Joy Division - The Best of Joy Division [2 CD]

Title: The Best of Joy Division [2 CD] Artist: Joy Division Release Date: 4/29/2008 Re-Released On: 5/28/2008 Label: Rhino, WEA Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 4943674080069, 5051442730227 Genre: Rock Styles: Post-Punk, Alternative/Indie Rock Moods: Austere, Cold, Distraught, Insular, Visceral, Brittle, Cathartic, Dramatic, Eerie, Fractured, Literate, Tense/Anxious, Volatile, Wintry, Brooding, Clinical, Ethereal, Gloomy, Hypnotic, Intense, Manic, Ominous, Restrained, Somber, Autumnal, Raucous, Rousing, Weary, Energetic, Fiery, Plaintive, Self-Conscious, Angst-Ridden, Bleak, Detached, Melancholy, Nihilistic, Paranoid, Sad Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 8 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 2

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

1. Exercise One [John Peel Session]
2. Insight [John Peel Session]
3. She's Lost Control [John Peel Session]
4. Transmission [John Peel Session]
5. Love Will Tear Us Apart [John Peel Session]
6. Twenty Four Hours [John Peel Session]
7. Colony [John Peel Session]
8. Sound of Music [John Peel Session]
9. Transmission
10. She's Lost Control
11. Interview by Richard Skinner with Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Rhino 5144273022 2008 CD WEA 12905

The Best of Joy Division

Now that Unknown Pleasures, Closer, and Still have been given the deluxe two-disc reissue treatment -- which coincided with a movie, Control, and followed, throughout the previous 20 years, the Substance and Permanent compilations, the Heart and Soul box set, a couple live discs, a BBC disc, tribute sneakers, a tribute Zune, and tribute bands (few of which performed actual covers) -- there might as well be an official point of introduction with a straightforward title. Just happening to coincide with the release of Grant Gee's eponymous documentary, The Best of Joy Division is a 14-track, 55-minute grab bag of scattered tracks from the band's discography. It is impossible to call these the best, or even the highlights, when the band recorded no obvious lowlights and (only in a relative sense) a handful of midlights. Not including alternate mixes or demos that have floated out in various forms, Joy Division recorded short of 50 songs, none of which would be completely unjustifiable on a single-disc summary. Beyond the no-brainers "Love Will Tear Us Apart," "She's Lost Control," "Transmission," and "Atmosphere," the program doesn't lean in any one direction, pulling fairly evenly from the two proper albums while offering seven tracks that were compiled originally for Substance. It is kind of strange, however, that the somewhat slight instrumental "Incubation" was chosen over "Atrocity Exhibition" and "A Means to an End," and that there is nothing from An Ideal for Living (the band's first release, a four-track EP), especially when there were 25 minutes of available space on the disc. While this is one of many ways to become acquainted with a body of work that adds up to some of the most tense, precise, and powerful rock music made, the best solution is to get as much as possible at once and submit. [The two-disc version adds the entire contents of The Complete BBC Recordings: the band's sessions for John Peel, the two songs from their Something Else performance, and an interview.] ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Name Credits Bob Sargeant Producer David Dade Engineer Kevin Cummins Photography Mike Bolland Producer Nick Gomm Engineer Paul Morley Source Material Pete Ritzema Producer Peter Saville Art Direction Tony Hall Producer Tony Wilson Producer