Joy Division - Closer (1980)
Tracklist front / back album covers
Songs written by Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner
Side one
1. "Atrocity Exhibition" 6:06
2. "Isolation" 2:53
3. "Passover" 4:46
4. "Colony" 3:55
5. "A Means to an End" 4:07
Side two
6. "Heart and Soul" 5:51
7. "Twenty Four Hours" 4:26
8. "The Eternal" 6:07
9. "Decades" 6:10
Total length: 44:16
Note: the original vinyl disc only contained a small etching on the disk marking the A and B sides.
2007 CD remaster bonus disc (live at the University of London Union, 8 February 1980)
1. "Dead Souls" 4:59
2. "Glass" 3:42
3. "A Means to an End" 4:01
4. "Twenty Four Hours" 4:06
5. "Passover" 4:54
6. "Insight" 4:01
7. "Colony" 4:04
8. "These Days" 4:17
9. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" 3:14
10. "Isolation" 4:42
11. "The Eternal" 6:30
12. "Digital" 3:14
Total length: 51:44
Closer is the 2nd and final studio album by English rock band Joy Division, released on 18 July 1980 by Factory Records. Produced by Martin Hannett, it was released two months after the suicide of the band's lead singer and lyricist Ian Curtis.
The album reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart and peaked at No. 3 in New Zealand in September 1981. Closer was also named NME Album of the Year. It was remastered and re-released in 2007. Today, Closer is widely recognised as a seminal release of the post-punk era.
