Joy Division & NewOrder
- from "Permanent," a 1995 collection of Joy Division
What was the question? Here's one answer. Rhythm times and
technological agility and punk disco and computer mistakes and
dynamic sensations and noise-files suspension and beside
themselves and many meanderings and shy purpose and the question
is motionless and the answer is eternal motion and vain desires
and scattered moods and mixed metatongues and lyrical caresses
and remote vision and great haste and points of obsession and
unendurable happiness and the anguish of amorous subjugation and
the crossing and clashing and trembling and splintering of mind
and machine and the sound of feelings and melodies falling from
the skies and shadowy beauty and grave ecstasy and inexhaustible restlessness and looking for life and stoned perfectionism and
imprisoned perceptions and a low key engagement with a world of
perplexities and uncertainties in which one can hope at best to
achieve the small pleasures of life, the small satisfactions and
a kind of innocence that surrounds the enigma and what was the
question?
...Yes, that's it. They get a hold of me, and change me, move me,
every time. And the answer to whatever the question might be
concerning NewOrder these wild mild entertainers with chips on
their shoulders, something or other on their mind and hearts on
their sleeve is no more and no less than...Yes!
- Paul Morley October-94
