Joy Division Unknown Pleasures

Ranked #24 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...Punk on the edge of goth, with echoes of disco and the Doors..."
Included in Spin's list of the Top Ten College Cult Classics.
Ranked #11 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...A rolling murk of wrist-slash guitars, meat-locker ambience, death-disco beats, and funereal siren-songing. Goth starts here."
5 stars out of 5 -- "[S]imply ferocious....'Shadowplay' ramps up the guitars to Hannett-defying levels and 'Transmission' could have an eye out."
Ranked #19 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"
5 Stars - Indispensible - "...UNKNOWN PLEASURES [is] so fully realized, it [doesn't] sound like the debut from four Manchester oiks [Joy Division]....Exhausting listening, but never inaccessible..."
"Joy Division - like the Velvet Underground before it - now boasts an ever-widening sphere of musical influence, far greater in depth than it ever had in its short lifespan."
"UNKNOWN PLEASURES derives much of its musical force from a classical configuration of tensions..."
Ranked #26 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums".
"...Retained the nervy, paranoid energy of punk but...ended up some place entirely 'other'..."
Ranked #10 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums".
Ranked #4 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - "...Ian Curtis made epilepsy momentarily hip with the funereal brooding of 'Atmosphere' and panicky congestion of 'She's Lost Control.' Let's party!..."
10 - Classic - "...Thirteen years on and UNKNOWN PLEASURES is still not so much a record as a full-scale nuclear winter...."
Ranked #43 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'
4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ntense, somber....[The album] inverts punk's unified roar into distant alienation..."