The Literary Influences of IAN CURTIS

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Today I talk about how Ian Curtis' love of literature helped influence the lyrics he wrote whilst in Joy Division between 1976 - 1980.
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SOURCES
1. faroutmagazine.co.uk/joy-divi...
2. post-punk.com/ian-curtis-wido...
3. www.theguardian.com/music/201...
4. faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-nigh...
5. realitystudio.org/biography/w...
6. www.theguardian.com/music/201...
7. www.thisisdig.com/feature/unk...
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CHAPTERS:
1. Introduction (0:00)
2. Ian before Joy Division (5:37)
3. Joy Division (13:00)
4. Joy Division - Interzone (20:17)
5. Other songs in Unknown Pleasures (23:25)
6. Joy Division - Atrocity Exhibition (26:47)
7. Joy Division - Colony (29:48)
8. Conclusion (31:22)
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All criticism and comments are welcome. Thanks for watching.

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@TheSelador Год назад

Click below to see other episodes in the series: The Literary Influences of DAVID BOWIE: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i5SJsDR13Zo.html&ab_channel=TheSelador The Literary Influences of LOU REED: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AqGxGoWcX2g.html&ab_channel=TheSelador Subscribe to my Substack for free weekly updates on the behind-the-scenes of The Selador! selador.substack.com/?r=g86pk&

@nerd26373 Год назад

Ian Curtis seems to be an insightful individual. The impact he has left behind made an eternal mark on anyone who could be familiar with him.

@DeJect_music Год назад

I guess you could say...The Eternal.

@hazelwray4184 10 месяцев назад

'who could be familiar with him'?... on anyone familiar with him.

@IronFist.97 5 месяцев назад

Ian was such a misunderstood person, but it is through his lyrics that we can barely get what was going on in his mind.

@jimk5447 Год назад

Good informative video. A band of teens together only for 3 years and only released only 2 albums (unknown pleasures and closer) could still be such an influence of rock music 40 years later and have songs covered by multiple artists Rip Ian

@petemc5070 5 месяцев назад

I always felt that 'Atrocity Exhbition', both title and lyrics, fitted really well with David Lynch's 1980 film, 'The Elephant Man'.

@dominiclamon406 Год назад

well done,very interesting research! I'm a massive Joy Division collector & they are my number 1 band & have saved me through troubling times i had to endure. No other bands music have given me the feeling of being saved from constant pain & a place that gives me freedom of chronic anxiety. I owe the band a lot of gratitude. Weird that i share the same love for the same literature except Burroughs whom depicts peadophilia in 'naked lunch' which has graphic rape & hanging of pubescent boys which was so degenerate, that the german edition didn't translate but left it in ,in original language. A pity,Ian didn't find bukowsksy,one of the best writer of the past millenia.

@joseybryant7577 Год назад

YES! Also, highly recommend his wife's biography of him. Very interesting read for insight on their marriage particularly

@TheSelador Год назад

Its definitely one of the best music biographies out there. Very condensed and informative. I got a lot of information from that book that proved useful in this video.

@elakeyy Год назад

what’s it called?

@TheSelador Год назад

@@elakeyy "Touching from a Distance" by Deborah Curtis

@sonewwave8923 Год назад

It's always such a joy to see a new video of yours pop up. You and Professor Skye both bring such a wonderful perspective to pop culture by involving literature. So excited for what is to come from you in the future!

@TheSelador Год назад

Thanks a lot, glad you enjoy the vids!

@three69 Год назад

What a great, well presented documentary on one of music’s most underrated poets/lyricists. I’m appreciative of the scope and focus you’ve put into Ians’ writing. Yet, another great presentation. Thank you.

@TheSelador Год назад

Thanks a lot for watching my friend!

@benmakin9156 Год назад

Made my day when i saw this, looking forward too it.

@TheSelador Год назад

Hope you enjoy man.

@benmakin9156 Год назад

@@TheSelador my second favourite video of yours, insightful and interesting as always

@jamesm.3829 Год назад

A true artist

@Pazuzu82 Год назад

Ian Curtis, Morrissey, Ian Brown and Mark E Smith are the most literate guys who came out of Manchester in my opinion.

@modsleix6 Год назад

Mark Burgess as well...

@jazztheglass6139 Год назад

John cooper clarke

@Goatchild90 Год назад

William S. Burroughs = One of the most important writers of the 20th century. Rest in peace to him and Ian Curtis

@smithdream Год назад

@@LIFEAFTEREVERYTHING Why do you think he is not?

@melvinbrown1347 Год назад

@@LIFEAFTEREVERYTHING His writing is important , because when he was writing his books no one else was talking about what he wrote about , this being the conservatives 50s , we was also part of the generation called the beats , and inspired other artists around him at the time ,

@kristjanpeik7381 11 месяцев назад

Great insight/essay! We need more analyses about the relations between pop/rock music and other arts, literature among them.

@TeatroGrotesco Год назад

One of the best summations of Naked Lunch, given here to examine the themes of Ian's lyrics, but having read the book a few times I feel I understand the book more for having heard the brief explanation given in this video.

@jakehardyyy Год назад

its always a good day when you upload

@numerum_bestia Год назад

Thank you for this. I just filled out my reading list for the foreseeable future.

@zachbaby4701 Год назад

This video deserves WAY more views I know you worked hard on this

@wallac11 Год назад

Very well put together documentary. Keep up the good work.

@patrickturley2621 Год назад

Wonderful archive footage, super documentary 👏

@jcjohncurtis 9 месяцев назад

Btw it was actually Bernard who had the House of Dolls book and suggested the name. It was Benard with much of the other Nazi stuff too

@Kipa12312 Год назад

This video and your one on Lou Reed are fantastic!

@megamanmuppet Год назад

Superb documentary. Very well researched and put together.

@reiniervannek Год назад

Very well made video, thank you. I love Kafka, i love Curtis

@livinginmemphistn Год назад

Very well done video!

@fabriziofederico9487 Год назад

Great channel love this on Curtis. Syd Barrett, Jim Morrison vids would be awesome 😍😍

@malcolmlewis5860 10 месяцев назад

I remember thinking at the time of release of Unknown Pleasures that they had taken the imaginary environments of Philip K Dick, JG Ballard and other new wave SF books and made a soundscape. Texture and lighting were key inspirations.

@cheapmovies25 2 месяца назад

I don't know why but this but it seems like the more decrepid your body becomes the more pure and expressive your art becomes

@boxianparkk Год назад

Solia escuchar mucho a joy division por spotify pero un dia se me ocurrió buscarlos por youtube y la primera canción que escuché traducida fue atmosphere, esta canción tocó algo muy profundo en mi alma porque he estado pasando por tantas cosas en ese tiempo, me sentí comprendida, sermoneada y dije ok vamos a escuchar otra y ahora estoy acá. No he vuelto a ser la de antes JAJAJA Siempre estoy pensando en Ian y en sus letras, si antes leia a Fyodor y a Nietzche ahora lo hago más agregando a Camus y a Kafka, al ver este video me relato bastante a los gustos de literatura oscura e "nihilista"? de Ian, él era totalmente igual que yo o igual que todad esas personas que buscamos conocer esa parte "oscura" de la existencia humana. Ian ha sido y ES lo mejor y lo peor que me ha podido pasar en lavida...

@victormoreno803 2 месяца назад

amazing video thank you

@user-ek7sx1zm7c 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@smithdream Год назад

I love the writings of William Burroughs but I hate the way he always has characters hanging themselves. I think this may have influenced Ian in a negative way. JOHNNY 23 is a short story collection by Burroughs and Ian wrote a poem with the same name. One book which I love is ENVIRONMENTS AND HAPPENINGS by Adrian Henri and it really shocked me that Ian had this inspiring and interesting Performance Art book in his collection. If Ian had lived he could have also been an actor or a director. He did acting workshops at school. Ian's writings are very vague because he was a young writer striving for his own voice and visions. He could have became a great British novel writer in his 20's never mind his 40's or 50's. His writings have depth.

@boxianparkk Год назад

you made me cry with that "he could've be..."

@boxianparkk Год назад

bc it's true... he could've be, he is already but he could've be more, he could've DO more...

@terrypmusic Год назад

00:15 Very nice!

@greenvelvet 3 месяца назад

My entry point to getting interested in literature especially JG Ballard and William Burroughs

@crazycatman5928 10 месяцев назад

Disorder is the song on repeat that represents the soundtrack of my life.

@traumgeist Год назад

Since you brought up Anthony Burgess, could you do a video on his military service and post war teaching career?

@user-mb9ll9wy6g 2 месяца назад

Very good. I enjoyed that. Great work. I'm wondering right now if Curtis was Marco Corbelli's psychic twin..

@TeatroGrotesco Год назад

Rowan Atkinson's serious film role turn,. ala Man on the Moon, or Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting, was an Ian Curtis bio pic, the timing is long gone now, but with full respect to both I think it could have been great.

@travisjohnson622 3 месяца назад

That would have been interesting.

@edgarferrerr8857 7 месяцев назад

THANKS

@DaveSCameron Месяц назад

I made the mistake of going to watch him live, I think everyone who’s watched him knows what I’m talking about and he was not even attempting to show any effort and every time I’ve watched him live since he did the same, half the shows he barely managed to speed read the songs… Now having said that I also remember the very moment I heard New York 1989 and Rock and Roll Animal 1972 so fair play for the best of his albums but boy did he drop some dreadful stuff 😂 Rest Well Lou baby.. 🎵🙏 I hope he’s found peace and life without air to breathe finally discovered who made the trees who made the sky and the rest of the questions from Tripatinas Speech Who Am I? Off The Raven. 🚬

@Caligula138 Месяц назад

Morrissey wrote the song When Reader Meets Author.

@skullzskullz2651 Год назад

Do one of Kurt cobain

@domdom9496 Год назад

Wilson said that Curtis wrote like T.S.Elliot.

@myoyj 5 месяцев назад

before it starts ik gogol cuz dead souls

@davidantonsavage6207 10 месяцев назад

I wonder if Ian ever read the book by Tadeusz Borowski.... This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen. ???

@robbertbreach Год назад

b o o k l e s s

@josebarrocas8570 8 месяцев назад

I can Not believe his band Mates do not seen how IAN Really was. I do believe that they just didn't care, THEY ONLY cared the bands success success!!

@Idk-dc7hv 8 месяцев назад

I don’t think that’s true

@josebarrocas8570 8 месяцев назад

@@Idk-dc7hv well,how its possible beeing with someone so many hours, days,mounths,years and NT see what is happening with theire Mates? Come on,the lyrics....

@Misserbi Год назад

An all around athlete of art. I think episodic severity would make it seem like death is the answer. No, guilty pleasure needs to end. He was most likely transgressive and acting like it was a breakthru. A breakthru is honing an art and not taking dares and playing with noteriety. I guess a 23 year old would not be able to understand that.

@glenngastonjonsson7954 Год назад

Feels very AI. A JD listener certainly wouldn't have made these song choices. And any living brit can pronounce "Burgess". Ambitious, though.

@julianbrowne7026 2 месяца назад

Yes I choked....Aĺso knowing the band peripherally nothing sounds like a reaction of any of them.

@user-kl4bh4lq6r Год назад

Shame he killed himself

@BoudicaJ 9 месяцев назад

Gotten isn't a word in England

@selmahare 19 дней назад

It is an old English past participle form, which is why it’s used in America while the UK has for the most dropped it. But it’s not incorrect in the UK, it’s just fallen into desuse. Both forms at the end of the day are correct though. Former English teacher here.