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Originally Posted by PhoenixFire
Just a question to someone like Brumby or Fullins..
I have Permanent by Joy Division (obv) and up until a few mintues ago, thought it was a studio album, along with Closer and Unknown Pleasures. I now know that it has tracks from both Unknown Pleasures and Closer, so is it worth getting either of those two albums if I have Permanent? Are there any tracks worth listening to?
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It's a compilation album as you've probably figured out by now. I would suggest you shelve it and just get the two studio albums plus
Substance. Joy Division are easy to get into as you really only need those three albums.
Still is pretty good but not essential.
I don't have
Permanent (as I have all the tracks from the four albums that I mentioned) but looking at the track listing it's missing a lot of their more important work (Atrocity Exhibition, Decades, Disorder, Insight, Digital etc). More generally I think it's more rewarding to listen to albums as they were intended to be heard rather than listening to fragments in a compilation.
FTR, I slightly prefer the Permanent mix of Love Will Tear Us Apart, so it's not a complete waste.