Atmosphere/She's Lost Control

Infobox Single
Name = Atmosphere / She's Lost Control


Artist = Joy Division
[ from Album = ]
Released = September 1980
Format = 12"
[ Recorded = ]
Genre = Post-punk
Length =
Label = Factory Records
[ Writer = ]
Producer = Martin Hannett
Chart position =
[ Reviews = ] *
Last single = Love Will Tear Us Apart
(1980)
This single = Atmosphere / She's Lost Control
(1980)
Next single =

Atmosphere / She's Lost Control is a single released by Joy Division following the death of lead singer Ian Curtis.

"Atmosphere" appears for the second time on a Joy Division single; it first was released with "Licht und Blindheit" on the B-side."She's Lost Control" is an alternate version to the one that appears on the debut album "Unknown Pleasures." This version, recorded in March 1980, appears along with "Atmosphere" on the compilation "Substance."

The single peaked at #1 in New Zealand in August 1981, and it would later rechart there in July 1984 (#17) and when it was reissued in August 1988 (#5). "Atmosphere" also hit #34 in the UK during June 1988.

In 2000, "Atmosphere" was voted the greatest song of the millennium by listeners of John Peel's Radio 1 programme. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/festive50s/2000s/millennium/]