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“A Means to an End” by Joy Division
From the album Closer (1980)
“A Means to an End” by Joy Division appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2003. It was first released in 1980 on the album Closer. Its best result is #1946 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,415 alternative song of all time.
Joy Division put "A Means to an End" on Closer, their second studio album and their last, released by Factory Records on 18 July 1980. Martin Hannett produced it and engineered it with Jon Caffery, Michael Johnson assisting, and Ian Curtis sings lead on a song credited to Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner together.
There's no hearing Closer apart from the story around it. The band made it two months before Curtis took his own life, and it came out two months after. NME named it the Album of the Year and it's now held up as a cornerstone of post-punk, while the surviving members, after the stand-alone single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" that June, started over as New Order.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1946 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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