Factory Records: Communications 1978-92 (Box Set) 2009

Artist: Various Artists
Title Of Album: Factory Records: Communications 1978-92
Year Of Release: Jan 12, 2009
Label: Rhino
Genre: Rock, Alternative, Electro, Synthpop
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: 203kbit av.
Total Time: 05:05:34
Total Size: 445 mB

Whether off the lip of a name-checking record store clerk, through such feature films as Control and 24 Hour Party People, or by way of some of the label's flagship acts, you've probably encountered the hallowed words "Factory Records" at some point in your travels.

But there's more to the legendary Manchester imprint and music culture institution than Joy Division, the late, great Tony Wilson, the infamous Hacienda club, and the whimsical assignment of catalog numbers: there's the music, of course, something A Factory Box Set will positively teem with when it arrives January 12 in the UK, courtesy of Rhino [via Idolator, confirmed by publicity].

Spreading some 63 Factory favorites across four discs in rough chronological order, A Factory Box Set indeed includes a healthy sampling of Joy Division and New Order, as well as representative offerings from New Order offshoots Electronic, Revenge, and the Other Two. But the set also finds room for other post-punk heavyweights and lesser-knowns (Cabaret Voltaire, A Certain Ratio, Section 25, the Wake, Quando Quango), Madchester staples (Happy Mondays, Northside), and even a few folks who would go on to bigger things (OMD, James). There through it all is perhaps the imprint's one true constant, the Durutti Column, who gets a track on each of the four discs.

Factory buffs may notice the conspicuous absence in the tracklist below of ESG, who are reportedly not included here due to licensing issues.

A Factory Box Set commemorates the 30th anniversary of Factory Records' 1978 founding.

-tracklist

DISC 1:

1. Joy Division - Digital 2:51
2. Cabaret Voltaire - Baader Meinhof 3:23
3. A Certain Ratio - All Night Party 3:15
4. OMD - Electricity (Original Version) 3:45
5. Joy Division - She's Lost Control 4:54
6. The Distractions - Time Goes By So Slow 3:21
7. Joy Division - Transmission 3:36
8. The Durutti Column - Sketch For Summer 2:57
9. X-O-Dus - English Black Boys 4:46
10. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 3:26
11. A Certain Ratio - Shack Up 3:16
12. Section 25 - Girls Don't Count 4:30
13. Crawling Chaos - Sex Machine 5:41
14. A Certain Ratio - Flight 6:06
15. The Names - Night Shift 3:38
16. New Order - Ceremony (Original Version) 4:25
17. Minny Pops - Dolphin's Spurt 2:52
18. John Dowie - I'ts Hard To Be An Egg 3:11
19. Crispy Ambulance - Deaf 3:58
20. Section 25 - Dirty Disco 5:19

DISC 2:

1. New Order - Everything's Gone Green 5:34
2. Tunnel Vision - Watching The Hydroplanes 3:51
3. The Durutti Column - Messidor 2:31
4. A Certain Ratio - Knife Slits Water (LP Version) 7:35
5. Royal Family And the Poor - Art On 45 4:48
6. Swamp Children - Taste What's Rhythm 6:03
7. New Order - Temptation 7:01
8. 52nd Street - Cool As Ice 7:47
9. New Order - Blue Monday 7:28
10. Cabaret Voltaire - Yashar (John Robie Remix) 7:30
11. Quando Quango - Love Tempo 7:54
12. The Wake - Talk About The Past 6:24

DISC 3:

1. New Order - Confusion 4:44
2. Marcel King - Reach For Love 5:27
3. Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop (Restructure) 4:41
4. Stockholm Monsters - All At Once 2:57
5. Life - Tell Me 3:10
6. Durutti Column - A Little Mercy (Duet) 3:38
7. James - Hymn From A Village 2:53
8. Kailma - Trickery 4:28
9. A Certain Ratio - Sounds Like Something Dirty 6:56
10. Quando Quango - Genius 6:25
11. Happy Mondays - Freaky Dancin' 3:45
12. Miaow - When It All Comes Down 3:30
13. The Railway Children - Brighter 4:55
14. Biting Tongues - Compressor 4:52
15. New Order - True Faith 5:54
16. Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People 4:38

DISC 4:

1. New Order - Fine Time 4:45
2. Happy Mondays - W.F.L. (Think About The Future) 7:12
3. Revenge - Seven Reasons 4:09
4. Happy Mondays - Hallelujah (Club Mix) 6:29
5. Electronic - Getting Away With It 5:16
6. Happy Mondays - Step On 5:18
7. Northside - Shall We Take A Trip 4:24
8. England New Order - World In Motion 4:32
9. Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro 3:59
10. The Durutti Column - Home 5:39
11. Electronic - Get The Message (DNA Remix) 5:27
12. Northside - Take 5 4:12
13. Cath Carroll - Moves Like You (Remix) 6:33
14. The Other Two - Tasty Fish (12" Mix) 3:51
15. Happy Mondays - Sunshine And Love (Lionrock Remix) 7:19