Joy Division: 10 of the Best

The gloomy quartet from Manchester had a short run but made a big impact with their songs of miserable beauty – here are the standoutsTony Wilson, speaking in 2007, said it best of all. “Punk enabled you to say ‘fuck you’, but it couldn’t go any further. It was a single, venomous, two-syllable phrase of anger. Sooner or later, someone was going to say more; someone was going to want to say ‘I’m fucked.’” That someone was Joy Division. A gang of surly ruffians from Manchester, l