My Top 1000 Songs #828: Isolation

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Barely two years after Joy Division supposedly scrapped the initial stab at the debut album that would evolve into Unknown Pleasures because they didn't like their punk sound being diluted by the post-production addition of synthesizers... and here they are, going full-fledged synth-pop. Or at least about as synth-pop as the Ian Curtis-helmed combo could go...