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Joy Division - Heart and Soul
Music CD CoverArtist: Joy Division Edition: Music CD Format: Box set, Explicit Lyrics, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2001-08-28 Music Label: Rhino / Wea Soundtracks: Music CD 1- Digital
- Glass
- Disorder
- Day of the Lords
- Candidate
- Insight
- New Dawn Fades
- She's Lost Control
- Shadowplay
- Wilderness
- Interzone
- I Remember Nothing
- Ice Age
- Exercise One
- Transmission
- Novelty
- The Kill
- The Only Mistake
- Something Must Break
- Auto-Suggestion
- From Safety to Where...?
Music CD 2- She's Lost Control 12
- Sound of Music
- Atmosphere
- Dead Souls
- Komakino
- Incubation
- Atrocity Exhibition
- Isolation
- Passover
- Colony
- Means to an End
- Heart and Soul
- Twenty Four Hours
- The Eternal
- Decades
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- These Days
Music CD 3- Warsaw
- No Love Lost
- Leaders of Men
- Failures
- The Drawback
- Interzone
- Shadowplay
- Exercise One
- Insight
- Glass
- Transmission
- Dead Souls
- Something Must Break
- Ice Age
- Walked in Line
- These Days
- Candidate
- The Only Mistake
- Chance (Atmosphere)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Colony
- As You Said
- Ceremony
- In a Lonely Place (Detail)
Music CD 4- Dead Souls [Live]
- The Only Mistake [Live]
- Insight [Live]
- Candidate [Live]
- Wilderness [Live]
- She's Lost Control [Live]
- Disorder [Live]
- Interzone [Live]
- Atrocity Exhibition [Live]
- Novelty [Live]
- Auto-Suggestion
- Remember Nothing
- Colony
- These Days
- Incubation
- The Eternal
- Heart and Soul
- Isolation
- She's Lost Control
Free Music Notes for Heart and SoulFree Music Review: Essential for Joy Division fans Hit: 5 StarsI'm in another phase of (re)exploring Joy Division, on the heels of finally watching the excellent Ian Curtis bio-pic "Control", which never made it in the theaters here in Cincinnati but I saw recently on DVD. It happens to me every couple of years that I feel the need the re-listen to this set from start to finish. I bought the original UK-issue of this, back in 1997.
"Heart and Soul" (4CDs, 81 tracks, 309 min.) brings just about everything that Joy Division ever recorded. CD1 (21 tracks; 78 min.) centers around the 1979 debut album "Unknown Pleasures", augmented by assorted singles and outtakes. Listening to tracks like "She's Lost Control", "Shadowplay" and "I Remember Nothing" reminds me why this band is still relevant, almost 30 years later. CD2 (17 tracks; 76 min.) centers around the 1980 album "Closer", again with lots of additional tracks from that era. CD3 (24 tracks; 78 min.) capatures everything else, including the early "Warsaw" music, 3 tracks from the "John Peele Sessions" and a bunch of unreleased stuff, such as the fantastic "Ceremony" and "In A Lonely Place". CD4 (19 tracks; 77 min.) is a collection of live tracks. The sound quality for many of them is not great, but they are still essential. The best of the bunch are the last 5, recorded in December 1979, when the band previewed a number of tracks that would eventually make it on the "Closer" album (released in July, 1980). Check out the live version of "Heart and Soul" and then listen to what it would eventually become in its final studio version, simply fascinating!
This box comes with a wealth of information, including studio session dates, release dates of singles and album, various articles and great liner notes. The article "Good Everning, We're Joy Division" (which was originally published in MoJo in 1994, according to the liner notes) is an eye-opener. This box is essential for any serious Joy Division fan (is there such a thing as the 'casual' fan? maybe, I don't know). And frankly, this is essential for any music lover, as the influence of Joy Division over the years has only grown (check Interpol, She Wants Revenge, and many other bands of this era). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Heart and Soul PosterThough Joy Division's anxious, angular songs echoed time-honored art-school obsessions from the Doors through Eno, they never stooped to cheap nostalgia or pretentious condescension. Neither bridge nor battering ram, the band's music--haunting and hypnotic, with an emotionally naked core as bleak as it was compelling--has transcended disposable pop culture past and present; leader-vocalist Ian Curtis's 1980 suicide only underscored the notion that Joy Division was a band out of time, figuratively as well as literally. In just over two years, the Manchester, U.K., group constructed a legacy whose influences have surfaced with the surviving members' New Order through macabre, psychically-damaged Curtis/Cobain parallels to the sonic atmospherics of Radiohead. And if their recorded output was limited, it has long been ill served by the record industry's worst Cuisinart instincts. Thus, this artfully designed four-disc, 81-track box should reign as the band's definitive recorded history. Journalist Jon Savage collaborated with band members Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook to assemble Joy Division's legacy into four subtly different chapters. Discs one and two center around the band's albums, Unknown Pleasures and Closer respectively, culling singles, demos, and outtakes. Disc three gathers BBC and Peel sessions and more than a dozen previously unreleased outtakes. The final chapter may be the most artistically revealing: 17 live tracks that represent not only the best of the band's darkly compelling songs, but show their riveting stage presence during a performance peak that spanned but seven months. The accompanying booklet presents an almost Rashomon-like take on the band, from its spare, impressionistic imagery through its multiple essays and, crucially, the lyrics of Ian Curtis, starkly presented as the candid, disquieting poetry that was the essence of Joy Division's murmuring heart and troubled soul. --Jerry McCulley 1997 release, a four disc set on London packaged in a 6 x 10in gatefold digibook with an 80 page illustrated book. 80 tracks total, including all cuts from the albums 'Unknown Pleasures', 'Closer' & 'Substance', seven of the nine studiorecordings on 'Still', plus Peel session versions of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', 'Exercise One' & 'Colony', the version of 'As You Said' that appeared as the uncredited track on New Order's 'Video 586' 12 single and last --but certainly not least-- 35 previously unreleased gems comprised of live & rare versions of their absolute finest. Utterly brilliant. 1997 release, a four disc set on London packaged in a 6 x 10in gatefold digibook with an 80 page illustrated book. 80 tracks total, including all cuts from the albums 'Unknown Pleasures', 'Closer' & 'Substance', seven of the nine studiorecordings on 'Still', plus Peel session versions of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', 'Exercise One' & 'Colony', the version of 'As You Said' that appeared as the uncredited track on New Order's 'Video 586' 12 single and last --but certainly not least-- 35 previously unreleased gems comprised of live & rare versions of their absolute finest. Utterly brilliant. The Most Complete Collection of Joy Division's Studio Recordings Ever, Compiled by the Surviving Band Members and Jon Savage. Both Studio LPs Are Included Along with all Singles, Obscure Tracks and Hard to Find Tracks. The Fourth Disc Includes Previously Unreleased Live Tracks for the Faithful. Not to Mention the Fact that all the Tracks were Digitally Remastered, So They Sound Better Than Ever.
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