Permanent (Joy Division album) explained

Permanent
Type:greatest
Artist:Joy Division
Cover:Permanent (Joy Division album).jpg
Released:8 May 1995
Genre:Post-punk[1]
Length:64:53
Label:London
Producer:Martin Hannett
Chronology:Joy Division compilations
Prev Title:Warsaw
Prev Year:1994
Next Title:Heart and Soul
Next Year:1997

Permanent is a compilation album by English post-punk band Joy Division. It was released in the United Kingdom on 8 May 1995 by London Records and in the United States on 15 August 1995 by Qwest Records and Warner Bros. Records.[2] The album charted for three weeks and peaked at number 16 on the UK Albums Chart.[3]

Songs

Permanent contains tracks from the band's two studio albums, Unknown Pleasures and Closer, as well as other tracks previously released on the compilations Substance and Still.[4] [5] [6]

The album contained one new track and one track that was previously unavailable on LP. The new track was a new mix of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" titled "Permanent mix".[7] This version of the song features guitar throughout, balancing the synths and bass. The track that was previously unavailable on LP was the "Pennine version" of "Love Will Tear Us Apart", which was originally released as one of the B-sides on the "Love Will Tear Us Apart" single and was used in place of the regular version. The "Pennine version" label had not yet come into use at the time of the album's release (it would not do so until the release of the expanded edition of Substance in 2015), and the track is not listed as being an alternate version at all. The liner notes (first on a Joy Division album) were provided by Jon Savage.

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly critic Josef Woodard deemed Permanent a "still-vital compilation" that showcases Joy Division's "cool, beyond-punk voltage beneath Curtis' murmurings."[8] Robert Christgau from The Village Voice said although others revered Ian Curtis' despair, he himself preferred how the band was showcased on the compilation, finding it complementary to 1995's The Best of New Order.[9] Stephen Thomas Erlewine was less enthusiastic in his review for AllMusic, believing it was less useful than the 1988 compilation Substance and the studio albums it compiles tracks from, even though there is "a wealth of brilliant music".[1]

Track listing

All tracks written by Joy Division.

  1. "Love Will Tear Us Apart (Pennine version)"1 – 3:11
  2. "Transmission" – 3:34
  3. "She's Lost Control" – 3:58
  4. "Shadowplay" – 3:53
  5. "Day of the Lords" – 4:45
  6. "Isolation" – 2:53
  7. "Passover" – 4:44
  8. "Heart and Soul" – 5:48
  9. "Twenty Four Hours" – 4:26
  10. "These Days" – 3:27
  11. "Novelty" – 4:00
  12. "Dead Souls" – 4:53
  13. "The Only Mistake" – 4:13
  14. "Something Must Break" – 2:52
  15. "Atmosphere" – 4:10
  16. "Love Will Tear Us Apart (Permanent Mix)" – 3:37

1 Not listed as being alternate version at all

Notes

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r218538|pure_url=yes}} Permanent – Joy Division]. Allmusic.
  2. Rosen. Craig. 5 August 1995. Joy Division Has Afterlife With Two New Compilations. 2 January 2014. Billboard. 9, 107.
  3. Web site: Joy Division. Official Charts Company. 2 January 2014.
  4. [CMJ New Music Monthly]
  5. Dafydd Rees, Luke Crampton Rock stars Encyclopedia 1999 – Page 545 ".... UK #19 peak on 17 June the same year, an incomplete compilation Permanent : Joy Division 1995 reached UK #16 in its week of entry on 1 July also in 1995."
  6. Billboard – 5 August 1995 Vol. 107, n° 31- Page 107 "As was the case with the album "(the best of) New Order" (Billboard, 25 March), the U.S. version of "Permanent" follows the release of a U.K. compilation: The album was released on 8 May by London, the label that obtained the Joy Division ..."
  7. Billboard -Vol. 107, n° 31 5 August 1995 – Page 107 "The remix, which features a more prominent guitar sound, is dubbed the Permanent mix and closes the album. ... Although "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was rereleased as a single in the U.K., Qwest has no plans to issue a single from "Permanent."
  8. Joy Division: Albums Reviews. https://web.archive.org/web/20090425191352/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,299010,00.html. dead. 25 April 2009. 2 January 2014. Woodard. Josef. 6 October 1995. Entertainment Weekly. New York. 295.
  9. News: Christgau. Robert. Robert Christgau. 26 December 1995. Consumer Guide. The Village Voice. New York. 2 January 2014.

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