14 years old and stuck in bed with Bronchitis (not a foreign exchange student unfortunately)
so feeling extremely crap and sorry for myself. My mum wanted to cheer me up so I asked her to buy 'Unknown Pleasures' by Joy Division which I played endlessly on an old Radiogram and which obviously cheered me up no end!
(RTFM May your god go with you, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 14:22, 3 replies)

suprised you didnt kill yourself.
(TexasPete enjoyed being sexually molested by your Father on, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 19:24, closed)

When
I was feeling down a long time ago I used to listen to loads of Joy Division - I realised that there was no way I could ever be that fucking miserable, and it used to get me out of it.
Still a massive fan.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 20:49, closed)

The reason I'd asked for it was
I'd seem them not long beforehand playing at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. I went to see John Cooper Clarke, the Punk Poet, aka that bloke with the big hair on the Sugar Puffs adverts many years ago. Anyway, he was being 'supported' by a group called Fashion (who were okay live) and Joy Division. I'd never heard of them before but I was completely gobsmacked...JCC was good, although I don't remember his set that well, but they completely and utterly stole the show as far as I was concerned (and many others that night I'm sure). Curtis was incredible, never really got into New Order for some reason.
(RTFM May your god go with you, Fri 29 Jan 2010, 12:02, closed)