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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: SPARX on November 12, 2003, 07:54:00 pm
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Limited-Edition 3xCD Joy Division Box Set Due This Month
"And this chair. And this paddle-ball game. And this Joy Division box set, and that's all I need."
[Posted Wednesday, November 12th, 2003 04:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]
Joshua Sharp reports:
Hey there, kiddies! Disgruntled Santa in the house, keeping it real on the wizzle-wagon, and all of that garbage. I've got a question for all of ya'll, and don't sweat the answer too much-- it's not the kind of question that you can get wrong. How many of you lovable tykes enjoy the seminal stylings of Joy Division? Don't even think about raising your hand, Billy, that was clearly a rhetorical question. Of course you like Joy Division! Their gloomy, tightly-woven, and freakishly danceable sound paved the way for all those shithead revivalists you eat up with a spoon, and they're widely regarded as one of the greatest bands of all time. But unfortunately for all you budding infant goths, singer Ian Curtis went to post-punk heaven way back in the May of 1980, after leaping in front of a kryptonite missile to save Superman's life.
At the time of the band's unseasonable demise, they had a pretty damn respectable collection of recorded material-- keeping in mind, of course, the sucker's motto of "quality over quantity." Someone up at the top of the food chain (I'm not gonna lie to you guys, it was the selfsame God that made your parents care so tragically little for your general well-being) decided that the band's discography wasn't quite bulbous enough for his liking, a minor grievance which was promptly amended by a little something us grownups refer to as "the posthumous release."
So to nurture the collectors with another round of scrumptious rarities and to extract a meaty wad of neon-green cash money from an artist's bloated corpse, Factory Records is releasing a Joy Division live box set on November 24th. Not only does it contain three whole shows of Joy Division at their indisputably all-time most live, but it also comes jam-packed with an extra-large t-shirt and a facsimile of a 1979 tour poster!
But of course, there's got to be some cruel and unusual twist specifically designed to make you simps bawl your beady little eyes out, and it's this: two of the three shows in this set (namely Preston and Les Bains Douche) have already been commercially released, and the so-called exclusive third concert (a show at the Paradiso in Amsterdam from January 1980) has been widely distributed for so long now that the first person to burn a CD-R of the bootleg invented the wheel eleven months later.
And while I'm sure the die-hard collectors out there (take that copy of Permanent out of your mouth, Billy, you're making Santa love you even less) would adore an official release of the Amsterdam concert, said collectors wouldn't be very good at their job if they didn't already own copies of the other two shows included in this set.
All t-shirts aside (and it's still unconfirmed whether the shirt is even a new design), this limited-edition box set extravaganza (only 3000 minted on planet Earth) fails to deliver anything new. Whether or not it's worth your coin is a purely subjective decision, which I'd wager has a lot to do with whether you already own these live performances, but one thing is made crystal clear by the law of the posthumous release: money talks, bullshit walks. And you little bastards are getting salads for Christmas! Never forget! Tracklist:
Les Bains Douche [live December 18th, 1979]:
01 Disorder
02 Love Will Tear Us Apart
03 Insight
04 Shadowplay
05 Transmission
06 Day Of the Lords
07 Twenty-Four Hours
08 These Days
09 A Means to an End
10 Passover
11 New Dawn Fades
12 Atrocity Exhibition
13 Digital
14 Dead Souls
15 Auto-suggestion
16 Atmosphere
Paradiso Club [live January 11th, 1980]:
01 Passover
02 Wilderness
03 Digital
04 Day of the Lords
05 Insight
06 New Dawn Fades
07 Disorder
08 Transmission
09 Love Will Tear Us Apart
10 These Days
11 A Means to an End
12 Twenty-Four Hours
13 Shadowplay
14 She's Lost Control
15 Atrocity Exhibition
Preston Warehouse [live February 28th, 1980]:
01 Incubation
02 Wilderness
03 Twenty-Four Hours
04 The Eternal
05 Heart and Soul
06 Shadowplay
07 Transmission
08 Disorder
09 Warsaw
10 Colony
11 Interzone
12 She's Lost Control
.: Factory: http://www.factoryrecords.com (http://www.factoryrecords.com)
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a few months ago i bought "fractured box set" (2 CDs) which claims to be limited to 1000 copies. it has the Preston and Les Baines Douches show, but not the third.
i never really believe the "limited edition" stuff, and there was nothing about the price that made me think it was more than just a standard 2 disc set.
beyond all that nonsense, it is a pretty nice collection. i never got into JD much beyond Closer, but it is fun to hear at least a somewhat raw-sounding version of some of their tracks.
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how about a cure box set??
The Cure 'Dots' Four-Disc Boxed Set
Thu Nov 13, 2:17 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Jonathan Cohen
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Fans of veteran modern rock act the Cure will get a late Christmas present on Jan. 27, when the four-disc boxed set "Join the Dots: B-Sides and Rarities, 1978-2001 (The Fiction Years)" hits stores.
Frontman Robert Smith supervised the Fiction/Elektra/Rhino project, which will feature a 76-page booklet with track-by-track commentary from Smith and bassist Simon Gallup.
"The first thing I ever did when I got a new single was flip it over and play the other side," Smith said in a statement. "I always hoped the B-side would give me another version of the artist, something as good as the A-side but somehow different. I expected great B-sides from the artists I loved."
The 22-track first disc spans 1978-1987 and includes "Another Journey by Train" (the B-side to "A Forest") as well as a version of "Lament" which was only available in 1982 on a single inserted in copies of the magazine Flexipop. Disc two is highlighted by "Sugar Girl" (the B-side to "Just Like Heaven"), alternate mixes of "Icing Sugar" and "How Beautiful You Are" and three different versions of the Doors' "Hello I Love You."
The third disc, collecting 15 tracks from 1992-1996, sports tunes contributed to soundtracks for "The Crow" ("Burn") and "Judge Dredd" ("Dredd Song"), "Halo" (the B-side to "Friday I'm in Love") and covers of Jimi Hendrix (news)'s "Purple Haze" and David Bowie (news)'s "Young Americans."
Disc four rounds up 15 cuts from 1996-2001, such as an acoustic version of "Just Say Yes," the import-only "Coming Up," a cover of Depeche Mode (news - web sites)'s "World in Your Eyes" and alternate mixes of "Wrong Number," "This Is a Lie" and "Strange Attraction."
Earlier this year, the Cure wrapped up its tenure with Fiction/Elektra and signed with producer Ross Robinson's I Am imprint, although it is unknown what progress has been made on a new studio album.
Smith guests on "Believe," the first single from guitarist Earl Slick's upcoming album "Zig Zag," due Dec. 9 via Sanctuary.
Reuters/Billboard
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If that Cure box set includes ALL of their B-sides, I would consider buying it.
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Here's the listing.......
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THE BOXSET - 300+ MINUTES WORTH - CONTAINS...
THE CURE - JOIN THE DOTS - B-SIDES AND RARITIES 1978-2001 - THE FICTION YEARS
CD1 (1978 - 1987)
01. 10:15 SATURDAY NIGHT
02. PLASTIC PASSION
03. PILLBOX TALES
04. DO THE HANSA
05. I'M COLD
06. ANOTHER JOURNEY BY TRAIN
07. DESCENT
08. SPLINTERED IN HER HEAD
09. LAMENT (flexipop version)
10. JUST ONE KISS
11. THE DREAM
12. THE UPSTAIRS ROOM
13. LAMENT
14. SPEAK MY LANGUAGE
15. MR PINK EYES
16. HAPPY THE MAN
17. THROW YOUR FOOT
18. NEW DAY
19. THE EXPLODING BOY
20. A FEW HOURS AFTER THIS...
21. A MAN INSIDE MY MOUTH
22. STOP DEAD
CD2 (1987 - 1992)
01. A JAPANESE DREAM
02. BREATHE
03. A CHAIN OF FLOWERS
04. SNOW IN SUMMER
05. SUGAR GIRL
06. ICING SUGAR (weird remix)
07. HEY YOU!!! (kevorkian 12" remix)
08. HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE (clearmountain 7" remix)
09. TO THE SKY
10. BABBLE
11. OUT OF MIND
12. 2 LATE
13. FEAR OF GHOSTS
14. HELLO I LOVE YOU (psychedelic version)
15. HELLO I LOVE YOU
16. HELLO I LOVE YOU (10sec version)
17. HAROLD AND JOE
18. JUST LIKE HEAVEN ('chuck' remix)
CD3 (1992 - 1996)
01. THIS TWILIGHT GARDEN
02. PLAY
03. HALO
04. SCARED AS YOU
05. THE BIG HAND
06. A FOOLISH ARRANGEMENT
07. DOING THE UNSTUCK (saunders 12" remix)
08. PURPLE HAZE (virgin radio version)
09. PURPLE HAZE
10. BURN
11. YOUNG AMERICANS
12. DREDD SONG
13. IT USED TO BE ME
14. OCEAN
15. ADONAIS
CD4 (1996 - 2001)
01. HOME
02. WAITING
03. A PINK DREAM
04. THIS IS A LIE (palmer remix)
05. WRONG NUMBER (smith remix)
06. MORE THAN THIS
07. WORLD IN MY EYES
08. POSSESSION
09. OUT OF THIS WORLD (oakenfold remix)
10. MAYBE SOMEDAY (hedges remix)
11. COMING UP
12. SIGNAL TO NOISE (acoustic version)
13. SIGNAL TO NOISE
14. JUST SAY YES(curve remix)
15. A FOREST (plati/slick version)
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I really dug the cassette version of "Standing on a Beach -- the singles" because side 2 was all the b-sides. I would buy the box set for disc 1 alone. Wow.
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They should have included 'Object' which was on the Boys Don't Cry vinyl but inexplicably replaced on the CD version.
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Well, I guess I have no choice buy to pre-order the set when it becomes available. Thanks for posting the track listings!
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Originally posted by bunnyman:
I really dug the cassette version of "Standing on a Beach -- the singles" because side 2 was all the b-sides.
me too, definitely prefer it to the CD version, it allows you to get lost in the experimentation.
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They're probably saving it so they have a reason to sell yet another boxed set.
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No one needs that much Cure. Just my opinion...