This page contains the first part: All Joy Divisions official releases, mostly on Factory or London records, from '77 to '98. Other parts will include: Joy Divisions contributes to various compilations, bootlegs (the famous ones) and other sundries. Click here for part two.

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All this information has been surces variously. For a list of sources click here.

 

Special thanks to Ger Potze excellent Joy Division discography.

 

An Ideal For Living 7" (June 1978) 7" Enigma PSS139 ,12" Anonymous Records ANON1

Warsaw

No love lost

Leaders of men

Failures

Recorded: Pennine Sound Studios, Manchester, December 1977.

Released as a 7" single (1,000 copies) in a 14"x14" foldout sleeve, on Joy Division's own Enigma label in June 1978 (Enigma PSS139), The label was changed due to the fact there alrady wasan label called Enigma. They changed it to Anonymous Records, and released "An Ideal For Living" as a 12" single (1,200 copies) Autumn 1978 (Anonymous ANON1). The original sleeve was designed by Bernard Sumner. The 12" sleeve with the scaffolding was designed by Steve McGarry.

 

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Unknown Pleasures album (June 1979)

LP Factory UK FACT 10 (June 1979)

LP Factory US FACTUS 1 (July 1980)

MC Factory UK FACT 10C (1981)

CD Factory UK FACD 10 (April 1988)

MC Factory US/Rough Trade FACTUS 1C (1987)

CD London 520016 (1994 reissue)

Disorder (3.36) /Day Of The Lords (4.43) /Candidate (3.00) /Insight (4.00) /New Dawn Fades (4.47)//She's Lost Control (3.40) /Shadowplay (3.50) /Wilderness (2.35) /Interzone (2.10) /I Remember Nothing (6.00)

Recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, April 1979. Produced by Martin Hannet. Sleve designed by Peter Saville. The cover is the read out of signals sent by a dying pulsar star.

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Transmission 7" (October 1979)

7" Factory FAC 13

Transmission

Novelty

Recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, July 1979. Produced by Martin Hannet.

Originally released on 7" only, rereleased December 1980 as a 12" single with a new cover (FAC 13.12), see seperate format for more details.

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Komakino flexi 7" (April 1980)

7" Factory FAC 28

Komakino /Incubation /As You Said

Recorded at Britannia Row Studios, Islington, March 1980. Produced by blah blah

Released on flexi 7" single only, initial pressing of 10,000 copies, and given away free.

Track 3 was actually untitled, but is called "As You Said", and is also known as "Incubation 2", or as "And Then Again".

"Komakino" was also released in an US edition, which is a different pressing than the UK one, it's made by Evatone Soundsheets. A US fanzine called The Other Sound gave this flexi away in 1980(?) with one of their issues, including a black & white picture cover.

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Love Will Tear Us Apart 7" (April 1980)

7" Factory UK FAC 23 (April 1980)

7" Factory US FACTUS 23 (June 1981)

Love Will Tear Us Apart 12" (June 1980)

12" Factory UK FAC 23.12 (June 1980)

12" Factory US FACTUS 23 (June 1981)

Love Will Tear Us Apart (3.18)

These Days (3.21)

Love Will Tear Us Apart (3.06)

Tracks 2-3 recorded at Pennine Studios, Manchester, March 1980.

Track 1 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Manchester, March 1980.

US release, and later UK releases without track 3.

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" was also released as a 7" (promo) single in Spain  in 1981, with a stickered (12") sleeve, and a small paper sheet. The songtitles are translated in Spanish "El Amor Nos Separata" and "Estos Dias (This days)", including the mistake in the english translation. And also as a 7" single in Poland in 1989 with "She's Lost Control" from the "Unknown Pleasures" album on the b-side, and an unique sleeve. Origanl sleeve by Peter S. Reached no 19 in British Charts.

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Closer album (July 1980)

LP Factory UK FACT 25

MC Factory UK FACT 25C

LP Factory US FACTUS 6 (July 1981)

CD Factory UK FACD 25 (April 1986)

MC Factory US/Rough Trade FACTUS 6C (1987)

CD Factory US/Rough Trade FACTUS 6CD (1988)

CD London 520015 (1994 reissue)

Atrocity Exhibition /Isolation /Passover /Colony /A Means To An End /Heart And Soul /Twenty-Four Hours /The Eternal /Decades

Note: Recorded at Britannia Row Studios, Islington, March 1980.

Originally scheduled for release in May 1980, but delayed until July 1980.

Designed by Peter s. Photography by Bernard Pierre Wollf.

 

Extra note: The Brazilian Stiletto/Polygram LP-release of "Closer" has "Love Will Tear Us Apart" as 10th track.

 

 

 

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Atmosphere / She's Lost Control 12" (August / September 1980)

12" Factory US FACUS 2 (August 1980)

12" Factory UK FACUS 2/UK (September 1980)

Atmosphere

She's Lost Control

Track 1 recorded at Cargo Studios, Manchester, October-November 1979.

Track 2 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Manchester, March 1980.

Released in the US with track 2 on the a-side.

Track 2 is a different recording than the version on the album "Unknown Pleasures". Reworked specifically for the American market prior to the bands scheduled first tour there. Sleeve photo by Bernard Meecham. Design by Peter S.

 

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Still double album (October 1981)

2LP Factory FACT 40

2MC Factory FACT 40 (1985)

2CD Factory/Columbia Japan CY-4205-6 (1989)

CD Factory FACD 40 (March 1990)

CD London 520017 (1994 reissue)

Exercise One (3.04) /Ice Age (2.19) /The Sound Of Music (3.49) /Glass (3.52) /The Only Mistake/(4.15) /Walked In Line (2.44) /The Kill (2.10) /Something Must Break (2.40) /Dead Souls/(4.50) /Sister Ray (7.33) /Ceremony (3.48) /Shadowplay (3.44) /Means To An End (4.04) /Passover (4.56) /New Dawn Fades (3.55) /Twenty Four Hours (Italian 2LP only) /Transmission (3.19)//Disorder (3.12) /Isolation (2.57) /Decades (5.12) /Digital (3.14)

Note: Tracks 1, 5, 6, and 7 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, April 1979.

Tracks 2, and 9 recorded at Cargo Studios, Manchester, October-November 1979.

Track 3 recorded at Pennine Studios, Manchester, March 1980.

Track 4 recorded at Cargo Studios, Rochdale, October 1978.

Track 8 recorded at Central Sound Studios, Manchester, July 1979.

Track 10 recorded live at The Moonlight Club, London, April 2, 1980.

Tracks 11-20 recorded live at the High Hall, Birmingham University, May 2, 1980, Joy Division's last concert!

"The Japanese 2CD-set also includes a lyric booklet, hilarious about this is they get so many of the lyrics wrong, sometimes they've got no idea what Ian is singing so it just says ".......". Pretty funny! (thanks to Jan Erik!) "

 

Track 16 was not listed on the 2LP-set track-listing, and is excluded from all CD-releases!

 

 

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Here Are The Young Men video (August 1982)

VHS Factory FACT 37V (PAL/NTSC)

BETA Factory FACT 37B

VHS IKON IKON 2 (1988)

rehearsals /Decades (from "Closer") /Dead Souls /Love Will Tear Us Apart /Shadowplay /Day Of The Lords//Digital /Colony /New Dawn Fades /Autosuggestion /Transmission /Sound Of Music /She's Lost Control /They Walked In Line /I Remember Nothing /Love Will Tear Us Apart (video)

All tracks recorded live, except when indicated.

Track 1 shot at the Plan K, Brussels, Belgium, October 16, 1979.

Tracks 3-5, 13 shot at the Apollo, Manchester, October 27, 1979.

Tracks 6, 11-12, 14-15 shot at the Apollo, Manchester, October 28, 1979.

Tracks 7-10 shot at De Effenaar in Eindhoven (January 18, 1980).

Track 16 is the official promo video (Australian version, apparently).

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The Peel Sessions 12" (November 1986)

12" Strange Fruit SFPS 013

CDS Strange Fruit SFPSCD 013 (July 1988)

Exercise One (2.30) /Insight (3.55) /She's Lost Control (4.10) //Transmission (3.55) /Recorded at BBC Studios, Maida Vale, London, January 31, 1979. First transmission: February 14, 1979.

The Peel Sessions 12" (September 1987)

12" Strange Fruit SFPS 033

CDS Strange Fruit SFPSCD 033 (July 1988)

Love Will Tear Us Apart (3.20) /24 Hours (4.05) /Colony (4.08) /Sound Of Music (4.20)

Recorded at BBC Studios, Maida Vale, London, November 26, 1979. First transmission: December 10, 1979.

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Atmosphere single rerelease (June 1988)

7" Factory FAC 213/7

Atmosphere / The Only Mistake

12" Factory FAC 213

Atmosphere /The Only Mistake /Sound Of Music

CDS Factory FACD 213

Atmosphere / Transmission (live) / Love Will Tear Us Apart

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Substance : Joy Division 1977-1980 compilation (June 1988)

LP Factory FACT 250 /  CD Factory FACD 250 / MC Factory FACT 250C / DAT Factory FACT 250D (1991) / CD London 520014 (1994 reissue)

Warsaw /Leaders Of Men /Digital /Autosuggestion /Transmission /She's Lost Control /Incubation /Dead Souls /Atmosphere /Love Will Tear Us Apart

APPENDIX

No Love Lost /Failures /Glass /From Safety To Where? /Novelty /Komakino /These Days

Note: The "APPENDIX" is not included on the LP-release or original CD release.

Tracks 1, 2, 11, and 12 recorded at Pennine Sound Studios, Manchester, December 1977.

Tracks 3, and 13 recorded at Cargo Studios, Rochdale, October 1978.

Tracks 4, and 14 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, April 1979.

Tracks 5, and 15 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, July 1979.

Tracks 6, and 10 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Manchester, March 1980.

Tracks 7, and 16 recorded at Britannia Row Studios, Islington, March 1980.

Tracks 8, and 9 recorded at Cargo Studios, Manchester, October-November 1979.

Track 17 recorded at Pennine Studios, Manchester, March 1980.

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The Peel Sessions album (1990)

LP Strange Fruit SFRLP111

CD Strange Fruit SFRCD111

Both previous Joy Division Peel Sessions are presented here on one disk. The track list is the eight songs from the above.

 

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Love Will Tear Us Apart single rerelease (May 1995)

CDS London/PolyGram Canada 422 850 129-2

Love Will Tear Us Apart (radio version) (3.38) /Love will Tear Us Apart (3.25) /Love will Tear UsApart (Arthur Baker remix) (4.12) /Atmosphere (4.08) /These Days (3.25) /Transmission (live) (3.44)

Note: This Canadian release contains all tracks involved in all the rerelease formats for "Love Will Tear Us Apart : Joy Division 1995". Several other formats containing several of the listed tracks have been released:

CDS London UK YOJCD1

CDS London worldwide 850025.2

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Permanent: Joy Division 1995 compilation (June 1995)

LP London 828 624-1

CD London 828 624-2

MC London 828 624-4

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Transmission /She's Lost Control /Shadowplay /Day Of The Lords /Isolation /Passover /Heart And/Soul /Twenty Four Hours /These Days /Novelty /Dead Souls /The Only Mistake /Something/Must Break /Atmosphere /Love Will Tear Us Apart (Permanent mix)

Note: Tracks 2, and 11 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, July 1979.

Tracks 3, 4, 5, and 13 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, April 1979.

Tracks 6, 7, 8, and 9 recorded at Britannia Row Studios, Islington, March 1980.

Track 10 recorded at Pennine Studios, Manchester, March 1980.

Track 12 recorded at Cargo Studios, Manchester, October-November 1979.

Track 14 recorded at Central Sound Studios, Manchester, July 1979.

Track 15 recorded at Strawberry Studios, Manchester, March 1980.

Additional production and remix on track 16 by Don Gehman.

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Heart And Soul boxed set (December 1997)

 

4CD London 828 968-2

CD1 "Unknown Pleasures Plus" (77.35)

Digital /Glass /Disorder /Day Of The Lords /Candidate /Insight /New Dawn Fades /She's Lost/Control /Shadowplay /Wilderness /Interzone /I Remember Nothing /Ice Age /Exercise One /Transmission /Novelty /The Kill /The Only Mistake /Something Must Break /Autosuggestion /From Safety To Where...?

CD2 "Closer Plus" (76.10)

She's Lost Control /Sound Of Music /Atmosphere /Dead Souls /Komakino /Incubation /Atrocity Exhibition/ Isolation /Passover /Colony /Means To An End /Heart And Soul /Twenty Four Hours //The Eternal /Decades /Love Will Tear Us Apart /These Days

CD3 "Studio Rarities & Unreleased" (78.04)

Warsaw /No Love Lost /Leaders Of Men /Failures /The Drawback /Interzone /Shadowplay /Exercise One /Insight /Glass /Transmission /Dead Souls /Something Must Break /Ice Age /Walked In Line/These Days /Candidate /The Only Mistake /Chance (Atmosphere) /Love Will Tear Us Apart /Colony /As You Said /Ceremony /In A Lonely Place (detail) /

CD4 "Live" (76.51)

 

Dead Souls /The Only Mistake Insight /Candidate /Wilderness /She's Lost Control /Disorder /Interzone /Atrocity Exhibition /Novelty /Autosuggestion /I Remember Nothing /Colony /These Days /Incubation /The Eternal /Heart And Soul /Isolation /She's Lost Control

Liner notes from the back of the box: "A complete studio back catalogue that comprises 80 tracks and 4 cds including the Ideal for Living EP, the Factory Sampler, Unknown Pleasures, Earcom 2: Contradiction, Licht und Blindheit and Closer; previously unreleased live material at the Factory, Manchester; the Winter Gardens, Bournemouth; the YMCA Conference Centre and Lyceum Ballroom, London; plus previously unreleased sessions for RCA, Piccadilly Radio and Genetic Records. With a few exceptions, everything Joy Division recorded and released is contained here. Joy Division: 1977 to 1980."

To avoid a far too extensive list on all recording dates of the included tracks on this box, I will only list those recordings which have been previously unreleased on a legal basis:

Tracks 43-45 recorded at Arrow Studios, Manchester, May 1978.

Tracks 47-49, and 52 recorded at Eden Studios, London, March 1979.

Tracks 50-51 recorded at Central Sound Studios, Manchester, July 1979.

Tracks 54-57 recorded at Piccadilly Radio, Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham, June 1979.

Tracks 61-62 recorded at Graveyard Studios, Prestwich, April 1980.

Tracks 63-72 recorded live at The Factory, Hulme, Manchester, July 13, 1979.

Track 73 recorded live at the Prince of Wales Conference Centre, YMCA, London, August 2, 1979.

Tracks 74-76 recorded live at Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, November 2, 1979.

Tracks 77-81 recorded live at the Lyceum Ballroom, London, February 29, 1980.

Tracks 13-14, and 17-19 with added post production.

 

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Preston 28 February 1980 (April 1999)

 

Incubation /Wilderness /Twenty Four Hours /The Eternal /Heart and Soul /Shadowplay /Transmission /Disorder /Warsaw /Colony /Interzone /She's Lost Control

The Fractured Music Archive Volume One

Liner notes from the booklet: "This is not a memento, this is a gig. This is not a souvenir or shifty "not the best of", this is a gig. This is not bootleg chic, this is just a gig. Just a gig by one of the greatest bands that ever lived and wrote and played."

 

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