Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Sisters of Mercy, & Joy Division Message-ID: <1145@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 20:16:08 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1145 Posted: Fri Jun 28 20:16:08 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 04:42:15 EDT References: <4496@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1118@peora.UUCP> <440@linus.UUCP> Distribution: net.music Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 21 Keywords: Dirge Dance > The band chose the name to suit the music: "Joy Division" was the term > applied by German troops to the prostitute's wing of concentration camps > during WWII. Their name was "Warsaw" previous to that, and there is a > good import album of early raw material available by that title. > -=- > Chris J. Valas {decvax,utzoo,philabs,security,allegra,genrad}!linus!cv A real trivia question for JD buffs is "What was their proposed name BEFORE Warsaw and who proposed it?" NAF: Fgvss Xvggraf, Crgr Furyyrl bs gur Ohmmpbpxf (Another bit of macabre and morose trivia: One of the names suggested for the renaming of the band after the lead singer's demise was The Swinging Curtises. I'm not kidding.) (I think I posted this just to prove to myself that I can write about things other than Yes in this newsgroup.) -- Like a bourbon? (HIC!) Drunk for the very first time... Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr