Best live version of a Joy Division song?

LWTUA has been given a new lease of life this time around, really impressed by it. Transmission and Atmosphere CAN be done quite well. SLC they should leave the fook alone.

Yeah. I was impressed with the Jools Holland show when they done Transmission. SLC doesnt suit them at all now. I even think if Joy Division still existed and were doing a comeback tour right now, they couldnt pull it off. It`s a song to be performed by angry young men.

Heart and Soul - Reading 98

Probably transmission by sheer elimination.

Atmosphere. Bernard should, by law, be prohibited to sing this song. And as for the bloody whooping...

Love Will Tear Us Apart. Dont really like it anyway. Sounds quite lame live, apart from the intro, when they dont mess it up.

She's lost control. Nothing really against it, but it just doesnt sound right live these days. its my 2nd fafe JD song after transmission but Bernards vocal dont suit it at all.

Isolation from the '98 session. Fit New Order perfectly. they really should play that instead of SLC.

Heart & Soul as well.

The best was "Love will tear us apart" ,performed at the "Tower ballroom", Birmingham UK 1985/86.I was standing behind the mixing desk just as the band first appeared and the late, great"Rob Gretton" was mixing the sound that night.New Order dedicated the song to him on his "birthday" and as far as i know it was the first time the band had played a "Joy Division" song in public.The Tower Ballroom is to close for good this new year (please) play there one more time(because the NEC is a vile S**thole sound wise) and could you bring "Interpol" as the support act.As Brum has had the pleasure of James,The Wonder Suff,Happy Mondays, supporting the "mighty new order in the past".

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Beach Boy wrote: Isolation from the '98 session. Fit New Order perfectly. they really should play that instead of SLC.

spot on Beach Boy, they also played it during the '98 shows and they should have brought it back into the set.

Favourite performance of a JD song must be Decades at Royal Festival Hall and Amsterdam Paradiso both May 84. Sends shivers down my spine!

I think he sings Heart & Soul quite well. Always been a fave of mine. Atmosphere works well, even though he whoops it up.

i agree with isolation. the '98 manchester apollo rendition surpasses any of the above!

Transmission... but i really like Digital from Finsbury Park. Day in, day out

LWTUA at Coachella was the best version I can recall ever hearing.

I really like Transmission these days...

Atmosphere is a little risky, as it usually turns into whoops and grunts.

I voted for Transmission too, but Isolation & Digital should be played more - I love the 'InSession' version of Isolation.

Phillip , that was Tower BAllroom 83, I was there, they also did the best ever version of TEMPTATION at that gig

None of em them then

I agree with Mike although I voted for Transmission cause it makes you jump up and down, but not in a way Digital from Finsbury does. Don't know I'm quite bored with JD songs cause they always play those 4 songs. I noticed people went so wild and happy when they started playing LWTUA. I'm probably the only person here who thinks JD songs are for home listening only. Don't get me wrong, I really like JD, but New Order playing the same 4 songs over and over again, well it just does nothing for me. Maybe that's an answer for the next tour, maybe they'll stop playing JD songs in order to play some new stuff. Who knows!

On days when Barney can keep a clean whoop-sheet, Atmosphere wins for me. It's the only song that I feel this way about - he can scream his lungs out on the rest of them!

Digital Mike Binoche wrote: Heart and Soul - Reading 98

I aggree.

Transmission sounded fantastic too.

Digital Mike Binoche wrote: Heart and Soul - Reading 98

My first thought, too.

But because it's missing in the choice it has to be LWTUA. Don't ask me why... It's always a great performance.

Solitude wrote: Favourite performance of a JD song must be Decades at Royal Festival Hall and Amsterdam Paradiso both May 84. Sends shivers down my spine!

I agree, they're outstanding.

But out of these four I have to pick "Transmission", good that they added the synth drone to it this time too.

of the current tour, transmission

of all time, decades!

phillip lockhart wrote: The best was "Love will tear us apart" ,performed at the "Tower ballroom", Birmingham UK 1985/86.

1983 - it was fucking awful. Gillian murdered it!

Transmission by a million miles. It is the only one they don't crucify. Decades was good back in the day, and Heart and Soul was ok in 1998.

Spotnick wrote: I think I forgot to say "current JD songs on the current tour"... those pre-2005 doesn't count...

Bloody spoil sport!

Digi Mike, a man after my own heart.;)

Transmission

isolation.

sounds like it could be a NO song. Steve is fucking awesome in this one.

Phillip , that was Tower BAllroom 83, I was there, they also did the best ever version of TEMPTATION at that gig

thanks Mike...im forgetting to shut the front door these days as well.....

Scrubs - 14 years (Manslaughter), Heard and Mc Donald Islands Re: Best live version of a Joy Division song?

phillip lockhart wrote: The best was "Love will tear us apart" ,performed at the "Tower ballroom", Birmingham UK 1985/86.

1983 - it was fucking awful. Gillian murdered it!

Digital - the UK's top Joy Division tribute http://www.knownpleasures.co.uk

old monkey....did you mark my music "gcse".......lol....just played the boot lp last night to remember and the shock of hearing them play a joy division song must have blinded me to gillians massive fluff(fnaar)

If we are sticking to 2005 tour dates,I really enjoyed Atmosphere at Hyde Park with my cousin, at her first New Order gig, on my shoulders loving it too..Interestingly,she had been talking to Peter Saville in her job(She works in the promotion of the City of Manchester)earlier that same day..but said "I don't like him,he looked down on me." ond you will never meet a nicer lass than our Angela

None. Sorry, I'm a fundemantalist regarding this question. The best live version of a JD-song is played by JD.

Id have Isolation, even Heart & Soul any day, more variety and 'fook me - i never expected that' than Love will, Atmos, S L Control etc.. Why they only played those through 98' really annoys me

ok, then. if it's down to only these four from the past tour it would have to be transmission. it's the best for barney's voice, really.

oldmonkey wrote: Transmission by a million miles. It is the only one they don't crucify. Decades was good back in the day, and Heart and Soul was ok in 1998.

Do you think that it's any good? My opinion varies from version to version.

where´s Decades (1985 gig)?

I think we shouldn't forget 'Digital'. NO at the MOVE festval in 2002 played a great version!

oldmonkey wrote:

phillip lockhart wrote: The best was "Love will tear us apart" ,performed at the "Tower ballroom", Birmingham UK 1985/86.

1983 - it was fucking awful. Gillian murdered it!

She didnt kill it to much.

Denial_1963 wrote: where´s Decades (1985 gig)?

Emok, it was 1984 at Royal Festival Hall and Amsterdam Paradiso NOT 1985

The_Other_Two wrote:

oldmonkey wrote:

phillip lockhart wrote: The best was "Love will tear us apart" ,performed at the "Tower ballroom", Birmingham UK 1985/86.

1983 - it was fucking awful. Gillian murdered it!

She didnt kill it to much.

Besides playing the wrong notes in the wrong sequence in the wrong key at the wrong time, then maybe no she didn't.

LWTUA if barney would stop with all the whooos...!

On this tour its Transmission. Can't stick the 'come on(s)' in LWTUA or the whoos in Atmosphere. I always think the synth sounds shit on Atmosphere - its too harsh.

Solitude wrote:

Denial_1963 wrote: where´s Decades (1985 gig)?

Emok, it was 1984 at Royal Festival Hall and Amsterdam Paradiso NOT 1985

ok sorry for my mistake.

Love will tear us apart - Paul Young

this years model? transmission.

otherwise - isolation at reading.

I always got a kick outta "Digital" with John Simm.....two Bernards? but I realize Barney should just do Transmission tho I still love that bass line

His Holiness, The Pope wrote: of the current tour, transmission

of all time, decades!

I have to agree.

I love LWTUA but it's not so good with Barney singing he always misses some pat of the lyric (even with the lyric in the TFT screen)

Transmission is the best, Barney knows quite well the lyric and it sounds great with his voice tone (not as good as Ian)

Decades has far as I know it was played only once back in 1985, I've heard the recording and it is awesome.

Lots of people voting for "Heart and Soul", and I agree it sounded fantastic when they played it, but the trouble when you're in the crowd is you don't know what to do when they play it: it's my fave JD tune, but it just kind of broods.....what are you supposed to do - stand there and brood along with it???? LWTUA is a great singalong, and all the purists who whinge about the innapropriate and irreverential exuberance with which it's played can, frankly, go jump in the fucking river: they've transformed it from a (perceived) suicide note to a communal celebration and it's wonderful. "Transmission" is pogo-tastic, too, and even though I've heard "Atmosphere" live enough now, thanks, I'm with Shug on the Reading '98 performance. My then-fiancee was throwing a wobbler 'cos the crowd was so boisterous and she was getting knocked about - she wanted to move away from the front; I was inevitably reluctant; just as I was about to give in they started "Atmosphere": a quick "sorry, love" and I was off further into the throng. Still my favourite gig ever.

We split up about two months later.

she's lost control at hyde park 2005

Doctor Clayhead wrote: Lots of people voting for "Heart and Soul", and I agree it sounded fantastic when they played it, but the trouble when you're in the crowd is you don't know what to do when they play it: it's my fave JD tune, but it just kind of broods.....what are you supposed to do - stand there and brood along with it????

make like you're at a spiritualized concert and take a seat.

and only marry a girl who will follow (or lead) you into the chaos at a new order show. that's real love, man.

The best live version of Love Will Tear Us Apart was done by a band called The Suicidal Snails, at Herne Bay plaza in 1994. Awesome!

The BBC Version of "She's Lost Control." I know there are two versions of that song on the CD but, its the last one. The one before Ian and Steven are interviewed. The reason because its my favorite is, the intensity of the way that song is played. Especially when Ian lets out a couple of screams. They use to have the video of that performance on this web-site, but I guess they took it off. I wish everyone could see how well that song was played. Laters.

Decades at Royal Festival Hall 1984. It was my 21st birthday that day, and I kid myself they played it for me....(it was more likely for the miners). I'm surprised how rarely they've played it since.

HEART AND SOUL (1998)

If current: She's Lost Control

Has to be Isolation 98- such a hard, brutal, version - it almost has a techno/industrial breakbeat feel to it, and as such, is genius.

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Wolfram wrote: ahem...shadowplay?!!!!!

Dave Legge wrote:

Wolfram wrote: ahem...shadowplay?!!!!!

so you made it in to work them?

Wolfram wrote:

Dave Legge wrote:

Wolfram wrote: ahem...shadowplay?!!!!!

so you made it in to work them?

Yeah.

Only 50 mins late :)

Phoned in walking back over Hungerford Bridge and told them the truth rather than some crap about my train being late. Told them they were lucky I hadn't gone off sick and stayed out getting p*ssed :D