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Free Music Notes for Warsaw
Free Music Review: Me again, with a new perspective...
Hit: 4 Stars
I've realized that after hearing several downloaded tracks from our friends in the file sharing community that this disc is not mixed very well... It is a bit muddy and high on the bass end.I grabbed some soungs from cyberspace that were much better balanced-- the punk sound comes out better this way. I still think the music, the era and the band is excellent. I just thought I'd share my more technical thoughts.
And I'm not sure if this is still my favourite from Joy Div. Unknown pleasures sort of blew my away recently.
Free Music Review: The beginning of an astonishing band...
Hit: 4 Stars
'Warsaw' was the moniker for Manchester UK lads who hoped for something more. They achieved that with a band - Joy Division - a band that will be remembered for a good few years. Joy Division was one of the first bands to take punk energy and combine it with electronic pulse - and use silence for perfect effect. Man were they good! Warsaw was the starting punk point, it's easy to see the aggressive passion of Ian Curtis & the set plan for Joy Division. A fine CD....Free Music Review: the joy division demos
Hit: 4 Stars
I have always been a huge fan of all Joy Division derivitives, including New Order, Monaco, and Revenge. This album is the boys from Joy Division before the name change. If you thought JD was raw and stark, try this one on for size. They polished a few of the songs off for later re-release, but this great album captures the pure essence of the band, with Ian is all his glory.Free Music Review: Sector
Hit: 4 Stars
Great insight into the early days of a band that would change dramaticaaly and therefore change the face of musicFree Music Review: Essential for fanatics
Hit: 3 Stars
This is a bootleg, rather than a band-sanctioned official release. Three of these songs also appear on the "Heart and Soul" boxed set (The Drawback, Shadowplay, Interzone), and the sound quality is notably better there than here. However, the sound quality of this bootleg is really pretty good; you can enjoy the music unimpeded. There is, however, apparently a pristine sounding German bootleg out there somewhere.The final five songs constitute the band's earliest demo, from July 1977. At that point they were called Warsaw, and you can hardly perceive Joy Division in the breakneck punk frenzy. Interesting evidence of how quickly the band evolved, but little more.
Five months later, the band (now nearly called Joy Division) recorded the excellent e.p. "An Ideal for Living," which is included in full on "Heart and Soul" and "Substance." In May 1978, they did sessions for a planned RCA album, which never saw release. This "Warsaw" cd includes those sessions in full. To my knowledge, only three (of the total eleven) recordings from these sessions have been released officially (see above). Because all four songs from the "Ideal for Living" e.p. are rerecorded here (in, I think, inferior versions), that puts the burden of value of this cd on a mere four remaining songs.
And they're pretty damn cool: a crisp (vocals all intelligible) "Walked in a Line," a slower "Transmission," a fiestier "Novelty," and a solid "Ice Age." The well-known recordings of these songs date from a year to two years later, so these are quite distinctive. If you're a fanatic, you want everything on this cd. If you're simply a big fan, these four tracks are worth checking out.