Unknown Pleasures
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Summary
Unknown Pleasures is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 0.39% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,292 views/month, #237 of 60,676).[2]
Key Facts
- Genre: gothic rock[3]
- Producer: Martin Hannett[4]
- Performer: Joy Division[5]
- Record label: Factory Records[6]
- Place of publication: United Kingdom[7]
- Part of: Joy Division's albums in chronological order[8]
- Language of work or name: English[9]
- Distribution format: LP record[10]
- Review score: 5[11]
- Recorded at studio or venue: Strawberry Studios[12]
- Publication date: July 14, 1979[13]
- Tracklist: Disorder[14], Day of the Lords[15], Candidate[16], Insight[17], New Dawn Fades[18], She's Lost Control[19], Shadowplay[20], Wilderness[21], Interzone[22], I Remember Nothing[23]
- Cover art by: Peter Saville[24]
- Title: Unknown Pleasures[25]
- Duration: 2301 seconds[26]
- Number of parts of this work: 10 audio track[27]
- Form of creative work: studio album[28]
Product Details
The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.
MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia
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Release type: Album[29]
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First release date: 1979-06-15[30]
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Genre(s): gothic rock, new wave, post-punk, rock[31]
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Community tags: alternative and punk, gothic rock, new wave, post-punk, rock, rock pop[32]
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MusicBrainz ID: 42352def-1aab-3000-b548-895ebd869cb6[33]
Why It Matters
Unknown Pleasures has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]