Joy Division: Instrumental Tracks and Other Songs

This page covers Joy Division's two recorded instrumental tracks and other rare or unrecorded Joy Division songs.

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Instrumental Tracks

Listed below for Joy Division's instrumental tracks As You Said and Incubation are:

details of every known studio recording and every official release;
details of any live performances which appear on an official release;
known cover versions by other artists, and any other interesting facts.

As You Said

Recorded in March 1980 at Britannia Row Studios, Islington, London
Released on the Komakino flexi, on Warsaw and on Heart and Soul
Also released on New Order's Video 5-8-6 single (Touch TONE 7.1 1997)
(this was an unlisted track on the 12" vinyl version only)

Sometimes referred to on bootlegs as Incubation Part 2 or And Then Again

Cover version by:	Released on:
Tortoise	A Means To An End (Virgin 40660-2 1995)

Incubation
Live performance released from February 28th 1980 at The Warehouse, Preston
Live performance on February 29th 1980 at The Lyceum released on Heart and Soul
Recorded in March 1980 at Britannia Row Studios, Islington, London
Released on the Komakino flexi, on Substance and on Heart and Soul
Sometimes referred to on bootlegs as Cross of Iron or In the Warehouse

Cover version by: Released on:
Tegan Northwood Self-Raising Flower (Endgame 2006 - unlisted track)

Other Joy Division Songs

Listed below are some other (real or rumoured) Joy Division or Warsaw songs which have not been recorded and which have not been given a page of their own.

Conditioned: This is reported by Deborah Curtis as an unrecorded early Warsaw song
Dirty Disco: This was performed live in 1979 and is available on some bootleg recordings; It is believed to have been an impromptu performance of the Section 25 song; The track is usually listed as "Gimme Your Heart" or simply as "untitled"
Girls Don't Count: This was performed live in 1980 and is available on some bootleg recordings
Performed on stage with Section 25 (who recorded it with Ian Curtis producing)
Keep On Keepin' On: This N F Porter song was recorded in May 1978 at Arrow Studios, Manchester; (the band were asked to record it but this was probably done only as a demo)
Louie Louie: This Richard Berry song was often sung by John the Postman at local gigs; According to John the Postman he sang it live with Warsaw in June 1977; Ian Curtis refers to "our version of Louie Louie" at the end of Sister Ray
Misplaced: This unrecorded song is said to exist in a demo/rehearsal form from 1980
Pictures In My Mind: This unrecorded song was played (or at least rehearsed) in 1977 or 1978; A rehearsal tape is said to exist and Peter Hook revived the song in 2010
Reaction: This is an unrecorded song which the band played live in 1977 and 1978; Peter Hook has a recording of a live performance, probably from 1977
Riders On The Storm: This Doors song was sometimes played as an encore in the early stage act
Tension: This unrecorded song is reported as a part of the early Warsaw stage act
The Passenger: This Iggy Pop song was performed at the band's last concert as Warsaw

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Cover version by:	Released on:
Tegan Northwood	Self-Raising Flower (Endgame 2006 - unlisted track)