NEW ? JOY DIVISION ? CLOSER ? SEALED [VINYL] LP ? ORIGINAL USA FACTORY RECORDS 

JOY DIVISION

“CLOSER”

Thanks for viewing my sale for an original poly sealed, (NOS) New Old Stock copy of Joy Division’s “CLOSER” album. This edition has no bar code or other catalog number, I’m not sure how it fits into the order of release of the various editions of this album but believe it to be the original, first USA Factory pressings.

“Closer" is Joy Division's second and final studio album . It was released on 18 July 1980, following the May 1980 suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis. No singles were released from the album. 

Today, Closer is widely recognised a seminal post-punk release. According to critic Ned Raggett, "Joy Division were at the height of their powers on Closer; ...rock, however defined, rarely seems and sounds so important, so vital, and so impossible to resist or ignore as here."

Track listing

Side A

No.

Title

Length

1.

"Atrocity Exhibition"  

6:06

2.

"Isolation"  

2:53

3.

"Passover"  

4:46

4.

"Colony"  

3:55

5.

"A Means to an End"  

4:07

Side B

No.

Title

Length

6.

"Heart and Soul"  

5:51

7.

"Twenty Four Hours"  

4:26

8.

"The Eternal"  

6:07

9.

"Decades"  

6:10

Total length:

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All our vinyl LPs and 45s listed on eBay are from a 50 year personal collection of record albums and singles we starting accumulating back in the mid-1960s, dedicated to preserving original pressings in the best over-all condition possible. Our New Old Stock (NOS) inventory, mostly consisting of import pressings, come from our long closed record shops: Discount Record Shop and Choice Recordings of Washington, DC and Half-Thoughts Records of Manasquan, NJ. Our beloved record collection is a mix of Rock, Roots Music, 60’s Garage, Psychedelic, Soul, R&B, Blues, Punk, New Wave, Metal, Girl Groups, Picture Discs, Classical, Choral, Opera, Jazz, International/World Beat, Movie Soundtracks, Musicals, Spoken Word, and Audiophile pressings in all genres.  We are offering a number of rock and soul singles. Back in the day we would compare sound quality between multiple editions of the same titles to keep the best sounding copies for ourselves. All records were played on high-end turntables with reasonably fresh stylus and carefully monitored tracking force & azimuth. 

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PACKAGING: Our records are professionally packed in thick, sturdy cardboard record mailers or envelopes & clearly labeled FRAGILE. To date, we have not experienced damage in transit.

SHIPPING: Free insured USPS Priority for this album. 

RETURNS: No returns.

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All vinyl records are properly stored and well kept. Over time, some covers tone (i.e., get slightly yellow or brown along the edges),which we will try to describe in our description.

Our items reside in a PET-FREE / SMOKE-FREE storage environment.