JOY DIVISION "STILL" POLL STARTS HERE

voted for the live "decades" -- how could i not? -- but hope to fuck someone else will rep for the awesome and underrated "something must break".

ice age

twenty years later I still don't give a shit about this record

The Sound of Music....Ian singing "Love of Life is lifting me HIGHER!"

i'm in for 'Something Must Break'. that song always seems to find its way on CDs i make.

I voted for Twenty Four Hours simply because I have to dig vinyl/cassette out of storage in order to hear it. Which is why it's not on my iPod

Hell, a quick web search doesn't even turn up an MP3 for it.

i have never heard of this

will have to seek it out

"sister ray"?!?!

Sound of Music

"sister ray"?!?!

Perhaps less so than New Order's later versions, it seems to me like more an excuse for a long jam rather than a cover of the song.

I seem to recall that Ian sticks closer to the original lyrics, tho.

Get the fuck out of this thread, J0hn D.

Actually, after some consideration of Sound of Music vs. Only Mistake, I'm going to go with Sound of Music as well. Which means that Dan S. and I actually agree!

I'd like to change my vote to The Kill.

just kidding.

Haha. Look the important thing here is I'm trying not to get excited about the Control film, okay? I must keep hysteria at bay. I cannot go apeshit.

I'm not into the studio half at all, but the live half is one of my all-time favorites, good cassette b-side to Tonight's The Night. "Transmission" is my favorite (not into the studio version of that song at all either).

That was so funny because I was going to say, I hardly ever listen to the live stuff on this at all!

Hoos it's about as good as you might imagine a Joy Division album that isn't Unknown Pleasures or Closer would be

Bahahahah

No, my intention with this poll was not to say it was better than either Unknown Pleasures or Closer. You've got me all wrong if you think so.

twenty four hours wasn't on the factory cassette of this either (or at least, it's not on the two tape purple box I have). i believe it is on the new vinyl reissue (and not on the cd annoyingly)

also, allegedly, the last several cd issues of still used the Heart and Soul box set recording of ceremony rather than the live take, or so I read. that is ridiculous.

Notice the whiplash twists and turns of Hooky's bass on Something Must Break, though. What kind of hands or arms could stand to play that, that fast? I am mystified.

Though everyone knows Martin Hannett is a good 69% of Joy Division's appeal.

also, allegedly, the last several cd issues of still used the Heart and Soul box set recording of ceremony rather than the live take, or so I read. that is ridiculous.

Could be...but I got the new remaster and it has the correct version of "Ceremony".

Alas, it still doesn't contain "Twenty Four Hours".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"Twenty Four Hours" was on the purple cassette version I had.

You had a purple cassette version?! I've been outdone! *bashes head against the floor*

Shurely "Dead Souls" towers over the rest of this record like a thundering, relentless colossus?

it's not on my purple cassette, weird!

Yeah, "Dead Souls" got my vote.

Oh yeah, Dead Souls. I didn't even think of that because I think of it as a Substance track and when I think of Still I only think of the tracks that weren't on Substance, because I got Substance first! I'll keep my vote for the Sound of Music as the best song on Still that isn't also on Substance.

Listening again, I sometimes wondered what I saw in some of this stuff. "Dead Souls" for certain, "Something Must Break" #2.

Dead Souls evidently. Especially the version from Licht und Blindheit which is presented here. I love the fast, precise, tender drumming, I love that Curtis starts singing when half the song is over and you have started thinking this was an instrumental, I love the restraint in the first minute, the sluggishness. And how Barney is cutting the air molecules in pieces with his noisy guitar riffs.

I know Dead Souls is in it for the win!!! And I don't CARE! Cause I heard it in my head earlier today and now I'm playing it in the different version on Heart & Soul. Thank goodness for my neighbors, I bought an adapter today so I can listen to vinyl in headphones. I am so happy. I used to have one, but lost it for some reason when I switched receivers.

I think I'm going to get a new turntable so I can listen to the reissues properly.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I might have voted for "Digital" had I seen this poll

I voted Digital

Poll closed on me before I could vote for "The Only Mistake".

Weird about that song - on the one hand, it's an "outtake" that, like most of the studio "outtakes" on "Still", sh*ts on 99 44/100ths % of all other bands' entire output from a great height.

On the other hand, I don't know what Hannett was thinking when he decided to bury Ian's vocals almost to the point of inaudibility (cf. the live version from The Factory I on "Heart And Soul"/reissued "Unknown Pleasures" disc 2). Never understood that.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC AT #2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE YOU ALL!

HIGHER!
HIGHER!
HIGHER!
HIGHER!
HIGHER!
HIGHER!
HIGHER!
LOVE
LIFE
Makes me feel
HIGHER

Remember, the last half was live, 3

EH?

just me for "decades", then? hey ho. i love that version. frozen circuits.

You had a purple cassette version?! I've been outdone! *bashes head against the floor*

-- Bimble, Sunday, 14 October 2007 06:20 (Yesterday) Link

Well, I should say the box is purple (and kinda canvas-y), the cassettes themselves are black.

I can't believe the version of "Twenty Four Hours" has *never* been released on CD!!!

If someone knows otherwise, please let me know!