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Old 05-31-2008, 02:23 AM   #33
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Originally Posted by I Am Great.
So Joy Division are goth because they made the song "Love Will Tear Us Apart"? Is this despite the fact that every other song of theirs is hardcore punk?
What are you talking about? No Joy Division songs are Hardcore. Hardcore came later with bands like Minor Threat and the Dead Kennedys.

Goth didn't start until Bauhaus, strictly speaking, but Joy Division are often called Goth or "proto-Goth" because they were so influential to it.
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