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Prodigy, Tuxedomoon, and Joy Division

Posted by Sordidman (A) on November 18, 2007 at 11:14:10

I popped into Amoeba to unload some junk and resisted buying a Gang of Four, Rhino compilation and a Velvet Underground "Universal" banana. I didn't think that it was SACD, - is it?

Anyway, I picked up "Desire" by Tuxedomoon, - one of my old favs. I have Half Mute. Anyone a Tuxedomoon fan? I helped a friend do lights and played a little bass with them when they were preparing for a gig before they moved to Belgium and before I got Sordid Humor started...

I also picked up the Editors first CD.....

And, this all got me wandering how close they were to Joy Division? Wonder if they knew of each other?

They both have this amazing sense of being overwhelmed by an oppressed, futile-struggle in the face of an extremely powerful, pervasive, fascist, group-think, bureaucracy; with no hope for a future.

Whereas Prodigy, is just a violent, state of war, purveyor of pure, fast, aggressive, evil.. the next level??

Surely, Prodigy knows about Joy Division. But I wonder if Peter Principle and Blaine Reninger knew about JD?
I regard Tuxedomoon as a bit less serious, more like ghost music, creatively, lost in it's own world, - a bit more in this world, familiar, but ghost music, - more of a foot in the here. How much of an influence did Tuxedomoon have?

Joy Division, OTOH, embody more of a Kafka=esque ideal, and are way outside the world of living; they are pure idea beyond life; and that is only enhanced by Ian's suicide.

Thoughts?

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