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\n\tUp, down, turn around, please don\u2019t let me hit the ground. Today is a celebration moment for fans of Joy Division<\/a> and New Order<\/a>, finally inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, after decades of rejection<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tEven if you consider them two separate units, they\u2019re both ridiculously overqualified for the Hall \u2014 two of the most innovative and influential bands of the past 50 years. Combined into one for last year\u2019s nomination, on one of the weakest ballots in history, they still got stiffed. It looked like a hopeless case.<\/p>\n \n\tSo this is a big win for the Hall, which needs Joy Division and New Order far more than these bands need the Hall. For years, they\u2019ve been the Hall\u2019s most scandalous omission. But it\u2019s a hopeful sign that maybe the voters are ready to let go of the institution\u2019s long-running hostility to Eighties and Nineties rock. It would even qualify as a happy occasion, if that didn\u2019t seem sacrilegious for the band that gave us \u201cDisorder,\u201d \u201cIsolation,\u201d \u201cWilderness,\u201d and \u201cLove Will Tear Us Apart.\u201d<\/p>\n