Unknown Pleasures
Unknown Pleasures is the first album by Joy Division, released in 1979. It was produced by Martin Hannett. Unknown Pleasures is followed by Closer, their last studio album.Joy Division was partially inspired by the Gothic rock tradition, exemplified by bands like The Cure and Siouxsie & the Banshees. The song "Isolation", with its sunny pop-tune and angst-ridden, macabre lyrics, shows the relationship between Joy Division's hardcore punk origin, Gothic rock influences, as well as showing a rare synth pop influence in Joy Division's work.
The picture on the front of the album is a graph of radio waves recorded from the first known pulsar, it is entitled "100 consecutive pulses from the pulsar CP 1919".