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* RefrainFromAssuming: No, the song is not called "Remember When We Were Young"; it's called "Insight".
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* GenreTurningPoint: The album galvanized the transition from PunkRock to PostPunk in the popular music landscape. The genre had already been emerging for roughly two years by that point, with artists such as Music/TalkingHeads, Music/GangOfFour, Music/PublicImageLtd, and Music/{{Television}} (among other examples) putting out material in 1977-1978 that are easily classifiable as post-punk, but it was ''Unknown Pleasures'' that marked the point where the movement definitively became a distinct entity.

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* GenreTurningPoint: The album galvanized the transition from PunkRock to PostPunk in the popular music landscape. The genre had already been emerging for roughly two years by that point, with artists such as Music/TalkingHeads, Music/{{Wire}}, Music/GangOfFour, Music/PublicImageLtd, and Music/{{Television}} (among other examples) putting out material in 1977-1978 that are easily classifiable as post-punk, but it was ''Unknown Pleasures'' that marked the point where the movement definitively became a distinct entity.
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* GenreTurningPoint: The album marked the point where PunkRock became PostPunk.

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* GenreTurningPoint: The album galvanized the transition from PunkRock to PostPunk in the popular music landscape. The genre had already been emerging for roughly two years by that point, with artists such as Music/TalkingHeads, Music/GangOfFour, Music/PublicImageLtd, and Music/{{Television}} (among other examples) putting out material in 1977-1978 that are easily classifiable as post-punk, but it was ''Unknown Pleasures'' that marked the point where PunkRock the movement definitively became PostPunk.a distinct entity.
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* GenreTurningPoint: The album marked the point where PunkRock became PostPunk.
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* NightmareFuel: This is Music/JoyDivision after all. Curtis' lyrics are quite disturbing, with oblique references to depression and violence.

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* NightmareFuel: This is Music/JoyDivision after all. Curtis' lyrics are quite disturbing, with oblique references to depression and violence. Martin Hannett drops in ghostly sounds at random.
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* NightmareFuel: This is Music/JoyDivision after all. Curtis' lyrics are quite disturbing, with oblique references to depression and violence.
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* 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]].
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