Joy Division - Complete BBC Recordings
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Artist: Joy DivisionEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2000-10-24
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Exercise One
- Insight
- She's Lost Control
- Transmission
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- 24 Hours
- Colony
- Sound of Music
- Transmission [Live]
- She's Lost Control [Live]
- Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris Interviewed by Richard Skinner
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"The Complete BBC Recordings" are live radio performances by Joy Division. But these live performances are a little different than one might think. With that said this is what i mean;the John Peel sessions where recorded "almost live". Joy Division would run through a song several times, then the takes where tweaked with the produer requesting each and every musician to proform "add-ons",which where then mixed into the songs. The finished product is a highly polished live track. So when Joy Division played live in concert, earlier in the evening they would do a soundcheck, two to six songs depending on the time they had, and then play the live show, song after song to the crowds delight,but thats not the case here. The first Peel session was on Jan 31,1979 at BBC's Maida Vale studios, with Bob Sargeant producing and Kick Gomm engineering;no Martin Hannett. Keep in mind this session comes before "Unknown Pleasures" but Martin had produced two songs for them on "The Factory Sample". Four songs where used for this session and then transmitted on the radio during the John Peel show on Feb 14,1979. "Exercise one" "Insight" "She's Lost Control" and "Transmission" are the tracks from the first session. With "Unknown Pleasures" behind them along with three singles "Transmission" "Earcom 2" and "Sordide Sentimentale",Joy Division returned to BBC's Maida Vale Studios to record their second John Peel session on Nov 26,1979. Again four songs where chosen, four songs that would be a part of their second album. These songs had developed during the Buzzcocks tour; "The Sound of Music" "Twenty Four Hours" Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "Colony". Only two of these songs would make it on "Closer". The second Peel session was transmitted during the John Peel show on Dec 10,1979. There are ten tracks on this album, with the last two being a more traditional live performance from BBC's T.V. program "Something Else". These two songs are from Sept 15,1979. You will notice a difference between these last two songs and the first eight. This is a brillant performance by Joy Division and a must have for any fan of their music. "We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber,Pushed to the limit,we dragged ourselves in" Ian Curtis, Decades.
Complete BBC Recordings Poster
Includes two separate performances at the BBC studios recorded in 1979, and 10 months apart.The ever-expanding log of BBC vault recordings is a decidedly mixed lot, with plenty of rubbish surfacing along with more than a few gems. This 10-song collection from the short-lived but vastly influential foursome Joy Division definitely belongs in the latter camp. Made up of radio performances cut in January, September, and November of 1979, The Complete BBC Recordings captures the post-punk outfit two years after they came together following a Sex Pistols appearance in their Manchester, England, base and a matter of months before frontman Ian Curtis took his life. Signaling a tidal shift in the punk mindset, Curtis's inner torment was expressed by melancholy rather than rage. His instrumental cohorts--the pre-New Order trio of Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, and Stephen Morris--created a sound that was as terse yet expressive as a rude remark. These John Peel and Radio One performances depict a band on a grim mission--to give their sense of paralyzing futility an undeniable momentum. Riveting from start to finish, The Complete BBC Recordings is a must-own for fans of the band and anyone interested in hearing where the '70s ended and the '80s began for a vital segment of British rock. --Steven Stolder
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