The Best of Joy Division explained

The Best of Joy Division
Type:	greatest
Artist:	Joy Division
Cover:	Best of Joy Division.jpg
Released:	24 March 2008
Recorded:	1978–1980
Length:	55:13
Label:	London (UK) Rhino (U.S.)
Producer:	Martin Hannett
Chronology:	Joy Division compilations
Prev Title:	Martin Hannett's Personal Mixes
Prev Year:	2007
Next Year:	2011

The Best of Joy Division is a compilation album of material from the British post-punk band Joy Division. It was released and the UK version includes The Complete BBC Recordings as a bonus disc. The US release is a single disc. The Best of Joy Division reached #97 in April 2008 in Australia, which marks only their second appearance on the ARIA Charts after Substance reached #53 in 1988.

Track listing

Bonus CD – The Complete BBC Recordings

1. "Exercise One" (Peel Session) – 2:32
2. "Insight" (Peel Session) – 3:53
3. "She's Lost Control" (Peel Session) – 4:11
4. "Transmission" (Peel Session) – 3:58
5. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Peel Session) – 3:25
6. "Twenty Four Hours" (Peel Session) – 4:10
7. "Colony" (Peel Session) – 4:05
8. "Sound of Music" (Peel Session) – 4:27
9. "Transmission" (live) – 3:18
10. "She's Lost Control" (live) – 3:44
11. "Ian Curtis & Stephen Morris interviewed by Richard Skinner" – 3:3

Notes

• Tracks 1 to 4 first released on The Peel Sessions EP in 1986.
• Tracks 5 to 8 first released on The Peel Sessions EP in 1987.
• Tracks 9 to 11 first released on the Joy Division The Complete BBC Recordings album in 2000.

Notes and References

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