ATMOSPHERE
“Atmosphere” is a song by English post-punk band Joy Division. It was originally released in March 1980 by record label Sordide Sentimental as “Licht und Blindheit” (“Light and Blindness”), a France-only limited edition single featuring the track “Dead Souls” as the B-side. Following Ian Curtis’s death two months later, it was re-released as a 12” single by record label Factory with “She’s Lost Control” as the B-side. The single was re-released in 1988 to coincide with the release of the compilation album Substance, and a music video was produced for the song. (More from Wikipedia)
When a long overdue retrospective of Joy Division called Substance finally came out in 1988, one of the songs, “Atmosphere” got to #34 on the British charts, and the Spartan music video that played on the MTV program 120 Minutes made a deep impression on me as well.
(June 2014)
