Unknown Pleasures [COLLECTOR'S EDITION] [EXTRA TRACKS]

Joy Division

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 30, 2007)
• Original Release Date: October 30, 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Collector's Edition, Extra tracks
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B000WGWW7G
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #43,834 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
2007 digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of the influential Manchester quartet's 1979 debut album. Joy Division's influence on modern music is not only based around the band's unique sound, but also their vision, their personalities and their intense and troubled vocalist, Ian Curtis who committed suicide on the eve of their first tour of the U.S. Disc One features the original album containing 10 tracks including 'Disorder', 'She's Lost Control' and 'Interzone'. Disc Two features 12 tracks recorded live at The Factory in Manchester, April of 1980. Rhino UK. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A note on the remastering, October 31, 2007

By	Michael Kulikowski (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The superlatives heaped on Unknown Pleasures, which regularly makes the best albums of all time lists that magazines insist upon publishing, are well known: sonically groundbreaking, birth of postpunk, early Goth template, integration of electronica, etc. It is hard to imagine anyone remotely interested not having a copy already (or two, or three, between vinyl and previous CD issues). So the question is -- does the remastering justify purchase, despite the fact that all but two tracks on these two discs are on the Heart and Soul boxed set? The answer is yes -- far more space on the individual instrument tracks on the studio album than on the box set, and the mastering is louder, as most CDs are now by comparison to 10 years ago. The live album is still a bit ropey, but interesting, and the remastering definitely justifies repurchase.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not really unreleased material, October 29, 2007

By	A. Gerritz "multi_lingue" (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

BEWARE! If you already own the Heart and Soul box set, then you already own all but 2 of the tracks on this 2 CD set, since Unknown Pleasures is included in its entirety on the box set, and the first 10 tracks on Disc 4 are 10 of the 12 tracks on the bonus live CD. The 2 tracks not on the box set are Shadowplay (in fact previously unreleased from this gig), and Transmission, previously available on the 1988 Atmosphere CD single and on one of the 1995 Love Will Tear Us Apart CD singles. Still a good gig. Actual date and location were The Factory, Hulme, Manchester, July 13, 1979.

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wrong tracks, November 11, 2007

By	M. Derby "drone45" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Unknown Pleasures is easily one of the greatest albums of the post-punk era.

This, however, isn't it! The cover art is correct...but the track listing of CD 1 is that for the title Still, which is the first live recording released after Ian Curtis died.

The tracks of Unknown Pleasures are:

Disorder
Day of the Lords
Candidate
Insight
New Dawn Fades
She's Lost Control
Shadowplay
Wilderness
Interzone
I Remember Nothing