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The Complete BBC Recordings [Live]

~ Joy Division
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  • Audio CD (7 Aug 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Live
  • Label: Strange Fruit
  • ASIN: B00004TRDL
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 111,437 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Exercise one
2. Insight
3. She's lost control
4. Transmission
5. Love will tear us apart
6. 24 hours
7. Colony
8. Sound of music
9. Transmission
10. She's lost control
11. Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris interviewed by Richard Skinner

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Here are the young men with weights on their shoulders, the grandmasters of irretrievable loss. Steve Morris and Ian Curtis were interviewed by Richard Skinner for BBC Radio One upon the release of the Unknown Pleasures album in 1979, which is officially available here for the first time. Joy Division's drummer and mausoleum-voiced singer come across as relaxed, personable, satisfied, ambitious and flushed with youthful optimism. "Joy Division started as a fun thing" says Curtis, as if a member of The Monkees. Yeah right. He committed suicide less than a year later and the myth was born. Joy Divisions' two black-of-heart and dark-of-soul John Peel Sessions (the first of which was broadcast, with unintentional irony, on Valentines' Day 1979) still sound magnificently urgent. They include the jerky and early-U2 influencing "Transmission", the rigidly de-personalised rock of "Colony", the twangy ode to epilepsy of "She's Lost Control" (to which Curtis would dance like a man trapped in a spin-dryer) and a song called "Sound Of Music" which owed absolutely nothing to Julie Andrews, or for that matter, anyone else. --Kevin Maidment


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The pioneering post-punk sound of Joy Division is experienced here with stark clarity and an up-front feeling that belies the somewhat distant production approach on the group's studio efforts. While the coming-from-the-next-room sound of CLOSER and UNKNOWN PLEASURES adds to the overall feeling of alienation that is a large part of the groups raison d'etre,THE COMPLETE BBC RECORDINGS offers something more immediate. In this live-in-the-studio setting, the cold smack of electronics, the bare desperation in Ian Curtis's voice, and thegritty post-punk rattle of the guitar and bass gain a new viscerality. Even such warhorses as "She's Lost Control" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" gain a new resonance in this context".

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best CDs in my collection., 11 Nov 2004
This CD is an excellent addition to any Joy Division collection, or any music collection as a matter of fact. It compiles the two Joy Division John Peel sessions, both in 1979, both live and both filled with the usual charismatic Joy Division performance style.

The CD contains live performances of Joy Division's better known tracks Transmission, Love Will Tear Us Apart and She's Lost Control but also contains recordings of lesser known but still incredibly good tracks such as Exercise One and Sound Of Music. Joy Division really did excel at live performances and seemed to save all their energy up for doing them. A good example of this is on the album Substance you find the studio recorded version of Transmission which is quite low beat and slow. In contrast, the version of transmission on this BBC CD is very, very fast paced with brilliantly defined drums and bass; a quite amazing feat to hear. The same can be said for She's Lost Control and Love Will Tear Us Apart - both filled with more energy and 'umph' as their studio recorded versions.

You may wonder why their are two versions of Transmission and She's Lost Control on this recording. Well, as you will find out if you buy this CD, Joy Division seemed to consistently tweak their tracks through years, obviously keeping the same melodies etc but changing their drum beats, tempo and guitar use in different ways. The version of Transmission at the first peel session is a bit slower in pace and somewhat more defined than that of the version at the second Peel session - an example of enthusiastic experimentation.

As for the other tracks on the album... Twenty Four Hours, Colony, Exercise One and Love Will Tear Us Apart are all filled with the previously mentioned special energy and charisma that Joy Division saved for their live performances. Love Will Tear Us Apart features excellent drumming from Stephen Morris and Twenty Four Hours has an excellent bass riff.

The interview at the end of the CD is quite a surprise in the fact that you get an impression of the band's direction and attitude. Ian Curtis sounds intriguingly laughable and jokey, commenting "when we started, we couldn't really play" and "it was like a fun thing" This is not something you'd expect considering his persona on stage and also what impression of him you may get from looking at his lyrics or reading 'Touching From A Distance'

All in all then this CD is another great release, which adds an interesting and intriguing recording to the magnificent musical collection of Joy Division; a band who really involved themselves in their music. If you are reading this reveiew, you would not be disappointed with this CD.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly recommended, 12 Feb 2006
Joy Division were, more than anything, a sum of many parts. A blessed coming-together of many little details that contributed to forming a truly unique texture, and a hugely influencial band. Forming out of the post-punk movement, their musicianship was characteristicly not brilliant - but they placed that behind a wall of other-worldy originality that is especially prevailant on this record. It could be argued that Martin Hannett's production was as important, if not more so, than Curtis's robotic vocals and tortured lyrics, Morris's tribal drumming, Hook's melodic basslines, and Sumners' demonic guitar work. Indeed, the almost dub-like depth and electronic bizzareness that gave the two studio albums there edge, certainly owed alot to the producers dexterity. However, the BBC sessions is proof that Joy Division were very much a sensational rock band on their own. Some tracks, such as 'Colony', 'Insight' and '24 Hours', even sound arguably better than their studio equivolents. Although this isn't the first Joy Division album I would recommend to a newbie - it certainly goes to show that much (if not most) of the bands best music isn't available on the two studio albums. This is a seminal peice of work. Not for everyones taste, but undeniably very very special indeed.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Every JD Fan Needs This Album, 14 Aug 2005
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This is JD's finest live recording. It contains their more well known songs like Transmission and LWTUA as well some lesser known songs like Sound Of Music and Exercise One which are outstanding recordings. The version of LWTUA is reason enough to buy this album. It's punchy drum riffs and different style vocals show the song in a completely different light to the studio version on Substance. An early version of Colony also appears but is much slower with different lyrics to the one on Closer. Although my favourite track is(the second one on the album)She's Lost Control. It is played at a much quicker pace than the original and the distortion on the bass gives the song an extra dimension. This album shows the complete and utter brilliance of Joy Division. The interview is a bit short but well worth a listen. So if you are in any way interested in JD you need this album.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A FANTASTIC ALBUM BUY IT!!!
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