She's Lost Control (track)
by Joy Division
Year: 1979
From the album Unknown Pleasures (track #6)
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She's Lost Control appears on the following album(s) by Joy Division:
- Unknown Pleasures (track #6) (this album) (1979)
- Substance (track #6) (compilation) (1988)
- The Best Of Joy Division (track #8) (compilation) (2008)
- Heart And Soul (track #8) (compilation) (1997)
- Heart And Soul (track #81) (compilation) (1997)
- Peel Sessions (track #3) (compilation) (1990)
- Permanent: Joy Division 1995 (track #3) (compilation) (1995)
- Preston 28 February 1980 (track #12) (1999)
- The Complete BBC Recordings (track #3) (compilation) (2000)
- The Complete BBC Recordings (track #10) (compilation) (2000)
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| ! | 07/12/2026 08:30 | Siromynian | 18,405 | 71/100 |
| ! | 07/07/2026 21:06 |  serpico | 3,857 | 90/100 |
| ! | 06/01/2026 12:31 | Bjartmar03 | 3,235 | 80/100 |
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| ! | 01/21/2026 03:17 | stareaterogni0n | 6,284 | 69/100 |
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Dance music for the apocalypse. Incredible use of reverb too. One of the best of the album.
I like both this goth version as well as the new wave danceable remix version...but this one makes you feel really helpless and sad, it's nice....
That guitar riff is just mesmerizing
pjohnsongolf 09/29/2018 03:22 | #221822
Perfect post-punk song
Yeah sounds like it's raw and recorded in a bedroom but such a great and interesting sound. Lyrics sound like he's taking about his own seizures and if before they started then quite a coincidence
The desperation in this song is intense.
Such a unique rhythm section. Something that you just don't hear. Interesting combinations of percussion sounds. These guys do atmosphere but they don't require drones or melodramatic emotion to do that.
Near perfect. Can't tell if I prefer this or the 12" version.
PatrickD 01/02/2014 07:15 | #99496
Guitars sound as though they must have had an influence on Sonic Youth. Everything sounds like it was recorded in a tin can. (Edited)
Pretty cool song
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