Heart and Soul

Manufacturer : Rhino/WEA
Release date : 17 June 1997
Number of discs : 4
EAN : 0639842904025
UPC : 639842904025

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Though 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 n Amazon.com
Though 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

Album Description
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.

Album Description
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.

Album Details
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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Track listing

1. Digital
2. Glass
3. Disorder
4. Day Of The Lords
5. Candidate
6. Insight
7. New Dawn Fades
8. She's Lost Control
9. Shadow Play
10. Wilderness
11. Interzone
12. I Remember Nothing
13. Ice Age
14. Exercise One
15. Transmissions
16. Novelty
17. Kill
18. Only Mistake
19. Soemthing Must Break
20. Autosuggestion
21. From Safety To Where
22. Sound Of Music
23. Atmosphere
24. Dead Souls
25. Komakino
26. Incubation
27. Atrocity Exhibition
28. Colony
29. Passover
30. Isolation
31. Means To An End
32. Heart And Soul
33. Twenty Four Hours
34. Eternal
35. Decades
36. Love Will Tear Us Apart
37. These Days
38. Warsaw
39. No Love Lost
40. Leaders Of Men
41. Failures
42. Drawback
43. Interzone (2)
44. Sahdowplay (2)
45. Exercise One (2)
46. Glass (2)
47. Transmission (2)
48. Dead Souls (2)
49. Something Must Break (2)
50. Ice Age (2)
51. Walked In Line
52. These Days (2)
53. Candidate (2)
54. Only Mistake (2)
55. Chance (2)
56. Love Will Tear Us Apart (2)
57. Colony (2)
58. As You Said (2)
59. Ceremony (2)
60. In A Lonely Place (2)
61. Dead Souls (3)
62. Only Mistake (3)
63. Insight (3)
64. Candidate (3)
65. Wilderness (3)
66. She's Lost Control (3)
67. Disorder (3)
68. Interzone (3)
69. Atrocity Exhibition (2)
70. Novelty (2)
71. Autosuggestion (2)
72. I Remember Nothing (2)
73. Colony (3)
74. These Days (3)
75. Incubation (3)
76. Eternal (3)
77. Heart And Soul (3)
78. Isolation (3)