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"New Dawn Fades" Song by Joy Division from the album Unknown Pleasures Released June 15, 1979 Recorded April 1–17 , 1979 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport Genre Post-punk Length 4:47 Label Factory Records Writer Bernard Sumner
Peter Hook
Stephen Morris
Ian Curtis [1]Producer Martin Hannett, Joy Division Unknown Pleasures track listing "Insight"
(4)"New Dawn Fades"
(5)"She's Lost Control"
(6)"New Dawn Fades" is a song from the 1979 album Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division. It opens with a backwards and heavily modified sample of a lyric from previous song "Insight", presumably added by Martin Hannett, post production. The song relies on an ascending guitar riff by Bernard Sumner played against a descending bass riff by Peter Hook. The song uses the same progression throughout, but grows in intensity as the song progresses, reaching its peak with Ian Curtis singing "Me, seeing me this time, hoping for something else", and ending with a guitar solo. The song closes side one of Unknown Pleasures. It's also one of few Joy Division songs with two distinct guitars playing, one distorted and one a clean electric guitar picking notes from the guitar chords.
It has been covered by Moby in cooperation with New Order. There is also a version from former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante. Ambient techno act The Sight Below covered it on its second album It All Falls Apart, featuring vocals by Jesy Fortino of Tiny Vipers[2][3][4]. The band Rheinallt H Rowlands recorded a version of the song, sung in Welsh[5]. It was featured in the 2005 movie remake House of Wax, the 1995 movie Heat features the Moby version, during the moment where Al Pacino and Robert De Niro meet on screen for the first time; and a live version was used in Reprise.
References
- ^ Ascap entry
- ^ http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13979-new-dawn-fades-joy-division-cover-ft-tiny-vipers/
- ^ http://www.prefixmag.com/media/the-sight-below/new-dawn-fades-joy-division-cover/38186/
- ^ http://surfingonsteam.blogspot.com/2010/03/sight-below-new-dawn-fades-joy-division.html
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/radiocymru/c2/artistiaid/rheinallt.shtml
Joy Division Studio albums Compilations Still • Substance • The Peel Sessions • Warsaw • Permanent • Heart and Soul • Joy Division The Complete BBC Recordings • Martin Hannett's Personal Mixes • Let the Movie Begin • The Best of Joy Division • +- Singles 1978-80 • Total: From Joy Division to New OrderEPs An Ideal for Living • Licht und Blindheit • The Peel Sessions • The Peel SessionsLive albums Preston 28 February 1980 • Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979Singles Related Discography • New Order • Factory Records • Martin Hannett • Peter Saville • Tony Wilson • Rob Gretton • Alan Erasmus • 24 Hour Party People • Control • Joy Division • A Means to an End: The Music of Joy DivisionCategories:- Joy Division songs
- Songs written by Bernard Sumner
- Songs written by Peter Hook
- Songs written by Stephen Morris (musician)
- Songs written by Ian Curtis
- 1979 songs
- 1970s song stubs
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