# The best Joy Division songs

Ian Curtis and Manchester post-punk: the Joy Division songs that Slicing Up Eyeballs readers, Ranker and critics rank highest.

- 42 votes · 14 items
- Feb 16, 2026 · Jimena Mendoza
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## Top 14

1. **Disorder** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 1979. The opener of Unknown Pleasures.
2. **Transmission** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1979. First for Slicing Up Eyeballs readers.
3. **Love Will Tear Us Apart** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1980. Their most famous song.
4. **She's Lost Control** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 1979. Drums that sound like a machine.
5. **Atmosphere** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1980. Solemn and beautiful.
6. **Digital** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1978. From their first recordings.
7. **Heart and Soul** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1980. Hypnotic.
8. **Interzone** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1979. Fast and nervous.
9. **New Dawn Fades** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1979. Slow and desolate.
10. **Shadowplay** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1979. The cutting guitar of Unknown Pleasures.
11. **Decades** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1980. The closer of Closer.
12. **Twenty Four Hours** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1980. Rising tension.
13. **Dead Souls** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1980. The best for Stereogum.
14. **Isolation** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — 1980. Cold synths from Closer.

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