New Wave Underground: 2009

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Joy Division: Discography

"The Peel Sessions" is a collection of the two Peel Sessions recorded by Joy Division in 1979. Previously the recordings were available on two EPs of the same title, released in 1986 (31 January session) and in 1987 (26 November session). None of the songs had been released before the transmission.Tracks 1 to 4 recorded 31 January 1979 at the BBC Studios, Maida Vale, London. Tracks 5 to 8 recorded 26 November 1979 at the BBC Studios, Maida Vale, London. The cover has the famous "Tube" photo by Anton Corbijn. There is also a French release which has a different cover.

The Peel Sessions
1979
JOY DIVISION
Enjoy: [Link|Link]

1. Exercise One
2. Insight
3. She's Lost Control
4. Transmission
5. Love Will Tear Us Apart
6. Twenty Four Hours
7. Colony
8. Sound of Music

"The Best of Joy Division" is a compilation album of material from Joy Division. It was released March 24, 2008 and the UK version includes The Complete BBC Recordings as a bonus disc. The US release is a single disc. The Best of Joy Division reached #97 in April 2008 in Australia, which marks only their second appearance on that chart after Substance reached #53 in 1988.

The Best of Joy Division
2008
JOY DIVISION
Enjoy [Disc1|Disc 2]

DISC 1:

1. Digital
2. Disorder
3. Shadowplay
4. New Dawn Fades
5. Transmission
6. Atmosphere
7. Dead Souls
8. She's Lost Control
9. Love Will Tear Us Apart
10. These Days
11. Twenty Four Hours
12. Heart and Soul
13. Incubation
14. Isolation

DISC 2

1. Exercise One (John Peel Show Jan 31, 1979)
2. Insight (John Peel Show)
3. She's Lost Control (John Peel Show)
4. Transmission (John Peel Show)
5. Love Will Tear Us Apart (John Peel Show Nov 26, 1979)
6. Twenty Four Hours (John Peel Show)
7. Colony (John Peel Show)
8. Sound of Music (John Peel Show)
9. Transmission (Live)
10. She's Lost Control (Live)
11. Interview (by Richard Skinner with Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris)

"Unknown Pleasures" is English post-punk band Joy Division's debut album, released in 1979 through Factory Records. Martin Hannett produced the record at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England. The album sold poorly upon release, but due to the subsequent success of Joy Division with the 1980 single "Love Will Tear Us Apart", Unknown Pleasures is now much more well-known. Factory boss Tony Wilson had so much faith in the band that he contributed his £8,500 life savings toward the cost of producing the initial run of 10,000 copies of the album. Released on June 15, 1979, Recorded the album between April 1 to 17, 1979 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England

Unknown Pleasures
1979 (FACT10)
JOY DIVISION
[Enjoy]

Side one "Outside"

1."Disorder" – 3:32 stars png.png

2."Day of the Lords" – 4:49
3."Candidate" – 3:05
4."Insight" – 4:29
5."New Dawn Fades" – 4:47

Side two "Inside"

1."She's Lost Control" – 3:57
2."Shadowplay" – 3:55
3."Wilderness" – 2:38
4."Interzone" – 2:16
5."I Remember Nothing" – 5:53

"Closer" is the second and final album by post-punk band Joy Division, released July 18, 1980 two months following the suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis. The album was originally scheduled to be released on May 8, 1980. The record was originally released on the Factory Records label as a 12" LP and reached #6 on the UK Albums Chart. It also peaked at #3 in New Zealand in September 1981. It claimed the number one slot on NME Album of the Year.

The album cover was designed by Martyn Atkins and Peter Saville, with photography from Bernard Pierre Wolff. The photograph on the cover is of the Appiani family tomb in the Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno in Genoa, Italy, by Demetrio Paernio.

Closer
1980
JOY DIVISION
[Enjoy|Listen]

1. "Atrocity Exhibition"
2. "Isolation"
3. "Passover"
4. "Colony"
5. "A Means To An End"
6. "Heart and Soul"
7. "Twenty Four Hours"
8. "The Eternal"
9. "Decades"