'Movement' sounded like Joy Division, but 'Power, Corruption & Lies' is the first New Order record.
Over the years, Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture.
I was very good friends with Ian Curtis from Joy Division. In fact, I was the last person he spoke with before he died.
A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.
I look back on Joy Division very fondly indeed. I know that, of course, the band came to a tragic end, but that does not change the fact that Joy Division was a great band to be a part of.
Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.
I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.
The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.
Factory Records would not have existed and my life would not have been what it was without Joy Division.
What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing and supplication.
I'm very proud of New Order and Joy Division, that heritage of songs.
I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
It was nice doing my own Joy Division book to be able to put forward the fact that Ian was actually quite a nice guy and very hardworking, ambitious and loyal. But the thing was, he was battling such a dreadful illness in an era when they really didn't know how to treat it.
We didn't play any Joy Division songs for 10 years after the start of New Order, which was a very honourable thing to do even if it meant shooting ourselves in the foot.
I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.
The reason Joy Division and New Order are as influential and successful as they are is because of the unique playing of all the individuals.
There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.
