New Order: Substance (1987)

That photo is awful. I guess the light was too low. Anyway, my first copy Substance was the compact disc release, which contains twenty-four tracks, versus the twelve on the double LP. The CD edition has a bunch of b-sides, which are great to have. Some double cassette versions have even more tracks. I have never even seen a copy of the cassette version.

From Disocgs:

"Substance was the first widely released New Order compilation. Issued as a 12-track double LP, a 12-, 24- or 28-track double cassette, and a 24-track double CD, the compilation featured original 12" versions and B-sides, with a few exceptions: “Ceremony” is the 1981 re-recorded version with Gillian Gilbert; “Temptation” and “Confusion” are May 1987 re-recordings; and “The Perfect Kiss”, “Subculture”, “Shellshock”, and “Hurt” are edited versions. Additionally, all of the 24- or 28-track editions confuse the song titles “Cries and Whispers” and “Mesh”."

 And:

"Some copies came with a 4-panel insert/order form advertising the "SUBSTANCE 1987: THE VIDEO" VHS/Beta videocassette release, with a cost of $29.95, and "available no sooner than October 30, 1987". The eleven videos that this insert indicates were to be included are "True Faith, "Bizarre Love Triangle", "State Of The Nation", "Shellshock", "Subculture", "Perfect Kiss", "Thieves Like Us", "Confusion", "Blue Monday", "Temptation", and "Everything's Gone Green". However the video collection was not released until 1989 and contained seven videos including two for singles that were released after Substance 1987 ("Touched By The Hand Of God" and "Blue Monday 1988")."

My Canadian pressing did not include that flyer. It's a cool compilation, in whatever format.

Joy Division: Substance (1988)

From Wikipedia:

Substance compiles the four singles released by the band that did not appear on albums — "Transmission", "Komakino", "Love Will Tear Us Apart", and "Atmosphere" — as well as most of their B-sides. It also collects tracks released on extended play singles, the band's first release An Ideal for Living, and two samplers issued by Factory Records, A Factory Sample and Earcom 2: Contradiction. The single "Atmosphere" had been originally issued in France as "Licht und Blindheit" with "Dead Souls" on the B-side. Following the death of Ian Curtis, it was reissued as a posthumous B-side of the "She's Lost Control" single in an alternate version from the track that had previously appeared on Unknown Pleasures. The vinyl version omits the single "Komakino" and does not include the complete titles from the extended plays. [source]

This record was important because, unless you had the singles, it was the only way to own Transmission, Love Will Tear Us Apart, and Atmosphere. I have the original Canadian pressing. This, like the other JD records, have all been repressed.