The Dead Part of You

I like Joy Division and all, Control was great, but it just feels like somehow my iPod is weighted to play them when it's random - like once or twice a week - and I get a little tired of them. Disc 3 of Heart and Soul is what ranked in for them. And really, I only need the box set at this point - it was a pretty complete overview. Since it's release in 1998 live and radio keep getting discovered and reissued, and somehow I still find myself buying them. As of today however, I'm pretty clean - I've pretty much dumped all that extra crap.

Disc 3 closes with some of their final recordings - rehearsals of what would be New Order's first two recordings, In a Lonely Place and Ceremony.

The story of the web-log banner is each week I just photoshop the hell out of one of my pictures, giving it a general shoegaze/4AD blur. I came across the current picture as a nice mid-week replacement [full story begins here].