Unknown Pleasures

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Unknown Pleasures is the first album by Joy Division, released in 1979. It was produced by Martin Hannett and recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England.

The front cover image comes from an edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, and was originally drawn with black lines on a white background. [1] It presents exactly 100 successive pulses from the first pulsar discovered, PSR 1919+21 (often referred to in the context of this album by its older name, CP 1919). The cover design is credited to Joy Division, Peter Saville and Chris Mathan.

Track listing

1. "Disorder" (3:32)
2. "Day of the Lords" (4:50)
3. "Candidate" (3:05)
4. "Insight" (4:29)
5. "New Dawn Fades" (4:48)
6. "She's Lost Control" (3:57)
7. "Shadowplay" (3:56)
8. "Wilderness" (2:38)
9. "Interzone" (2:16)
10. "I Remember Nothing" (5:52)

Personnel

• Ian Curtis - vocals
• Bernard Sumner - guitar, keyboards
• Peter Hook - bass, second vocalist on "Interzone"
• Stephen Morris - drums, percussion

External links

• Unknown Pleasures in details
• Ian Curtis and Joy Division Fans Club
• Joy Division Central