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The Best of Joy Division

by Joy Division

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Album review

Limited two CD edition of the 2008 compilation from the Manchester Post-Punk legends featuring a bonus disc that includes eight tracks recorded at two separate Peel Sessions in 1979. The main CD features 14 of their best tracks including the seminal 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', 'She's Lost Control' and 'Transmission'. Joy Division were formed in the wake of the Punk explosion in England and by 1980 they were the hottest band in the UK. In May of 1980, on the eve of their first US tour, lead singer Ian Curtis committed suicide. The film Control by director Anthon Corbjin details the life of Ian Curtis, and is one of the best-reviewed Rock biopics ever. Rhino UK.


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Joy Division were a post-punk band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester, UK. The band dissolved in May 1980 after the suicide of its lead singer, Ian Curtis. Much of their popularity/reputation arguably resulted from frequent playings on air by iconic DJ John Peel, but it is easy now to overlook the impact that the first album, Unknown ...

Track list

CD 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
CD 2
  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
  9. Transmission
  10. She's Lost Control
  11. Interview by Richard Skinner with Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris