Joy Division — “Roots”
No label LP
79/07/11 LEEDS, UK Roots Club
Unknown Pleasures era
Dead Souls (4:20)
Shadowplay (3:32)
She’s Lost Control / Candidate (4:53)
These Days (3:23)
Disorder (3:24)
Interzone (2:00)
Glass (3:18)
Transmission (3:28)
Atrocity Exhibition (7:17)
No Love Lost (3:55)
SBD: B+
Notes: A low-generation soundboard, likely leaked by Hook. Some distortion, clicks, pops, cut-outs etc.
Every extant Joy Division live bootleg from 1979 has much to recommend it. 1980 maybe less so. All 1977-78 Warsaw recordings should be considered essential.
For reference we used the 2008 “no label” vinyl LP, some of which came with a poster.