Unknown pleasures
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10 |
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39:24 |
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Strawberry Studios, Stockport |
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Unknown Pleasures is the debut album by the British rock band Joy Division . It was released by Factory Records in June 1979 and is one of the most important albums in the post-punk genre .
history
The recordings for the band's first album took place in Stockport from early to mid-April 1979. Unknown Pleasures was finally published on 15 June 1979 on Tony Wilson's label Factory Records .
In the first time after the album was released, the album was not granted excessive success in the charts. The first edition of 10,000 records did not sell well. Only when the band became better known with their second album Closer , the single Love Will Tear Us Apart , and the death of singer Ian Curtis in 1980, it was able to penetrate the British album charts for a week. It even stayed in the British indie charts for 136 weeks.
Later there were numerous new editions on MC (from 1984), CD (from 1986). In 2007 a deluxe edition was released with a live recording from Manchester on July 13, 1979 as a bonus CD. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary, a new edition was published in 2019.
Cover
The cover shows an image of several radio pulses from PSR B1919 + 21 , the pulsar first discovered by Jocelyn Bell in 1967 . The illustration was taken from the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy , which it reprinted from Harold Craft Jr.'s doctoral thesis from 1970; the idea came from drummer Stephen Morris. Compared to the original, however, the colors have been inverted; So on the cover there are white lines on a black background instead of black lines on a white background. The anniversary edition, released in 2019, uses an inverted version of the cover with black lines.
There was no track list on the original LP and the record sides were not numbered either, but only labeled “Inside” and “Outside”.
reception
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The album, like its successor Closer , is a milestone in rock history that has shaped many other bands. Both of Joy Division's studio albums were included in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . Rolling Stone magazine selected Unknown Pleasures at number 20 of the 100 best debut albums and number 34 of the 40 best punk albums. In the list of the 500 best albums of all time by the New Musical Express, it ranks 40th. Unknown Pleasures reached number 9 in the selection of the 100 best albums of the 1970s by Pitchfork Media .
Track list
All songs are penned by Ian Curtis , Peter Hook , Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner .
- Side A ("Outside")
- 1. Disorder - 3:32
- 2nd Day of the Lords - 4:49
- 3rd candidate - 3:05
- 4. Insight - 4:29
- 5. New Dawn Fades - 4:47
- Side B ("Inside")
- 6. She's Lost Control - 3:57
- 7. Shadowplay - 3:55
- 8. Wilderness - 2:38
- 9. Interzone - 2:16
- 10. I Remember Nothing - 5:53
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unknown Pleasures in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ^ Simon Mitton: The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy . Crown Publishers, 1977, ISBN 978-0-517-52806-8 .
- ↑ H. Craft Jr: Radio observations of the pulse profiles and dispersion measures of twelve pulsars , doctoral thesis, Cornell University, 1970
- ↑ Unknown Pleasures at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Review by Mikal Gilmore on RollingStone.de (accessed June 27, 2019)
- ↑ Review by Joshua Klein on Pitchfork.com (accessed June 27, 2019)
- ↑ Review on nme.com (accessed June 27, 2019)
- ^ Nytimes.com: Joy Division - Control - Movies
- ↑ 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed June 27, 2019)
- ↑ 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time on rollingstone.com (accessed June 27, 2019)
- ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on nme.com (accessed June 27, 2019)
- ↑ The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s on pitchfork.com (accessed June 27, 2019)