Substance (Joy Division album)



Substance is a singles compilation album by English rock band Joy Division. It was released on 11 July 1988 by Factory Records. It is the companion to a similar singles compilation by their subsequent band New Order, also entitled Substance. It peaked at number 7 on the UK Albums Chart and 146 on the Billboard 200, the band's only chart appearance in the United States. It also reached number 15 in New Zealand and number 53 in Australia in August 1988.

Content
Substance compiles the four singles released by the band that did not appear on albums — "Transmission", "Komakino", "Love Will Tear Us Apart", and "Atmosphere" — as well as most of their B-sides. It also collects tracks released on various EPs, namely the band's first release, An Ideal for Living, and two samplers issued by Factory Records, A Factory Sample and Earcom 2: Contradiction.

Two of the album's tracks, "Glass" and "Dead Souls", were previously included on the 1981 compilation Still. Additionally, the single "Atmosphere" had been originally issued in France as "Licht und Blindheit" with "Dead Souls" on the B-side; following Ian Curtis's suicide, it was reissued as a posthumous B-side of the "She's Lost Control" 12-inch single. with the titular song being an alternate, more elaborate version of the track that had previously appeared on Unknown Pleasures. The vinyl version omits the single "Komakino" and does not include the complete titles from the EPs, due to the lower storage capacity of a vinyl record.

Later CD pressings issued by London Records contain a previously unreleased mix of "She's Lost Control" that is slightly different from the original single release. More guitar is mixed within the song, the synthesizer melody is shortened and starts at a later point, and the ending of the song is extended by 15 seconds and does not fade out.

Substance was digitally remastered in 2015, containing not only the alternate mix of "She's Lost Control", but also two additional tracks: "As You Said" (the second B-side of Komakino) and the initial take of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (originally released on the B-side of the original single), dubbed the "Pennine Version" after the studio it was recorded at.

Cover
The cover features the title of the album in green spelled with characters from Wim Crouwel's New Alphabet typeface below Joy Division's name and the years of recording in a smaller white font. The letters used in the title actually spell "Subst1mce", rather than "Substance". Brett Wickens, who worked on this cover whilst a partner at Saville Associates, claims this was for aesthetic reasons. The 1991 cover was different, featuring a large green "S" in the New Alphabet typeface with its lower half encircling Joy Division's name and the years of recording in the same white font used in the original cover.

Track listing
All tracks written by Joy Division. Side 1
 * LP (Factory FACT 250)


 * 1) "Warsaw" – 2:25 released on An Ideal for Living
 * 2) "Leaders of Men" – 2:35 released on An Ideal for Living
 * 3) "Digital" – 2:50 released on A Factory Sample
 * 4) "Autosuggestion" – 6:08  released on Earcom 2: Contradiction
 * 5) "Transmission" – 3:36 single FAC 13

Side 2


 * 1) "She's Lost Control" – 4:45 (4:59 on later pressings) B-side to single FACUS 2 "Atmosphere"
 * 2) "Incubation" – 2:52 instrumental B-side to single FAC 28 "Komakino"
 * 3) "Dead Souls" – 4:56 B-side to single "Atmosphere" on Licht und Blindheit
 * 4) "Atmosphere" – 4:10 single FACUS 2
 * 5) "Love Will Tear Us Apart" – 3:25 single FAC 23

Same tracks as LP plus the following bonus tracks, entitled Appendix'':
 * CD (Factory FACD 250) and cassette (Factory FACT 250C)


 * 1) "No Love Lost" – 3:43 released on An Ideal for Living
 * 2) "Failures" – 3:44 released on An Ideal for Living
 * 3) "Glass" – 3:53 released on A Factory Sample
 * 4) "From Safety to Where...?" – 2:27 released on Earcom 2: Contradiction
 * 5) "Novelty" – 4:00 B-side to single FAC 13 "Transmission"
 * 6) "Komakino" – 3:52 single FAC 28
 * 7) "These Days" – 3:24 B-side to single FAC 23 "Love Will Tear Us Apart"


 * 2015 remastered edition bonus tracks
 * 1) "No Love Lost" – 3:43 released on An Ideal for Living
 * 2) "Failures" – 3:44 released on An Ideal for Living
 * 3) "Glass" – 3:53  released on A Factory Sample
 * 4) "From Safety to Where...?" – 2:27 released on Earcom 2: Contradiction
 * 5) "Novelty" – 4:00 B-side to single FAC 13 "Transmission"
 * 6) "Komakino" – 3:52 single FAC 28
 * 7) "As You Said" – 2:00 instrumental B-side to single FAC 28 "Komakino"
 * 8) "These Days" – 3:24 B-side to single FAC 23 "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
 * 9) "Love Will Tear Us Apart (Pennine version)" – 3:15 B-side to single FAC 23 "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Personnel

 * Ian Curtis — lead vocals
 * Bernard Sumner — guitar, synthesizer
 * Peter Hook — bass
 * Stephen Morris — drums