From Greg Earle Sent Fri, May 1st 1998, 12:25
From Greg Earle Sent Fri, May 1st 1998, 12:25
(Veering dangerously off-topic, but hey, if people can mention King Crimson...)
I just bought the Joy Division 4-CD (not-really-)boxed set.
Cost $79.99. Ouch. But ... does it really matter? Of course it doesn't.
Everyone who loves Truly Great Music should own this, a nearly-complete
document of [warning: flame bait] the greatest band to ever walk the planet.
Track listing, exactly as it appears on the backside of each foldout:
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Disc one
1 Digital 2 Glass 3 Disorder 4 Day of the Lords 5 Candidate 6 Insight
7 New Dawn Fades 8 She's Lost Control 9 Shadowplay 10 Wilderness
11 Interzone 12 I Remember Nothing 13 Ice Age 14 Exercise One
15 Transmission 16 Novelty 17 The Kill 18 The Only Mistake
19 Something Must Break 20 Autosuggestion 21 From Safety to Where...?
All tracks produced by Martin Hannett. 1 & 2 Recorded at Cargo Studios,
Rochdale. 3-18 & 20-21 Strawberry Studios, Stockport. 19 Central Sound,
Manchester.
1 & 2 released on A Factory Sample (1/79). 3-12 Unknown Pleasures (5/79)
13, 14 & 17-19 Still (10/81). 15 & 16 7" Vinyl (10/79). 20 & 21 Earcom 2:
Contradiction (10/79)
1, 2, 15, 16, 20 & 21 Substance (7/88). 13, 14, 17, 18 & 19 With added post
production.
Disc two
1 She's Lost Control 12" 2 Sound of Music 3 Atmosphere 4 Dead Souls
5 Komakino 6 Incubation 7 Atrocity Exhibition 8 Isolation 9 Passover
10 Colony 11 Means to an End 12 Heart and Soul 13 Twenty Four Hours
14 The Eternal 15 Decades 16 Love Will Tear Us Apart 17 These Days
All tracks produced by Martin Hannett. 1 & 16 Strawberry Studios, Stockport.
2 & 17 Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham. 3 & 4 Recorded Cargo Studios, Rochdale.
5-15 Britannia Row, London.
1 released on 12" Vinyl (9/80). 2 & 4 Still (10/81). 3 & 4 Licht Und Blindheit
(3/80). 3 12" Vinyl (9/80). 5 & 6 7" Flexi (4/80). 7-15 Closer (7/80).
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 16 & 17 Substance (7/88).
Disc three
1 Warsaw 2 No Love Lost 3 Leaders Of Men 4 Failures 5 The Drawback
6 Interzone 7 Shadowplay 8 Exercise One 9 Insight 10 Glass
11 Transmission 12 Dead Souls 13 Something Must Break
14 Ice Age 15 Walked In Line 16 These Dats 17 Candidate
18 The Only Mistake 19 Chance (Atmosphere) 20 Love Will Tear Us Apart
21 Colony 22 As You Said 23 Ceremony 24 In A Lonely Place (detail)
1-4 Produced by Warsaw. 5-7 John Anderson, Bob Auger, Richard Searling & Joy
Division. 8 Bob Sargeant. 9-11 & 14 Martin Rushent. 12, 13, 15, & 22 Martin
Hannett. 16-19 Stuart James. 20 & 21 Tony Wilson.
1-4 & 16-19 recorded at Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham. 5-7 Arrow Studios,
Manchester. 6, 8, 20 & 21 BBC Studios, London. 9-11 & 14 Eden Studios,
London. 15 Strawberry Studios, Stockport. 12 & 13 Central Sound, Manchester.
22 Britannia Row, London. 23 & 24 Graveyard Studios, Prestwich.
1-4 released on An Ideal for Living 7" Vinyl (6/78). 12" Vinyl (10/78) &
Substance (7/88). 5-7, 9-19, 23 & 24 previously unreleased. 8, 20 & 21
broadcast 2/79, 12/79 & The Peel Sessions (90). 22 7" Flexi Disc, uncredited
track (4/80) & Video 586 12" Vinyl (9/97).
5, 6, & 7 RCA demo. 16-19 Piccadilly Radio Session.
9, 10, 11 & 14 Genetic Records Session. 8, 20 & 21 John Peel Session.
Disc four
1 Dead Souls 2 The Only Mistake 3 Insight 4 Candidate 5 Wilderness
6 She's Lost Control 7 Disorder 8 Interzone 9 Atrocity Exhibition 10 Novelty
11 Autosuggestion 12 I Remember Nothing 13 Colony 14 These Days 15 Incubation
16 The Eternal 17 Heart And Soul 18 Isolation 19 She's Lost Control
1-10 recorded live at The Factory, Hulme. 11 Prince of Wales Conference
Centre, YMCA, London. 12-14 Winter Gardens, Bournemouth. 15-19 Lyceum
Ballroom, London.
All tracks previously unreleased.
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Do I even need to bother mentioning the huge booklet assembled by Jon
Savage and Jon Wozencroft, with essay by Paul Morley, complete discography,
filmography, biography, bloody sessionography too fer chrissake? Oh, and
all the lyrics too (thanks to Ian's wife Deborah Curtis)? Of course I don't...
(OK, so only "Isolation" and "Komakino"/"As You Said" are really proto-IDM
material. Who gives a phuque. Want to know why some people think New
Order were lame as early as 1986? Want to know why Trent Reznor should be
shot for even *thinking* he should try and cover "Dead Souls"? It's all
here folks. In spades. And wrinkled green anoraks. The reviews will all
undoubtedly say "For the JD completist only". Sod THAT. It's for everyone
who ever heard a track that stirred their emotions; that gave them a chill
down their spine; that made a tear come to the eye. This is truly the music
of the ages.)
- Greg the Olde Fart JD fanatic
ObIDM: I also bought Wabi Sabi on a-Musik, Surgeon's "Basic Tonal Vocabulary"
(finally), State of the Nu-Art 2, Panacea's "Low Profile Darkness"
(finally, again), Adam Beyer's "Recoded", Steve Stoll's "The Blunted
Boy Wonder", the Maurizio tin, Terry Lee Brown Jr.'s "Terry's Cafe" mix
CD, the "Water & Architecture" comp (with unreleased Atom Heart, Bisk,
Seefeel, AER and Directions tracks - never seen this mentioned here),
and a collection of '97 Drum & Bass faves called "vorsprung durch" (with
Goldie, Dom & Optical, Photek, Doc Scott, Jonny L, DJ Krust, Omni Trio,
Boymerang, DJ Rap, Ed Rush & Nico, and Squarepusher, among others).
I am now broke. Pity me.