Still (Joy Division album)

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Still
Still cover
Studio album by Joy Division
Released 9 October 1981 (UK)
Recorded 1977 - 1980
Genre Post-punk
Length 79:13
Label Factory Records
Producer(s) Martin Hannett
Professional reviews
Joy Division chronology
Closer
(1980)		 Still
(1981)		 Substance
(1988)


Factory Records Catalogue Number
FACT 40

Still
« 39 41 »

Still is a compilation album by Joy Division, consisting of rare songs along with a recording of their last ever performance which took place at Birmingham University on 2 May 1980.

The performance includes the only time the group ever performed the song "Ceremony", which later became a New Order single. Another song featured is a cover of The Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray", recorded at The Moonlight Club in London on 3 April 1980.

Still is a point of contention among some of the group's fans, because of the undeniably poor quality recording of the Birmingham University performance. This is not aided by the fact that the engineer that night mixed the vocals far too low for the first half of "Ceremony", making Ian Curtis inaudible and thus ruining one of only two recordings the band made of the song. Recent CD reissues of the album on London Records have replaced this live version with the other known recording, a 1980 demo that originally surfaced on the Heart and Soul box set.

Engineered by Chris Nagle. Sleeve design by Peter Saville Associates.

Still reached #5 in the UK upon its release.

Contents

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All songs written by Joy Division (Curtis/Hook/Morris/Sumner) except "Sister Ray" (Cale/Morrison/Reed/Tucker).

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Exercise One"
  2. "Ice Age"
  3. "The Sound of Music"
  4. "Glass"
  5. "The Only Mistake"
  6. "They Walked in Line"
  7. "The Kill"
  8. "Something Must Break"
  9. "Dead Souls"
  10. "Sister Ray"

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Ceremony"
  2. "Shadowplay"
  3. "Means to an End"
  4. "Passover"
  5. "New Dawn Fades"
  6. "Transmission"
  7. "Disorder"
  8. "Isolation"
  9. "Decades"
  10. "Digital"

[edit] Notes

Tracks 1, 5, 6 and 7 recorded in April 1979 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport.

Tracks 2 and 9 recorded in October/November 1979 at Cargo Studios, Rochdale.

Track 3 recorded in January 1980 at Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham.

Track 4 recorded in October 1978 at Cargo Studios, Rochdale.

Track 8 recorded in July/August 1979 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport.

Track 10 recorded live at the Moonlight Club, London on April 3rd 1980.

Tracks 11 to 20 recorded live at Birmingham University on May 2nd 1980.

Some LP pressings contain an additional live track: Twenty Four Hours.

The album features previously unused studio material and a live recording of Joy Division's last concert. Originally planned for release in August, it was eventually released on October 8th 1981. The CD version was released in March 1990. A number of the studio recordings have "added post production", including over-dubs by the surviving members of the band.

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Joy Division
Ian Curtis | Bernard Sumner | Peter Hook | Stephen Morris
Former members: Terry Mason | Tony Tabac | Steve Brotherdale
Discography
Albums: Unknown Pleasures | Closer
Compilation Albums: The Peel Sessions | The Complete BBC Recordings |
Permanent | Heart and Soul | Preston Warehouse | Les Bains Douches | The Warsaw Demo | Fractured Box Set | Still | Substance
Singles & EPs: An Ideal for Living | Transmission | Licht und Blindheit | Komakino | Love Will Tear Us Apart | Atmosphere/She's Lost Control
Related articles
Factory Records | The Haçienda | 24 Hour Party People | Martin Hannett | Peter Saville | Tony Wilson | Rob Gretton | New Order
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