Joy Division

[cossie]

Evening,

I've been listening to a lot of Joy Division lately and I was wondering if anyone could recommend any other bands that have that same sparse but melodic sound? Preferably older bands.

Thanks,

Cossie

[Matt Till]

New Order.

[Fassa Albrecht]

Hmmmm....the Smiths are a good bet if you want to keep up the Manchester theme.

New Order (the following band to JD) also have their moments- This Time Of Night is a good example.

Bauhaus

Some Muse tracks

I'm a massive Joy Division fan- you have good taste!

[jmorbita]

I reccomend the site www.allmusic.com
there's info on loads of bands and they recommend similar artists.

[Atoz]

Crispy Ambulance: Similar, but not nearly as good. IIRC, the bands played at a lot of the same shows, and their singer subbed for Ian Curtis a couple of times.

Interpol: Kind of, but at the same time, not really.

The Editors: Kinda

[ryco]

Television

Aztec Camera

[baalroo]

the cure, the smiths, new order, etc etc... I would say just go over to last.fm and see what it gives you (if you ever listen to music on a computer and you don't use last.fm then you are majorly missing out).

[MakiSupaStar]

Bauhaus. Although I think Bauhaus is actually better than Joy Division. I still really like Joy Division though.

[Atoz]

Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

Bauhaus. Although I think Bauhaus is actually better than Joy Division. I still really like Joy Division though.

Bauhaus is awesome.

[cossie]

Originally Posted by baalroo

the cure, the smiths, new order, etc etc... I would say just go over to last.fm and see what it gives you (if you ever listen to music on a computer and you don't use last.fm then you are majorly missing out).

Emmm.... I spend most of my time listening to CDs because we get warned about using up bandwidth.

Funnily, it never dawned on me to check out New Order, even though I knew it was made up of Joy Division after Ian Curtis' suicide.

I like The Cure a lot too, I got into them after a friend told me that I lot of the music I write sounds like a little like them, Cure(d) I guess is how you might describe it:P

A friend actually gave me the first 2 Interpol albums, but I only listened to them occassionally - I found some of their stuff to be very depressing though.

Thanks for all the replies guys, I'll check out all those bands. I need some new music to listen to, in a bit of funk musically recently - finding myself jamming along to the same old stuff in my playlists.

[Bass Boy]

Originally Posted by Atoz

Bauhaus is awesome.

When I was 15 I got a black fretless P because of David J!

[baalroo]

last.fm uses a "audio scrobbler" to keep track of everything you listen to on your computer (ie: your CDs)and then based on your listening "profile" recommends other music that people with similiar tastes listen to and rate as similiar, etc. On top of that you can go there and type in "joy division" and get a list of bands that hundreds of thousands of people agree are similiar. It's great.

[sarcastro83]

I'm fond of the following:

Mission of Burma, early R.E.M., Gang of Four (If you're digging the whole "angular" thing), a HUGE +1 to everyone who mentioned Bauhaus, check out some Gary Numan (If you're into synths), Stone Roses, The Birthday Party (if you're into really, really sparse, UGLY sounds... cause I am)...

I'm scrambling for more... but they're out there.

[8guy]

The Editors..."smokers out side The Hospital walls" is one that just screams Joy Divison to me!!!!!!

[jumbosilverette]

Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark, Durutti Column, Cabaret Voltaire

[cossie]

Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark

A local football (soccer) team near me call themselves OMP (Orchestral Maneouvres in the Park)

last.fm uses a "audio scrobbler" to keep track of everything you listen to on your computer (ie: your CDs)and then based on your listening "profile" recommends other music that people with similiar tastes listen to and rate as similiar, etc. On top of that you can go there and type in "joy division" and get a list of bands that hundreds of thousands of people agree are similiar. It's great.

I've been really digging last.fm since I started listening to it the other day. I used to go to the radioblogclub.com a lot in the past but it's been offline for upgrading for quite some time.

[Barkless Dog]

Gang Of Four

[wazzel]

Love and Rockets, esp if you like David J.

[lunarpollen]

JD is probably the band that my band most reminds people of. But we do have plenty of other influences in our sound, courtesy of the various members of our band having different influences...