Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division)

Unknown Pleasures (1979) is the debut album by the British pop group Joy Division.

The sheet is regarded as a landmark for several reasons: because of the music of Joy Division, because of the production by Martin Hannett and due to the cover design byPeter Saville.

Also the way making the plate was financed was unusual: television presenter and versatile Organizer Tony Wilson funded the plate out of pocket. The plate was the first lp which was released on the Factory label set up by Wilson.



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[verbergen]  *1 the production: Martin Hannett  ==Production: Martin Hannett[ Edit] == Unknown Pleasures was in april 1979 in less than a week included in the Strawberry Studios in Stockport. The recording sessions were led by Martin Hannett, which one for which (punk) time unfashionable preferred for experiments with reverb, echo and tape loops.
 * 2 the cover: Peter Saville
 * 3 The music: Joy Division
 * 3.1 Unknown Pleasures (1979)
 * 3.2 2007 Bonus Disc: Live at The Factory, Manchester, 13 July 1979
 * 4 reception
 * 5 see also

In an interview from 1997 remember Joy Division members Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook the sessions with Hannett. According to them he was the prototype of a crazed hippie who constantly gibberish region. His way of working was that he was under the influence of large amounts of heroin at night locked up in the sound studio for the following morning having a look now what had brought this sound. Attempts by band members to a review of the band to put forward sound, were answered by Hannett with name-calling. ==The cover: Peter Saville[ Edit] == In England the plate was released in June 1979. The cover was designed by Peter Saville: a young graphic designer with a preference for bald typography in the tradition of Jan Tschichold. On the front of the covers carried out of black paper in coarse-grained Unknown Pleasures are the name of the band and the title of the album not listed. The only image on the cover is a white, three-dimensional chart with which the first with a radio telescope picked up signals from the pulsar observed are displayed. To be exact: the pulsar PSR B1919 + 21 also known as LGM-1. The idea for this was submitted by Bernard Sumner.

At a time when most record sleeves appeared on the exuberant showing of an afternoon home industry[citation needed], was the clean, minimalistic approach of Saville innovative. In the eighties he would prove a precursor of the graphic design of those days. ==The music: Joy Division<span class="mw-editsection" len="362" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Unknown Pleasures (1979)<span class="mw-editsection" len="363" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p len="231" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">All music and lyrics are written by Joy Division. ===2007 Bonus Disc: Live at The Factory, Manchester, 13 July 1979<span class="mw-editsection" len="401" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==The reception<span class="mw-editsection" len="350" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p len="494" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tony regarded Hannett Wilson as a great artist and Unknown Pleasures as one of his masterpieces. The members of Joy Division were initially much less pleased with the end result, that rigorous differed from the massive sound that they produced at gigs. Wilson, a former Cambridge student who likes to be somewhat snobbish attitude, knows this difference in appreciation to the fact that the members of Joy Division were not artists, but musicians.

<p len="721" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Peter Saville, that the case for Unknown Pleasures he had designed for all the end result had heard, confirms the picture that Wilson outlines. Saville was surprised by the way the supercooled sound and the minimalist cover of Unknown Pleasures eventually were found to fit together. The demos that he had been told in advance he was totally not been impressed. (Wilson and Saville give the quoted opinions on the dvd of the feature film 24 Hour Party People .)

<p len="343" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Unknown Pleasures by the music press was praised. Then came the commercial success only slowly because the plate was difficult to obtain; Factory had simply not the money to put it in a large circulation and by the luxury paper types where Saville had chosen the production costs were high.