You might think that the name Joy Division is an ill-fitting for such a gloomy band — or maybe slyly ironic. Turns out, it’s just kind of horrifying. Originally called Warsaw, the band renamed themselves to avoid confusion with another similarly-titled band and took the term “Joy Division” from the 1955 book The House of Dolls, which described Nazi-visited brothels in concentration camps. And the name for these sexual slavery quarters? You got it. Joy Divisions. Yow.

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