The Similarities Engine

Albums similar to Unknown Pleasures

These are the albums most often named alongside Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 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. Television - Marquee Moon
  2. Joy Division - Closer
  3. New Order - Substance
  4. Ride - Nowhere
  5. Wire - Chairs Missing
  6. The Stooges - The Stooges
  7. The Wedding Present - Bizarro
  8. Einstürzende Neubauten - Haus der Lüge
  9. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
  10. Belle and Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister
  11. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
  12. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
  13. Pixies - Trompe le Monde
  14. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
  15. Portishead - Dummy
  16. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
  17. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols
  18. Asking Alexandria - Asking Alexandria
  19. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosis Dead
  20. Bauhaus - Swing the Heartache, the Bbc Sessi
  21. Crime & the City Solution - Paradise Discotheque
  22. Depeche Mode - Ultra
  23. Iceage - You’re Nothing
  24. Isao Tomita - Bermuda Triangle
  25. King Woman - Created in the Image of Suffering
  26. Nitzer Ebb - Showtime
  27. Perfume Genius - Learning
  28. Peter Hammill - Sitting Targets
  29. Public Image Ltd. - Greatest Hits So Far
  30. John Austin Rutelidge - Done Lying Down

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