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The Best Of Joy Division

The Best Of Joy Division

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Artist: Joy Division
Label: London Records 90 Ltd.
Category: Music

List Price: £15.99
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 13 reviews
Sales Rank: 520

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

EAN: 5051442730227
ASIN: B0013LP87A

Release Date: March 24, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

Tracks:

  Disc 1
  • Digital
  • Disorder
  • Shadowplay
  • New Dawn Fades
  • Transmission
  • Atmosphere
  • Dead Souls
  • She's lost control
  • Love will tear us apart
  • These days
  • 24 hours
  • Incubation
  • Isolation

  Disc 2
  • Exercice One (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79)
  • Insight (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79)
  • She's Lost Control (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79)
  • Transmission (John Peel Show 31 Jan 79)
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79)
  • Twenty Four Hours (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79)
  • Colony (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79)
  • Sound of Music (John Peel Show 26 Nov 79)
  • Transmission (Recorded live for Something Else 4 Sept 79)
  • She's Lost Control (Recorded live for Something Else 4 Sept 79)
  • Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris Interviewed by Richard Skinner

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Customer Reviews:   Read 8 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Great Band.....Good Selection For The Beginner   December 5, 2008
Blue Tornado (Bristol, England)
I am a convert from 'Closer'....so decided to buy the album of the same name, great songs lead me to buy this album, after some research went for 'substance'...now i cannot stop playing them.
After looking on Amazon for more JD cd's saw the new release of 'Heart and soul'...a 4 cd boxed set for less than 18.00 with 81 tracks on could not be turned down.



5 out of 5 stars Addicted to this Album   September 26, 2008
Sir Noble Hart (England)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

This album features the greatest song ever written or recorded "LOVE WILL TEAR US APART` - The rest of the songs are OK - but `Love Will Tear Us Apart` is a timeless classic, a work of art that I play about 30 times every day...it is playing now as I write this.
The vocal performance of the late great Ian Curtis is pure pop pefection...I want this song played at my funeral along with "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinead O`Connor and "My Death" by DAVID BOWIE.
Those three songs are better than any tonic, more moving then any hymn or national anthem and give more of a buzz than any drug.
If you dont like Joy Division or New Order - still BUY this album because "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is a reason for living...



5 out of 5 stars Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack for Punk Rockers   September 12, 2008
John Smith (Walford)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

One of the best bands of all-time produced the greatest love song of all-time...
Love Will Tear Us Apart is to punk what Lets Get It On is to soul...




4 out of 5 stars Very good value for money and a great band   May 23, 2008
The Bogie Fan (West Yorkshire, England)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

First things first, there are already two Joy Division compilations out there, Substance which personally i think omits too many essential JD tracks, and Permanent which i think is a great introduction to the band but scandalously leaves out "Digital".
Well this album has "Digital" and most of the songs a casual listener would want but it is worth noting that two key tracks "She's Lost Control" and the timeless classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart" appear on here in the less familar alternative versions which are longer but less catchy (to my ears at least!).
A big selling point is the extra cd containing two complete Peel Sessions, each of 4 tracks, plus 2 songs recorded for Something Else and an interview with Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris.
I own both this and Permanent and i think both are worthy of a place in anyone's cd collection, well anyone who likes genuinely alternative music.
I'd have given this 5 stars if it had the better known versions of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "She's Lost Control" on it.



3 out of 5 stars A wasted opportunity....   May 6, 2008
Hughie D (Sheffield, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

OK - let's get something out of the way. Joy Division where thee greatest post-punk bands ever. They released two of the best albums ever released by any band. The quality of their music is not under any doubt.

What is under some doubt is the format/point/track listing of this album. London Records have missed a trick here (or they just being cynical?). If it's a "Best of" then that is exactly what it should be. Not an excuse to flog us the Peel sessions (no matter how fine they are). But it isn't a "Best of". How can "Decades" not be included while the likes of "Incubation" is? Where are "The Eternal" and "Heart and Soul"? If fact there's just two tracks from the greatest album of all time?!!?? Less contentious, and more personal opinion, is the lack of much in the way of Still material, such as the very fine "The Only Mistake".

So we still haven't had a definitive "Best of Joy Division". I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, but London Records, shame on you, you have really missed an opportunity here.



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