JOY DIVISION-STILL-UK-HARD BOUND HESSIAN SLEEVE- MINT
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JOY DIVISION-STILL
FACTORY FACT 40
original 1st UK pressing in perfect condition.
This the most beautiful pressing of FACTORY records UK:!
HardBound Outer Sleeve: Originally the album Came out with a hardbound cover of the normal hessian sleeve. This cover has the factory trade mark and the word "STILL" on the fron side. It comes with a silk like white ribbon. Both hardbound ribbon is in perfect Near Mint Condition!Gatefold Sleeve:The wallet like inner sleeve is printed by Garrol lofthouse andhas the credist on back sleeve. The front sied has the wordS JOY DIVISION. This copy is in MINT condition
Inner Sleeves: Hard paper hessian inner sleeves
Vinyls: This is the Original version that has hessian/white labels Both vinyls are in NEAR MINT CONDITION
Curtis' death prompted a flood of bootlegs and similar "tributes" likely motivated more by profit than anything else. Seeking to trump this problem — though arguably coming from much the same standpoint — Factory issued Still in 1981, a haphazard if still useful collection of odds, ends, and more. Considering that the band's many singles weren't properly compiled until much later on Substance, Still makes only partial sense — the studio cuts were mostly outtakes, while the live songs had their own problems. Of the studio takes, only two tracks had seen formal release beforehand — the mesmerizing post-punk meets R&B groove of "Glass" and the searing "Dead Souls," certainly both worthy of even more listens. Beyond that, things were more hit and miss, with strong instrumental performances given to slightly indifferent songs and vice versa. The anthemic "Something Must Break" is one of the best, while the nervous "Ice Age" is an agreeable enough thrash and "The Only Mistake" a melodramatic but still effective effort. Other numbers like "The Sound of Music" and the heavily compressed pound of "Walked in Line" sound more like sketches on the way to becoming truly great songs. A live ringer concludes the studio half, a fair enough take on the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" (at under half the length) which concludes with Curtis' wry joke, "You should hear our version of 'Louie, Louie!'" The remainder of Still is a rather morbid gift for fans — a middling recording of the final Joy Division show, mere days before Curtis' death. A fierce, invigorating rip through "Ceremony," formally recorded later as New Order's first single, suffers from Curtis' vocal going missing at the start, while the remainder of the show finds the singer either too detached or too harsh, the other musicians doing an ok but not great job themselves. The takes on "New Dawn Fades" and "Decades" in particular tarnish rather than enhance Joy Division's memory.
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