Love Will Tear Us Apart
~ Recording by Joy Division
Annotation
ISRC's detailed:
GBAAP0500321 - 2005 Remaster - Warner Music UK Limited 1980 3:26sec
GBAAP1200064 - Warner Music UK Limited 1980 3:27sec
GBAAP9700227 - Album Version - London Records 90 Limited 1980 3:27sec
GBCRL1000175 - 2010 Remaster - Warner Music UK Limited 1978 3:25sec
USLS50792805 - bogus
GBAHT2000137 - 2020 Digital Remaster - Warner Music UK 3:28sec
Annotation last modified on 2023-02-23 22:04 UTC.
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track Artist | Release Title | Release Artist | Release Group Type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Official | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:22 | Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart | Joy Division | Single |
| Factory (Records/Communications) | FAC 23 |
| 1.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:25 | Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart | Joy Division | Single |
| Factory (Records/Communications) | FAC 23-12 |
| 1.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:22 | Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart | Joy Division | Single |
| Factory (Records/Communications) | FACUS 23 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Factory (Records/Communications) | FACD 250 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Substance (24-Bit/96 kHz) | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Factory (Records/Communications) | RTD 70 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Qwest Records | 9 25747-2 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Factory (Records/Communications) | FAC 2502, RTD CD 70 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| PolyGram Group Canada Inc. | 834 586-2 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin France S.A. (not for release label use!) | 30614 |
| 1.9 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Never Mind the Mainstream… The Best of MTV’s 120 Minutes, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Rhino (reissue label) | OPCD-1606, R2 70546 |
| 4.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | 1977–1980 | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Factory (Records/Communications) | COCY-9329, COCY-9330, COCY-9331, COCY-9332, TCD-7 |
| 1.7 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Palatine: The Factory Story, Volume 1: Tears in Their Eyes | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Factory (Records/Communications) | FACD 314 |
| 1.7 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Palatine: The Factory Story, Volume 1: Tears in Their Eyes | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Factory (Records/Communications) | FACT 314C |
| 1.7 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Palatine: The Factory Story, Volume 1: Tears in Their Eyes | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Factory (Records/Communications) | FACT 314 |
| 2.3 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:24 | Joy Division | Rock & Wave, Volume 1 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX) | COL 472733 2 |
| 1.9 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Sound of the City | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Columbia (Sony Music, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX) | 4728282 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Gallo Record Company | WICD 5302 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Polydor (Japanese domestic artists only, prior to 2023) | POCD-1882 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music Australia (AU subsidiary of Warner Music International since 1988) | 3984 28224 2 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| London Records 90 | 520014-2 |
| 2.6 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:29 | Joy Division | The Best of New Wave Club Class•X | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Antler-Subway | AS 5110 CD |
| 1.3 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Just Can’t Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the ’80s, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 71695 |
| 1.3 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the '80s, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R4 71695 |
| 1.2 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart : Joy Division 1995 (silver CD) | Joy Division | Single |
| London Records | 850025.2, YOJCD 1 |
| 1.2 | Love Will Tear Us Apart (original version) | 3:28 | Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart | Joy Division | Single |
| London Records 90 | 422 850 129-2 |
| 1.2 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart | Joy Division | Single |
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| 1.2 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart : Joy Division 1995 | Joy Division | Single |
| London Records | 850025.2, YOJCD 1 |
| 1.14 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Sounds of the Eighties: The Rolling Stone Collection 1980–1981 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| PolyGram Special Markets, Time–Life Music | R988-25 |
| 1.16 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:23 | Joy Division | Tijdloze honderd, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.7 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | A Strange Kind of Love | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| PolyGram TV (a division of PolyGram Record Operations Ltd.) | 535 516-2 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:21 | Joy Division | Spirit of the Edge, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Mercury Records (or just “Mercury.” A UMG imprint, do not use it for ©/℗ credits) | 314 535 487-2 |
| 2.16 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Heart and Soul | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| London Records 90 | 828 968-2 |
| 2.3 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:23 | Joy Division | Nocturnal | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Procreate (UK Label) | 555908.2 |
| 1.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Back to the Penguin: The Dark Side of the 80's, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| BNE | BNE 040-2 |
| 1.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Rage: The Songs Most Chosen by Rage Guest Programmers | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| ABC Music (Australian Broadcasting Corporation in-house label) | 4983162 |
| 3.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:25 | Joy Division | Classic Pop | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music (plain logo: “Universal Music”) | 565 604-2 |
| 1.2 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Dressed in Black, Volume 1 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| PolyGram TV (a division of PolyGram Record Operations Ltd.) | 564 410-2 |
| 2.16 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Heart and Soul | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| London Records 90 | 3984 29040-2 |
| 1.18 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:25 | Joy Division | New Wave Greats 1976–1983 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Repertoire Records (Hamburg-based multinational reissue label) | REP 4774-WL |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| London Records 90 | 3984 28224 2 |
| 2.20 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:23 | Joy Division | Die zweite ultimative 80’er Fete | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Polystar (Germany) | 0731455614022 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music Japan (primary imprint of Warner Music Japan, Inc.; do not use for copyright/publisher/etc. relationships!) | WPCR-11036 |
| 1.18 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:22 | Joy Division | Atomic 80s: The Definitive Eighties Album | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited) | 585 162-2 |
| 2.16 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Heart and Soul | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 78406 |
| 2.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:24 | Joy Division | Modern Rock – Club 80s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Products, Time–Life Music | OPCD-2816, R828-21 |
| 2.6 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Pop Revolution: 1980-1981 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music | TL-703/04, TL703/04 |
| 1.18 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:25 | Joy Division | 24 Hour Party People | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| London Records | 0927 44930 2 |
| 1.18 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:20 | Joy Division | 24 Hour Party People | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| FFRR | R2-78136 |
| 1.17 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:23 | Joy Division | The Ultimate Teen Flick Soundtrack | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music (global imprint of Warner Music Group, ‘W’ logo either with “Warner Music” or no text) | WSMCD109 |
| 2.13 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | BackPack 80's: Wave Back | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Strategic Marketing Germany (subsidiary of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH) | 0927-46842-2 |
| 1.12 | Love Will Tears Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Don’t Stop the 80’s, Vol. 02 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Special Marketing (Germany) | 0927-48056-2 |
| 1.12 | Love Will Tears Us Apart | 3:25 | Joy Division | Don’t Stop the 80’s, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Strategic Marketing Germany (subsidiary of Warner Music Group Germany Holding GmbH) | 0927-48056-2 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Factory (Records/Communications), Sonic Records (Polish label, releases Polish pop, rock and alternative) | Facd250, SON 12 |
| 1.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:23 | Joy Division | The Best Alternative Album ...Ever! | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI Music South Africa (not for release label use!) | 0724354375323 |
| 2.3 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:21 | Joy Division | Welcome to the Pleasuredome: The Real 80's | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Polystar (Germany) | 069 715-2 |
| 4.24 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:25 | Joy Division | No Thanks! The ’70s Punk Rebellion | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 73926 |
| 2.15 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:24 | Joy Division | All Lined Up: The Kult of the Eighties | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal TV (Netherlands & Belgium) | 039 477-2 |
| 2.2 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | All New Wave | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Virgin EMI Strategic Marketing | 7243 582088 2 5 |
| 2.6 | Love Will Tear Us Apar | 3:27 | Joy Division | Edge of the 80s: 1980–1981 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music | TL PRA/04 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Newbury Comics: The Early Years, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino Special Products | OPCD-7618 |
| 1.11 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:24 | Joy Division | Donnie Darko: Original Soundtrack & Score | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Sanctuary Records (UK 1996–present) | SANDD320 |
| 2.15 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the 80s Underground | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 76490 |
| 1.19 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:28 | Joy Division | Donnie Darko | Michael Andrews | Album + Soundtrack |
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| 1.11 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:24 | Joy Division | Donnie Darko: Original Soundtrack | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Sanctuary Records (UK 1996–present) | SANPR320 |
| 1.5 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:25 | Joy Division | Love Sucks | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.8 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Control | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 5051442447828 |
| 1.18 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Simply the Best Songs | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | WMTV063 |
| 1.8 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Control | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Rhino (reissue label) | RHIN 333372 |
| 1.5 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:23 | Joy Division | Wristcutters: A Love Story | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Lakeshore Records | LKS 339282 |
| 1.8 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Control (17-track version) | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 333372 |
| 1.8 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Control: Music From the Motion Picture | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.9 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | The Best of Joy Division | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| London Records 90 | 5144273022 |
| 1.9 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | The Best of Joy Division | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| London Records 90 | 5051442-7302-2-7 |
| 1.9 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | The Best of Joy Division | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 474236 |
| 2.16 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Heart and Soul | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music (global imprint of Warner Music Group, ‘W’ logo either with “Warner Music” or no text) | 5186504565 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Factory Records: Communications 1978-92 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 2564-69379-0 |
| 1.9 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | The Best of Joy Division | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label), London Records | R2 474236 |
| 1.6 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | The Second Wave | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino Custom Products (retail, mail order and premium use compilations for WMG catalog) | OPCD-8185 |
| 1.6 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:23 | Joy Division | Triple J: Hottest 100 of All Time | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Triple J (Imprint of ABC Music, Australia) | 5318795 |
| 1.7 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:22 | Joy Division | Anthems: Electronic 80s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Ministry of Sound | MOSCD201 |
| 1.13 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:25 | Joy Division | Simply the Best New Wave | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music New Zealand | 5186539862 |
| 1.6 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Smash Hits 1980 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 5186-52136-2 |
| 1.7 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:22 | Joy Division | Ministry of Sound: Anthems: Electronic 80s (Australian edition) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Ministry of Sound (Australia) | 2735398, 2735399 |
| 8.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | + - Singles 1978-80 | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 5186595937 |
| 1.6 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | 80’s Halloween | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | OPCD-8569A 56416 |
| 1.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Les Inrockuptibles et la Fnac présentent : Les Beaux Labels, Volume 1 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| fnac.com, Les Inrockuptibles | |
| 3.2 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:25 | Joy Division | Going Underground: 66 Smash New Wave Hits | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited) | 5334050 |
| 3.12 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | The Essential Movies | Various Artists | Album + Soundtrack |
| EMI TV, Rhino (reissue label) | WMTV171 |
| 1.2 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Total: From Joy Division to New Order | Joy Division / New Order | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 2.5 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:21 | Joy Division | Anthems Collection | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Ministry of Sound | MOSBOX1 |
| 8.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | + - Singles 1978-80 (Remastered) | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 2564672145 |
| 2.14 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Music of the Millenium | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music France | |
| 1.6 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:21 | Joy Division | 80s Mixtape | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | WMTV167 |
| 1.18 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:22 | Joy Division | Ministry of Sound: Anthems: Electronic 80s (South african edition) | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Just Music (South Africa) | CDJUST443 |
| 2.3 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:22 | Joy Division | Seriously 80s | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Universal Music TV (UK, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited) | 5340201 |
| Promotion | |||||||||
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | The Factory Box Set | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 1.4 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:26 | Joy Division | Triple J: Hottest 100 of All Time | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Triple J (Imprint of ABC Music, Australia) | 5318795 |
| (unknown) | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:30 | Joy Division | Greatest Hits | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| [no label] (Special purpose label – white labels, self-published releases and other “no label” releases) | PR 00001 |
| 1.10 | Love Will Tear Us Apart | 3:27 | Joy Division | Substance | Joy Division | Album + Compilation |
| London Records | 3984 28224 2 |
Relationships
| producer: | Martin Hannett Joy Division |
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| bass: | Peter Hook |
| drums (drum set): | Stephen Morris (New Order) |
| guitar: | Bernard Albrecht |
| vocals: | Bernard Albrecht Ian Curtis |
| recorded at: | Strawberry Studios in Stockport, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom |
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| part of: | Indie 88: Top 500 Indie Rock Songs (number: 5) (order: 5) Helsingin Sanomat: 100 maailman parasta laulua (2022-1-15) (number: 14) (order: 13) NME: Greatest “Indie” Anthems Ever: 2007 (number: 19) (order: 19) Pitchfork: The Story of Goth in 33 Songs (order: 19) The Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 41) (order: 41) Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (as at 2016-06-10) (number: 179) (order: 179) |
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| recording of: | Love Will Tear Us Apart |
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Related works
Love Will Tear Us Apart
| lyricist: | Ian Curtis |
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| composer: | Ian Curtis Peter Hook Stephen Morris (New Order) Bernard Sumner |
| publisher: | Fractured Music (publisher) Zomba Music Publishers Ltd. (UK subsidiary of Zomba Music Publishing) |
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| later parody versions: | Snow Will Keep Us Off School |
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| later translated parody versions: | Pottajenkka |
| later translated versions: | L’amour nous déchirera (Love Will Tear Us Apart) Und dann wird Liebe |