Joy Division - Transmission Meaning
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Song Released: 1979
Transmission Lyrics
Radio, live transmission.
Listen to the silence, let it ring on.
Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun.
We would have a fine time living in the night,
Left to blind destruction,
Waiting for our sight.
And we...
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The band grew up in a WWII bombed out desperately poor area of England, Manchester. Their entire lives revolved around meeting as a band and listening to the radio to new wave punk indie radio stations. The entire backdrop of their lives is further accentuated by the constant threat of nuclear war. Ian Curtis develops the lyrics with those dark overtones and grows his singing as if transmitting his desperate plea to exist, to live, until he is screaming his message of desperation.
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