Joy Division ‎– Unknown Pleasures

Electronic, Rock

New Wave, Post-Punk

1979

Joy Division's debut album. Released on 15 June 1979.

Initial run of 10.000 copies was pressed by WEA Records Pressing Plant, West Drayton and sold until October 1979. Another 10.000 copies were sold until Mid 1980. Reissued / repressed again in July 1980. The Townhouse edition is from late 1980.

Peaked at # 71 in the UK Album Charts in August 1980.

Recorded in April 1979 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport. Also recorded during these sessions were the tracks "Auto-Suggestion" and "From Safety To Where...?" (both released on Earcom 2) as well as "Exercise One", "The Only Mistake", "Walked In Line" and "The Kill" (all later released on Still).

Outside is side A and Inside is side B. This however got mixed up by the pressing plant, assigning Outside = B and Inside = A in the runouts.

The centre sleeve depicts "100 consecutive pulses from the pulsar CP 1919", taken from an image that Bernard Sumner found.

All overseas licensing deals were done in 1980.

This album has been remastered and was re-released in 2007. The remaster is packaged with a bonus disc, recorded live at The Factory, Manchester, 13 July 1979.

This MR contains all official and unofficial releases of Unknown Pleasures.