Basically, Decades is Joy Division the Las Vegas years. This is not as glib an assesment as it sounds. Taking Closer as a whole, the first side is a man debating with himself whether or not to make the ultimate sacrifice ending in A Means to an End and the taking of his life. Heart and Soul is the immediate aftermath of death, Twenty Four Hours is coming to terms with grief, The Eternal is the funeral and Decades is twenty years later.
Decades looks back at what could have been and what actually happened. Decades is very much in the spirit of "its better to burn out than fade away". Rather than grow old disgracefully and become a parody of him/themself Decades celebrates the implosion of what Curtis final act meant for the group both creatively and enigmatically.
Its with some irony that 21 years on from Curtis death, New Order "reformed" and for the first time since Joy Division actually started playing their songs at their gigs. Perhaps Curtis was right all along...
Joy Division made a series of TV appearances 78-79 about the same time that this song would have been written. This is a song that says "ïs this all there is ?", In '79 the presenter talked across a performance of shadowplay during the closing credits - insult ? I reckon...
Joy Division made a series of TV appearances 78-79 about the same time that this song would have been written. This is a song that says "ïs this all there is ?", In '79 the presenter talked across a performance of shadowplay during the closing credits - insult ? I reckon...
Basically, Decades is Joy Division the Las Vegas years. This is not as glib an assesment as it sounds. Taking Closer as a whole, the first side is a man debating with himself whether or not to make the ultimate sacrifice ending in A Means to an End and the taking of his life. Heart and Soul is the immediate aftermath of death, Twenty Four Hours is coming to terms with grief, The Eternal is the funeral and Decades is twenty years later.
Decades looks back at what could have been and what actually happened. Decades is very much in the spirit of "its better to burn out than fade away". Rather than grow old disgracefully and become a parody of him/themself Decades celebrates the implosion of what Curtis final act meant for the group both creatively and enigmatically.
Its with some irony that 21 years on from Curtis death, New Order "reformed" and for the first time since Joy Division actually started playing their songs at their gigs. Perhaps Curtis was right all along...
Joy Division made a series of TV appearances 78-79 about the same time that this song would have been written. This is a song that says "ïs this all there is ?", In '79 the presenter talked across a performance of shadowplay during the closing credits - insult ? I reckon...
Joy Division made a series of TV appearances 78-79 about the same time that this song would have been written. This is a song that says "ïs this all there is ?", In '79 the presenter talked across a performance of shadowplay during the closing credits - insult ? I reckon...
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The Eternal'concerns an autistic child who lived in Curtis' neighborhood...their gardens backed onto one another...
The Eternal'concerns an autistic child who lived in Curtis' neighborhood...their gardens backed onto one another...