07 March 2007
March 7, 2007
"Procession" by New Order
Lyrics
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My first post since October. Left for dead, but the blog survives - neglected, but breathing. Anyway, I like the idea of a hit and run post AND I got out of work early.
The path goes like this - reading The Onion, flip to the AV Club, pull up an article on "Songs About Years", read the entry about "1963" by New Order, launch the Yahoo! Music Jukebox for the flashback listen, start pulling up some more New Order songs, hear "Procession" for the first time in a few years, open up allmusic.com to brush up on New Order and Joy Division trivia, and finally decide to write something down to commemorate the not so sordid affair.
Why "Procession"? Why else - it's the bass line. And the moodiness is also a real hook. The early New Order stuff / late Joy Division really captures a mood; a dark brooding mood. I read the lyrics for Procession and they're oblique, but you could easily infer a connection to Ian Curtis's (the lead singer of Joy Division) suicide - so that REALLY sets a mood.
Funny thing is, I've been listening to almost nothing but the Grateful Dead for the last three or four weeks.
Lyrics
Listen fo' Free
My first post since October. Left for dead, but the blog survives - neglected, but breathing. Anyway, I like the idea of a hit and run post AND I got out of work early.
The path goes like this - reading The Onion, flip to the AV Club, pull up an article on "Songs About Years", read the entry about "1963" by New Order, launch the Yahoo! Music Jukebox for the flashback listen, start pulling up some more New Order songs, hear "Procession" for the first time in a few years, open up allmusic.com to brush up on New Order and Joy Division trivia, and finally decide to write something down to commemorate the not so sordid affair.
Why "Procession"? Why else - it's the bass line. And the moodiness is also a real hook. The early New Order stuff / late Joy Division really captures a mood; a dark brooding mood. I read the lyrics for Procession and they're oblique, but you could easily infer a connection to Ian Curtis's (the lead singer of Joy Division) suicide - so that REALLY sets a mood.
Funny thing is, I've been listening to almost nothing but the Grateful Dead for the last three or four weeks.
