Still (Collector's Edition)

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compilation
First released:
1981

Overview Edit

Still is a posthumous compilation album by Joy Division, consisting of previously unused studio material and a live recording of Joy Division's last concert. Originally planned for release in August, it was eventually released on 8 October 1981. The CD version was released in March 1990. A number of the studio recordings have "added post production", including over-dubs by the surviving members of the band.

The performance includes the only time the group ever performed the song "Ceremony" live, which later became a New Order single. Another song featured is a cover of The Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray", recorded at The Moonlight Club in London on 2 April 1980.

Still is a point of contention among some of the group's fans, because of the undeniably poor quality recording of the High Hall performance. This is not aided by the fact that the engineer that night mixed the vocals far too low for the first half of "Ceremony", making Ian Curtis inaudible and thus ruining one of only two recordings the band made of the song. Recent CD reissues of the album on London Records have replaced this live version with the other known recording, a 1980 demo that originally surfaced on the Heart and Soul box set. (An audience recording of the live version, while of lower fidelity, has all of Curtis' vocals, and has circulated as a bootleg since 1980.)

This album, along with Closer and Unknown Pleasures has been remastered and was released 17 September 2007. The remaster is packaged with a bonus disc, recorded at the Town Hall, High Wycombe on 13 July 1979 or 20 February 1980 (sources disagree).

Engineered by Chris Nagle. Sleeve design by Peter Saville Associates.

Still reached #5 in the UK upon its release and peaked at #3 in New Zealand in February 1982.

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This particular version Edit

Version description:
Collector's Edition
Record label:
Catalog number:
FACT 40
Release dates:
  • Oct 30 2007

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5 stars Outstanding album gets outstanding remaster and an extra live disc
Being the record by which I discovered Joy Division (and possibly because of that fact) it is still my favourite. I didn't know it at the time, but it's a fairly random collection of studio out-takes from the band's three-year history (the original first vinyl disc) and a live recording of the band's final concert at Birmingham University in May 1980 (the original second vinyl disc). To further confuse the issue, the original CD release, while almost identical, inexplicably omitted "24 Hours" fr…
Written by O. Buxton "Olly Buxton"
3 stars Joy Division Odds and Ends
I hoped that buying this disc would give me some of the early J.D. music which I heard in the new documentary movie about them. Sadly, this reissue disc slavishly copies all the flaws of the original disc's playlist, rather than trying to fill in the gaps of Joy Division material left out of their two meager studio albums.

For example, I hoped this disc would have the studio version of "Digital". It doesn't. There is a live version from a set that the studio put on "Still" to discourage bootlegg…
Written by Robert H. Lever "Nocturne"

Track listing Edit

  • CD 1 : Still (Coll) (Dig)

    format:
    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Exercise One
    ?:??
    2
    Ice Age
    ?:??
    3
    The Sound of Music
    ?:??
    4
    Glass
    ?:??
    5
    The Only Mistake
    ?:??
    6
    Walked in Line
    ?:??
    7
    The Kill
    ?:??
    8
    Something Must Break
    ?:??
    9
    Dead Souls
    ?:??
    10
    Sister Ray [Live at the Moonlight Club, London April 1980] - Joy Division, Cale
    ?:??
    11
    Ceremony [Live at Birmingham University]
    ?:??
    12
    Shadowplay [Live at Birmingham University]
    ?:??
    13
    A Means to an End [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    14
    Passover [Live at Birmingham University]
    ?:??
    15
    New Dawn Fades [Live at Birmingham University]
    ?:??
    16
    Transmission [Live at Birmingham University]
    ?:??
    17
    Disorder [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    18
    Isolation [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    19
    Decades [Live at Birmingham University]
    ?:??
    20
    Digital [Live at Birmingham University]
    ?:??
  • unknown format 2 : Still (Coll) (Dig)

    format:
    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Sound of Music [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    2
    A Means to an End [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    3
    Colony [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    4
    Twnety Four Hours [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    5
    Isolation [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    6
    Love Will Tear Us Apart [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    7
    Disorder [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    8
    Atrocity Exhibition [Live at High Wycombe Town Hall, Feb. 20, 1980]
    ?:??
    9
    Soundcheck: Isolation [Live]
    ?:??
    10
    The Eternal [Soundcheck][Live]
    ?:??
    11
    Ice Age [Soundcheck][Live]
    ?:??
    12
    Disorder [Soundcheck][Live]
    ?:??
    13
    Sound of Music [Soundcheck][Live]
    ?:??
    14
    A Means to an End [Soundcheck][Live]
    ?:??

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Still 20 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: 26495
release dates: Feb 19 1991
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Still 20 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: PolyGram Group Canada Inc.
catalog number: 830 684-2
release dates: 1987 in Canada
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Still 20 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: 26495
release dates: Feb 19 1991 in United States
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Still 20 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: 26495
release dates: Feb 19 1991
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21 tracks format: 2 x vinyl
record label: Factory
catalog number: FACT 40
release dates: 1981 in United Kingdom
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record label: Warner Brothers
catalog number: 26495
release dates: Feb 19 1991
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