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Albums similar to Substance

These are the albums most often named alongside Joy Division - Substance by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Joy Division, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. Ride - Nowhere
2. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
3. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
4. The Cure - Disintegration
5. New Order - Substance
6. Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
7. Khruangbin - Con todo el mundo
8. Public Image Ltd. - Greatest Hits So Far
9. Flesh Quartet - Flow
10. The Durutti Column - Circuses and Bread
11. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
12. S.p.o.c.k - Five Year Mission
13. XTC - Waxworks: Some Singles 1977-82
14. Peter Murphy - Love Hysteria
15. Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix
16. Sugar - Besides
17. The Smiths - Rank
18. Bauhaus - 79/83 Vol. 1
19. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
20. Sheep on Drugs - Greatest Hits
21. Soundtrack - Twin Peaks
22. Morrissey - Your Arsenal
23. New Order - Movement
24. Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold and Manipulate
25. Slowdive - Just for a Day
26. The Mission - Carved in Sand
27. Neil Young - Zuma
28. The Sisters of Mercy - Some Girls Wander by Mistake
29. Killing Joke - Pandemonium
30. Gang of Four - Entertainment!

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