October 17 [12:00 EDT] -- Joy Division will live again next month in a four-CD box set called "Heart And Soul" featuring previously unreleased studio tracks and live performances.

Highlights include alternate versions of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and 'Transmission' plus rare live recordings from 1979 and 1980. Not featured in the set, though, is the last show performed by Joy Division in Birmingham, England, a week prior to singer Ian Curtis's suicide in May of 1980, though it was recorded.

According to an interview with former member Bernard Sumner in Britain's New Musical Express, a sound technician working for the band at the time had tried to sell tapes of that performance at a price of 35,000 pounds a week after the tragedy.

The compilation has done nothing to sooth over the previously ruffled feathers of the band members, in particular Sumner and Peter Hook who both went on to form New Order. Sumner took more than one shot at his former colleague during the interview and revealed he hadn't spoken to any of his New Order mates since the band's performance at Reading Festival in August '93.

Sumner bitterly accuses Hook of copying his style with his new band Monaco. "They sound like me!" Sumner told the magazine. "Not just the vocals, either, but the guitars, synthesizers, everything. I don't know whether to be flattered or annoyed."

According to Sumner, the box set will show that Joy Division was rockier and raunchier than most people think. He noted that producer Martin Hannet had changed the sound of the group to the atmospheric style most closely associated with the name.

Here's an unofficial track list courtesy of the Factory mailing list:

CD 1:

  • Digital, Glass (FAC 2)
  • All of 'Unknown Pleasures'
  • Transmission, Novelty,
  • The Kill
  • Walked In Line
  • Ice Age, Exercise One
  • Sound Of Music
  • Autosuggesion
  • From Safety To Where?

CD2:

  • Atmosphere
  • Dead Souls
  • Something Must Break
  • Komakino
  • Incubation
  • She's Lost Control (12")
  • All of 'Closer'
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart
  • These Days

CD3:

  • Guts
  • At A Later Date
  • The Kill (Warsaw)
  • Warsaw
  • No Love Lost
  • All of 'An Ideal For Living'
  • The Drawback (Warsaw)
  • Interzone (Warsaw)
  • Shadowplay (Warsaw)
  • Exercise One (Peel)
  • Insight (GENETIC)
  • Glass (GENETIC)
  • Digital (GENETIC)
  • Ice Age (GENETIC)
  • Transmission (GENETIC)
  • Walked In LIne (6/79)
  • Transmission (7/79 Central Sound Transmission sessions)
  • These Days (Piccadilly)
  • Candidate (Piccadilly)
  • The Only One (Piccadilly)
  • Chance [=Atmosphere] (Piccadilly)
  • Atrocity Exhibition (Piccadilly)
  • Love Will Tear Us Apart (Peel)
  • Twenty Hours (Peel)
  • Ceremony (Rehearsal)
  • In A Lonely Place (Rehearsal)

CD4:

  • 10 tracks live at The Factory 13/7/79
  • Autosuggestion (YMCA '79)
  • I Remember Nothing (Bournmouth, Buzzcocks tour)
  • Colony (Bournmouth, Buzzcocks tour)
  • These Days (Bournmouth, Buzzcocks tour)
  • Incubation (Lyceum '80)
  • The Eternal (Lyceum '80)
  • Heart & Soul (Lyceum '80)
  • She's Lost Control (Lyceum '80)
  • Isolation (Lyceum '80).