Suicide is just such a selfish act no matter how much pain you may be in. I know because I attempted to take my own life when I was in my early twenties. All you want is the pain to end and it's a blinkered view because all you are doing is passing on that pain and sadness onto those you leave behind and they are the ones that love you most.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑18 Oct 2018, 8:40pmHe is so much kinder than I ever could be to that Paul Young cover. Again, I may be uncharacteristically romantic about it, but when I hear Hook and the Light do Joy Division, it sounds like a genuine love for it all. Especially in a way that I never really heard when New Order did JD songs. If I'm reading way too much into it, so be it.Marky Dread wrote: ↑18 Oct 2018, 8:00pmI don't care much for the fanbase attitude to be honest. Peter can do what he likes and I don't really have a take on how much he cares for the legacy. It's all nonsense to me that people somehow think you can harm a legacy just by playing old material with a fresher approach be it by an original band member or a cover artist. Hooky speaks kindly of that Paul Young version which most don't care for but it takes nothing away from the brilliance of the original.
Thanks! I've read both his JD and NO books and enjoyed the rather self-effacing style. This bit jumped out at me: "Ian wasn't a victim of success. He was victim of circumstance." That's the thing that really does gnaw at me. The self-destruction wasn't that rock star over-indulgence cliche, but a poor fucker who was shown his dreams and then was betrayed by his body. I don't understand the ghoulish romanticization of his suicide that some generate. He made his choice, the one he thought made sense, but it's unfair that he was in the situation to make that choice, leaving behind so many people who loved him. There but for the grace of God …You might like this.
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Ian's death was extremely sad and who knows how big JD would have become. I don't see JD becoming big like say U2 did with the stadium rock thing and I wonder just where JD would've fitted in chart wise. I also can't imagine Ian fronting New Order but then who knows maybe the band would've gone in the direction of say Bowie with Low/Heroes or Iggy with The Idiot/Lust for Lfe as JD were big fans of those and Ian especially. Somehow though he is still touching from a distance.
Regards the Paul Young cover : I can accept it for what it is. Paul Young made a career from covering songs and I see nothing much wrong in that and he just picked one of his favourite songs. I'm not endorsing it as being any good but there are much worse offenders out there.