Let The Day Begin...Let The Day Start!: Day 282 - Joy Division

Still - Joy Division

Factory (FACT 40)

Produced by Martin Hannett

Released 8th October 1981

UK Chart #5

UK Indie Chart #1

2007 Collector's Edition

Includes Bonus Disc

Live at High Wycombe Town Hall

20th February 1980

 Side A and B

Side C and D

Tracks A1, A5, B1 and B2 recorded in April 1979 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, during sessions for the "Unknown Pleasures" album.

Tracks A2 and B4 recorded in October–November 1979 at Cargo Studios, Rochdale, during sessions for the "Licht und Blindheit" single.

Track A3 recorded in January 1980 at Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham, during sessions for the "Love Will Tear Us Apart" single.

Track A4 recorded in October 1978 at Cargo Studios, Rochdale, originally released on "A Factory Sample" in 1979.

Track B3 recorded in July–August 1979 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, during sessions for the "Transmission" single.

Track B5 recorded live at the Moonlight Club, London on April 3, 1980.

Tracks C1 to D5 recorded live at High Hall, Birmingham University on May 2, 1980.

(2007 CD Remaster Bonus Disc a previously unreleased live show from the Town Hall, High Wycombe)

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Still is a compilation album by Joy Division, consisting of previously released and unreleased studio material and a live recording of Joy Division's last concert, performed at Birmingham University. It was released on 8 October 1981, through record label Factory.

The live version of  Twenty Four Hours  only appears on some cassette and vinyl versions of Still and has yet to be released officially on CD, this was said to be due to time constraints.

There were also issues regarding Ceremony and the lack of Ian Curtis' vocals in the first half of the song. There are three recorded versions of Ceremony in existence. The first is the live version, available on the Still album, from their final concert at High Hall, Birmingham University on 2 May 1980. The second, available on the Heart and Soul four-disc box set is from a rehearsal tape made in April/May 1980. The third is a version recorded at the soundcheck on the afternoon of 2 May 1980. Ceremony was of course the first single released in March 1981 by the remaining members of Joy Division under their new name New Order.

(Original Picture Sleeve March 1981)

Ceremony was re-recorded when Gillian Gilbert joined the band and this version was released in September 1981. The Joy Division album Still would follow a month later

(Picture Sleeve for the September 1981 Version) 

Depsite its various flaws Still is an interesting collection. Listening afresh to that final show from Birmingham brought a bout of sadness about what might have been!

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Substance - Joy Division

Factory

Produced by Martin Hannett and Joy Division

Released 11th July 1988

UK Chart #7

US Chart #146*

*Joy Division's only US Album Chart entry

1. Warsaw - released on An Ideal for Living
2. Leaders of Men - released on An Ideal for Living
3. Digital - released on A Factory Sample
4. Autosuggestion - released on Earcom 2: Contradiction
5. Transmission - single FAC 13
6. She's Lost Control - B-side to single FACUS 2 "Atmosphere"
7. Incubation -
 instrumental B-side to single FAC 28 "Komakino"
8. Dead Souls - B-side to single "Atmosphere" on Licht und Blindheit
9. Atmosphere - single FACUS 2
10. Love Will Tear Us Apart - single FAC 23

 11. No Love Lost - released on An Ideal for Living
12. Failures - released on An Ideal for Living 

13. Glass - released on A Factory Sample
14. From Safety to Where...? - released on Earcom 2: Contradiction
15. Novelty - B-Side single FAC 13 "Transmission"
16. Komakino - single FAC 28
17. These Days - B-side to single FAC 23 "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

The vinyl version of the album only included the first ten songs and the CD included a further 7 tracks under the banner Appendix. Substance was a released a year after Substance 1987 by New Order.

Substance compiles the four singles released by the band that did not appear on albums - "Transmission", "Komakino", "Love Will Tear Us Apart", and "Atmosphere" - as well as their B-sides. It also collects tracks released on extended play singles, the band's first release An Ideal for Living, and two samplers issued by Factory Records, A Factory Sample and Earcom 2: Contradiction. The single "Atmosphere" had been originally issued in France as "Licht und Blindheit" with "Dead Souls" on the B-side. Following the death of Ian Curtis, it was reissued as a posthumous B-side of the "She's Lost Control" single in an alternate version from the track that had previously appeared on Unknown Pleasures.

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45RPM: #85 Transmission - Joy Division (1979)

Transmission was the debut single on Factory Records for Joy Division. They had previously released a debut EP in 1978 on their own label Enigma entitled An Ideal For Living. That was released not long after they had changed their name from Warsaw.

They had actually recorded Transmission before back in May 1978 when they were still called Warsaw (this was eventually released on album in 1994 along with a a whole bunch of Warsaw tracks, It had been circulating as a bootleg for many years before being released proper)

Transmission / Novelty

Factory Records (FAC13)

Produced by Martin Hannett

Released 7th October 1979*

UK Indie Chart #4

*a 12" was released in December 1979 that featured different artwork

In May 2007, NME magazine placed Transmission at number 20 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever, one place below Love Will Tear Us Apart.

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In Memory of Ian Kevin Curtis

15th July 1956 - 18th May 1980

Unknown Pleasures

Factory

Produced by Martin Hannett

Released 15th June 1979

UK Indie Chart #1

UK Album Chart #71

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Tidy Tunes 2015: Joy Division/The Heartbreakers - Two for the Price of one!

Born on this day in 1956 
Ian Curtis of Joy Divsion

 Transmission - Joy Division

Born on this day in 1952
Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers)

Born to Lose - The Heartbreakers

Rewind: 1979 - Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division Released

Released on 15th June 1979, 'Uknown Pleasures', the debut album from Manchester band Joy Division (formerly Warsaw) was a #1 Album on The Indie Chart but only reached #71 in the proper UK Album Charts. But the sales were slow until the release in October of the non-album single 'Transmission'.

Recorded at Strawberry Studios in Stockport in April 1979 and was produced by Martin Hannett.

The album is still considered by many as one of the finest albums of it's time.

Unknown Pleasures

Live Appearances 1979

Remembering Ian Curtis

A couple of weeks before the untimely passing of Malcom Owen of The Ruts, Ian Curtis, frontman of Joy Divsion committed suicide by hanging himself. At aged 23 he had so much to give and who knows what Joy Division would have sounded like if they had got to release more than two albums ('Unknown Pleasures' - 1979 and 'Closer' - 1980).

Click on the links to enjoy the music.

'Unknown Pleasures' Full Album.

'Closer' Full Album.
Live Performances 1979-80.

Documental Full Movie.*

*Explicit Language Beware.

Ian Curtis Remembered

Has it really been 32 years since the death of Ian Curtis? Where does the time go?

Photo © Peter Anderson

She's Lost Contol

Transmission

Here's a real treat. Joy Division 

Live at The Lyceum, London 29th February 1980

Soundcheck:
01. Heart And Soul 0:00
02. Incubation 5:10
03. Komakino 8:23
04. Isolation (Instrumental) 12:53
05. Isolation 15:37

Gig:
06. Incubation 18:38
07. Wilderness 22:12
08. Twenty Four Hours 25:15
09. The Eternal 29:50
10. Heart And Soul 36:21
11. Love Will Tear Us Apart 41:17
12. Isolation 44:34
13. Komakino 47:57
14. She's Lost Control 52:24
15. These Days 57:44
16. Atrocity Exhibition 1:01:55