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[17 Jul 2009 | No Comment | 131 views]

This 1988 video, directed by Anton Corbijn, who also directed the Ian Curtis Biopic Control (2007), was released in 1988 to accompany the re-release of this single Atmosphere by Joy Division.
This dark and mind boggling video, features characters wearing black-hooded cloaks and white burial shrouds.  In fact, when released, it was heavily criticized from the public, who claimed that it mythologized the death of the band’s lead singer, Ian Curtis.
Whatever the public says, Joy Division wrote some of the ‘darkest and saddest songs’ around, even if they were not a …