Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (1980) (single)

Love Will Tear Us Apart, 12'' single
release date: Jun. 1980
format: vinyl (FACT 23-12) / digital
[single rate: 4 / 5] [4,12]
producer: Martin Hannett
label: Factory Records - nationality: England, UK

Tracklist: A) 1. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (5 / 5) - - B) 1. "These Days" - 2. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" [alternate take]

Single release by Joy Division released as 7'' single, Apr. '80.

This is their most beautiful and widespread 'pop'-song and only real radio hit. The A-side track has been covered by countless artists [see below] over the years but this is naturally the best version. None of the tracks figure on any official album releases apart from later compilations and on the second John Peel release.
Together with the single "Atmosphere" these are the last studio recordings by the band.

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"When the routine bites hard - and ambitions are low
and the resentment rides high - but emotions wont grow
and we're changing our ways - taking different roads
then love, love will tear us apart... again"

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A few selected cover versions:

New Order (4 / 5) (Live version and hardly a cover-version)
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Paul Young (3,5 / 5) (taken from No Parlez, 1983, debut album)

Revere & Toumani Diabaté (3,5 / 5)
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Honeyroot (3 / 5)
Cienfuegos (feat. Mimi Maura) (3 / 5) (taken from Hacia el cosmos, 1999)
José González (3 / 5) (live)
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Bernard Sumner (2 / 5) (Bernard of Joy Division in an acoustic live version)
Nouvelle Vague (2 / 5) (live)
Atoms for Peace / Thom Yorke (2 / 5) (live version)
The Cure (2 / 5) (live version)
Nerina Pallot (2 / 5)
Susanna and The Magical Orchestra (2 / 5)
Evelyn Evelyn (2 / 5)
Calexico (2 / 5)

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Moonspell (1 / 5)

The Swans (1 / 5)
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Yat Kha (0,5 / 5)

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