204. MOGWAI’S STUART BRAITHWAITE REVEALS THE FULL STORY BEHIND JOY DIVISION & RATES THEIR RECORDS (PART 2: CLOSER)

Everyone needs a Beach Boy break every now and then, and I’m happy as a clam to announce this sharp left turn with Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, as we take a mutual descent into the heart of darkness. Our examination of every last triumphantly bleak release by post-punk progenitors Joy Division is a dependably in-depth celebration of this great band’s “eerie spatially.”

Here’s just a few of the many things that Stuart discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast:

• The avalanche of crazily top-shelf singles Joy Division released between their two LPs, including “Love Will Tear Us Apart”;
• The obscure song from which Joy Division cribbed the riff for “Love Will Tear Us Apart”;
• The super-cool but maddening-at-the-time decision to do an exclusive release of Stuart’s all-time favorite Joy Division 45 through a French fanzine;
• The unfortunate inverse ratio of the band’s success to Ian Curtis’s worsening epilepsy and suicidal urges;
• The crucial role that mundane conversation held in Joy Division’s band rehearsals;
• The details surrounding Ian Curtis’s tragic suicide;
• Stuart’s favorite album of all time;
• And a track-by-track rundown of Joy Division’s posthumous classic Closer.

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