Joy Division Unknown Pleasures 1st UK PressThe Smiths
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Jun 30, 2011 Sold Date
Jun 20, 2011 Start Date
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This is a first pressing of Joy Division's 1979 LP "Unknown Pleasures". I bought it for $100 from a seller in the UK... It is in great condition, no scratches on vinyl and minor wear on the edges of cover.
In April 1979, the band began recording their landmark debut album Unknown Pleasures at Strawberry Studios in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The album cover, designed by Peter Saville based on a graph of 100 consecutive pulses from the pulsar CP 1919, is regarded as a classic of minimalist sleeve design. The image was found by Sumner in a book of Astronomy and represents “the final flashes of a dying star.” 
The original LP release contained no track information on the labels, nor the traditional "side one" and "side two" designations. The ostensible "side one" was labeled Outside and displayed a reproduction of the image on the album cover, while the other side was labeled Inside and displayed the same image with the colours reversed (black-on-white). Track information and album credits appeared on the inner sleeve only.
European pressing: near the inner groove of the Outside is etched in script: "This is the way" and the Inside has "Step". Both lines are taken from the song "Atrocity Exhibition", which was released on the follow up album Closer, a year later. Additionally, "A Porky Prime Cut" can be found on first UK pressings.
Side one "Outside"

  1. "Disorder" – 3:32
  2. "Day of the Lords" – 4:49
  3. "Candidate" – 3:05
  4. "Insight" – 4:29
  5. "New Dawn Fades" – 4:47
Side two "Inside"
  1. "She's Lost Control" – 3:57
  2. "Shadowplay" – 3:55
  3. "Wilderness" – 2:38
  4. "Interzone" – 2:16
  5. "I Remember Nothing" – 5:53


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