Joy Division Bootlegs, etc.

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What's out there? Is there something that hardcore Joy Division fans are always waiting to be officially released?

I've got both studio albums, Substance, Preston Warehouse, Les Bains Douches, Complete BBC Recordings... If I buy Permanent and Still, will there be any reason--musically-- to buy the box set? (and is there any reason to buy either of those?)

I downloaded something called Live in Amsterdam 1980 and gave it a cursory listen. Some of the tracks sounded identical to the Bains Douches recordings, though.. Is this legitimate?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

A good chunk of Les Bains actually is taken from that Amsterdam show. The live disc on the box set is not replicated (to my knowledge) on either of the three live albums (counting the second half of Still as one of said albums). Also on the box set that you wouldn't have are a variety of early demos, non-BBC (I think) radio sessions (incomplete, but still a couple of extra versions) and extremely murky rehearsal versions of "Ceremony" and "In a Lonely Place." Plus really cool artwork and essays and etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

There is the album that was never released when they were Warsaw. Though they wound up re-recording all of the tracks so that they not only sounded better but actually were better.

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

some of that is on the box set but not all of it. there are a few widely available semi-legit import versions of this but all the ones I've heard are sped up. is there a speed-corrected version of it?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Ah, this might be helpful (I didn't scroll through all of it -- on my way to a meeting -- but enjoy).

http://members.aol.com/lwtua/w2cd.htm

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

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