Posted on 03/25/2021 9:21:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Who doesn’t know this?
The story of Ian Curtis is one of the saddest. Misdiagnosed for his epilepsy, no doubt the medications contributed to his suicide.
There’s a great movie called ‘Control’, about the band in those days.
At the time of the recording of the band's second album, Curtis's condition was particularly severe, with him enduring a weekly average of two tonic-clonic seizures. On one occasion during these recordings, Curtis's bandmates became concerned when they noted he had been absent from the recording studio for two hours. The band's bassist, Peter Hook, discovered Curtis unconscious on the floor of the studio's toilets, having hit his head on a sink following a seizure.
This condition might have been controllable using current meds. Sad.
The guy who played Ian Curtis in 24 Hour Party People did a pretty good job.
The doctors killed him.
I specifically remember where I was when I heard Closer for the first time.
It would be very difficult to say who doesn’t know this. A lot of people don’t know it, I’m sure of that.
Their new name after Ian’s tragic suicide, New Order, was a cool one, too, in the same Nazi vein, meant to shock the established order, which is a pretty punk thing to be doing.
“It would be very difficult to say who doesn’t know this. A lot of people don’t know it, I’m sure of that.”
I’m just joking a bit.
I knew of course but I knew about this band before Curtis killed himself when 99% of music fans never even heard of them.
Same here. I must be aging when I knew this band, the same way I listened to the Smiths, The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen etc..
Yeah. Killing An Arab. Cure’s first single. I had that.
I wish I hadn’t lost these things over the years.
... Sisters of Mercy, Jawbreaker, Jets to Brazil, Smashing Pumpkins, ...
I was gonna pay a DJ $20 to play that song right after 9/11 but chickened out.
It was playing on the radio in the months leading up to Operation Desert Storm.
Saw The Cure on their first US tour in the spring of 1980 in NYC at a club called The Ritz . It was their 2nd gig , the first being the day before iN New Jersey . Saw them again in 1981 in NYC on the Faith Tour and once again in 1984 just after Boris Williams joined the band . Then in the spring of 1985 saw New Order when I was visiting Japan . Oh - saw The Smiths live once , too . No Echo , though .
My older brother had the first Boys Dont Cry single vinyl probably in the state. My dad believe it or not, bought in the Philippines circa 84?, when he was working for Shell Oil, and had an assignment to work in the SE Asian branches, training the office guys. And yeah, that was one of my fave singles, killing an arab. Cant [ay that sh*t nowadays due to wokeness.
I saw the Cure once at the QE Theater in Vancouver BC. Sold out. Being a mosh guy, I dont like sitting down but I had my then-GF with me, so it was still OK.
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