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Archetypes of post-punk mastery and the saviours of long overcoat salesmen everywhere, Joy Division<\/a> were a pretty miraculous band when they sprang up from the grey industrialism of Manchester back in the 1970s. With little in the way of musical training or experience, the group managed to revolutionise the entire landscape of grassroots music, inspiring the likes of Jim Reid in the process.<\/p>\n You could toil away in a recording studio for decades, and you would still struggle to land upon the same distinctive sound as Joy Division. After all, a core part of its appeal was its sense of punk spontaneity and rough-around-the-edges ethos. Sure, Martin Hannett essentially moulded Unknown Pleasures in his own image<\/a>, but the band themselves were still creating tracks which sounded wholly unlike anything that had come before \u2013 largely because nobody was around to show them the \u2018proper\u2019 way of doing things, and Factory Records boss Tony Wilson wasn\u2019t about to correct that.\u00a0<\/p>\n That sense of fearless originality might have arisen from a simple lack of experience, but that didn\u2019t stop it from inspiring the next generation of untrained and ruthlessly DIY artists. There is scarcely an indie or post-punk outfit on the planet that does not owe something to the pioneering sounds of Ian Curtis and the gang, but some influences are more obvious than others. Back in the 1980s, for instance, it was clear to see that a band like The Jesus and Mary Chain would not exist without an album like Unknown Pleasures. <\/p>\n Hundreds of miles from the drizzly industrialism of Manchester, the drizzly industrialism of Glasgow spurred on the formation of The Jesus and Mary Chain back in 1983, centred around a fraternal core of Jim and William Reid, who both carried forward the inherent manifesto that Joy Division had laid down a few years prior. <\/p>\n With their endearingly abrasive sound, the Chain paved the way for the likes of shoegaze and noise rock, which arrived years later, and they almost single-handedly put Alan McGee\u2019s Creation Records on the map, thus spawning Primal Scream and, eventually, Oasis<\/a>. In other words, Jim Reid\u2019s outfit has been utterly essential in the history and development of independent music, but it might never have happened without the influence of Joy Division.\u00a0<\/p>\n