Joy Division - Still

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Artikel Name: Still
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: Warner Music International Titelanzahl: 21

Trackliste LP - 1

1. Joy Division - Exercise One 2. Joy Division - Ice Age 3. Joy Division - Sound of Music 4. Joy Division - Glass 5. Joy Division - Only Mistake 6. Joy Division - Walked In Line 7. Joy Division - Kill 8. Joy Division - Something Must Break 9. Joy Division - Dead Souls 10. Joy Division - Sister Ray [Live At the Moonlight Club, London April 1980]

Trackliste LP - 2

11. Joy Division - Ceremony [Live At Birmingham University] 12. Joy Division - Shadowplay [Live At Birmingham University] 13. Joy Division - Means To an End [Live At Birmingham University] 14. Joy Division - Passover [Live At Birmingham University] 15. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades [Live At Birmingham University] 16. Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours [Live At Birmingham University] 17. Joy Division - Transmission [Live At Birmingham University] 18. Joy Division - Disorder [Live At Birmingham University] 19. Joy Division - Isolation [Live At Birmingham University] 20. Joy Division - Decades [Live At Birmingham University] 21. Joy Division - Digital [Live At Birmingham University]

Beschreibung

Still collects outtakes and rarities along with a live set recorded on May 2, 1980, just over two weeks prior to Ian Curtis' death. In addition to the atmospheric "Glass" and the haunting funeral march "Dead Souls," the studio sides include four leftover tracks from the sessions for Unknown Pleasures, while the concert set includes performances of seminal tracks such as "Transmission," "Isolation," and "A Means to an End." Although neither as cogent nor as indispensible as the band's two studio records or the Substance compilation, Still is nonetheless a valuable chronicle of Joy Division's remarkable evolution, a growth charted by the inclusion of an early live cover of the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" to the only recorded version of the hypnotic "Ceremony," the ultimate Ian Curtis composition which later resurfaced as the first single from New Order. ~ Jason Ankeny

Jason Ankeny

Beschreibung

Ian 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. [Still was re-released on LP in 2015.] ~ Ned Raggett

Ned Raggett