitaria escutar novamente. Vibe condado esperando a banda principal entrar Faixa favorita foi interzone Essa eu achei até beleza, porrada”

