DESCRIPTION:
Full album, best sound quality.

1. Exercise One 0:00
2. Ice Age 3:08
3. The Sound of Music 5:35
4. Glass 9:31
5. The Only Mistake 13:30
6. Walked in Line 17:50
7. The Kill 20:38
8. Something Must Break 22:55
9. Dead Souls 25:45
10. Sister Ray [Live] 30:41

The Japanese boxset is a lesser known item in the Joy Division catalog. It was released in 1990 as five discs containing Unknown Pleasures, Closer, Still, Substance, and the October 1980 US Atmosphere single respectively. The set is popular in the audiophile community because it sourced its material from the ORIGINAL master tapes. Just about every other CD source, including the "Heart and Soul" boxset from 1997 and the 2007 remastered albums, utilized 2nd-gen sources, poor remasters, or unethical audio compressing. The Japanese boxset is uncompressed, unremastered, and the closest you will get to good vinyl quality.

The set is extremely rare and expensive, but as Joy Division is my all-time favorite band, I managed to get a copy, and am presenting you with "Still" from the set (minus the last ten tracks; details as to why below). Enjoy these classic and beautiful tracks like I assume you've never heard before! Trust me; every track is just majestic, and there's no bullshit echoey crap either.

Note: I chose not to include the Birmingham University (May 2, 1980 - Joy Division's last concert) tracks from the album into this video for two reasons. One, just like every other CD release, the Japanese boxset does not include "Twenty-Four Hours" from the concert, due to limitations of space. Only some vinyl versions have it. Why they felt the need to reprint "Glass" and "Dead Souls" instead of putting other unreleased tracks on the album, I have no idea, but I digress. Two, my friends have collaborated and done a stellar remaster of the ENTIRE Birmingham University gig, including soundcheck, already. That has already been posted, and may get posted again in HD...we'll see. The remaster they did sourced most of its material from the Japanese boxset anyway, so anything from it that I post in this video is just superfluous.

Disclaimer: I own zero rights to anything in this video. Please don't take it down...