"... Even 'Love Will Tear Us Apart,' a track which featured a music video and peaked at number 13 on the UK's single chart, betrays some of Curtis's personal woes. 'You cry out in your sleep/All my failings exposed/ And there's a taste in my mouth/As desperation takes hold/Just that something so good just can't function no more,' he sings over a deceptively poppy synthesizer. Had those lyrics been written by another rock singer, the track could easily have been passed off as any of the myriad of mopey, hollow love songs which spewed out of the 80's. But with Curtis, who was quite likely being torn apart by love at the time he wrote the song, it was real."
WFMU: Joy Division: Tragedy and Synth (Video)
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