The Best of Joy Division

by Joy Division

The Best of Joy Division cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 24 March 2008
  • Label: London
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 55:37
  • Community rating: 4.4/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released concurrently with the biographical film 'Control', this comprehensive compilation provides a succinct, incredibly powerful overview of the Manchester quartet's brief but monumentally influential existence. It gathers tracks from their two legendary studio albums alongside essential non-album singles like 'Transmission' and the enduring masterpiece 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. It serves as a flawless introduction to their bleak, angular post-punk aesthetic.

Genres

Descriptors: alienation, atmospheric, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Digital (2:50)
  2. Disorder (3:29)
  3. Shadowplay (3:52)
  4. New Dawn Fades (4:47)
  5. Transmission (3:37)
  6. Atmosphere (4:10)
  7. Dead Souls (4:55)
  8. She's Lost Control - 12" Single Version (4:54)
  9. Love Will Tear Us Apart (3:26)
  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)

Credits

  • Joy Division - primary artist
  • Bernard Sumner - written-by
  • Ian Curtis - written-by, interviewee
  • Peter Hook - written-by
  • Stephen Morris - written-by, interviewee
  • Richard Skinner - interviewer [interviewed by]

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