This double CD is a wonderful introduction to what may be Manchester's greatest contribution to music: Joy Division!
Hear most of the post-punk and goth rock studio highlights a long-time fan would expect on the 1st disc, and a number of wonderfully inventive and evocotive alternate versions from The John Peel show and Something Else on the 2nd disc. (All of these alternate versions date from 1979, the same year as their debut album)
Hear post-punk, pre-New Order legends Joy Division at the peak of their performance and song-writing prowess, right before the tragic death of singer Ian Curtis. This engrossing package includes a 20-page booklet with liner notes and credits.
Double Compact Disc version
Tracklisting
CD1:
The Best Of Joy Division
1. Digital 2:52
2. Disorder 3:30
3. Shadowplay 3:52
4. New Dawn Fades 4:47
5. Transmission 3:37
6. Atmosphere 4:10
7. Dead Souls 4:56
8. She's Lost Control 4:56
9. Love Will Tear Us Apart 3:27
10. These Days 3:28
11. Twenty Four Hours 4:28
12. Heart And Soul 5:50
13. Incubation 2:53
14. Isolation 2:53
CD2:
The John Peel Sessions
1. Exercise One from The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 14th February 1979
2. Insight from The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 14th February 1979
3. She's Lost Control from The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 14th February 1979
4. Transmission from The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 14th February 1979
5. Love Will Tear Us Apart from The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 10th December 1979
6. Twenty Four Hours from The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 10th December 1979
7. Colony from The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 10th December 1979
8. Sound Of Music from The John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1, first broadcast on 10th December 1979
Something Else
9. Transmission from the BBC TV programme "Something Else", first broadcast on 15th September 1979
10. She's Lost Control from the BBC TV programme "Something Else", first broadcast on 15th September 1979
Interview
11. Interview first transmitted in September 1979 on BBC Radio 1
