You people call yourselves progressive thinkers and yet you don't know Joy Division???!!!
Really???!!!! (ok just kidding you are all amazing progressive thinkers)
This band absolutely rocked. Had probably one of the most absolutely unique sounds in the late 70s with their lead singers in Ian Curtis with his gravelly baritone voice and his jerky dance movements that he would do while he sang. Their album 'Unknown Pleasures' is a masterpiece that I listen to at least once a month it's so sublime and hypnotic.
It's a shame they never really had a chance to make it big because unfortunately Curtis suffered from both severe epilepsy and depression which the combination is probably what lead to him committing suicide. The rest of his band continued onward however but under the new name of what you might recognize as New Order.
There was a great biopic movie made about Joy Division and Ian Curtis's life - 'Control'. I think it was on Netflix for awhile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_%282007_film%29
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My music genres have shifted lots - when alternative was just getting going, I was in both a jazz and classical phase. Then right around early 90s, went straight for alternative, including shoe gazer stuff.
Right now I am in an ambient mode (helps with writing) - for rock, The National type of stuff.
Loves me some Joy Division. I got the box set that came out around '99.
I bought their first album, "Unknown Pleasures", when I was a freshman in college, in Eugene OR, in 1979...My roommates hated it, as they were into the Grateful Dead shit at the time like "Shakedown Street" 
Yes they were absolutely awesome...wanted to post a good video but it was hard making a decision...
Here they are playing in a pub in Manchester..."She's Lost Control" and "Shadowplay"
