Joy Division - Decades (Official Lyric Video)

Official lyric video for Joy Division's 'Decades' taken from their second studio album 'Closer' released on the 18th July 1980.
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Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders
Here are the young men, well where have they been?
We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber
Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in
Watched from the wings as the scenes were replaying
We saw ourselves now as we never had seen
Portrayal of the trauma and degeneration
The sorrows we suffered and never were free
[Chorus]
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
[Verse 2]
Weary inside, now our heart's lost forever
Can't replace the fear, or the thrill of the chase
Each ritual showed up the door for our wanderings
Open then shut, then slammed in our face
[Chorus]
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
Where have they been?
#JoyDivision #Decades #Closer

[@NunoM22]

The last 2 minutes of this song are, for me, the 2 most beautiful minutes of music ever recorded.

[@derekpugh6819]

A song that stays with you during your life time.

[@trentriehl4293]

I have been listening to them for 30 years. A dear old friend they are, along with my depression. It never gets better, only life goes on until it doesn't....

[@Snouty2010]

and beyond

[@epemsley3787]

Sure does.

[@TheMillieBurton]

So true. I haven't heard it for years but got irresistibly drawn back to it today.

[@billtravis2369]

Listening to the Closer album is an event that you plan for. You settle into your darkness and feel.

[@polderdebanjan]

It is nearly impossible to listen to anything else after this. It is so emotionally draining. There couldn't have been a better closing track for Closer.

[@StringSun]

It’s like church music played in hell

[@polderdebanjan]

@@StringSun Good way to put it. There's a preachy, ominous and cathartic element to this song.

[@morningstarrss]

Agree

[@Seven-zzz]

@@polderdebanjan thik ble6is bhai

[@chosenone9434]

I agree friend it truely is emotionally draining too listen to anything else to get to the state this song puts you in an exeptence of darkness as a beauty

[@MrTuurte]

These guys were in their early twenties when they wrote this magical ever lasting beauty of a song. Incredible.

[@ThetNoise]

Martin Hannet gives it that oomph factor as well

[@UndergroundRap4eva]

This song blurs the line between beauty and pain.

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@zaza_2209]

@@stormfromxmen3701 Shut up please

[@tommyboy9680]

Yessss😢

[@puppenbuhnebauchkribbeln1183]

WORD😌

[@markrae1317]

@@stormfromxmen3701 In what possible universe is this song underrated???

[@paulmccarthy3802]

An absolute masterpiece ❤.

[@detlefeilers5531]

I agree here 🖤🌹

[@PetrosSKG-oq5fw]

This is definitely the best song written in history since the world began to exist ...

[@val1776-x5v]

Sure one of the better

[@MrBittsteller]

Over 40 years later now and it still makes me ...can't find words for it..an everlasting moment in time

[@mxciemxy]

a masterpiece

[@morningstarrss]

Exactly

[@traadmin3214]

Just Quality

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@rapho8539]

Yes.

[@IRENESIMOES-l3k]

X​@@morningstarrssThis music was The frist i've heaŕd from JD AND SOMETHING AWAKE ISIDE OF ME!!!

[@simonyounger5677]

40 plus years of listening to this beautiful music. They were quite simply a great band.

[@djh29971]

Joy Division had an authenticity that has been unparalleled before or since.

[@marioramus9681]

Breathtaking! RIP Ian Curtis, great Poet!

[@happydaysneeded4422]

The most beautiful, haunting song ever made.

[@detlefeilers5531]

So dark, so beautiful ... such an outstanding song.

[@kathysenn7664]

This song's melody is beautiful.. it's dark and gloomy and sad.. I love it..

[@robertgambino1320]

I love it

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - isolation by the impures

[@Antonio-yn2un]

@@stormfromxmen3701 no

[@BaldricksTurnip1]

This track is beautiful,when the keyboard kicks in ,just gorgeous.

[@necronomiconex-mortis5976]

There are songs that aren't simply songs, but something else far more powerful, that's why this band's so unique.

[@RafaelOliveira-mj1xs]

Im from Brazil. Ian is so special, many people from Brazil love Joy Division.

[@-flowers-in-antarctica-]

I wish I could discover joy division again for the first time, my absolute favorite band of all time 🖤🖤🖤

[@TheNeutralViewFromSwedenAKAHer]

The first song I ever heard with Joy Division (I was eleven years old). Knocked me out completely. Still in love!

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@thethinredline4714]

Did you understand any of the lyrics ? I mean being from Sweden

[@MinskUK]

Closer is not an album of songs, it is a journey

[@jordisaladrigas6552]

It's a Poetry Compilation in Motion

[@camillab7]

But a journey to where? Unfortunately we know the answer. RIP Ian Curtis.

[@P.B0209]

@@camillab7 For some people, life is hell, and salvation is another world. There is no death, we just continue elsewhere.

[@val1776-x5v]

a journey that leads straight to hell. I try to stop listening to this extraordinary album before getting to Decades because of the effect it has on me. Crying.

[@markrae1317]

No, it's an album of songs. When did everything start to be a 'journey'?

[@OpalEmpressX]

One of my fave bands ever, RIP Ian❤

[@RobinASmith138]

This song is so haunting, it gives me chills and a feeling of foreboding. What a master craft

[@missvivienne8985]

Joy Division Are Like Being in Another Dimension... Unreal Brilliance 💋

[@uncleeric3317]

Best lyricist in rock history.

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@steve261brown]

@@internazionaleronaldo1941 Can’t argue with that was a poet genius.

[@donaldmacdonald4901]

More than 40 years on and still none better.

[@romeandjames778]

.

[@张蔚华-q1w]

Best song ever

[@stuartsmith4353]

My favourite song. By anyone ever. Pure genius. Has made me cry 1000 times

[@detlefeilers5531]

So dark, but ethereal and beautiful. Feel the same here.

[@gilbertlopez3544]

Head of his time, I was 21 when this song came out. Still a classic

[@val1776-x5v]

maybe even my favorite. But I try not to listen to her so I don't cry.

[@don5anjos]

What a song, what ending, absolute masterpiece

[@futurewizardcel6986]

GREATEST band of all time. Peter hook and Ian curtis are legands. Rip ian

[@shaungreer3350]

don’t forget morris’ amazing drumming skills and sumners great riffs.

[@D47JoyUnited]

13 when I got into Joy Division my interest was stoked listening to the John peel Sessions another legendary person then I got to see them supporting Buzzcocks at the Rainbow Theatre in London then later they did a small gig at the High Wycombe Town Hall supported by my Killing Joke. I even hustled money in the street to get a friend in I absolutely loved that band . absolutely pissed over everything that was going on at the time way too dark for most people but absolutely legend . Ethereal aesthetic combined with Ian curtis's crazy dancing very abstract and intense reading of n m e e and sounds magazine I bawled my eyes out when I found out out about his suicide. I think by then I was 14 or 15 then I stopped buying my usual music magazines however always find myself coming back to their tunes watching drum covers some of them done very artfully done . got proper cult status hall of fame Legends

[@s1050]

Barney is so underrated one of the greatest songwriters ever with New Order

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@LaughingStock_]

You forgot Martin Hannett - no Hannett, no Joy Division.

[@HastingsRussell]

Just a total classic

[@chriscard6544]

JD lyrics are so inspiring, they are the most elegant and beautiful lyrics, forever. My soul will pick them up in my next life

[@blsk_max]

This song was with me through one of my many depressive episodes, and I don't listen to it pretty often bc of the bad memories But is such a beautiful song, and once I play it is like traveling in time

[@synth-popmasturbator2oo538]

Same. It also not only a travelling in the bad times of your life, but also a travelling to the mediaeval Europe or ancient Greece

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@cayboulou]

Same

[@Happyradio1234]

I listened to this song after a suicide attempt and just felt so understood. I wish I could save this man as he had saved me.

[@cultureclashmusicvideo4545]

⁠@@Happyradio1234 I related strongly to Ian and joy division throughout 1979 - 1981. They were an essential and special part of our generation (gen-x). It was a traumatic time for me, and their music was inimical to my feeling and the experiences I was going through. JD were unique and special. When Ian committed suicide I was devastated. I remember clearly what went through my mind. Why Ian? Why not me? And I felt guilt because I had sensed his mental torture throughout the Unknown Pleasures and the Closer albums, and feared for him in the months before his death. If only I had acted before it was too late. I guess the rest of the band must have felt it the most. Ian represented my own desolation and I miss him like he was the brother that I never had.

[@benrideout8173]

I saw this song live when Hooky played Unknown Pleasures and Closer live last week. Absolutely incredible.

[@ladyix]

Got tingles listening to this today. It hits home in so many ways, you can almost feel the universe expanding, ready to spit us out.

[@MrHoefnix]

That does not alter the fact that the melody bears close resemblance to the 1976 track Le corridor from Canadian band Harmonium.

[@jak3186]

the perfect Joy Division song... each skeletal element arriving piecemeal as the song proceeds...the synthesizer that sounds like it was dropped on its head at birth... and when the real drums come in... one of the Great Moments in Recorded Sound... there's nowhere else to go after that song ends...

[@Varonno]

It’s Ian’s melodica. It’s a wind instrument with a keyboard not unlike an accordion

[@GeigermSv]

@@Varonno More precisely, a free reed instrument with buttons for the early models before being declined with a keyboard. They have a very spottable sound between harmonica and accordions. One famous post-punk/goth rock band having used it for a solo was Bauhaus in She's in Parties (Hohner melodica soprano).

[@Varonno]

@ Per chance, I have a couple of melodions and a theremin. Prefer the ancient whistles-clay etc. But I’m paring my life down. Want an Eventide H-9000. Can’t afford duplication space. Ergonomics and GUI is important,more. The human element acoustic instrumentation. The era of synthetics in my compositions has run its course has much I can help. There’s plenty of synthetics after in the digital realm! Have fun!

[@VardaTruffle]

How can a 20 something Englishman come up with these lyrics? Absolutely beyond his generation, RIP Ian.

[@chrisgoodwin1877]

Totally astonishing.....

[@jumofi]

These genius come, send a message and vanish

[@Happyradio1234]

Intelligence and suffering

[@heliohenrique4716]

Alma antiga!

[@darrengadd5050]

Being lost in the void .

[@fredericwikaryjak3299]

Quelle puissance ténébreuse déployée . Je n'ose imaginé quelles chansons Ian nous aurez gratifié si il serait toujours parmi nous . Vraiment une masterpiece . R.I.P Ian 🙏

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@Jusell]

A masterpiece from a legendary band 💯

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@furlerymath2747]

@@stormfromxmen3701 so cute🌙

[@shaungreer3350]

a fitting end to closer. what a great album.

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@nagolhayze9366]

This is still way ahead of any curve .... amazing. What a legacy Ian. Thank you.

[@s1050]

4:01 that incredible synthesiser. Things just got even more serious...

[@GiacomodellaSvezia]

I think few, if any other, moments in music have struck me with awe like that. This song may be simple in structure but it's like a requiem in depth.

[@mournblade1066]

That, my friend, is the sound of Ultimate Despair.

[@s1050]

I’m not sure who came up with that part, either Barney or Hannett but it is incredible

[@GeigermSv]

ARP Omni-2 : kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZamdY1ur82Zj7s

[@drnuke7393]

Closer (adjective): nearer. Closer (noun): finished.

[@ottosoddrecords]

Dark and beautiful. One of my favourites for sure.

[@spakkaka]

Questo pezzo è di una bellezza devastante.....ti scava dentro... La voce di Ian Curtis è incredibile. Oltre il capolavoro..

[@k-woff8116]

So eerie at the end, Ian asks over and over, "Where have they been " as if he's waiting on an answer that never comes, his voice slowly fades away as if resigned. RIP Ian 🖤

[@linadellasala4212]

This is my favourite song! The best of my heart

[@Serguei_FripenkoTV]

Perfect song!

[@Fortwentt]

prob my fav song by these guys

[@staceyrose5821]

Me too.

[@Zpeter84.]

Best ever song scary listen to the lyrics

[@robwarner9371]

The chord progression into, and repeated in, the chorus is sheer genius

[@B.McAllister]

Amazing

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures v < is an underrated gem

[@MM33633]

My favorite band of all the time is the The Doors and my favorite musician is Bach. And believe me, I really love music and I have listened almost everything, from Classic Music to World Music. Rock, Pop, Soul, RB, Funk from 60, 70, 80,90 and so on. Soft, hard and heavy. One thing Ive discovered, Ian Curtis is the most important lyric writer of all times. Too much for the rest. He was the lyrics Bach.

[@thefunkydose8561]

👌👍🏽🤙

[@steve261brown]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@sookmajoaby]

For sure

[@eire3215]

Ian Curtis loved Jim Morrison aswell the fact he burnt out at a young age..

[@mikeydowling-qo2dd]

Never underestimate joy division !!!! They are amazing

[@spdsot]

By far the best joy division track an absolute classic

[@thomas_walker]

The ultimate proto-goth tune. Always my favorite Joy Division song, and probably always will be.

[@katthesigma]

Same

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@Antonio-yn2un]

@@stormfromxmen3701 no

[@BaldricksTurnip1]

My favourite JD track also👍

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

🎶 immortal song 🎶

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@cultureclashmusicvideo4545]

I recently discovered the Great War poet Wilfred Owen was Commissioned into the Manchester Regiment in 1916. His poems often detail the horrors of his experiences of the war, including the deaths of the young men in his battalion. All Manchester lads, many from Salford. Around 1,000 or more of his comrades were killed in that war, probably most of them from the Manchester area. It must have been a huge blow to their families and the whole of Manchester. All those decades later, when I hear Ian Curtis sing ‘decades’, it is almost as if he is channeling the suffering, the loss of all those soldiers and the grief of their families. “Here are the young men, well where have they been?” Our own generation also are grateful for Ian because he articulated how many of our own lost generation felt in the late seventies.

[@solja4christ187]

After loosing my mum to cancer at 59 in 2018 , I found this track and it helped me grieve 🩷 Haunting but beautiful ✨️

[@martin-vg7hf]

this is the best Joy Division by a country mile!

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gemvv

[@DreamingQuant]

😊My best school friend and me were listening that song when we were 17. Now , ten years passed and that your favorite song again, Oleg. We are so far away one from each other but every times when im listening jd i cried about you.

[@DreamingQuant]

did we really wanted to die? I can't....

[@glyntaylor9809]

It's just like reading a Dostoyevsky novel ...beautiful...!!

[@108grog]

❣ of course. Right on ! Hadn't thought of it before. And Dostoyevsky is one of my favorite authors.

[@tonydoherty5614]

That whole track is pure genius, thats martin for the foresight to hear it in youre head, but the last 5 mins is a epic journey to heaven.

[@jishua4731]

I saw new order play at heaton park this Friday, and they played this just before they finished with love will tear us apart. One of the most mesmerising moments of my life. I can’t fathom what it’d be like back when they played this as joy division.

[@steve261brown]

Better.

[@jishua4731]

@@steve261brown Fair enough.

[@ジョニーサンダー]

my favorite

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gemdcdc

[@MauroClementiRoma]

One my favourite songs of all the times!

[@madlovebar6354]

Stunning...blood letting, death, full of pain & the shedding of tears...

[@aaronisraelfuentesmontes3244]

I went through a depressive episode almost a year ago. When i tried to commit suicide i put this song as a way to say goodbye. Right now i don't listen this song very often but when i do it doesn´t hurt anymore :')

[@jlcmiller100]

Stay here.......

[@BaldricksTurnip1]

👍🤗

[@ianmccrae3391]

hope you ok now,,,,im in that mode just now,,,,,sorry peoples.

[@JuhaJones1965]

I'm happy that you're better now. I was diagnosed with severe depression when I was a kid, I lost my father to suicide when I was eight years old. When I was 14 I drank for the first time, when I was 15 I smoked weed for the first time and after that I started to experiment with DXM cough syrup and pregabalin and other stuff. At some point I started with codeine and got addicted to iv subutex when I was like 20. I had already tried methylphenidate and amphetamine intravenously before that. I tried to commit suicide when I got drunk a few times, alcohol really worsened my depression and anxiety. Now I'm on suboxone treatment, and will be switched to methadone this fall. I'm 10 or 11 months sober from alcohol now. 🙂 Hang in there! Things will get better. I have ADHD too and maybe bipolar, but they haven't been able to sort out if I have bpd because I haven't been able to stay sober for long enough. There is a lot of bipolar on my fathers side of family. I also have OCD, but I don't know if it's been diagnosed. Things are going better for me now. 😊

[@JuhaJones1965]

@@ianmccrae3391 Hang in there buddy, it will get better at some point. I hope you are better now. 🙂 Please don't kill yourself.

[@Hey00074]

One of the best songs ever written

[@ellibiri-wr1hx]

Yes 1:07

[@andriesbrouwersurf]

Everything I relisten to this I am flooded with past pain yet somehow lifted up

[@EddiePunched]

This track is amazing and it really touches my soul, especially from the 4:00 minute mark. That synth is just so meaningful. OMFG!!

[@annalaurino7260]

Li ascoltavo quando ero ragazzina ed ora dopo 40 anni, penso ancora che closer sia un vero capolavoro

[@Happyradio1234]

I love this song so much that I learned to play it on my harp ❤

[@abrahamlopez3461]

"Portrayal of the trauma and degeneration". Damn, that line always get me, I guess I'm getting a tattoo of it.

[@mariotovar951]

I’m getting “We knocked on the doors of hell’s darkest chamber “

[@Roger-ob2ft]

If you got that tatted , that would be corny af

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@hylea96]

Really resonates with me as well. I'm literally both traumatized and a degenerate

[@patrickperrin8237]

My favorite of favorite thank you so much xxx

[@350125GOW]

MASTERPIECE

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gemcdcdc

[@gregbowden1552]

This song is amazing!

[@Heaven-dy9lj]

Ends with a summary of religions, his last words in this album. For all our wanderings "slammed in our face". There was no chance of any salvation, for him.

[@ktemp2756]

My favorite song ever!!!

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@Zpeter84.]

Mine too

[@dtrellis]

Shout out for that little guitar riff at 2:57 (you can also hear it in the background during the intro / first verse), always sticks in my head

[@voiceofexperience]

"Closer" found me at one of the lowest points in my life. It felt like God was "rubbing salt into the wound". A work of profound emptyness and brilliance, "Decades" took it to another level.

[@AW-kr9fl]

How the hi hat kicks in with Ian’s vocal at 1:28 the sublime synth at 4:00…just wow…

[@Himonsayne]

as a kid this album skitzed me out but now I can appreciate the beauty of it all. Righto. Goodnight .

[@dreamangus1505]

The last few songs on Closer are on a different plain. They come from a different world. It sounds like he is leaving and never coming back.

[@aidabcaballerovargas6471]

Closer é um álbum emblemático

[@varisplaything2957]

My favourite song 😍🍻

[@micheleomiccioli7083]

No song has the thaumaturgical power to make you feel like JD's Decades inside Ian Curtis' grave. Then I realize how it is one of the most beautiful songs written by the Man, and I rise up immanently.

[@scottieboyuk]

Aww this is just sublime!!! Again my youth, saw them with the Buzzcocks and was blown away, they would have went to do some magical tracks but sadly no but, Closer is one on my moments from my life! Just stunning and with age its so much more haunting!

[@Waglklo]

Me encanta Joy Division😊

[@jdipowyc]

I remember first time listening to this properly age 13 on my Walkman and tape i nabbed from my mom. night in the rain in a real bad time in my life. I hear it now and still takes me there. makes me feel amazed and grateful that lil man pulled through

[@charlespage8692]

Ian got me through worst so long ago. I can go on, strong, through him.

[@jfred5258]

Best song ever, period.

[@leslie-annegracesmith651]

Feels like looking into the past and the future simultaneously.

[@Fortwentt]

so best and incredible

[@DiogenesUlyanov]

I get chills down my spine everytime I hear that last minute or so... 😰

[@ledeilsonsantanasouza66]

So beatiful.

[@BaldricksTurnip1]

Best Joy Division track,Ian Curtis performance is sublime.

[@FOREST-1966]

Class tune class band

[@BLUEDDA]

one of fav track of JD for ever

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gem

[@walterbianco3664]

maybe the greatest Joy Division's Song. or at least One of the best. so intense, so melancholic, so....

[@stanislav182000]

Those sounds of keyboard are so dark and cool

[@thecoldend_official]

Timeless classic

[@jamescolyn5960]

Superb graphics. Fluid, ethereal, peaceful, mysterious, and evocative. A wonderful complement to this fine song.

[@stormfromxmen3701]

HI listen to this song - miss me by the impures < is an underrated gemvvv

[@robsawalker]

Goosebumps all over; check. The same today as when I first heard it over forty three years ago...