Yeah no, seriously, how is this not just basic indie rock? It's ahead of its time, I guess, but it doesn't strike me as that great. Why is this album treated as a class? I really don't get it. It just seems to me there's a million albums that sound like this.
To be fair, I'm not that interested in Velvet Underground or The Strokes, so maybe they're just not for me?
I tried to listen to pic related some months ago, don't even remember what it sounds like but I remember disliking it a lot.
I feel the same way about The Strokes
Unknown Pleasures. Too lazy to get the picture
oh no doubt. they are the unimaginably grotesque spawn of talking heads and like fucking boston or something. the vocals alone are insufferably beligrently almost self parodically bad. the riffs are laughable. it's mixed horribly. fuck this album.
Same
Don't get the hype at all.
its just depressing and pretentious. i used to have a friend who literally tried to copy Ian Curtis' entire persona without anyone noticing and it ruined them for me
All the albums that sound similar to it are most likely influenced from this album itself. for its time, it was revolutionary, and it still holds up extremely well today. and of course the guitar work on this album is just amazing
It's easy to be underwhelmed by it because you're not seeing its influence. That album predicted so many of the popular sounds in the 80s and 90s, most notably being the incredibly crisp and machine-like production that would come to define pop in the 80s
It's one of the most visceral and intense albums ever made. One day its going to click.
This is what being a pleb looks like
Name one album that was just as depressing as Joy Divisions catalog before 1979
They were innovative for their time but there is nothing else beyond that.