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Unknown Pleasures

January 01, 1970

For the 2002 Chinese film, see Unknown Pleasures (film).

Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by the English rock band Joy Division, released on 15 June 1979, by Factory Records.[2] The album was recorded and mixed over three successive weekends at Stockport's Strawberry Studios in April 1979, with producer Martin Hannett contributing a number of unconventional recording techniques to the group's sound. The cover artwork was designed by artist Peter Saville, using a data plot of signals from a radio pulsar.[3] It is the only Joy Division album released during lead singer Ian Curtis's lifetime.

Unknown Pleasures
Studio album by
Joy Division
Released15 June 1979 (1979-06-15)
Recorded1–17 April 1979
StudioStrawberry (Stockport)
Genre
Length39:28
LabelFactory
ProducerMartin Hannett[2]
Joy Division chronology
An Ideal for Living
(1978) 		Unknown Pleasures
(1979) 		Closer
(1980)

Factory Records did not release any singles from Unknown Pleasures, and the album did not chart despite the relative success of the group's follow-up single, "Transmission". It has since received sustained critical acclaim as an influential post-punk album, and has been named as one of the best albums of all time by publications such as NME, AllMusic, Select, Rolling Stone, and Spin.

Background edit

Joy Division formed in Salford in 1976 during the first wave of punk rock. Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook had separately attended a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall on 4 June 1976 and both embraced that band's simplicity, speed and aggression.[4] Forming a band with their friend Terry Mason on drums, Sumner on guitar and Hook on bass, they advertised for a singer. Ian Curtis, whom Sumner and Hook already knew, applied and, without having to audition, was taken on.[5] After a number of changes of drummer, Stephen Morris joined the band—at that time called Warsaw—in August 1977. To avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, they renamed themselves Joy Division in late 1977.[6]

After signing a recording contract with RCA Records in early 1978, Joy Division recorded some demos; however, they were unhappy with the way their music was mixed and asked to be released from their contract.[7][8] The band's first release was the self-produced extended play (EP), An Ideal for Living, which was released in June 1978. They made their television debut on Tony Wilson's local news show Granada Reports in September 1978.[9] According to Hook, the band received a £70,000 offer from Genetic Records in London.[10] However, the band's manager, Rob Gretton, approached Wilson about releasing an album on his Factory Records label.[11] Wilson explained that Gretton had calculated that given Factory's 50/50 split of profits, the band could make as much money with the indie label as it could by signing to a major. Wilson added that one of Gretton's main reasons for approaching Factory was so "he wouldn't have to get on a train to London every week and 'talk to nuggets'. No one could use the word 'cockney' with as much contempt as Rob".[11] Gretton estimated that the album would cost £8,000 to produce; however, Wilson said in 2006 that the up-front cost ended at £18,000.[11]

Recording edit

Unknown Pleasures was recorded at Strawberry Studios in Stockport over three weekends between 1 and 17 April 1979, with Martin Hannett producing.[2] Hannett, who believed that punk rock was sonically conservative because of its refusal to use studio technology to create sonic space,[12] used a number of unusual production techniques and sound effects on the album, including several AMS 15-80s digital delays, the Marshall Time Modulator, tape echo and bounce,[13] as well as the sound of a bottle smashing, someone eating crisps, backwards guitar and the sound of the Strawberry Studios lift with a Leslie speaker "whirring inside".[14] He also used the sound of a basement toilet.[15] Hannett recorded Curtis's vocals for "Insight" down a telephone line so he could achieve the "requisite distance". Hannett later said, "[Joy Division] were a gift to a producer, because they didn't have a clue. They didn't argue".[5] Referring to the recording sessions, Hook remembered, "Sumner started using a kit-built Powertran Transcendent 2000 synthesiser, most notably on 'I Remember Nothing', where it vied with the sound of Rob Gretton smashing bottles with Steve and his Walther replica pistol."[14] During the recording, Morris invested in a syndrum because he thought he saw one on the cover of Can's 1971 album Tago Mago.[14]

AllMusic wrote that Hannett's production on Unknown Pleasures was "as much a hallmark as the music itself," describing it as "emphasizing space in the most revelatory way since the dawn of dub."[16] Describing Hannett's production techniques, Hook said, "[He] didn't think straight, he thought sideways. He confused you and made you do something you didn't expect."[17] Hook went on to say, "Derek Bramwood of Strawberry Studios said that you can take a group that have got on brilliantly for 20 years, put them in a studio with Martin and within five minutes, they'll be trying to slash each other's throats." However, Hook went on to say that Hannett was only as good as the material he had to work with, "We gave him great songs, and like a top chef, he added some salt and pepper and some herbs and served up the dish. But he needed our ingredients."[17] The band members' opinions differed on the "spacious, atmospheric sound" of the album, which did not reflect their more aggressive live sound. Sumner said, "The music was loud and heavy, and we felt that Martin had toned it down, especially with the guitars. The production inflicted this dark, doomy mood over the album: we'd drawn this picture in black and white, and Martin had coloured it in for us. We resented it ..."[5] Hook said, "I couldn't hide my disappointment then, it sounded like Pink Floyd."[14]

Morris disagreed, saying, "I was happy with Unknown Pleasures. My theory on things at the time was that the two things—listening to a record and going to a gig—were quite different. You don't want to hear a record when you go to a gig: you want something with a bit of energy."[14] Curtis was also happy with the production of the album and was impressed with Hannett's work.[18] Hook conceded in 2006, "It definitely didn't turn out sounding the way I wanted it ... But now I can see that Martin did a good job on it ... There's no two ways about it, Martin Hannett created the Joy Division sound." Hook also noted that he was able to hear Curtis's lyrics and Sumner's guitar parts for the first time on the record, because during gigs the band played too loudly.[11]

Artwork and packaging edit

Peter Saville, who had previously designed posters for Manchester's Factory club in 1978, designed the cover of the album.[19] Sumner or Morris, depending on the account,[20] chose the image used on the cover, which is based on an image of radio waves from pulsar CP 1919, from The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy.[21] Saville reversed the image from black-on-white to white-on-black, against the band's stated preference for the original. "I was afraid it might look a little cheap. I was convinced that it was just sexier in black" since it represented a signal from space.[20] He printed it on textured card for the original version of the album.[14]

It is not a Fourier analysis as sometimes stated, but rather an image of the intensity of successive radio pulses, as stated in the Cambridge Encyclopaedia. In simple terms, the image is a ridgeline plot of the radio emissions given out by a pulsar, a "rotating neutron star". Originally named CP 1919, the pulsar was discovered in November 1967 by student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University. As the star turns, it emits electromagnetic radiation in a beam like a lighthouse, which can be picked up by radio telescopes. Each line on the image is an individual pulse. They are not exactly the same each time as the long distance the beam travels introduces interference.

The image was originally created by radio astronomer Harold Craft at the Arecibo Observatory for his 1970 doctoral dissertation as a way to visualize smaller pulses within larger ones, which might help explain what had been causing the pulses. He was unaware for years that the image was associated with the album cover until a friend told him; afterwards he bought a copy because he felt he should have one as the creator of the image.[22]

Susie Goldring, reviewing the album for BBC Online said, "The duochrome Peter Saville cover of this first Joy Division album speaks volumes. Its white on black lines reflect a pulse of power, a surge of bass, and raw angst. If the cover doesn't draw you in, the music will."[23]

Iconic status edit

The cover image became strongly associated with the band's fans at goth gatherings later in the 1980s, after Joy Division's surviving members had become New Order. In the 21st century, it started to become an iconic image outside Joy Division fandom. Raf Simons collaborated with Saville on a 2003 clothing line that used the plot; three years later Supreme followed suit.[24] The cover of Vince Staples' 2015 album Summertime '06 is based on the Unknown Pleasures image.[20]

In 2012 the Disney corporation used the cover image for a t-shirt with Mickey Mouse, which was taken as a joke but not meant as one.[20] Saville explains the image's adaptability as a result of it being "cool, in all of the meanings, from cool to cold".[20]

Inner sleeve edit

The inner sleeve features a black-and-white photograph of a door with a hand near the handle. It was some years later before Saville discovered that the photograph was Hand Through a Doorway, a well-known picture by Ralph Gibson.[19]

Release edit

Unknown Pleasures was initially printed in a run of 10,000 copies,[18] with 5,000 copies being sold within the first two weeks of release,[25] and a further 10,000 copies being sold over the following six months. Initially, sales of Unknown Pleasures were slow until the release of the non-album single, "Transmission", and unsold copies occupied the Factory Records office in the flat of label co-founder Alan Erasmus.

Following the release of "Transmission", Unknown Pleasures sold out of its initial pressing, with this prompting further pressings. Unknown Pleasures created approximately £50,000 in profit, to be shared between Factory Records and the band; however, Tony Wilson spent most of these profits on Factory projects.[26] By the conclusion of a critically acclaimed promotional tour supporting Buzzcocks in November 1979, Unknown Pleasures had neared 15,000 copies sold.[27]

Unknown Pleasures failed to chart on the UK Albums Chart. However, following Curtis's suicide in May 1980 and the release of their second album, Closer, in July, it was reissued and reached No. 71 at the end of that August.[28][29] It fared better on the UK Indie Chart, placing at No. 2 on the first chart to be published in January 1980 and going on to top the chart following its reissue, spending 136 weeks on the chart in total.[30] The 40th-anniversary reissue of the album charted at number 5 in the UK Albums Chart when it was released in 2019, making Unknown Pleasures Joy Division's highest-charting album.[31]

In 2007, remastered versions of both Unknown Pleasures and the posthumous studio album Closer—plus the 1981 compilation album Still—were re-released, with the remastered version of Unknown Pleasures including a bonus disc of a live recording of the band playing at The Factory in Manchester on 13 July 1979.[2] The album was also re-released on 180-gram vinyl with the original track listing in 2007, with this version also being available in a limited edition box set with Closer and Still.[32] The album was reissued again on limited edition 180g ruby red coloured vinyl with an alternative white sleeve, released on 7 May 2019, to coincide with the album's 40th anniversary.[33]

Critical reception edit

Initial response edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Smash Hits8/10[34]
Sounds     [35]

Melody Maker called Unknown Pleasures an "opaque manifesto" and musically described it as "Gary Glitter meets the Velvet Underground". Reviewer Jon Savage declared "[leaving] the twentieth century is difficult; most people prefer to go back and nostalgise, Oh boy. Joy Division at least set a course in the present with contrails for the future—perhaps you can't ask for much more. Indeed, Unknown Pleasures may very well be one of the best, white, English, debut LPs of the year."[36] Max Bell of NME qualified the record as "extraordinary," writing that "without trying to baffle or overreach itself, this outfit step into a labyrinth that is rarely explored with any smidgeon of real conviction."[37] He compared it favourably to the work of Strange Days-era Doors and "German experimentalists" such as Can and Neu!.[37] In Rolling Stone, music journalist Mikal Gilmore described the album as having "a doleful, deep-toned sound that often suggested an elaborate version of the Velvet Underground or an orderly Public Image Ltd."[38] By August of that year the album's stature as a favourite of critics for the year was established.[39] Robert Palmer placed the album at fourth place in his best of 1980 list for The New York Times, proclaiming the album as an "exceptional debut" and that the album "remains the group's masterpiece" and that it was "some of the most driven, desperate rock-and-roll ever recorded."[40]

Other writers were less enthusiastic. Red Starr, writing for Smash Hits, gave the album a generally positive review, describing it as a "bleak nightmare soundtrack".[34] Starr described the lyrics as "mysterious" and "doomy" which were "amidst intense music of urgent guitar, eerie effects and driving rhythms". However, Starr tempered his review by saying not to "expect too much" as the album was "still pretty raw".[34] Writing about Factory for Melody Maker in September 1979, Mary Harron was less impressed: "I found at least half of [Unknown Pleasures] to be turgid and monotonous, and the vocals heavy and melodramatic—Jim Morrison without flair."[41] She went on to say the lyrics and the atmosphere of the album "seemed to hearken back to the late Sixties" and the songs were "a series of disconnected images".[41]

Legacy edit

Retrospective professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [16]
Christgau's Record GuideA−[42]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music     [43]
NME10/10[44]
Pitchfork10/10[45]
Q     [46]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [47]
Select     [48]
Spin Alternative Record Guide9/10[49]
Uncut     [50]

Retrospective critical writing on the album has been virtually unanimous in its praise. In 1994, Jon Savage described the music as "a definitive Northern Gothic statement: guilt-ridden, romantic, claustrophobic".[5] Analysing Curtis's work, music journalist Richard Cook remarked in 1983: "sex has disappeared from these unknown pleasures; it is an aftermath of passion where everything's (perhaps) lost".[51] Stuart Maconie of Select deemed Unknown Pleasures "music without a past or a future but with the muscularity of all great rock" and "one of the greatest first albums ever."[48]

Ned Raggett, reviewing the album for AllMusic, described Unknown Pleasures as "All visceral, all emotional, all theatrical, all perfect—one of the best albums ever."[16] Robert Christgau said that it was Curtis's "passionate gravity that makes the clumsy, disquieting music so convincing".[42] Colin Larkin called the music "distinctive and disturbing" in his Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2011), while highlighting "She's Lost Control", where Curtis was "at his most manically arresting".[43] In relation to the remastered re-released album in 2007, the British music magazine NME described the album as "simply one of the best records ever made, and is still powerful enough to floor you 28 years on".[44]

In 2000 it was voted number 249 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[52] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[53]

Peter Hook and The Light have played the Unknown Pleasures album in its entirety on several of their concert tours, and have recorded and released live albums of some of their gigs.[54] Hook also named one of his books Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division in 2012.[55]

Accolades edit

Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
NME UK All Times Top 100 Albums[citation needed] 1985 10
All Times Top 100 Albums[56] 1993 43
The Greatest Albums of The '70s[citation needed] 1993 4
Top 100 Albums of All Time[citation needed] 2003 41
The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever[citation needed] 2006 44
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[57] 2013 40
Mojo UK Top 50 Punk Albums[58] 2003 26
Pitchfork US Top 100 Albums of the 1970s[59] 2004 9
Q UK The 50 Best Albums of the 70s[citation needed] 1998 4
100 Greatest British Albums[citation needed] 2002 19
Top 20 Albums from 1970 to 1979[citation needed] 2004 9
Rolling Stone US 50 Coolest Records[citation needed] 2002 24
100 Best Debut Albums of All Time[60] 2013 20
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[61] 2020 211
Spin US 50 Most Essential Punk Records[62] 2001 11
Fifteen Most Influential Albums[63] 2003 *

(*) designates unordered lists.

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner

Side one (Outside)
No.TitleLength
1."Disorder"3:36
2."Day of the Lords"4:48
3."Candidate"3:05
4."Insight"4:30
5."New Dawn Fades"4:48
Side two (Inside)
No.TitleLength
6."She's Lost Control"3:56
7."Shadowplay"3:54
8."Wilderness"2:38
9."Interzone"2:16
10."I Remember Nothing"5:53
Total length:39:28
2007 CD remaster bonus disc (live at the Factory, Manchester, 13 July 1979)
No.TitleLength
1."Dead Souls"4:25
2."The Only Mistake"4:12
3."Insight"3:52
4."Candidate"2:08
5."Wilderness"2:32
6."She's Lost Control"3:47
7."Shadowplay"3:35
8."Disorder"3:29
9."Interzone"2:05
10."Atrocity Exhibition"6:14
11."Novelty"4:28
12."Transmission"3:50
Total length:44:37

Personnel edit

Credits adapted from AllMusic:[64]

Joy Division

Production

Charts edit

Certifications edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI)[78] Gold 25,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[79] Gold 7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI)[80] Platinum 300,000‡

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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Sources edit

External links edit

  • Complete lyrics for Unknown Pleasures
  • Unknown Pleasures at Discogs (list of releases)
  • Various Mojo Magazine (2007). "1979. Joy Division. Unknown Pleasures. Punk's darkest forces reach Manchester and signal a new grey dawn (p. 422)". In Irvin, Jim; McLear, Colin (eds.). The Mojo Collection: 4th Edition. Edinburgh, Scotland: Canongate Books. ISBN 978-1-847-67643-6.

Further reading edit

  • Kennedy, Jake (2006). Joy Division and the making of Unknown pleasures. London: Unanimous. ISBN 978-1-903318-80-5. OCLC 71165309.

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For the 2002 Chinese film see Unknown Pleasures film Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by the English rock band Joy Division released on 15 June 1979 by Factory Records 2 The album was recorded and mixed over three successive weekends at Stockport s Strawberry Studios in April 1979 with producer Martin Hannett contributing a number of unconventional recording techniques to the group s sound The cover artwork was designed by artist Peter Saville using a data plot of signals from a radio pulsar 3 It is the only Joy Division album released during lead singer Ian Curtis s lifetime Unknown PleasuresStudio album by Joy DivisionReleased15 June 1979 1979 06 15 Recorded1 17 April 1979StudioStrawberry Stockport GenrePost punk gothic rock new wave 1 Length39 28LabelFactoryProducerMartin Hannett 2 Joy Division chronologyAn Ideal for Living 1978 Unknown Pleasures 1979 Closer 1980 Factory Records did not release any singles from Unknown Pleasures and the album did not chart despite the relative success of the group s follow up single Transmission It has since received sustained critical acclaim as an influential post punk album and has been named as one of the best albums of all time by publications such as NME AllMusic Select Rolling Stone and Spin Contents 1 Background 2 Recording 3 Artwork and packaging 3 1 Iconic status 3 2 Inner sleeve 4 Release 5 Critical reception 5 1 Initial response 5 2 Legacy 5 3 Accolades 6 Track listing 7 Personnel 8 Charts 8 1 Weekly charts 8 2 Year end charts 9 Certifications 10 References 11 Sources 12 External links 13 Further readingBackground editJoy Division formed in Salford in 1976 during the first wave of punk rock Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook had separately attended a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall on 4 June 1976 and both embraced that band s simplicity speed and aggression 4 Forming a band with their friend Terry Mason on drums Sumner on guitar and Hook on bass they advertised for a singer Ian Curtis whom Sumner and Hook already knew applied and without having to audition was taken on 5 After a number of changes of drummer Stephen Morris joined the band at that time called Warsaw in August 1977 To avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt they renamed themselves Joy Division in late 1977 6 After signing a recording contract with RCA Records in early 1978 Joy Division recorded some demos however they were unhappy with the way their music was mixed and asked to be released from their contract 7 8 The band s first release was the self produced extended play EP An Ideal for Living which was released in June 1978 They made their television debut on Tony Wilson s local news show Granada Reports in September 1978 9 According to Hook the band received a 70 000 offer from Genetic Records in London 10 However the band s manager Rob Gretton approached Wilson about releasing an album on his Factory Records label 11 Wilson explained that Gretton had calculated that given Factory s 50 50 split of profits the band could make as much money with the indie label as it could by signing to a major Wilson added that one of Gretton s main reasons for approaching Factory was so he wouldn t have to get on a train to London every week and talk to nuggets No one could use the word cockney with as much contempt as Rob 11 Gretton estimated that the album would cost 8 000 to produce however Wilson said in 2006 that the up front cost ended at 18 000 11 Recording editUnknown Pleasures was recorded at Strawberry Studios in Stockport over three weekends between 1 and 17 April 1979 with Martin Hannett producing 2 Hannett who believed that punk rock was sonically conservative because of its refusal to use studio technology to create sonic space 12 used a number of unusual production techniques and sound effects on the album including several AMS 15 80s digital delays the Marshall Time Modulator tape echo and bounce 13 as well as the sound of a bottle smashing someone eating crisps backwards guitar and the sound of the Strawberry Studios lift with a Leslie speaker whirring inside 14 He also used the sound of a basement toilet 15 Hannett recorded Curtis s vocals for Insight down a telephone line so he could achieve the requisite distance Hannett later said Joy Division were a gift to a producer because they didn t have a clue They didn t argue 5 Referring to the recording sessions Hook remembered Sumner started using a kit built Powertran Transcendent 2000 synthesiser most notably on I Remember Nothing where it vied with the sound of Rob Gretton smashing bottles with Steve and his Walther replica pistol 14 During the recording Morris invested in a syndrum because he thought he saw one on the cover of Can s 1971 album Tago Mago 14 AllMusic wrote that Hannett s production on Unknown Pleasures was as much a hallmark as the music itself describing it as emphasizing space in the most revelatory way since the dawn of dub 16 Describing Hannett s production techniques Hook said He didn t think straight he thought sideways He confused you and made you do something you didn t expect 17 Hook went on to say Derek Bramwood of Strawberry Studios said that you can take a group that have got on brilliantly for 20 years put them in a studio with Martin and within five minutes they ll be trying to slash each other s throats However Hook went on to say that Hannett was only as good as the material he had to work with We gave him great songs and like a top chef he added some salt and pepper and some herbs and served up the dish But he needed our ingredients 17 The band members opinions differed on the spacious atmospheric sound of the album which did not reflect their more aggressive live sound Sumner said The music was loud and heavy and we felt that Martin had toned it down especially with the guitars The production inflicted this dark doomy mood over the album we d drawn this picture in black and white and Martin had coloured it in for us We resented it 5 Hook said I couldn t hide my disappointment then it sounded like Pink Floyd 14 Morris disagreed saying I was happy with Unknown Pleasures My theory on things at the time was that the two things listening to a record and going to a gig were quite different You don t want to hear a record when you go to a gig you want something with a bit of energy 14 Curtis was also happy with the production of the album and was impressed with Hannett s work 18 Hook conceded in 2006 It definitely didn t turn out sounding the way I wanted it But now I can see that Martin did a good job on it There s no two ways about it Martin Hannett created the Joy Division sound Hook also noted that he was able to hear Curtis s lyrics and Sumner s guitar parts for the first time on the record because during gigs the band played too loudly 11 Artwork and packaging editPeter Saville who had previously designed posters for Manchester s Factory club in 1978 designed the cover of the album 19 Sumner or Morris depending on the account 20 chose the image used on the cover which is based on an image of radio waves from pulsar CP 1919 from The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy 21 Saville reversed the image from black on white to white on black against the band s stated preference for the original I was afraid it might look a little cheap I was convinced that it was just sexier in black since it represented a signal from space 20 He printed it on textured card for the original version of the album 14 It is not a Fourier analysis as sometimes stated but rather an image of the intensity of successive radio pulses as stated in the Cambridge Encyclopaedia In simple terms the image is a ridgeline plot of the radio emissions given out by a pulsar a rotating neutron star Originally named CP 1919 the pulsar was discovered in November 1967 by student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University As the star turns it emits electromagnetic radiation in a beam like a lighthouse which can be picked up by radio telescopes Each line on the image is an individual pulse They are not exactly the same each time as the long distance the beam travels introduces interference The image was originally created by radio astronomer Harold Craft at the Arecibo Observatory for his 1970 doctoral dissertation as a way to visualize smaller pulses within larger ones which might help explain what had been causing the pulses He was unaware for years that the image was associated with the album cover until a friend told him afterwards he bought a copy because he felt he should have one as the creator of the image 22 Susie Goldring reviewing the album for BBC Online said The duochrome Peter Saville cover of this first Joy Division album speaks volumes Its white on black lines reflect a pulse of power a surge of bass and raw angst If the cover doesn t draw you in the music will 23 Iconic status edit The cover image became strongly associated with the band s fans at goth gatherings later in the 1980s after Joy Division s surviving members had become New Order In the 21st century it started to become an iconic image outside Joy Division fandom Raf Simons collaborated with Saville on a 2003 clothing line that used the plot three years later Supreme followed suit 24 The cover of Vince Staples 2015 album Summertime 06 is based on the Unknown Pleasures image 20 In 2012 the Disney corporation used the cover image for a t shirt with Mickey Mouse which was taken as a joke but not meant as one 20 Saville explains the image s adaptability as a result of it being cool in all of the meanings from cool to cold 20 Inner sleeve edit The inner sleeve features a black and white photograph of a door with a hand near the handle It was some years later before Saville discovered that the photograph was Hand Through a Doorway a well known picture by Ralph Gibson 19 Release editUnknown Pleasures was initially printed in a run of 10 000 copies 18 with 5 000 copies being sold within the first two weeks of release 25 and a further 10 000 copies being sold over the following six months Initially sales of Unknown Pleasures were slow until the release of the non album single Transmission and unsold copies occupied the Factory Records office in the flat of label co founder Alan Erasmus Following the release of Transmission Unknown Pleasures sold out of its initial pressing with this prompting further pressings Unknown Pleasures created approximately 50 000 in profit to be shared between Factory Records and the band however Tony Wilson spent most of these profits on Factory projects 26 By the conclusion of a critically acclaimed promotional tour supporting Buzzcocks in November 1979 Unknown Pleasures had neared 15 000 copies sold 27 Unknown Pleasures failed to chart on the UK Albums Chart However following Curtis s suicide in May 1980 and the release of their second album Closer in July it was reissued and reached No 71 at the end of that August 28 29 It fared better on the UK Indie Chart placing at No 2 on the first chart to be published in January 1980 and going on to top the chart following its reissue spending 136 weeks on the chart in total 30 The 40th anniversary reissue of the album charted at number 5 in the UK Albums Chart when it was released in 2019 making Unknown Pleasures Joy Division s highest charting album 31 In 2007 remastered versions of both Unknown Pleasures and the posthumous studio album Closer plus the 1981 compilation album Still were re released with the remastered version of Unknown Pleasures including a bonus disc of a live recording of the band playing at The Factory in Manchester on 13 July 1979 2 The album was also re released on 180 gram vinyl with the original track listing in 2007 with this version also being available in a limited edition box set with Closer and Still 32 The album was reissued again on limited edition 180g ruby red coloured vinyl with an alternative white sleeve released on 7 May 2019 to coincide with the album s 40th anniversary 33 Critical reception editInitial response edit Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingSmash Hits8 10 34 Sounds nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 35 Melody Maker called Unknown Pleasures an opaque manifesto and musically described it as Gary Glitter meets the Velvet Underground Reviewer Jon Savage declared leaving the twentieth century is difficult most people prefer to go back and nostalgise Oh boy Joy Division at least set a course in the present with contrails for the future perhaps you can t ask for much more Indeed Unknown Pleasures may very well be one of the best white English debut LPs of the year 36 Max Bell of NME qualified the record as extraordinary writing that without trying to baffle or overreach itself this outfit step into a labyrinth that is rarely explored with any smidgeon of real conviction 37 He compared it favourably to the work of Strange Days era Doors and German experimentalists such as Can and Neu 37 In Rolling Stone music journalist Mikal Gilmore described the album as having a doleful deep toned sound that often suggested an elaborate version of the Velvet Underground or an orderly Public Image Ltd 38 By August of that year the album s stature as a favourite of critics for the year was established 39 Robert Palmer placed the album at fourth place in his best of 1980 list for The New York Times proclaiming the album as an exceptional debut and that the album remains the group s masterpiece and that it was some of the most driven desperate rock and roll ever recorded 40 Other writers were less enthusiastic Red Starr writing for Smash Hits gave the album a generally positive review describing it as a bleak nightmare soundtrack 34 Starr described the lyrics as mysterious and doomy which were amidst intense music of urgent guitar eerie effects and driving rhythms However Starr tempered his review by saying not to expect too much as the album was still pretty raw 34 Writing about Factory for Melody Maker in September 1979 Mary Harron was less impressed I found at least half of Unknown Pleasures to be turgid and monotonous and the vocals heavy and melodramatic Jim Morrison without flair 41 She went on to say the lyrics and the atmosphere of the album seemed to hearken back to the late Sixties and the songs were a series of disconnected images 41 Legacy edit Retrospective professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 16 Christgau s Record GuideA 42 The Encyclopedia of Popular Music nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 43 NME10 10 44 Pitchfork10 10 45 Q nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 46 The Rolling Stone Album Guide nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 47 Select nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 48 Spin Alternative Record Guide9 10 49 Uncut nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 50 Retrospective critical writing on the album has been virtually unanimous in its praise In 1994 Jon Savage described the music as a definitive Northern Gothic statement guilt ridden romantic claustrophobic 5 Analysing Curtis s work music journalist Richard Cook remarked in 1983 sex has disappeared from these unknown pleasures it is an aftermath of passion where everything s perhaps lost 51 Stuart Maconie of Select deemed Unknown Pleasures music without a past or a future but with the muscularity of all great rock and one of the greatest first albums ever 48 Ned Raggett reviewing the album for AllMusic described Unknown Pleasures as All visceral all emotional all theatrical all perfect one of the best albums ever 16 Robert Christgau said that it was Curtis s passionate gravity that makes the clumsy disquieting music so convincing 42 Colin Larkin called the music distinctive and disturbing in his Encyclopedia of Popular Music 2011 while highlighting She s Lost Control where Curtis was at his most manically arresting 43 In relation to the remastered re released album in 2007 the British music magazine NME described the album as simply one of the best records ever made and is still powerful enough to floor you 28 years on 44 In 2000 it was voted number 249 in Colin Larkin s All Time Top 1000 Albums 52 The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 53 Peter Hook and The Light have played the Unknown Pleasures album in its entirety on several of their concert tours and have recorded and released live albums of some of their gigs 54 Hook also named one of his books Unknown Pleasures Inside Joy Division in 2012 55 Accolades edit Publication Country Accolade Year Rank NME UK All Times Top 100 Albums citation needed 1985 10 All Times Top 100 Albums 56 1993 43 The Greatest Albums of The 70s citation needed 1993 4 Top 100 Albums of All Time citation needed 2003 41 The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever citation needed 2006 44 The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 57 2013 40 Mojo UK Top 50 Punk Albums 58 2003 26 Pitchfork US Top 100 Albums of the 1970s 59 2004 9 Q UK The 50 Best Albums of the 70s citation needed 1998 4 100 Greatest British Albums citation needed 2002 19 Top 20 Albums from 1970 to 1979 citation needed 2004 9 Rolling Stone US 50 Coolest Records citation needed 2002 24 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time 60 2013 20 The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 61 2020 211 Spin US 50 Most Essential Punk Records 62 2001 11 Fifteen Most Influential Albums 63 2003 designates unordered lists Track listing editAll tracks are written by Ian Curtis Peter Hook Stephen Morris and Bernard SumnerSide one Outside No TitleLength1 Disorder 3 362 Day of the Lords 4 483 Candidate 3 054 Insight 4 305 New Dawn Fades 4 48 Side two Inside No TitleLength6 She s Lost Control 3 567 Shadowplay 3 548 Wilderness 2 389 Interzone 2 1610 I Remember Nothing 5 53Total length 39 28 2007 CD remaster bonus disc live at the Factory Manchester 13 July 1979 No TitleLength1 Dead Souls 4 252 The Only Mistake 4 123 Insight 3 524 Candidate 2 085 Wilderness 2 326 She s Lost Control 3 477 Shadowplay 3 358 Disorder 3 299 Interzone 2 0510 Atrocity Exhibition 6 1411 Novelty 4 2812 Transmission 3 50Total length 44 37Personnel editCredits adapted from AllMusic 64 Joy Division Ian Curtis vocals Bernard Sumner guitar keyboards Peter Hook bass guitar Stephen Morris drums percussion Production Martin Hannett producer Chris Nagle engineer Peter Saville design Chris Mathan designCharts editWeekly charts edit Chart 1980 1981 Peakposition New Zealand Albums RMNZ 65 1 UK Albums OCC 66 71 Chart 2019 Peakposition Austrian Albums O3 Austria 67 23 Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 68 65 Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 69 194 German Albums Offizielle Top 100 70 20 Hungarian Albums MAHASZ 71 26 Italian Albums FIMI 72 34 Portuguese Albums AFP 73 11 Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 74 18 Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 75 98 UK Albums OCC 76 5 Year end charts edit Chart 1981 Position New Zealand Albums RMNZ 77 35Certifications editRegion Certification Certified units sales Italy FIMI 78 Gold 25 000 New Zealand RMNZ 79 Gold 7 500 United Kingdom BPI 80 Platinum 300 000 Shipments figures based on 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