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Summary: Great Band.....Good Selection For The Beginner
Comment: I am a convert from 'Closer'....so decided to buy the album of the same name, great songs lead me to buy this album, after some research went for 'substance'...now i cannot stop playing them.
After looking on Amazon for more JD cd's saw the new release of 'Heart and soul'...a 4 cd boxed set for less than £18.00 with 81 tracks on could not be turned down.
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Summary: Addicted to this Album
Comment: This album features the greatest song ever written or recorded "LOVE WILL TEAR US APART` - The rest of the songs are OK - but `Love Will Tear Us Apart` is a timeless classic, a work of art that I play about 30 times every day...it is playing now as I write this.
The vocal performance of the late great Ian Curtis is pure pop pefection...I want this song played at my funeral along with "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinead O`Connor and "My Death" by DAVID BOWIE.
Those three songs are better than any tonic, more moving then any hymn or national anthem and give more of a buzz than any drug.
If you dont like Joy Division or New Order - still BUY this album because "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is a reason for living...
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Summary: Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack for Punk Rockers
Comment: One of the best bands of all-time produced the greatest love song of all-time...
Love Will Tear Us Apart is to punk what Lets Get It On is to soul...
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Summary: Very good value for money and a great band
Comment: First things first, there are already two Joy Division compilations out there, Substance which personally i think omits too many essential JD tracks, and Permanent which i think is a great introduction to the band but scandalously leaves out "Digital".
Well this album has "Digital" and most of the songs a casual listener would want but it is worth noting that two key tracks "She's Lost Control" and the timeless classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart" appear on here in the less familar alternative versions which are longer but less catchy (to my ears at least!).
A big selling point is the extra cd containing two complete Peel Sessions, each of 4 tracks, plus 2 songs recorded for Something Else and an interview with Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris.
I own both this and Permanent and i think both are worthy of a place in anyone's cd collection, well anyone who likes genuinely alternative music.
I'd have given this 5 stars if it had the better known versions of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "She's Lost Control" on it.
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Summary: A wasted opportunity....
Comment: OK - let's get something out of the way. Joy Division where thee greatest post-punk bands ever. They released two of the best albums ever released by any band. The quality of their music is not under any doubt.
What is under some doubt is the format/point/track listing of this album. London Records have missed a trick here (or they just being cynical?). If it's a "Best of" then that is exactly what it should be. Not an excuse to flog us the Peel sessions (no matter how fine they are). But it isn't a "Best of". How can "Decades" not be included while the likes of "Incubation" is? Where are "The Eternal" and "Heart and Soul"? If fact there's just two tracks from the greatest album of all time?!!?? Less contentious, and more personal opinion, is the lack of much in the way of Still material, such as the very fine "The Only Mistake".
So we still haven't had a definitive "Best of Joy Division". I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, but London Records, shame on you, you have really missed an opportunity here.
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