Unknown Pleasures
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| Unknown Pleasures | ||
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| Album by Joy Division | ||
| Released | June 1979 (UK) | |
| Recorded | Early 1979 | |
| Genre | Post punk | |
| Length | 38 min 21 sec | |
| Label | Factory Records | |
| Producer | Martin Hannett | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Joy Division Chronology | ||
N/A | 1st Unknown Pleasures (1979) | 2nd Closer (1980) |
Unknown Pleasures is the first album by Joy Division, released in 1979. It was produced by Martin Hannett and recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England. Unknown Pleasures is followed by Closer, their final studio album.
The front cover image comes from an edition of the Cambridge Encyclopaedia Of Astronomy, and was originally drawn with black lines on a white background. [1] (http://members.aol.com/lwtua/up.htm) It presents several successive pulses from the first pulsar discovered, CP 1919. The cover design is credited to Joy Division, Peter Saville and Chris Mathan.
Unknown Pleasures was released on Factory Records.
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Track listing
- "Disorder"
- "Day of the Lords"
- "Candidate"
- "Insight"
- "New Dawn Fades"
- "She's Lost Control"
- "Shadowplay"
- "Wilderness"
- "Interzone"
- "I Remember Nothing"
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External links
- Unknown Pleasures in details (http://www.iancurtis.org/records/unknownpleasures.html)
- Ian Curtis and Joy Division Fans Club (http://www.IanCurtis.org)nl:Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division)
