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Substance is the second compilation album by Joy Division, released in 1988 through Factory Records in the UK and Qwest Records in the US. Riding off of the success of New Order's identically-named compilation from the previous year, the album similarly compiles every studio-recorded single, B-Side, and EP track released by New Order's previous incarnation during their own lifetime (do note the "studio-recorded" part; tracks only available as live performances like "A Later Date" aren't featured). Two tracks, "Dead Souls" and "Glass", had been previously released on the 1981 Still compilation.Like the New Order album, Substance features much more songs on CD than LP, though unlike the New Order album, the album occupies just one disc on CD (with some countries having double-play cassette releases including the B-side portion) on all formats and doesn't edit down any of the tracks included; cassette releases use either the LP or CD tracklist depending on when and by whom they were issued. The release shows how much of an afterthought that record companies were treating LP releases in the late 1980s. The full album wouldn't be officially released on LP until 2015, when Rhino prepared a double-LP version of Substance alongside a CD and digital release (with two extra tracks on all three formats to boot). For obvious reasons, there were no re-recordings of any songs, either. Well, no new ones; the version of "She's Lost Control" featured on Substance was indeed a re-recording, but was made long before Ian Curtis's suicide in 1980.To promote the compilation, "Atmosphere" was reissued a second time as a single (it had previously seen a reissue in mid-to-late 1980 depending on the region), with a music video directed by longtime Joy Division photographer and Depeche Mode collaborator Anton Corbijn.Similarly to how New Order's Substance acts as a retrospective of their artistic evolution, Joy Division's Substance offers a look into their own evolution from just another Punk Rock band to the defining band of the British Post-Punk movement, examining both their rockist side and the electronic side that would act as a precursor to New Order. The result was the band's only Billboard album chart entry, peaking at 146 on the Top 200 on the heels of New Order's American breakthrough the previous year. This minor success prompted New Order's U.S. label, the Warner (Bros.) Records-backed Qwest Records, to reissue the rest of Joy Division's back catalog.Tracklist (taken from the 2015 re-release): Original 1988 LP a "Warsaw" (2:27) "Leaders of Men" (2:35) "Digital" (2:51) "Autosuggestion" (6:09) "Transmission" (3:37) b "She's Lost Control" (4:55)note 4:45 on early CD, LP, and cassette releases "Incubation" (2:52) "Dead Souls" (4:56) "Atmosphere" (4:10) "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (3:27) Appendix c "No Love Lost" (3:43) "Failures" (3:45) "Glass" (3:55) "From Safety to Where" (2:30) d "Novelty" (3:59) "Komakino" (3:53) "As You Said" (2:00)* "These Days" (3:26) "Love Will Tear Us Apart (Pennine Version)" (3:15)*Note: CD releases are on a single disc and contain all tracks listed above*Added on the 2015 re-releasePrincipal members:
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