Known cover versions of Joy Division songs performed by other artists are listed on the individual page for each song. My aim is to list cover versions which have been recorded and released commercially. Although I have included a few live bootlegs and internet downloads, I have not attempted to list every live performance and non-commercial offering. Other cover versions are often available for downloading at sites such as MySpace and YouTube.

You can access the song pages through the alphabetical index of song titles.
This page has details of tribute albums containing several Joy Division songs.
The Joy Division Central site lists the cover versions alphabetically by artist.

When you have finished, click on the picture of Ian Curtis to return to the index.

I hung around in your soundtrack, to mirror all that you've done

Something About Joy Division (Vox Pop VP3 1989)
This is an Italian compilation of cover versions performed by Italian bands
(the last four tracks are on the CD version of the album only).

1. The Difference: Colony
2. The Carnival Of Fools: Love Will Tear Us Apart
3. Allison Run: Ceremony
4. Orange Party: Heart and Soul
5. Silver Surfers: She's Lost Control
6. Speed Blue: Interzone
7. Comic Spoilers: Decades
8. Afterhours: Shadowplay
9. Subterranean Dining Room: Atrocity Exhibition
10. Sundowners: Dead Souls
11. Hitchcock's Scream: Atmosphere
12. Definitive Gaze: Warsaw
13. Jackie Stewart Said: A Means to an End
14. The Pow: All Of This For You (The Drawback)
15. Magick Y & Uncle Tybia: I Remember Nothing
16. T & The Starburst: Transmission

1. Girls Against Boys: She's Lost Control
2. Honeymoon Stitch: Day of the Lords
3. Moby: New Dawn Fades
4. Low: Transmission
5. Codeine: Atmosphere
6. Further: Insight
7. Stanton-Miranda: Love Will Tear Us Apart
8. Starchildren: Isolation
9. Kendra Smith: Heart and Soul
10. Versus: Twenty Four Hours
11. Desert Storm: Warsaw
12. godheadSilo: They Walked in Line
13. Face To Face: Interzone
14. Tortoise: As You Said

Ceremonial: A Tribute to Joy Division (Mere Mortal MMP-1 1995)

1. Ikon: Shadowplay
2. Trance to the Sun: Isolation
3. Wreckage: Atmosphere
4. Decaf: Dead Souls
5. Sub Version: Heart and Soul
6. Child: Ceremony
7. Trance to the Sun: Love Will Tear Us Apart
8. Lycia: In a Lonely Place
9. Shadow Light: The Eternal
10. Phobia: Shadowplay
11. You Shriek: Warsaw
12. Corpus Delecti: Atmosphere
13. Opium Den: Love Will Tear Us Apart
14. The Last Dance: New Dawn Fades

Balance: From The Joy Division Reservoir (Ego Development 001 1997)
This tribute album comes from Norway with songs performed by local bands.

1. Morendoes: Dead Souls
2. Subgud: Translation (Transmission / Isolation)
3. Empty Lives: Twenty Four Hours
4. Peltz: Love Will Tear Us Apart
5. Beyond Dawn: Atmosphere
6. The Tubs: Disorder
7. Crave: Heart and Soul
8. Bever: Passover
9. Theatre of Tragedy: Decades
10. Planet Bee: Ceremony
11. Skog: The Eternal
12. Anno Domini: New Dawn Fades

Warsaw: Un Homenaje a Joy Division (El Colectivo Karma 011 1998)
This tribute to Joy Division features songs performed by Spanish artists.

1. Automatics: Atmophere
2. Pribata Idaho: Love Will Tear Us Apart
3. Señor Chinarro: Passover
4. Explosivos Acme: The Only Mistake
5. Submarine: Transmission
6. Sweetwater: The Eternal
7. Honey Langstrumpf: Dead Souls
8. Yellowfin: Twenty Four Hours
9. Los Planetas: Disorder
10. Supernova: The Drawback
11. El Niño Gusano: She's Lost Control
12. Lord Sickness: Something Must Break
13. Long Spiral Dreamin': Wilderness
14. Mercromina: Ceremony
15. The Flow: No Love Lost
16. Alias Galor: Failures
17. Strange Fruit: New Dawn Fades

The Eternal: Variations On Joy Division (Atrium 22108 1999)
A Stockholm chamber orchestra, the Nau Ensemble, treats Joy Division songs in a "contemporary classical way" with strings and a choir.

1. Eternal
2. Atmosphere
3. Decades
4. Interlude
5. Lux Aeterna
6. Atmosphere
7. Eternal

Closer Still: A Tribute to Joy Division (Dressed To Kill FUCT354 2000)
This album features "Joy Division's finest moments lovingly re-created" by Russ Pay in the style of Ian Curtis.

1. Transmission
2. Love Will Tear Us Apart
3. She's Lost Control
4. Isolation
5. Warsaw
6. Dead Souls
7. Atrocity Exhibition
8. Heart and Soul
9. Atmosphere
10. The Eternal

A String Quartet Tribute to New Order and Joy Division (Vitamin 8451 2003)
This is one of many tributes to rock and pop artists issued by Vitamin Records. On this selection of Joy Division and New Order compositions the principal musicians are the Silo String Quartet. There are 10 tracks in all, including the following Joy Division songs.

1. Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. She's Lost Control
3. Isolation
4. New Dawn Fades

Community: NewOrderOnline Tribute Albums (Retroforward)
Two tribute albums were issued as a result of a contest organised by the NewOrderOnline community. The first album was supplemented by an EP containing the "best of the rest". Although most of the tracks on both albums feature New Order material, the following Joy Division covers are included.

Community (Retroforward Retro01 2004)

Project Wintermute: Transmission
Slightlynarrow Soundsystem: Heart And Soul
C Bentley: In A Lonely Place
Spiral of Silence: Dead Souls

Community EP (Retroforward Retro02 2004)

Almanso: Ceremony

Community 2 (Retroforward Retro03 2006)

Serotonin T O: No Love Lost
Almanso: New Dawn Fades

Love's Shattered Pride (Failure To Communicate 2005)
This collection of Joy Division and New Order cover versions is one of a number of tributes to major rock artists from this label. The album has 14 tracks in all, and includes the following Joy Division songs.

1. Extropy: Heart And Soul
2. Audra: Walked In Line
3. In The Nursery: Love Will Tear Us Apart
4. The Brides: The Drawback
5. Neologos: Twenty Four Hours
6. Nerve Exhibit: New Dawn Fades
7. Hearts Fail: Decades
8. Theatre of the Absurd: Ice Age
9. Kolar: Ceremony

1. One Million Bulgarians: A Means To An End
2. DHM: Transmission
3. Agressiva 69: Isolation
4. NOT: Atmosphere
5. Pustki: Koniec Kryzysu (based on Passover)
6. Nut Cane Lizzy: Colony
7. Jolanta Kossakowska: New Dawn Fades
8. Organizm: Digital
9. Masala: Warszawa (Warsaw)
10. Tymon & Transistors: Heart and Soul
11. Wundergraft: Love Will Tear Us Apart
12. Kuba Wandachowicz: Wilderness
13. Komety: Ice Age
14. Scianka: She's Lost Control
15. New York Crasnals: Ceremony

1. Aloof: I Remember Nothing
2. Tres Cuervos: Something Must Break
3. Feliz Dia: Ceremony
4. CajaMúsica: Shadowplay
5. Mufa: Disorder
6. DDT: They Walked In Line
7. Procesion: Insight
8. Kristal: Isolation
9. Enlace: Twenty Four Hours
10. Fernando Baes: New Dawn Fades
11. Cloudseek: Day Of The Lords
12. CTX: Transmission
13. Gotico: A Means To An End
14. Flormaleva: The Eternal

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