THE EXPLODING PSYCHEDELIC INEVITABLE
“You cry out in your sleep/And all my failings exposed,” mourns Ian Curtis on the extraordinary, emotional “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” This song, currently in the British singles chart, has its potent appeal hidden on paper. What’s so new, in terms of popular music, about lyrics that deal with the a.m. realization that something about a relationship can go disastrously wrong?
November 1, 1980