Having watched one Youtube video on Joy Division recently the algorithm has kept offering up more. Each one is good.
One of the unexpected side-effects of absorbing information which was out of reach at the time as it was before information was available in any meaningful way, is to appreciate as if for the first, or near first time, the original power and mystery of their songs.
To wonder how producer Martin Hannett took four wannabe punks who had all fell out of education at 16 and through them invented a new type of music.
Listening to these songs again and cover versions and being stone cold aware that if one makes something it needs to aim to be as good as this. It sets a bar.
This evening, Youtube offers a bloody brilliant 2020 tribute set from a Polish band.