Transmission - 2010 Remasterby Joy Division

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Peter Hook: “Transmission” started with the bass line, turned into our first hit record, and it’s a very very simple chord sequence, very effective. You can hear that youth, that you’re a punk and you mean it in the bass riff, which is obviously the most important thing in the world." -- Here are the bass tabs for this classic song: tabs.ultimate-guitar.com

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Peter Hook talked about the first time they played "Transmission" live: “The first time I noticed anything different was when we’d written a song that weekend. And we had a gig on the Thursday, so we thought we’d play that song at the gig,” he added. “We played the new song, which was ‘Transmission’ – and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment. It really made the hair on your arms stand up and shivers down your spine,”

6 degrees week: Please don't make me tell you how Joy Division and New Order are related. They share a member or two. (OKAY IT'S 3) Bassist Peter Hook: “Transmission” started with the bass line, turned into our first hit record, and it’s a very very simple chord sequence, very effective. You can hear that youth, that you’re a punk and you mean it in the bass riff, which is obviously the most important thing in the world." The official music video begins with video of Hook playing that extraordinary bass line: www.youtube.com

" ‘Transmission’ would be the band’s very first single but the cut we are all familiar with isn’t the original and, in actual fact, the track was first recorded in 1978 for the band’s aborted self-titled album. It was later re-recorded the following year at a faster tempo and released by record label Factory as the band’s debut single, one that helped Joy Division become the voice of angsty teens across Britain.": faroutmagazine.co.uk

Bassist Peter Hook said that the song was a milestone in the band's career. "The first time I noticed anything different was when we’d written a song that weekend. And we had a gig on the Thursday, so we thought we’d play that song at the gig, 'We played the new song, which was Transmission - and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment. It really made the hair on your arms stand up and shivers down your spine.'" The official music video begins with video of Hook playing that extraordinary bass line: tinyurl.com

Bassist Peter Hook said that the song was a milestone in the band's career. “The first time I noticed anything different was when we’d written a song that weekend. And we had a gig on the Thursday, so we thought we’d play that song at the gig, “We played the new song, which was Transmission - and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment. It really made the hair on your arms stand up and shivers down your spine.” -- The official music video begins with video of Hook playing that extraordinary bass line: www.youtube.com

Bassist Peter Hook said that the song was a milestone in the band's career. “The first time I noticed anything different was when we’d written a song that weekend. And we had a gig on the Thursday, so we thought we’d play that song at the gig, “We played the new song, which was Transmission - and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment. It really made the hair on your arms stand up and shivers down your spine.” -- The official music video begins with video of Hook playing that extraordinary bass line: www.youtube.com

Bassist Peter Hook said that the song was a milestone in the band's career. “The first time I noticed anything different was when we’d written a song that weekend. And we had a gig on the Thursday, so we thought we’d play that song at the gig, “We played the new song, which was Transmission - and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment. It really made the hair on your arms stand up and shivers down your spine.” -- The official music video begins with video of Hook playing that extraordinary bass line: www.youtube.com

Peter Hook: “Transmission” started with the bass line, turned into our first hit record, and it’s a very very simple chord sequence, very effective. You can hear that youth, that you’re a punk and you mean it in the bass riff, which is obviously the most important thing in the world." -- The official music video begins with video of Hook playing that bass line: www.youtube.com

Where it all started for Ian Curtis and Peter Hook! Unknown Pleasures is Joy Division's debut studio album, released in 1979. Peter Hook said that this song was a milestone in the band's career. “We played the new song, which was Transmission - and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment." faroutmagazine.co.uk

Joy Division released the 7" single "Transmission" on Factory. on this date in 1979. It was re-released as a 12" single with a different sleeve in December 1980. -- Bassist Peter Hook said that this song was a milestone in the band's career. “The first time I noticed anything different was when we’d written a song that weekend. And we had a gig on the Thursday, so we thought we’d play that song at the gig, “We played the new song, which was Transmission - and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment. It really made the hair on your arms stand up and shivers down your spine.”

Ian Curtis would've been 66 today

#128 - Joy Division "Transmission" (1979) Greil Marcus has a chapter on this song in his book "The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs." According to Marcus, "'Transmission' is not an argument. It's a dramatization of the realization that the act of listening to the radio is a suicidal gesture. It will kill your mind. It will rob your soul." Marcus also quotes the band's bassist Peter Hook about the importance of this song: "We were doing a soundcheck at the Mayflower, in May, and we played 'Transmission': people had been moving around, and they all stopped to listen. I realized that was our first great song." bit.ly

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Here's footage of Joy Division performing this song on the BBC. www.youtube.com

Check out KEXP's May 2020 edition of "Sound & Vision," where DJ Kevin Cole discusses Joy Division's legacy with Jon Savage, author of "This Searing Light, the Sun, and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History": bit.ly

Check out KEXP's May 2020 edition of "Sound & Vision," where DJ Kevin Cole discusses Joy Division's legacy with Jon Savage, author of "This Searing Light, the Sun, and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History": bit.ly

Check out KEXP's May 2020 edition of 'Sound & Vision', where DJ Kevin Cole discusses Joy Division's legacy with Jon Savage, author of 'This Searing Light, the Sun, and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History': kexp.org.

Here’s an incredible video of the group performing “Transmission” on the BBC2 program "Something Else: on September 15th, 1979.: www.rollingstone.com

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Peter Hook talked about the first time Joy Division played "Transmission": “We played the new song, which was Transmission - and everyone in the whole place stopped literally what they were doing to listen and to turn round and watch us. It was an absolutely bizarre moment. It really made the hair on your arms stand up and shivers down your spine.”: www.radiox.co.uk

"Transmission" has been covered by multiple artists including Low, Bauhaus (as well as by frontman Peter Murphy on his solo tours), and Hot Chip on the 2009 War Child charity album Heroes.

On July 11, 1988, Joy Division released the compilation album "Substance", which is a collection of the band’s non-album singles and b-sides.

"Substance" also has the historical significance of collecting tracks from Joy Division’s first EP issued under the name "Warsaw, An Ideal For Living", which was unavailable at the time. These tracks are: 'Warsaw,' 'Leaders of Men,' 'No Love Lost,' and 'Failures.' "Substance" peaked at number 7 on the UK Albums Chart and 146 on the Billboard 200, the band's only chart appearance in the United States.

Listener request from our UK fan Dave. Transmission was Joy Division's first ever single released in 1979. www.joydivisionofficial.com

On this day in 1980 Joy Division played what would be their last gig with singer Ian Curtis when they appeared at Birmingham University’s High Hall in England. Curtis committed suicide two weeks later (May 18th). Joy Division used this concert to debut one of their new songs, "Ceremony".

The band's bassist Peter Hook mentioned the importance of this song: "We were doing a soundcheck at the Mayflower, in May, and we played 'Transmission': people had been moving around, and they all stopped to listen. I realized that was our first great song." bit.ly

Watch Joy Division perform this song live on the BBC in (Wait for it!) 1979: www.rollingstone.com

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Warsaw (as the band was originally known), played their first gig on May 29, 1977 supporting the Buzzcocks at the Electric Circus.The name Warsaw, in reference to Bowie's song "Warszawa" was soon replaced to avoid confusion with another band called Warsaw Pakt. In keeping with the allusion to WWII, the band took the name Joy Division from a prostitution wing of a Nazi concentration camp as mentioned in the 1955 novel by holocaust survivor Ka-tzetnik 135633, "The House of Dolls." The newly named Joy Division performed their first gig January 25, 1978 at Pip's Disco in Manchester.

Check out a cover by New Order: www.youtube.com

Speaking of Joy Division, this song is "an Orwellian nightmare: [Ian Curtis'] voice ringing out as if at a dystopian rally, trying to wake a population of people who’ve become mindless, all-obeying automatons. “Listen to the silence, let it ring on / Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun,” he howls. “And we would go on as though nothing was wrong / And hide from these days as we remained all alone.” :www.theguardian.com

In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Transmission" at number 20 in its list of the 50 "Greatest Indie Anthems Ever", one place below "Love Will Tear Us Apart".

Check out this video of Joy Division performing "Transmission: live: www.youtube.com