Joy Division left us a legacy of just a handful of singles and two-and-a-half utterly smashing studio albums before lead singer Ian Curtis exited this world at 23 years of age in May of 1980 but ... ooooooh ... what a legacy it is. Even if you don't factor the band's subsequent rebirth as New Order into the equation.

Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division's 1979 debut, is arguably the post-punk era's most lasting masterpiece -- often imitated but never properly duplicated (sorry, Interpol and the National) and too dark and chilling and suicidally hopeless on the whole to ever properly catch on, even in hindsight, with the bulk of "pop" listeners but nevertheless an album that leaves an indelible mark on everyone who gets it from the moment they stagger away from it the first time. It's just bonkers. Nothing sounded like it before it came along and nothing will ever sound like it again.

If you ever want to get in a debate with our Kop's Records crew about the greatest albums of all time, ask Ben about this one. 

TRACKLISTING:

1. Disorder
2. Day of the Lords
3. Candidate
4. Insight
5. New Dawn Fades
6. She's Lost Control
7. Shadowplay
8. Wilderness
9. Interzone
10. I Remember Nothing