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"Komakino"
Single by Joy Division
A-side	"Komakino"
B-side	"Incubation", "As You Said"
Released	20 June 1980
Recorded	18–30 March 1980 at Britannia Row Studios, London, England
Genre	Post-punk
Label	Factory
Songwriter(s)	Ian Curtis Peter Hook Stephen Morris Bernard Sumner
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).

Release

It was released on Factory Records as a 7 in (180 mm) flexi disc given away in select record shops. 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)

References

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

Sources

• Hewitt, Ben (15 July 2015). "Joy Division: 10 of the Best". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
• Ott, Chris (2004). Unknown Pleasures (33⅓ series ed.). New York City: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-441-13555-1.
• Savage, Jon (2014). So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0-5713-0955-9.

External links

• 2010 remaster, YouTube
• "Komakino" at Discogs (list of releases)

• Joy Division songs
• 1980 singles
• Songs released posthumously
• Songs written by Bernard Sumner
• Songs written by Peter Hook
• Songs written by Stephen Morris (musician)
• Songs written by Ian Curtis
• Factory Records singles
• 1980 songs