Joy Division – Atmosphere Song Review Off Licht Und Blindheit.
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Atmosphere is the most depressing song in the known Universe. It is also one of Joy Division’s most famous featuring prominently in the movie ‘Control’ in the scene where fake-Debbie hacks down fake-Ian with a pen knife in Macclesfield.
The song itself starts with Ian Curtis moaning about how he always has people walking away from him in silence. Is he surprised? I mean the guy was hardly the heart and soul of the party, was he?
The backing music is like something off the soundtrack to a Christmas B-Movie where Santa turns out to be a lesbian and the kids get nothing for Christmas. It’s just plain bland and cheesy.
It continues on in a similar vein until we reach the climax of the song with the lyric “People like you find it easy”
Oh boo-hoo. Yes I find life perfectly easy. I woke up this morning with a godawful hungover and laid a turd of which the stench nearly made my family pass out.
I had to explain why it smelt so bad to my whole family. I could have been a whiny little bitch and wrote a moany meandering piece of nonsense like Atmosphere but I’m a better man than that. I have balls.