My favourite Joy Division song bar none, it's over 25 years old and yet I've never heard anything so futuristic.
Obviously Ian Curtis was not a Marxist (quite the opposite) but I agree this does seem to be about different 'phases' of the development of society:
"Just passing through till we reach the next stage
But just to where - well it's all been arranged"
As in 'Ceremony' he refers to the "wheels turning" - I think Curtis was acutely aware of the grand themes of history and of his own place within them, which is probably what makes Joy Division songs so epic.
My favourite Joy Division song bar none, it's over 25 years old and yet I've never heard anything so futuristic.
Obviously Ian Curtis was not a Marxist (quite the opposite) but I agree this does seem to be about different 'phases' of the development of society:
"Just passing through till we reach the next stage But just to where - well it's all been arranged"
As in 'Ceremony' he refers to the "wheels turning" - I think Curtis was acutely aware of the grand themes of history and of his own place within them, which is probably what makes Joy Division songs so epic.