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Formed in the wake of the punk explosion in England, Joy Division became the first band in the post-punk movement by later emphasizing not anger and energy but mood and expression, pointing ahead to the rise of melancholy alternative music in the ’80s. Though the group’s raw initial sides fit the bill for any punk band, Joy Division later incorporated synthesizers (taboo in the low-tech world of ’70s punk) and more haunting melodies, emphasized by the isolated, tortured lyrics of its lead vocalist, Ian Curtis. While the British punk movement shocked the world during the late ’70s, Joy Division’s quiet storm of musical restraint and emotive power proved to be just as important to independent music in the 1980s. This dvd collects videos, live and tv performances the band did during 1978 and 1980.

Track list:
1. Love Will Tear Us Apart-video
2. Love Will Tear Us Apart-video with live one soundtrack mixed in
3. Shadowplay-Granada TV, September 20, 1978
4. Shes’s Lost Control
5. Transmission-Something Else, BBC 2 TV, September 15, 1979
6. Dead Souls
7. Love Will Tear Us Apart
8. Shadowplay
9. Day Of The Lords-Manchester, UK, Apollo Theatre, October 28, 1979
10. Excerpts From: Digital, Colony, New Dawn Fades Autosuggestion
11. She’s Lost Control
12. Shadowplay
13. Leaders Of Men-Altrincham, UK, Bowden Vale Youth Club, March 14, 1979
14. Wired Documentary-Channel 4 TV, July, 1988