Track Listing

1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Transmissions
3. She's Lost Control
4. Shadow Play
5. Day Of The Lords
6. Isolation
7. Passover
8. Heart And Soul
9. Twenty Four Hours
10. These Days
11. Novelty
12. Dead Souls
13. Only Mistake
14. Something Must Break
15. Atmosphere

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37003 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-12
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Not worth having if you own UP, Closer and Substance
Not a bad collection of tracks, but as best-ofs go it's not exactly life-changing. Perhaps a good buy if you're new to Joy Division, or only want to buy one album and just have to have Love Will Tear Us Apart.

Most of the popular classics are on here, but personally I'm disappointed New Dawn Fades, Warsaw and The Eternal/Decades weren't included over, say, The Only Mistake or Something Must Break. However, the obvious Atmosphere, Transmission, She's Lost Control, Shadowplay and the ubiquitous aforementioned LWTUA are always nice to hear.

Personally, this is the last JD CD I've bought to complete my collection and it's almost entirely superfluous. The "Permanent Mix" of Love Will Tear Us Apart isn't great.

If You're interested in starting a JD collection, you'd do better starting with Unknown Pleasures, then getting Closer, Substance, Still and the Warsaw album, then all the other bits and bobs. That's my preferred order.

Ultimate self-loathing in an album
This HAS to be the ultimate Joy Division album. Compiled of the best tracks off both studio albums and the live "Still", plus the addition of their 3 hit singals (including the B-sides from both "Transmission" and "Atmosphere") this album is essential. Packed full of the dark, machine-like, minamalistic wonders of pain and suffering. This album should be owned by all who appreciate what has to be one of the most infulencial artists of all time and don't really fancy buying the complete back-catelouge. Essential in every meaning of the word.

Joy Division in a nutshell.
A well selected "best of". Fans will obviously dispute this or that track, but that just tells you how consistently brilliant JD were. This is the best introduction to the band, and makes up for the patchy "Substance". Yes it is often disturbing in its emotional intensity. Yes he did die by his own hand. But that does not change the quality of the music, or the lyrics many of which are good enough to stand up as highly literate poety. A bit like Sisters of Mercy, but even more powerful. JD fans are obsessive. Listen to this and you will find out why.