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by Deborah Curtis


  Martin Factory (FACD 325), album that celebrates the work of record producer Martin Hannett, released in 1991 after his death and featuring Joy Division’s ‘She’s Lost Control’ with further tracks from the Buzzcocks, Slaughter and the Dogs, John Cooper Clarke, Jilted John, A Certain Ratio, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, U2, New Order, Happy Mondays, World of Twist, New Fast Automatic Daffodils and the High.

  Palatine Factory (FACT 400), a boxed set of four CD albums that tell ‘the Factory Story’:

  Tears in their Eyes (FACD 314) has Joy Division’s Transmission’ and New Order’s rendition of ‘Ceremony’, along with tracks by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, A Certain Ratio, the Durutti Column, X-O-Dus, ESG, James, Section 25, Stockholm Monsters, Quando Quango.

  Life’s a Beach (FACD 324) contains tracks from New Order, A Certain Ratio, Section 25, Kalima, Marcel King, Cabaret Voltaire, 52nd Street, Fadela, Quando Quango, Happy Mondays.

  The Beat Groups (FACD 334) offers Joy Division’s ‘Wilderness’ with further tracks from Tunnelvision, the Distractions, the Wake, Stockholm Monsters, Happy Mondays, New Order, the Railway Children, the Durutti Column, Miaow, Revenge and James.

  Selling Out (FACD 344), appropriately entitled, features Joy Division’s ‘Atmosphere’ with tracks from New Order, Happy Mondays, Northside, the Durutti Column, Steve Martland, Electronic, the Wendys and Cath Carroll.

  Permanent: Joy Division, 1995 – Some containing limited edition numbered print – blurred picture of a man sitting with his hand on arm of chair holding a cigarette in right hand – taken from rear right – can’t see his face. Photographic images by John Holden, images from the book Interference.

  Side A: ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’/‘Transmission’/‘She’s Lost Control’/ ‘Shadow Play’. Side B: ‘Day of the Lords’/‘Isolation’/‘Passover’/‘Heart and Soul’. Side C: ‘Twenty-four Hours’/‘These Days’/‘Novelty’/‘Dead Souls’. Side D: ‘The Only Mistake’/‘Something Must Break’/ ‘Atmosphere’/‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ – Permanent mix (additional production and remix by Don Gehman).

  Love Will Tear Us Apart: Joy Division, 1995 – Exclusive mixes by Don Gehman and Arthur Baker. 1, Original version; 2, Radio version (mixed by Don Gehman); 3, Arthur Baker remix (additional production and remix by Arthur Baker); 4, Atmosphere (original Hannett 12”). Remix engineer Mark Plati at Shakedown studios. Photographic images by John Holden, images from the book Interference.

  Heart and Soul, 1997. Box Set of four CDs:

  CD1: The Kill. ‘Digital’/‘Glass’/‘Disorder’/‘Day of the Lords’/ ‘Candidate’/‘Insight’/‘New Dawn Fades’/‘She’s Lost Control’/ ‘Shadowplay’/‘Wilderness’/‘Interzone’/‘I Remember Nothing’/‘Exercise One’/‘Transmission’/‘Novelty’/‘Auto-suggestion’/ ‘From Safety to Where …?’/‘Ice Age’/‘The Only Mistake’/‘Something Must Break’.

  CD2: She’s Lost Control (12”). ‘Atmosphere’/‘Dead Souls’/‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’/‘These Days’/‘The Sound of Music’/‘Atrocity Exhibition’/‘Isolation’/‘Passover’/‘Colony’/‘A Means to an End’/ ‘Heart and Soul’/‘Twenty-four Hours’/‘The Eternal’/‘Decades’/‘Komakino’.

  CD3: Warsaw. ‘No Love Lost’/‘Leaders of Men’/‘Failures’/‘Shadowplay’/‘The Drawback’/‘They Walked in Line’/‘Glass’/‘Candidate’/ ‘Insight’/‘Interzone’/‘These Days’/‘Colony’/‘Ceremony’/‘Exercise One’/ ‘Ice Age’/‘The Only Mistake’/‘Transmission’/‘Something Must Break’/ ‘Atmosphere’/‘Dead Souls’/‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’/‘In a Lonely Place’.

  CD4: Disorder. ‘Candidate’/‘Insight’/‘She’s Lost Control’/‘These Days’/‘Atrocity Exhibition’/‘Isolation’/‘Colony’/‘The Only Mistake’/ ‘Wilderness’/‘Interzone’/‘Novelty’/‘Autosuggestion’/‘I Remember Nothing’/‘Heart and Soul’/‘The Eternal’.

  Two young to know, too wild to care … 1978–1992. The Factory Story, Part One. Features Joy Division’s ‘New Dawn Fades’. London records (released 1997).

  Different colours, different shades … 1978–1992. The Factory Story, Part Two. Features Joy Division’s Decades. London records, FACT 2.40 (released 1997).

  And here is the young man. Martin Hannett productions, 1978–1991. Features Joy Division’s ‘She’s Lost Control’. Debutante, PolyGram (released 1998).

  Preston 28 February 1980. ‘Incubation’/‘Wilderness’/‘Twenty-four Hours’/‘The Eternal’/‘Heart and Soul’/‘Shadowplay’/‘Transmission’/ ‘Disorder’/‘Warsaw’/‘Colony’/‘Interzone’/‘She’s Lost Control’. Live album of Preston gig, FACD 2.60 (released 1999).

  LYRICS

  Warsaw (1977)

  3, 5, 0, 1, 2, 5, Go!

  I was there in the back stage,

  When first light came around.

  I grew up like a changeling,

  To win the first time around.

  I can see all the weakness.

  I can pick all the faults.

  Well I concede all the faith tests,

  Just to stick in your throats.

  31G, 31G, 31G

  I hung around in your soundtrack,

  To mirror all that you’ve done,

  To find the right side of reason,

  To kill the three lies for one,

  I can see all the cold facts.

  I can see through your eyes.

  All this talk made no contact.

  No matter how hard we tried.

  31G, 31C 31G

  I can still hear the footsteps.

  I can see only walls.

  I slid into your man-traps,

  With no hearing at all.

  I just see contradiction,

  Had to give up the fight,

  Just to live in the past tense,

  To make believe you were right.

  31G, 31G, 31G

  3, 5, 0, 1, 2, 5.

  Leaders of Men (1977)

  Born from some mother’s womb,

  Just like any other room.

  Made a promise for a new life.

  Made a victim out of your life.

  When your time’s on the door,

  And it drips to the floor,

  And you feel you can touch,

  All the noise is too much,

  And the seeds that are sown,

  Are no longer your own.

  Just a minor operation,

  To force a final ultimatum.

  Thousand words are spoken loud,

  Reach the dumb to fool the crowd.

  When you walk down the street,

  And the sound’s not so sweet,

  And you wish you could hide,

  Maybe go for a ride,

  To some peep show arcade,

  Where the future’s not made.

  A nightmare situation,

  Infiltrate imagination,

  Smacks of past Holy wars,

  By the wall with broken laws.

  The leaders of men,

  Born out of your frustration.

  The leaders of men,

  Just a strange infatuation.

  The leaders of men,

  Made a promise for a new life.

  No saviour for our sakes,

  To twist the internees of hate,

  Self induced manipulation,

  To crush all thoughts of mass salvation.

  No Love Lost (1977)

  So long sitting here,

  Didn’t hear the warning.

  Waiting for the tape to run.

  We’ve been moving around in different situations,

  Knowing that the time would come.

  Just to see you torn apart,

  Witness to your empty heart.

  I need it.

  I need it.

  I need it.

  Through the wire screen, the eyes of those standing outside looked in

  at her as into the cage of some rare creature in a zoo.

  In the hand of one of the assistants she saw the same instrument

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nbsp; which they had that morning inserted deep into her body. She shuddered instinctively. No life at all in the house of dolls.

  No love lost. No love lost.

  You’ve been seeing things,

  In darkness, not in learning,

  Hoping that the truth will pass.

  No life underground, wasting never changing,

  Wishing that this day won’t last.

  To never see you show your age,

  To watch until the beauty fades,

  I need it.

  I need it.

  I need it.

  (Second verse on Warsaw album)

  Two-way mirror in the hall,

  They like to watch everything you do,

  Transmitters hidden in the walls,

  So they know everything you say is true,

  Turn it on,

  Don’t turn it on,

  Turn it on.

  Failures (1977)

  Don’t speak of safe Messiahs,

  A failure of the Modern Man,

  To the centre of all life’s desires,

  As a whole not an also ran.

  Love in a hollow field,

  Break the image of your father’s son,

  Drawn to an inner feel,

  He was thought of as the only one,

  He was thought of as the only one.

  He no longer denies,

  All the failures of the Modern Man.

  No, no, no, he can’t pick sides,

  Sees the failures of the Modern Man.

  Wise words and sympathy,

  Tell the story of our history.

  New strength gives a real touch,

  Sense and reason make it all too much.

  With a strange fatality,

  Broke the spirits of a lesser man,

  Some other race can see,

  In his way he was the only one,

  In his way he was the only one.

  He no longer denies

  All the failures of the Modern Man.

  No, no, no, he can’t pick sides,

  Sees the failures of the Modern Man.

  Now that it’s right to decide,

  In his time he was a total man,

  Taken from Caesar’s side,

  Kept in silence just to prove who’s wrong.

  He no longer denies,

  All the failures of the Modern Man.

  No, no, no, he can’t pick sides,

  Sees the failures of the Modern Man,

  All the failures of the Modern Man.

  (Waiting for) The Ice Age (1977)

  (The first set of lyrics for Ice Age)

  Scratching out atrocity,

  Splintered in the sand,

  In a deathshroud looking back,

  Walking hand in hand.

  Draw the lines onto your face,

  To make it look brand new,

  Nothing here will fit in place,

  To screen the likes of you.

  Stranded in hostility,

  Buried further down,

  Waiting in a churchyard,

  For the sons to come around,

  Burning down conventions now,

  To give me all the proof,

  Nothing here will hold somehow,

  To give a glimpse of truth.

  Searching for some other life,

  To hide behind your door,

  On a strange wave plunging down,

  With hopes for little more,

  Someone might have changed somewhere,

  To bring us into line,

  All so near to hit and run,

  To cut the gaps in time.

  Waiting for the cold to come,

  To face one final stand,

  Viewing scenes in black and white,

  Walking hand in hand,

  Reaching from the distance,

  To find some strength again.

  Ice Age (1977)

  I’ve seen the real atrocities,

  Buried in the sand,

  Stockpiled safety for a few,

  While we stand holding hands.

  I’m living in the Ice age,

  I’m living in the Ice age,

  Nothing will hold,

  Nothing will fit,

  Into the cold,

  It’s not an eclipse.

  Living in the Ice age,

  Living in the Ice age,

  Living in the Ice age.

  Searching for another way,

  Hide behind the door,

  We’ll live in holes and disused shafts,

  Hopes for little more.

  I’m living in the Ice age,

  I’m living in the Ice age,

  Nothing will hold,

  Nothing will fit,

  Into the cold,

  No smile on your lips,

  Living in the Ice age,

  Living in the Ice age,

  Living in the Ice age.

  Living in the Ice age,

  Living in the Ice age,

  Living in the Ice age,

  Living in the Ice age.

  The Kill (1977)

  Moved in a hired car,

  And I find no way to run,

  Adds every moment longer,

  Had no time for fun,

  Just something that I knew I had to do,

  But through it all I left my eyes on you.

  I had an impulse to clear it all away,

  Oh I used the tactics, make everybody pay,

  Just something that I knew I had to do,

  But through it all I kept my eyes on you.

  Oh, I keep it all clean,

  I’ve paid the graces there,

  No kings of misuse,

  No sellers of flesh,

  Just something that I knew I had to do,

  But through it all I kept my eyes on you,

  Yeah through it all I kept my eyes on you,

  But through it all I kept my eyes on you.

  Walked in Line (1978)

  All dressed in uniforms so fine,

  They drank and killed to pass the time,

  Wearing the shame of all their crimes,

  With measured steps, they walked in line.

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line.

  They carried pictures of their wives,

  And numbered tags to prove their lives,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line.

  Full of a glory never seen,

  They made it through the whole machine,

  To never question anymore,

  Hypnotic trance, they never saw,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  They walked in line,

  Walked in line,

  Walked in line.

  Exercise One (1978)

  When you’re looking at life,<
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  In a strange new room,

  Maybe drowning soon,

  Is this the start of it all?

  Turn on your TV,

  Turn down your pulse,

  Turn away from it all,

  It’s all getting too much.

  When you’re looking at life,

  Deciphering scars,

  Just who fooled who,

  Sit still in their cars,

  The lights look bright,

  When you reach outside,

  Time for one last ride,

  Before the end of it all

  Digital (1978)

  Feel it closing in,

  Feel it closing in,

  The fear of whom I call,

  Every time I call

  I feel it closing in,

  I feel it closing in,

  Day in, day out,

  Day in, day out,

  Day in, day out,

  Day in, day out,

  Day in, day out,

  Day in, day out.

  I feel it closing in,

  As patterns seem to form.

  I feel it cold and warm.

  The shadows start to fall.

  I feel it closing in,

  I feel it closing in,

  Day in, day out,

  Day in, day out,

  Day in, day out,

  Day in, day out,

  Day in, day out.

  I ‘d have the world around,

  To see just whatever happens,

  Stood by the door alone,

  And then it’s fade away.

  I see you fade away.

  Don’t ever fade away.

  I need you here today.

  Don’t ever fade away.

 

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