Why Warsaw Changed Their Sound So Much When They Became Joy Division
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If you’re familiar with the Warsaw sound, then you’ll know that it’s raw, edgy and amateurish. No one in the music business wanted anything to do with the band as they were seen to be pig-headed Nazi scumbags who were more likely to score at a National Front rally than a hit record.
So in a desperate attempt to attract a new fan base, Joy Division changed their sound drastically, covering up the once exposed guitars with masses of reverb and other studio trickery.
Ian Curtis then began to steal lots of J.G. Ballard’s ideas as his own and luckily enough this interested enough shallow art students, to win the band a fan base.
In the end of the day, their decision to adopt a much ‘darker’ mood in their music worked. If they’d stayed as Warsaw then they’d have been long forgotten, which is a pity for the rest of us.