Joy Division - Still (Coll) (Dig)
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Free Music Review: A note on remastering
Hit: 4 Stars
Still was always a little bit misbegotten, cobbling together demoes and half-finished tracks with indifferent live tracks designed to beat the bootleggers at their game. Here it's beefed up with a whole extra show from High Wycombe, no worse in sound quality than is usual for late period Joy Division shows. The question will be whether those who already own earlier CD issues of Still or the Heart and Soul boxed set need this reissue. The quality of the remastering is as high as it is on the Unknown Pleasures and Closer reissues, and the mastering is at the same, higher volume (a problem on the boxed set, which was mastered too softly by London). The remastering itself makes less difference for relatively crude early tracks and the only revelation is Walked in Line, which has never sounded better. Thus as album and repackage, this is less essential than its companions, but probably worth it for the remastering of the first half (once upon a time LP 1) of the original Still.Free Music Review: Joy Division Odds and Ends
Hit: 3 Stars
I hoped that buying this disc would give me some of the early J.D. music which I heard in the new documentary movie about them. Sadly, this reissue disc slavishly copies all the flaws of the original disc's playlist, rather than trying to fill in the gaps of Joy Division material left out of their two meager studio albums.
For example, I hoped this disc would have the studio version of "Digital". It doesn't. There is a live version from a set that the studio put on "Still" to discourage bootlegging. The worst crime on this disc is the absence of "Love will Tear Us Apart", one of the greatest Joy Division songs, and one of the best post-punk singles ever. It does exist in live versions on these Joy Division reissues.
Also missing is "Atmosphere", one of J.D.'s most evocative tunes. The disc does have "Dead Souls", which was on the flip side of the single with "Atmosphere", and rightly so.
Instead we get a cover of "Sister Ray" which Curtis dismisses as their version of "Louie Louie".
As with the other Joy Division reissues, the other disc is of a live performance. I wouldn't have minded if the live disc were swapped out for one which filled out the additional gaps in the Joy Division repertoire. I know that most of these gaps are filled in the "Heart and Soul" box set, but having purchased both reissues of "Unknown Pleasures" and "Closer", I can't see paying more money for the redundant discs in the box set.
So while this disc will not fill out your Joy Division collection, it does offer some nice remastered versions of some of their early stuff, unreleased late stuff, and a Joy Division version of "Ceremony" which later became a New Order single after Ian Curtis' death.
SubstanceIf you already have "Unknown Pleasures" and "Closer" and you want a more complete collection of their early stuff, check out "Substance". Used copies are still available through Amazon sellers. This disc has the studio versions of "Love will Tear Us Apart, Digital, Atmosphere, No Love Lost" and other early tidbits missing from "Still", which are heard in the JoyDiv movie. There is even an alternate version of "She's Lost Control". The sound is quite good though I don't think it was remastered.
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