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“Twenty Four Hours” by Joy Division
From the album Closer (1980)
“Twenty Four Hours” by Joy Division appears on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1980 and 2003. It was first released in 1980 on the album Closer. Its best result is #23 on the John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1982). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,832 alternative song of all time.
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"Twenty Four Hours" sits on Closer, the second and last Joy Division studio album, which Factory Records put out on 18 July 1980. The record arrived carrying a terrible weight: the band had cut it just two months before Ian Curtis took his own life, and it reached the shops two months after. Curtis sings lead here, and the writing credit goes to all four of them, Curtis alongside Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner.
Martin Hannett produced it with the band and split the engineering with Jon Caffery, Michael Johnson assisting. Heard now, it's hard to take it as anything but the sound of a band running out of time, and the three who were left soon regrouped as New Order.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 41 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1980) | 50 |
| 1981 | 43 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1981) | 50 |
| 1982 | 23 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's All-Time Festive Fifty (1982) | 50 |
| 2003 | 1434 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
Also listed as: Twenty-Four Hours.
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