JOY DIVISION LIVE @ the les bains douches poll

Every time I think I'm bored with JD I put this on and they're my favorite band again for a couple weeks.

My first instinct is "Disorder" just for the opening seconds with the feedback and the bass that sounds like it's scraping the roof of the 4th level of hell.

But "These Days" and "Atmosphere" are so fuckin cool

This fucking album

so hard, must relisten

ppl bitch about the "disco sounds" on "insight" but i think they're pretty dope

day of the lords for sure. it's absolutely explosive here.

Okay you know what's funny? Here's like pretty much my fave band in the world and even though I own this, I've never played it. I was talking to a fellow New Order fan recently and we shared a similar plight - an overdose on JD gigs. In my teenage years I collected all kinds of gigs of them but I overdid it and I don't appreciate JD so much now in a live setting. The ULU gig included with the recent Closer reissue being a noteable exception.

Oh well. I'm going to put this into my iTunes anyway and onto my iPod and see how I feel about it.

God, leave it to ILXOrs to have me playing JD live at 1 AM.

Group hug. Now.

Haha the keyboards really suck ass on Love Will Tear Us Apart, though.

Playing Insight now, one of my all time fave JD songs. What is this about disco sounds? Yeah, man, I agree those keyboard sounds are determined to send us straight into outer space but I think to call them "disco" is kindof out of line. No offense. :)

Let's go to a planetarium together and listen to this and hold hands.

I agree the version of These Days here is particularly good.

These Days. So much more muscular without that effect they used on the 45. that said, atmosphere is thrilling too because it clarifies the bassline that makes the whole thing hang together.

dead souls, it is from the eindhoven gig though. probably my fave song by theirs and this version is rawer and rougher than the one from still.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

it's tempting to go for "A Means To An End" for the Stipe-like vocals, though maybe that's putting the cart before the horse. My default choice would be "Transmission" though (the drums as the song closes sound magnificent), or "Disorder" for how it gets your attention when you put this thing on, a great mission statement for what you're getting into. Ah, I'll just go with "A Means To An End".

Lesbian douches?

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

Shadowplay owns on this

Yeah, Shadowplay is especially good, here. Version of Dead Souls doesn't do anything special for me, though.

Very, very surprised to see 'Atrocity Exhibition' go voteless.

This has been out of print (in the UK at least) for ages but I managed to find a second hand copy today. Really excited to give it a spin. Ended up paying £12 for it. The completist in me wants to track down the suposedly inferior Preston CD now but its quite expensive too. I'm under the assumption that the Paris show is hands down the best out of the two, correct?

Oh well, my questions as to the greatness of 'Les Bains Douches' were answered loud and clear within the first few seconds of 'Disorder'. Never have I head it explode out the speakers with such force and clarity.

My first instinct is "Disorder" just for the opening seconds with the feedback and the bass that sounds like it's scraping the roof of the 4th level of hell.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, April 13, 2009 10:42 AM

Exactly. It's sounds so bloody fierce on this record.

the Paris show is hands down the best out of the two, correct?

Correct, but you still need the Preston version of The Eternal.

This is my favorite Joy Division release. I just can't listen to the neutered studio versions anymore.

This thread being revived reminds me that I must go and listen to this again immediately

this blog put together a better sounding and more complete version of Les Bains than the official release: http://thepowerofindependenttrucking.blogspot.com/2009/12/radio-live-transmission-joy-division.html

I've seen a lot of nice Joy Division & New Order related stuff on that blog I would like to hear - but I always get put off because the FLAC files are so large, kinda wish some of this stuff was regular MP3

Damn that blog. It's too good. Downloaded a dubby sounding New Order set from there the other week. Majestic!

yeah, i always hesitate about dl-ing huge-ass flac files, because space is at a premium on my laptop ... that JD live thing does look awesome though ...

I always wanted someone to compile a live best of from all the various live albums, which would be: this one / Still / Preston / the one from the box set / the two bonus discs from the latest reissues. I think that's it. I'd do it but they all felt like they suffered from poor sound quality.

You could certainly think of the Peel sessions as "live" takes of the songs. But that may be a different animal altogether.

No, radio sessions are a beast unto themselves. I always try to snag radio sessions for my favorite artists and a good mate of mine swears the Peel version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is superior to the studio version.

Yes the Peel LWTUA is the best version - Steve Morris's drumming is brilliant and pushes it forward relentlessly. It's essentially a rawer take of the 'other' version on the flipside of teh 12".

I didn't know about this poll, but would have voted for Shadowplay - brutal! The Preston gig is pretty essential as a snapshot of cackhanded gig arrangements from back in the day. The bass amp breaks, there's an announcement over the p.a half way through the set of 'last bus for Burnley leaves in 5 mins' (or something similar). It's chaotic.

you can always download the FLAC and transcode it to mp3...

Ah, Bimbs. :)

I would've voted for "shadowplay" too. love it.

this has prob been most my listened to JD record for the last few years or so.

speaking of live JD, has anyone heard this reissue of the 1980 Amsterdam show? Sound quality? worth purchasing?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Joy-Division-Amsterdam-Marble-Vinyl-LP-+-Poster-SEALED_W0QQitemZ140380371229QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxq20100205?IMSfp=TL100205042001r18785

That gig was on Dutch Radio I think and has been widely bootlegged. Quality should be Ok. I have it somewhere and will check if you like.

damn day of the lord absolutely slays on here