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* [[All Part of the Show]]: Apparently, some of Curtis' onstage seizures were mistaken for his frenetic dancing style at first.
* [[Author Existence Failure|Artist Existence Failure]]
* [[The Band Minus the Face]]: New Order. An [[Averted Trope]] thanks to the band's success, although literally true as in [[New Order]] Gillian was on the keyboards not vocals.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Producer Martin Hannett. Various legends state that Hannett forced drummer Stephen Morris to take apart his drumkit and reassemble it with toilet parts, made Morris continue recording for an hour after the rest of the band finished a song, set up his drumkit on the studio's first-floor roof, and once went on a hill to record "silence" for an extended period of time.
** So that's why Jello Biafra said in the beginning of the [[Dead Kennedys]] track 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off' "Nazi Punks Fuck Off overproduced by Martin Hannett take 4".
** Hannett's heroin addiction is often cited as either [[Artistic Stimulation|crucial to his signature sound]], or [[Immune to Drugs|mysteriously irrelevant]]. Joy Division's legend nurtures profuse [[Epileptic Trees|theories]]: among the more popular is that epilepsy somehow kindled Ian Curtis' songwriting prowess (in this instance, the Trope Name might seem apropos: until you give it a bit more thought, and realize it's irrelevant).
*** Even before he started seriously using heroin in the early '80s, Hannett was known to [[Erudite Stoner|indulge in large quantities of hash]], though his stoned behavior was pretty much identical to his sober behavior.
* [[Colbert Bump]]: Not strictly accurate (they were gone before anyone noticed) but just about the only high quality recordings of live performances are from guest spots on TV shows.
* [[Cover Version]]: "Sister Ray" by [[The Velvet Underground]], on ''Still''.
* [[Creator Breakdown]]
* [[Darker and Edgier]] - Martin Hannett turned a thudding punk band into something remarkable, with the same songs.
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* [[Dreadful Musician]]: Bernard Sumner admitted that the band members were these in the early days.
* [[Echoing Acoustics]]: Martin Hannett had a trademark reverb-heavy production style.
* [[Executive Meddling]]: To the opposite extreme. Curtis committed suicide only weeks before ''Closer'' was due for release, but Tony Wilson decided to keep Peter Saville's cover which depicted a man in a tomb.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: The Killers, Editors and Interpol spring to mind.
* [[Goth Rock]]: [[Trope Namer]]; their manager described their music as being "gothic" (to the band's displeasure) and the term stuck.
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* [[Non-Indicative Name]]: Their sound was pretty much the opposite of joyful. It makes more sense if you know that it's an [[Intentionally Awkward Title]].
* [[Running Gag]]: the band name "New Order" has a fascist subtext, also, though the band claims this was unintentional.
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* [[Spiritual Successor]]: [[New Order]].
* [[Talent Double]]: Averted by the actors in ''Control''; they played the songs themselves, helped by there being plenty of [[Three Chords and the Truth]] songs.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: An Ideal for Living's artwork, deliberately intended to create controversy over whether the band was a Nazi band, which they weren't (this is referenced in 24 Hour Party People as well). Also, 'Warsaw', one of the songs from this EP, is about Rudolf Hess.
* [[Vocal Evolution]]: Compare Ian's voice on the "Ideal For Living" EP to when the band starting recording with Martin Hannett. Ian's voice lowers dramatically.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The band was due to start their first American tour the day after Ian Curtis killed himself.
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