History Trivia / UnknownPleasures

* TropeCodifier: For PostPunk, with its [[EchoingAcoustics reverb-heavy prouction]] and enigmatic cover art.

** The Music/ArcticMonkeys album ''AM'' has an album cover that resembles ''Unknown Pleasures''.

** "She's Lost Control" received a {{reggae}} cover by Creator/GraceJones as the B-side to her cover of Music/ThePretenders' [[Music/{{Pretenders}} "Private Life"]].

* TropeCodifier: For PostPunk.

* ReferencedBy: "She's Lost Control" received a {{reggae}} cover by Creator/GraceJones as the B-side to her cover of Music/ThePretenders' [[Music/{{Pretenders}} "Private Life"]].

* LateExportForYou: The album was only released in the U.S. in October 1980, after [[AuthorExistenceFailure what would have been their first tour of the country]], though there were record stores that sold import copies beforehand based on Joy Division's buzz in the U.K.

* ReferencedBy: "She's Lost Control" received a {{reggae}} cover by Creator/GraceJones, included on the ''Private Life'' compilation and the 2016 deluxe edition of ''Warm Leatherette''.

* ReferencedBy: "She's Lost Control" received a {{reggae}} cover by Creator/GraceJones, included on the 2016 deluxe edition of ''Warm Leatherette''.

* RealitySubtext: "She's Lost Control" was partly inspired by Ian Curtis' own experience with epilepsy.
* SleeperHit: Copies of the album mostly sat in Factory co-owner Alan Erasmus' flat (which doubled as Factory's headquarters) until the release of the non-album single "Transmission," after which it sold out of its first pressing.

* MemeticMutation: The artwork for the album, [[https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/pop-culture-pulsar-origin-story-of-joy-division-s-unknown-pleasures-album-cover-video/ a data plot of signals from the first pulsar discovered]], has [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/how-joy-divisions-unknown-pleasures-image-went-from-underground-album-cover-to-piece-of-cultural-ubiquity/2019/06/14/26e75338-8c76-11e9-adf3-f70f78c156e8_story.html become a popular meme]] [[PopculturalOsmosis even among people who have no idea where it came from]].

* BreakthroughHit: The success of the album on the U.K. indie chart put Music/JoyDivision and Creator/FactoryRecords on the map.

* LateExportForYou: The album was only released in the U.S. in October 1980, after what would have been their first tour of the country, though there were record stores that sold import copies beforehand based on Joy Division's buzz in the U.K.

* LateExportForYou: The album was only released in the U.S. in October 1980, though there were record stores that sold import copies beforehand based on Joy Division's buzz in the U.K.

* SleeperHit: Copies of the album mostly sat in Factory co-owner Alan Erasmus' flat (which doubled as Factory's headquarters) until the release of the non-album single "Transmission."