Joy Division – Digital Song Review
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Digital is as uplifting as it gets for Joy Division. By uplifting I mean the bassline is ‘fun’. It’s something I can imagine Barbara Windsor dancing to pissed with her baps out at the last night of the fair in Blackpool 1978.
The song in its entirety consists of Ian Curtis screaming ‘Feel it closing in’ and ‘Day in day out’ for 2:49. What exactly is ‘closing in’ is up for debate. I personally believe that he is referring to his own arsehole, bemoaning the fact that he hadn’t had a good shit since the Tony Tabac days.
If only Ian was intelligent enough to realize that living off a diet of chips and old wallpaper was not good form, then we wouldn’t have been so depressed and knocked himself off.