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Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979 [Live]

~ Joy Division

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Audio CD (6 Oct 2003)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Live
Label: Factory
ASIN: B00005ARQB

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 159,509 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Official release of Joy Division's live performance at Paris's Les Bains Douches venue in December 1979. Features many of the group's best-known songs including 'New Dawn Fades', 'Shadowplay' and 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. Also includes tracks recorded live in the Netherlands in 1980.

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5.0 out of 5 stars post punk noise = bliss, 24 Sep 2003

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Joy Division were a band known for sounding somewhat bleak, and this live album captures that with astounding intensity. It's not easy listening or even enjoyable, per se, but something about the music grabs you by the throat and forces its way in to your affections. In terms of sound quality it isn't exactly perfect - at one point the band are, to quote one of Curtis's several bizarrely weighty stage utterances, "playing everything through the bass amp" - but that just adds to the atmosphere.

The band sound harsh and rough, as live albums from this period often do (Bauhaus's 'Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape' is an apt companion CD), but their playing is still very much together. The extended intro to 'The Eternal' perhaps prefigures later New Order instrumentals, with the use of electronics fitting rather than overbearing, as it is throughout the set (except for 'Transmission', which is rather spoiled by huge quantities of radio noise). 'Shadowplay' is vicious and agressive, which works perfectly, as does 'She's Lost Control'. These two tracks alone would make this CD worth buying, but this document of a band and an era works as a fantastic whole and strongly recommended.

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