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Joy Division and New Order share Mic The Snare's double feature

His first paired Deep Discog Dive traces the route from Unknown Pleasures to Music Complete.

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DEEP DISCOG DIVE: Joy Division + New Order

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3:47Martin Hannett's production helps define the sound of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures.
13:14Sumner, Hook and Morris recruit Gillian Gilbert as the story moves into New Order.
17:12The Haçienda and "Blue Monday" help explain New Order's turn toward dance music.
24:51Brotherhood separates rock tracks and electronic dance music across its two sides.
46:59Music Complete brings guest contributions from Iggy Pop, La Roux and Brandon Flowers.

Two band names, one connected musical history: "DEEP DISCOG DIVE: Joy Division + New Order" gives Mic The Snare room to follow a transformation rather than stop at a discography's edge. His only upload of the week has drawn about 193,000 views.

The essay starts with the Manchester concert that inspired Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner to form a band, then examines how producer Martin Hannett helped shape Unknown Pleasures. There is a personal detour, too: Mic recalls studying the audio mix of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in college. These are records he has spent time taking apart, not just placing in order.

Once the story reaches New Order, the question becomes how a band finds another identity. Movement sits in that transition; "Blue Monday" opens up the dance floor. Later, Mic examines Brotherhood's division between rock and electronic sides, the Ibiza influence on Technique, and Music Complete's guests, including Iggy Pop, La Roux and Brandon Flowers.

Viewers are treating the double feature as an invitation to nominate another substantial assignment. Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails recur in the comments, while one listener recalls discovering only in adulthood that Joy Division and New Order were connected.

The new essay is currently the channel's busiest video. September's "The Only 7 Masterpiece Albums Ever Made" also keeps moving and has passed two million views, with the Beatles worst-song ranking drawing viewers alongside it.

Subscribers were unchanged over the week, while today's viewing pace is below Mic The Snare's usual level. Nearby in music commentary, Adam Neely drew a similar weekly view total and Trash Theory had a quieter week. For Mic, the freshest draw is this unusually expansive installment of an established series.

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I genuinely heard of both Joy division and New Order as a teenager and did not know they were related until I was an adult.
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We’ve officially reached the Barbenheimer of deep discog dives
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Every DDD we get closer to Depeche Mode. You can’t deny your destiny Mic
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The Nine Inch Nails DDD is so close now I can taste it
@Fragile_MediaSee it on YouTube
I do want to brag that I saw New Order perform with Brandon Flowers. It was very fun.
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Big day for me, someone who’s knowledge of Joy Division is one line in a song by The Wombats
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Joy Division AND New Order? My body is ready
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Never clicked on a DDD faster
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