Joy Division live Paradiso, Amsterdam 1980-1-11 (mastertape, unremastered, awesome!)

Set 1
Passover 0:00
Wilderness 2:52
Digital 5:49
Day of the Lords 9:10
Insight 13:55
New Dawn Fades 17:42
Disorder 22:25
Transmission 25:41
Set 2
Love Will Tear Us Apart 29:23
These Days 33:36
A Means To An End 37:40
Twenty Four Hours 41:51
Shadowplay 46:15
She's Lost Control 50:02
Atrocity Exhibition 53:58
Encore
Atmosphere 1:02:42
Interzone 1:08:02
Awesome!
Original VARA mastertape from venue. I love the raw unremastered sound of this! (For a nice remaster, see FageOner.)
Image credits go to Species from new-order.se. They made front & back CD-cover images; I just put them together here.
For the songs (in FLAC!), the CD-cover art, and much more info, google "Joy Division 1980-01-11 Amsterdam [The Definitive Edition]"
Some notes from where I got this:
Ian Curtis: Vocals
Bernard Sumner: Guitar
Peter Hook: Bass
Stephen Morris: Drums
Terry Mason: Sound Engineer
Concert info at www.joydiv.org/c110180.htm

[@jamesl.5362]

If you like your Joy Division mixed like it's Black Sabbath's Paranoid album, this one's for you!

[@robertsheph8858]

This is the best live recording I've heard from them. It captures their raw power much better than their studio releases.

[@histochronos]

To me, anyone who likes Joy Division appreciates good music. The layers of sound they weaved together is incredible almost 40 years later.

[@tyronerodgers]

In terms of sound quality, this must be the best live JD document that exists. Why did they never use for Still or Heart and Soul BS?

[@bottomendbliss]

I only wish Decades was on this. That would be perfection.

[@07944898313]

I remember them live, so much power, melancholy (not sadness) and anger wrapped in poetry.

[@SoZen08]

Gratitude to whoever recorded this! I just remembered how this is the recording that was my first encounter with Joy Division. I was 17 and a classmate had copied over this cassette tape of the bootleg, after Ian already passed. I had this cassette for a long time, and never forgot Ian saying, "Welcome to the Atrocity Exhibition" in that deep tone. I've been missing this bootleg (never threw my cassette tapes away, but I could not find it anymore). It is so awesome that you uploaded this. Great quality, too! One more thing: I feel like I have never understood the anguish that Ian was going through, until now.

[@jeremystone6641]

Simply, if this recording ever gets an official release, it would qualify as one of the greatest live albums ever. Someone, do it!

[@rockin914]

I just discovered Joy Division don't know how I miss this great band/music over the years. Then the other day Adam Jones from TOOL played a short clip of JD playing Shadowplay. I had to investigate and gosh how incredibly talented they are. Now I'm on a quest to learn more about them...so good!

[@sandgrounderinexile0]

I'm only 54 and as long as i've been breathing as a former NW England inhabitant, this has been acknowledged as the best JD boot/live recording. Slainte to Skooper1985 and the Dutch peeps in general for being more easy going, leading to this recording. No digs just hugs. Hartstikkende bedankt.

[@josefserf1926]

Insight was a great song when it came out in 1979.

[@rafaelpinto2455]

Hands down the best Joy Division bootleg I've ever listened to! Whoever saved this gem, thank you so much!

[@TeatroGrotesco]

Remember that during those trippy musical soundscapes Ian Curtis is flinging himself around the stage in his unique dance.

[@paulocruz4105]

New dawn fades is brilliant ,JD forever

[@r.s.d.8559]

00:00

[@blairblack7092]

the best JD live set I've ever heard.

[@kzinful]

Disorder...damn, just amazing... in the end with all the history of Ian as such, listen to these young men , this energy giving and sending thru Ian...this yank Misses you my brother... enjoy

[@tarasshevchenko3566]

This version of atmosphere is simply majestic, without doubt their finest hour.

[@ramsaran18]

Whenever I listen to Ian talk song he always sounds analogous to Jim Morrison as if he's reading poetry with that meandering sea deep baritone impaling our hearts with his suicide, imagine the genius of Joy Division in the 21st century, the band title is embellished with such fiber and adieu to Joy Divided. Rest easy Ian. Liccle more brejin.

[@mrmsteel09]

"Directionless so plain to see. A loaded gun won't set you free... so