Login / Register
0 Items
$ 0 00

Cart

View Cart Empty Cart
  • No products in the cart.
  • Home
  • Record Store
  • Newbies
  • Rarities
  • Audiophile
  • Japanese Pressings
  • New Zealand
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Soul / Dance / Reggae
  • Country & Folk
  • Blues & World Music
  • Jazz
  • Films & Shows
  • Cheapies
  • Accessories
  • Gift Vouchers
  • Wishlist
  • Blog
  • Info
    • Contact Rockstuff Records New Zealand
    • Geoff (Rockstuff)
    • Testimonials
    • I Buy Record Collections N.Z.
    • Record Grading Guide
    • Delivery Info / Terms & Conditions
Back to top
‹ Back to the shop

Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures (Vinyl)
EMI Records (1979 / This Pressing 2015)

5.00 out of 5 based on 1 customer rating
(1 customer review )

$50.00

Brand New ~ Sealed! Limited Edition On Quality 180 Gram Vinyl! Replicating Original Album Artwork With Beautifully Textured Cover & Inner Sleeve. Critically Acclaimed Debut LP From The Definitive Post-Punk Group!

1 in stock

Wishlist
SKU: FACT 10R Category: Rock Tag: Joy Division
  • Description
  • Additional information
  • Reviews(1)

Product Description

Brand New ~ Sealed! Limited Edition European Pressing On Quality 180 Gram Vinyl! Replicating Original Album Artwork With Beautifully Textured Cover & Inner Sleeve. Record Has Picture Labels. Includes Download Code. The Critically Acclaimed Debut LP From Definitive Post-Punk Group, Joy Division!

Outside:
Disorder
Day Of The Lords
Candidate
Insight
New Dawn Fades

Inside:
She’s Lost Control
Shadowplay
Wilderness
Interzone
I Remember Nothing

Additional Information

Origin

Europe

Condition

NEW

Format

LP

Customers' review

Rated 5.00 out of 5 stars
1 review
5 stars 1 100 %
4 stars 0 0 %
3 stars 0 0 %
2 stars 0 0 %
1 star 0 0 %

1 review for Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures (Vinyl)
EMI Records (1979 / This Pressing 2015)

  1. geoffofdunnlirium@hotmail.com
    5 out of 5

    AMG – December 8, 2021

    Ten stone-cold landmarks, the whole album a monument to passion, energy, and cathartic despair. It even looks like something classic, beyond its time or place of origin even as it was a clear product of both -- one of Peter Saville's earliest and best designs, a transcription of a signal showing a star going nova, on a black embossed sleeve. If that were all Unknown Pleasures was, it wouldn't be discussed so much, but the ten songs inside, quite simply, are stone-cold landmarks, the whole album a monument to passion, energy, and cathartic despair. The quantum leap from the earliest thrashy singles to Unknown Pleasures can be heard through every note, with Martin Hannett's deservedly famous production -- emphasizing space in the most revelatory way since the dawn of dub -- as much a hallmark as the music itself. Songs fade in behind furtive noises of motion and activity, glass breaks with the force and clarity of doom, and minimal keyboard lines add to an air of looming disaster -- something, somehow, seems to wait or lurk beyond the edge of hearing. But even though this is Hannett's album as much as anyone's, the songs and performances are the true key. Bernard Sumner redefined heavy metal sludge as chilling feedback fear and explosive energy, Peter Hook's instantly recognizable bass work was at once warm and forbidding, and Stephen Morris' drumming smacked through the speakers above all else. Ian Curtis synthesizes and purifies every last impulse, his voice shot through with the desire first and foremost to connect, only connect -- as "Candidate" plaintively states, "I tried to get to you/You treat me like this." Pick any song: the nervous death dance of "She's Lost Control"; the harrowing call for release "New Dawn Fades," all four members in perfect sync; the romance in hell of "Shadowplay"; "Insight" and its nervous drive toward some sort of apocalypse. All visceral, all emotional, all theatrical, all perfect -- one of the best albums ever.

Add a review Cancel reply

    Related Products

    • Out of Stock!

      Eagles – Hotel California (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
      Asylum Records (1976)

      $60.00
      5.00 out of 5
      Read more
      Details
      Wishlist
      Share

      Share on:

      facebook
      twitter
      google
      pinterest

      Audiophile Quality Hard-To-Find Actual 1976 Japanese First Pressing ~ With Highly Collectable Obi Strip! Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics. Record Has Picture Labels.

      Details
    • Eric Clapton / Derek And The Dominos – Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs (2LP Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
      Polydor Records (1971)

      $65.00
      5.00 out of 5
      Add to cart
      Details
      Wishlist
      Share

      Share on:

      facebook
      twitter
      google
      pinterest

      Scarce Japanese First Pressing! Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics. An All-Time Classic Double Album From Eric Clapton, Duane Allman & Friends. Clapton At His Passionate, Poignant & Personal Best!

      Details
    • Eagles – Long Road Out Of Eden (2LP Vinyl)
      Warner Music Group / Eagles Recording Company (2007 / This Pressing 2021)

      $65.00
      4.50 out of 5
      Add to cart
      Details
      Wishlist
      Share

      Share on:

      facebook
      twitter
      google
      pinterest

      Brand New ~ Sealed! Superb Double LP 180-Gram Vinyl Set With Deluxe Gatefold Cover. Includes Inner Sleeves. Back On Vinyl At Last!!

      Details

    Search For Artist Or Record

    Recent Reviews

    • Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (Vinyl)
      5.00 out of 5
      by Geoff
    • Def Leppard - Hysteria (2LP Vinyl) [30th Anniversary Edition]
      5.00 out of 5
      by AMG

    Artists

    AC/DC Allman Brothers Band Black Sabbath Bob Dylan Brian Eno Bruce Springsteen Cream Creedence Clearwater Revival Crosby Stills & Nash David Bowie Deep Purple Dire Straits Eagles Elton John Eric Clapton Fleetwood Mac Genesis Iron Maiden Jeff Beck Jethro Tull Jimi Hendrix Judas Priest Kate Bush King Crimson Led Zeppelin Lou Reed Miles Davis Neil Young Paul McCartney Paul Simon Peter Gabriel Pink Floyd Queen Roxy Music Santana Split Enz Steely Dan Supertramp Talking Heads The Band The Beatles The Doors The Rolling Stones Uriah Heep YES

    Copyright ROCKSTUFF 2016

    Developed by Smite Web Design