- Genre Turning Point: The album galvanized the transition from Punk Rock to Post-Punk in the popular music landscape. The genre had already been emerging for roughly two years by that point, with artists such as Talking Heads, Wire, Gang of Four, Public Image Ltd., and Television (among other examples) putting out material in 1977-1978 that are easily classifiable as post-punk, but it was Unknown Pleasures that marked the point where the movement definitively became a distinct entity.
- Memetic Mutation: The artwork for the album, a data plot of signals from the first pulsar discovered
, has become a popular meme even among people who have no idea where it came from. - Nightmare Fuel: This is Joy Division after all. Curtis' lyrics are quite disturbing, with oblique references to depression and violence. Martin Hannett drops in ghostly sounds at random.
- Refrain from Assuming: No, the song is not called "Remember When We Were Young"; it's called "Insight".
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