It remains funny as I have always had this album close at hand... from the first day that I heard it. Granted, "Unknown Pleasures" is usually close by.

Here's the story: It is 1995 and I am working at "Modeworks" in NYC. In 1994, I graduated with a Masters in Fine Art and I was hired by several decorative painting companies to do mural work. One of the things that we used to do, for example, was paint all those gawd aweful cutouts that you saw in Planet Hollywood. However, we would do large handpainted murals for public spaces.

So, one day, I go over to the studio on Lispinard Street in TriBeCa (NYC) and it is a pretty grey, winter day. The studio is basically an empty store front with no heat and "fake" drywall walls where we painted the murals (on canvas, stapled gunned to the wall) Very bohemian. So, we are all sitting on milk crates, working and in silence. It just seemed to be the mood.

So, Derek, this  killer painter, BTW, gets up and says, "Ah, I know what we need today." , gets up and puts in a CD. after a while, we here the beginning to "Artrocity Exhibition"  most of us goes, "Awwwww yeah!!!'

And we sit there, painting, for the duration of the album. In silence, working. Painting.

It was after ""The Eternal" one of the other painters says "Why do all you people listen to such depressing music?"

We didn't answer. Ian was.

"Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders,

Here are the young men, well where have they been?

We knocked on the doors of hells darker chamber,

Pushed to the limit, we dragged ourselves in,"