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Authors: Deborah Curtis
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Short Circuit ‘Live At the Electric Circus’
Virgin (VCL 5003), ten-inch album with a special limited-edition pressing on blue vinyl, recorded live during the so-called last two days at the Electric Circus, released June 1978. Joy Division were still called Warsaw at the time of recording and had one track, ‘At a Later Date’, on the album, as did the Drones, Steel Pulse and the Buzzcocks. The Fall and John Cooper Clarke each had two tracks.
An Ideal for Living
Enigma (PSS139), seven-inch four-track EP, recorded at the Pennine Sound Studio, Oldham, December 1977, but not officially released until June 1978: ‘Warsaw’ / ‘No Love Lost’/‘Leaders of Men’/ ‘Failures’.
An Ideal for Living
Anonymous Records (ANON 1), twelve-inch version, released September 1978.
A Factory Sample
Factory (FAC 2) double EP, recorded at Cargo Studios, Rochdale, 11 October 1978, released January 1979. The Joy Division tracks were ‘Digital’ and ‘Glass’, produced by Martin ‘Zero’ Hannett. Other tracks were by the Durutti Column, John Dowie and Cabaret Voltaire.
The Factory Flick
Factory (FAC 9), 8mm film which included ‘No City Fun Music’, a twelve-minute piece by Joy Division based on an article on
City
Fun
magazine by Liz Naylor. It was shown at the Scala Cinema, London, in September 1979.
Unknown Pleasures
Factory (FAC 10), debut album, rcorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, April 1979, produced by Martin Hannett, released June 1979: ‘Inside’ had ‘She’s Lost Control’/‘Shadowplay’/ ‘Wilderness’/‘Interzone’/‘I Remember Nothing’; ‘Outside’ had ‘Disorder’/ ‘Day of the Lords’/‘Candidate’/‘Insight’/‘New Dawn Fades’.
Transmission
Factory (FAC 13), seven-inch single, recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, July 1979, produced by Martin Hannett, released October 1979; ‘Transmission’/Novelty’.
Earcom
2
Fast (FAST 9), twelve-inch EP, recorded during
Unknown
Pleasures
session at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, April 1979, produced by Martin Hannett, given to Edinburgh’s Fast label: ‘Auto-suggestion’/‘From Safety to Where …?’ Included tracks by Thursdays and Basczax.
Sordide Sentimental
e Sordide Sentimentale (SS 33002), ‘Atmosphere’/ ‘Dead Souls’ had been recorded with ‘Transmission’ and the two songs, both produced by Martin Hannett, were later released in March 1980. Pressed as a limited edition of 1,578 on
Sordide
Sentimentale,
it was for sale in France only. The reason for this limited pressing was not apparent from the packaging, but the extravagant three-page sleeve had a text written by Jean-Pierre Turmel, a grim painting by Jean-François Jamoul and a photograph of Joy Division by Anton Corbijn.
Love
Will Tear Us
Apart
Factory (FAC 23), seven-inch single, recorded at Britannia Row Studios, London, March 1980, produced by Martin Hannett, released June 1980, reached No. 13 in UK chart: ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’/‘These Days’.
Closer
Factory (FAC 25), album, recorded at Britannia Row Studios, London, March 1980, produced by Martin Hannett, released July 1980: ‘Atrocity Exhibition’/‘Isolation’/‘Passover’/‘Colony’/‘A Means to an End’/‘Heart and Soul’/‘Twenty Four Hours’/‘The Eternal’/‘Decades’.
Komakino/Incubation
Factory (FAC 28), free flexidisc which also includes uncredited ‘As You Said’. ‘Komakino’ and ‘Incubation’ were recorded at the same time as
Closer
and appear on the Britannia Row cassette that Ian took home with him after the session.
Atmosphere
/
She
’
s Lost Control
Factory (FACUS 2), twelve-inch single, US release, September 1980 (later to be released in the UK).
Transmission/Novelty
Factory (FAC 13), twelve-inch single, remixed US release, September 1980.
Ceremony/In a Lonely Place
Factory (FAC 33), two songs written by Joy Division but released in January 1981 by New Order.
Still
Factory (FACT 40), double album of studio and live material using tracks from the whole of Joy Division’s career, released August 1981: ‘Exercise One’/‘Ice Age’/‘The Sound of Music’/‘Glass’/‘The Only Mistake’/‘Walked In line’/‘The Kill’/‘Something Must Break’/‘Dead Souls’/‘Sister Ray’/‘Ceremony’/‘Shadowplay’/‘Means to an End’/ ‘Passover’/‘New Dawn Fades’/‘Transmission’/‘Disorder’/‘Isolation’/ ‘Decades’/‘Digital’. Available in standard grey cover or as a deluxe package in a stiff, grey hessian folder with a white ribbon.
Here Are the Young Men
Factory (FACT 37), Joy Division video, released August 1982: ‘Dead Souls’/‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’/‘Shadowplay’/‘Day of the Lords’/‘Digital’/‘Colony’/‘New Dawn Fades’/‘Auto-suggestion’/‘Transmission’/‘The Sound of Music’/‘She’s Lost Control’/ ‘They Walked In Line’/‘I Remember Nothing’.
Atmosphere
Factory (FAC 213), UK release, 1988: ‘Atmosphere’/‘The Only Mistake’/‘The Sound of Music’/‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’.
Substance
Factory (FAC 250), Joy Division compilation album, released in July 1988: ‘Warsaw’/‘Leaders of Men’/‘Digital’/‘Auto-suggestion’/ ‘Transmission’/‘She’s Lost Control’/‘Incubation’/‘Dead Souls’/‘Atmosphere’/‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’/‘No Love Lost’/‘Failures’/‘Glass’/ ‘From Safety to Where…?’/‘Novelty’/‘Komakino’/‘These Days’.
Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit Records (SFRMC 111), both the Joy Division Peel Sessions, first transmitted in February and December 1979: ‘Exercise One’/‘Insight’/‘She’s Lost Control’/‘Transmission’/‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’/‘Twenty-Four Hours’/‘Colony’/‘The Sound of Music’.
Martin
Factory (FACD 325), album that celebrates the work of record producer Martin Hannett, released in 1991 after his death and featuring Joy Division’s ‘She’s Lost Control’ with further tracks from the Buzzcocks, Slaughter and the Dogs, John Cooper Clarke, Jilted John, A Certain Ratio, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, U2, New Order, Happy Mondays, World of Twist, New Fast Automatic Daffodils and the High.
Palatine
Factory (FACT 400), a boxed set of four CD albums that tell ‘the Factory Story’:
Tears in their
Eyes (FACD 314) has Joy Division’s Transmission’ and New Order’s rendition of ‘Ceremony’, along with tracks by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, A Certain Ratio, the Durutti Column, X-O-Dus, ESG, James, Section 25, Stockholm Monsters, Quando Quango.
Life’s a Beach
(FACD 324) contains tracks from New Order, A Certain Ratio, Section 25, Kalima, Marcel King, Cabaret Voltaire, 52nd Street, Fadela, Quando Quango, Happy Mondays.
The Beat Groups
(FACD 334) offers Joy Division’s ‘Wilderness’ with further tracks from Tunnelvision, the Distractions, the Wake, Stockholm Monsters, Happy Mondays, New Order, the Railway Children, the Durutti Column, Miaow, Revenge and James.
Selling Out
(FACD 344), appropriately entitled, features Joy Division’s ‘Atmosphere’ with tracks from New Order, Happy Mondays, Northside, the Durutti Column, Steve Martland, Electronic, the Wendys and Cath Carroll.
Permanent
: Joy
Division
, 1995 – Some containing limited edition numbered print – blurred picture of a man sitting with his hand on arm of chair holding a cigarette in right hand – taken from rear right – can’t see his face. Photographic images by John Holden, images from the book
Interference.
Side A: ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’/‘Transmission’/‘She’s Lost Control’/ ‘Shadow Play’. Side B: ‘Day of the Lords’/‘Isolation’/‘Passover’/‘Heart and Soul’. Side C: ‘Twenty-four Hours’/‘These Days’/‘Novelty’/‘Dead Souls’. Side D: ‘The Only Mistake’/‘Something Must Break’/ ‘Atmosphere’/‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ – Permanent mix (additional production and remix by Don Gehman).
Love
Will Tear Us
Apart
: Joy Division, 1995 – Exclusive mixes by Don Gehman and Arthur Baker. 1, Original version; 2, Radio version (mixed by Don Gehman); 3, Arthur Baker remix (additional production and remix by Arthur Baker); 4, Atmosphere (original Hannett 12”). Remix engineer Mark Plati at Shakedown studios. Photographic images by John Holden, images from the book
Interference.
Heart and
Soul, 1997. Box Set of four CDs:
CD1: The Kill. ‘Digital’/‘Glass’/‘Disorder’/‘Day of the Lords’/
‘Candidate’/‘Insight’/‘New Dawn Fades’/‘She’s Lost Control’/ ‘Shadowplay’/‘Wilderness’/‘Interzone’/‘I Remember Nothing’/‘Exercise One’/‘Transmission’/‘Novelty’/‘Auto-suggestion’/ ‘From Safety to Where …?’/‘Ice Age’/‘The Only Mistake’/‘Something Must Break’.
CD2:
She
’
s Lost Control
(12”). ‘Atmosphere’/‘Dead Souls’/‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’/‘These Days’/‘The Sound of Music’/‘Atrocity Exhibition’/‘Isolation’/‘Passover’/‘Colony’/‘A Means to an End’/ ‘Heart and Soul’/‘Twenty-four Hours’/‘The Eternal’/‘Decades’/‘Komakino’.
CD3:
Warsaw
. ‘No Love Lost’/‘Leaders of Men’/‘Failures’/‘Shadowplay’/‘The Drawback’/‘They Walked in Line’/‘Glass’/‘Candidate’/ ‘Insight’/‘Interzone’/‘These Days’/‘Colony’/‘Ceremony’/‘Exercise One’/ ‘Ice Age’/‘The Only Mistake’/‘Transmission’/‘Something Must Break’/ ‘Atmosphere’/‘Dead Souls’/‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’/‘In a Lonely Place’.
CD4:
Disorder
. ‘Candidate’/‘Insight’/‘She’s Lost Control’/‘These Days’/‘Atrocity Exhibition’/‘Isolation’/‘Colony’/‘The Only Mistake’/ ‘Wilderness’/‘Interzone’/‘Novelty’/‘Autosuggestion’/‘I Remember Nothing’/‘Heart and Soul’/‘The Eternal’.
Two young to know
,
too wild
to
care
… 1978–1992. The Factory Story, Part One. Features Joy Division’s ‘New Dawn Fades’. London records (released 1997).
Different colours
,
different shades
… 1978–1992. The Factory Story, Part Two. Features Joy Division’s Decades. London records, FACT 2.40 (released 1997).
And here is the young
man
. Martin Hannett productions, 1978–1991. Features Joy Division’s ‘She’s Lost Control’. Debutante, PolyGram (released 1998).
Preston 28 February 1980
. ‘Incubation’/‘Wilderness’/‘Twenty-four Hours’/‘The Eternal’/‘Heart and Soul’/‘Shadowplay’/‘Transmission’/ ‘Disorder’/‘Warsaw’/‘Colony’/‘Interzone’/‘She’s Lost Control’. Live album of Preston gig, FACD 2.60 (released 1999).
Warsaw (1977)
3, 5, 0, 1, 2, 5, Go!
I was there in the back stage,
When first light came around.
I grew up like a changeling,
To win the first time around.
I can see all the weakness.
I can pick all the faults.
Well I concede all the faith tests,
Just to stick in your throats.
31G, 31G, 31G
I hung around in your soundtrack,
To mirror all that you’ve done,
To find the right side of reason,
To kill the three lies for one,
I can see all the cold facts.
I can see through your eyes.
All this talk made no contact.
No matter how hard we tried.
31G, 31C 31G
I can still hear the footsteps.
I can see only walls.
I slid into your man-traps,
With no hearing at all.
I just see contradiction,
Had to give up the fight,
Just to live in the past tense,
To make believe you were right.
31G, 31G, 31G
3, 5, 0, 1, 2, 5.
Leaders of Men (1977)
Born from some mother’s womb,
Just like any other room.
Made a promise for a new life.
Made a victim out of your life.
When your time’s on the door,
And it drips to the floor,
And you feel you can touch,
All the noise is too much,
And the seeds that are sown,
Are no longer your own.
Just a minor operation,
To force a final ultimatum.
Thousand words are spoken loud,
Reach the dumb to fool the crowd.
When you walk down the street,
And the sound’s not so sweet,
And you wish you could hide,
Maybe go for a ride,
To some peep show arcade,
Where the future’s not made.
A nightmare situation,
Infiltrate imagination,
Smacks of past Holy wars,
By the wall with broken laws.
The leaders of men,
Born out of your frustration.
The leaders of men,
Just a strange infatuation.
The leaders of men,
Made a promise for a new life.
No saviour for our sakes,
To twist the internees of hate,
Self induced manipulation,
To crush all thoughts of mass salvation.
No Love Lost (1977)
So long sitting here,
Didn’t hear the warning.
Waiting for the tape to run.
We’ve been moving around in different situations,
Knowing that the time would come.
Just to see you torn apart,
Witness to your empty heart.
I need it.
I need it.
I need it.
Through the wire screen, the eyes of those standing outside looked in
at her as into the cage of some rare creature in a zoo.
In the hand of one of the assistants she saw the same instrument
which they had that morning inserted deep into her body. She shuddered instinctively. No life at all in the house of dolls.
No love lost. No love lost.
You’ve been seeing things,
In darkness, not in learning,
Hoping that the truth will pass.
No life underground, wasting never changing,
Wishing that this day won’t last.
To never see you show your age,
To watch until the beauty fades,
I need it.
I need it.
I need it.
(Second verse on Warsaw album)
Two-way mirror in the hall,
They like to watch everything you do,
Transmitters hidden in the walls,
So they know everything you say is true,
Turn it on,
Don’t turn it on,
Turn it on.
Failures (1977)
Don’t speak of safe Messiahs,
A failure of the Modern Man,
To the centre of all life’s desires,
As a whole not an also ran.
Love in a hollow field,
Break the image of your father’s son,
Drawn to an inner feel,
He was thought of as the only one,
He was thought of as the only one.
He no longer denies,
All the failures of the Modern Man.
No, no, no, he can’t pick sides,
Sees the failures of the Modern Man.
Wise words and sympathy,
Tell the story of our history.
New strength gives a real touch,
Sense and reason make it all too much.
With a strange fatality,
Broke the spirits of a lesser man,
Some other race can see,
In his way he was the only one,
In his way he was the only one.
He no longer denies
All the failures of the Modern Man.
No, no, no, he can’t pick sides,
Sees the failures of the Modern Man.
Now that it’s right to decide,
In his time he was a total man,
Taken from Caesar’s side,
Kept in silence just to prove who’s wrong.
He no longer denies,
All the failures of the Modern Man.
No, no, no, he can’t pick sides,
Sees the failures of the Modern Man,
All the failures of the Modern Man.
(Waiting for) The Ice Age (1977)
(
The
first
set
of
lyrics
for
Ice
Age
)
Scratching out atrocity,
Splintered in the sand,
In a deathshroud looking back,
Walking hand in hand.
Draw the lines onto your face,
To make it look brand new,
Nothing here will fit in place,
To screen the likes of you.
Stranded in hostility,
Buried further down,
Waiting in a churchyard,
For the sons to come around,
Burning down conventions now,
To give me all the proof,
Nothing here will hold somehow,
To give a glimpse of truth.
Searching for some other life,
To hide behind your door,
On a strange wave plunging down,
With hopes for little more,
Someone might have changed somewhere,
To bring us into line,
All so near to hit and run,
To cut the gaps in time.
Waiting for the cold to come,
To face one final stand,
Viewing scenes in black and white,
Walking hand in hand,
Reaching from the distance,
To find some strength again.
Ice Age (1977)
I’ve seen the real atrocities,
Buried in the sand,
Stockpiled safety for a few,
While we stand holding hands.
I’m living in the Ice age,
I’m living in the Ice age,
Nothing will hold,
Nothing will fit,
Into the cold,
It’s not an eclipse.
Living in the Ice age,
Living in the Ice age,
Living in the Ice age.
Searching for another way,
Hide behind the door,
We’ll live in holes and disused shafts,
Hopes for little more.
I’m living in the Ice age,
I’m living in the Ice age,
Nothing will hold,
Nothing will fit,
Into the cold,
No smile on your lips,
Living in the Ice age,
Living in the Ice age,
Living in the Ice age.
Living in the Ice age,
Living in the Ice age,
Living in the Ice age,
Living in the Ice age.
The Kill (1977)
Moved in a hired car,
And I find no way to run,
Adds every moment longer,
Had no time for fun,
Just something that I knew I had to do,
But through it all I left my eyes on you.
I had an impulse to clear it all away,
Oh I used the tactics, make everybody pay,
Just something that I knew I had to do,
But through it all I kept my eyes on you.
Oh, I keep it all clean,
I’ve paid the graces there,
No kings of misuse,
No sellers of flesh,
Just something that I knew I had to do,
But through it all I kept my eyes on you,
Yeah through it all I kept my eyes on you,
But through it all I kept my eyes on you.
Walked in Line (1978)
All dressed in uniforms so fine,
They drank and killed to pass the time,
Wearing the shame of all their crimes,
With measured steps, they walked in line.
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line.
They carried pictures of their wives,
And numbered tags to prove their lives,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line.
Full of a glory never seen,
They made it through the whole machine,
To never question anymore,
Hypnotic trance, they never saw,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
They walked in line,
Walked in line,
Walked in line.
Exercise One (1978)
When you’re looking at life,
In a strange new room,
Maybe drowning soon,
Is this the start of it all?
Turn on your TV,
Turn down your pulse,
Turn away from it all,
It’s all getting too much.
When you’re looking at life,
Deciphering scars,
Just who fooled who,
Sit still in their cars,
The lights look bright,
When you reach outside,
Time for one last ride,
Before the end of it all
Digital (1978)
Feel it closing in,
Feel it closing in,
The fear of whom I call,
Every time I call
I feel it closing in,
I feel it closing in,
Day in, day out,
Day in, day out,
Day in, day out,
Day in, day out,
Day in, day out,
Day in, day out.
I feel it closing in,
As patterns seem to form.
I feel it cold and warm.
The shadows start to fall.
I feel it closing in,
I feel it closing in,
Day in, day out,
Day in, day out,
Day in, day out,
Day in, day out,
Day in, day out.
I ‘d have the world around,
To see just whatever happens,
Stood by the door alone,
And then it’s fade away.
I see you fade away.
Don’t ever fade away.
I need you here today.
Don’t ever fade away.
Don’t ever fade away.
Don’t ever fade away.
Don’t ever fade away.
Fade away. Fade away.
Fade away. Fade away.
Fade away. Fade away.
Fade away.
Glass (1978)
Hearts fail, young hearts fail,
Any time, pressurised,
overheat, overtired.
Take it quick, take it neat,
Clasp your hands, touch your feet.
Take it quick, take it neat,
Take it quick, take it neat.
Hearts fail, young hearts fail,
Anytime, wearing down,
On the run, underground,
Put your hand where it’s safe,
Leave your hand where it’s safe.
Do it again,
Do it again and again and again.
Do it again and again and again.
Do it again and again and again.
Do it again and again and again.
Anytime, that’s your right.
Don’t you wish you do it again,
Overheat, overtire.
Don’t you wish you do it again,
Don’t you wish you do it again,
Don’t you wish you do it again,
Any time that’s your right,
Don’t you wish you do it again,
Any time that’s your right.
Don’t you wish you do it again,
Don’t you wish you do it again,
I bet you wish you do it again.
Do it again.
Do it again.
Do it again.
Disorder (1979)
I’ve been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand,
Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?
These sensations barely interest me for another day,
I’ve got the spirit, lose the feeling, take the shock away.
It’s getting faster, moving faster now, it’s getting out of hand,
On the tenth floor, down the back stairs, it’s a no man’s land,
Lights are flashing, cars are crashing, getting frequent now ,
I’ve got the spirit, lose the feeling, let it out somehow.