TS: Joy Division doing "Love Will Keep Us Together" vs. Captain & Tennille doing "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

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In your head, which sounds better?

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Have always wondered about that, WAS the JD track an answer song to the C&T one?

― sylvie and babs (sylvie and babs), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

i have a strange feeling that captain's voice is not that different than ian's voice (did he take any vocals on C&T's records?)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

joy division doing "muskrat lov", now THAT i'd like to hear

― latebloomer aka 'the sun' (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

Where's the mashup?

― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

It was already done -- the Swinging Erudites did a medley combining the two back in 1988 or so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

More on said act. Not deathless, and yet.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

my college radio station had a copy of that. it was... about as good as it needed to be.

― john david bootyflake (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Precisely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

jd sounds better, natch

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

If you play the Paul Young version of "Love will tear us apart" at 45rpm, it'd probably sound like Toni Tennille.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

I tried that back in '83. It sounded like Brother Beyond.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

I think the Captain & Tennille version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" would have to have a recorder solo in the middle.

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

One of my longtime best friends recently told me that her favorite song ever was "Love Will Keep Us Together." It was quite odd because I had just decided that "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was mine.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that Captain & Tenille would have any trouble with "Love Will Tear Us Apart." They could recast it like one of the tragedy-struck Carpenters ballads.

Hearing Ian Curits go "Stop -- 'coz I really love you" or "I WILL! I WILL! I WILL!"--much tougher to reconcile.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

The former. Joy Division cover versions are always rubbish - without Hannett's out-there production the songs just don't stand up.

― braveclub (braveclub), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

i still say my "muskrat love" suggestion stands. somebody invent a time machine, pronto!

― evolution gods think latebloomer, lead singer of Babies Love Beer, is wrong (lat, Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Until Thursday, January 16th, 2014, when Toni Tennile met with a DIVORCE ATTORNEY, in Phoenix, AZ, everything relating to THE CAPTAIN & TENNILLE appeared to the public as them being the ideal model for a "rock-solid' married pair. But almost all people naturally evolve over time, & sometimes hidden feelings start to be uncovered when one may read, just a little more into (the popularized, substitute heading appearing just below), stating, for instance: `'MUSIC HAS KEPT THEM TOGETHER"

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 23 January 2014 10:39 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

I am bummed love did not keep them together:

Tennille filed for divorce from Dragon in the State of Arizona on January 16, 2014, after 39 years of marriage. Dragon was unaware of this until he was served with the divorce papers. The divorce documents referenced health insurance or health issues, and Tennille had written on her blog in 2010 that Dragon's neurological condition, similar to Parkinson’s, was characterized by such extreme tremors he could no longer play keyboards.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 20:33 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2SbVZoGyI

Their best song in a terrific live performance. Actually it's HER best song, all hers. Vulnerable yet absolute. The "Captain" off on his Gilligan's Island of A Synthesizer Bank didn't deserve her.

― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 21:08 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

In honor of the Captain's passing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfelKGymS8I

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 22:02 (seven years ago)

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