"Komakino"
Single by Joy Division
A-side"Komakino"
B-side"Incubation", "As You Said"
Released20 June 1980 [1]
Recorded18–30 March 1980 at Britannia Row Studios, London, England
GenrePost-punk
LabelFactory
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Martin Hannett
Joy Division singles chronology
"Licht und Blindheit"
(1980)		 "Komakino"
(1980)		 "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
(1980)

"Komakino" is a June 1980 single by the English post-punk band Joy Division. Like "Dead Souls" and "Transmission", the song was written between their first album Unknown Pleasures (1979) and second, final album Closer (1980).

As a transitional track, critics usually compare its lyrics and music as similar to tracks on Closer — particularly the drum sound resembles the production on that album's opening tracks "Atrocity Exhibition" and "Isolation".

Release

It was released on Factory Records as a 7 in (180 mm) flexi disc given away in select record shops.[2] 75,000 copies were pressed. The single's B-sides are "Incubation" and "As You Said"; both instrumentals. "Komakino" and "Incubation" appear on the 1988 compilation Substance, and "As You Said" was added in the expanded reissue of the album in 2015 and in the B-side of New Order's Video 586 single. The three tracks are collected on the 4-CD 1997 compilation Heart and Soul.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Joy Division (Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner)

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Komakino"3:40
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Incubation"2:50
2."As You Said"1:55

References

  1. ↑ "Komakino single".
  2. ↑ "Joy Division Discography Part 1". gerpotze.com. Retrieved 16 March 2015.

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