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This is it—the single greatest STUPID Joy Division mashup ever: ‘Ian Curtis Rides a Roller Coaster’
09.12.2016
12:43 pm
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Poking fun of Joy Division is like making someone giggle at a wake—it just shouldn’t be as easy as it is. But the combination of the band’s funereal sounds, the death-cult that followed the suicide of their lead singer Ian Curtis, and the incredible earnestness of its ever-growing fandom makes deflating them a fish-in-a-barrel matter. The iconic cover art for their debut LP Unknown Pleasures has been parodied on so many t-shrt designs that this very blog called for a moratorium, and their best-known songs have featured in too many sound and video mashups to list here. Our ongoing favorites have been “Love Will Freak Us,” Dsico’s band vs band mashup of their signature song “Love Will Tear Us Apart” with Missy Elliot’s “Get Ur Freak On,” and the wonderfully spooky, and strangely elegiac combination of their 1980 single “Atmosphere” with desaturated footage from Teletubbies.

But last week, a brilliant bastard on the internet won for all time. Now, this has been around for a minute, but to my surprise, I found that a ton of rock snob-types who should have known about it didn’t, so we’re sharing it here in case you missed it, too. It’s combines the Unknown Pleasures album closer “I Remember Nothing” with 15 seconds of head-cam footage from a roller coaster ride. If you know the song, you can probably already see the punchline coming, but it doesn’t matter. I’ve watched this dozens of times and it keeps making me laugh.

I swear to god, I’m not usually so easily amused.
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
‘Dub Will Tear us Apart’: Jäh Division, the gimmick band that transcendeth all
Known Pleasures: Joy Division Parody T-Shirt
You knew this would happen: The inevitable Worf-Joy Division mash-up T-shirt
The roller coaster stare down experience

Posted by Ron Kretsch
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09.12.2016
12:43 pm
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