Joy Division

Joy Division: Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979

by Colin Fleming
July 12, 2004

With a recorded legacy once founded almost exclusively on two studio albums, the last couple of years has seen the basis of Joy Division's stature as one of rock and roll's greatest bands shift to a series of live releases. The latest, Les Bains Douches, is highlighted by a nine song set recorded at the Parisian venue that lends the album its name and was, remarkably, broadcast over French radio, an odd pairing of a highly uncommercial group and a ...