Substance

Product Information

This Bundle contains the Substance ‘87 2LP plus the three 12” singles - True Faith, True Faith Remix and Blue Monday ‘88. Gallup Year End Charts 1987 – Albums" (PDF). Record Mirror. 23 January 1988. p.37. ISSN 0144-5804. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 May 2023 . Retrieved 7 September 2021– via World Radio History. Now, some people here will tell you this sounds great. Who am I to argue with what they find to be a pleasing sound?

Matrix / Runout (Runout side B - variation 1): FACT-200-B1 ✱ C MAX "THE PLEASURE AND THE PAIN.... TOWN HOUSE DMMThe album is the band’s biggest selling to date, with over one million copies sold, going platinum in the US with a Top5 hit in True Faith which was accompanied by the seminal video, directed by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé. Despite the classic 12” single’s gloomy reference to suicide, its juxtaposing synth lines got hips moving and record sales booming. Remarkably, ‘Blue Monday’ remains the best-selling 12” single of all time. In the UK alone, it has sold 1.16 million copies in all formats, including the 1988 and 1995 re-releases. The original 1983 12” constitutes most of that sum at just over 700,000 copies sold. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. The album is the band’s biggest selling to date, with over one million copies sold, going platinum in the US with a Top 5 hit on "True Faith" which was accompanied by the seminal video, directed by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé.

The album is the band’s biggest selling to date, with over one million copies sold, going platinum in the UK with a Top 5 hit in "True Faith" which was accompanied by the seminal video, directed by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé. The Perfect Kiss (Substance Edit) (Live at Irvine Meadows, San Bernadino California, September 1987) (2023 Digital Master)

Recommendations

a b Christgau, Robert (1 December 1987). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Archived from the original on 1 September 2023 . Retrieved 11 October 2014.

Christgau, Robert (1988). "Pazz & Jop 1987: Dean's List". The Village Voice. No.1 March. New York. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012 . Retrieved 11 October 2014.

Versions

Alternative Dance". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 1 September 2023 . Retrieved 22 April 2021. Originally released via the legendary Factory Records, Substance compiled all of the band's singles to that point in their 12” versions with many of their respective B-sides (on the CD and cassette versions), and specially new recorded versions of "Temptation" and "Confusion." The album also included the biggest selling 12” single of all time, "Blue Monday," alongside other classic singles "The Perfect Kiss," "Bizarre Love Triangle" and the band’s debut single release "Ceremony." Sub-culture (Substance Edit) (Live at Irvine Meadows, San Bernadino California, September 1987) (2023 Digital Master) Top 100 Albums of '87". RPM. Vol.47, no.12. 26 December 1987. p.9. ISSN 0033-7064– via Library and Archives Canada. Anon. (2003). "363) Substance". Rolling Stone. New York (1 November). Archived from the original on 24 April 2009 . Retrieved 11 October 2014. {{ cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ( link)

Everythings Gone Green (Live at Irvine Meadows, San Bernadino California, September 1987) (2023 Digital Master) Thieves Like Us (Live at Irvine Meadows, San Bernadino California, September 1987) (2023 Digital Master)

Contributors

Temptation" and " Confusion" were re-recorded in 1987 specifically for Substance and neither of the original versions appears. European Hot 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.4, no.40. 10 October 1987. p.24. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. The album is the band’s biggest selling to date, with over one million copies sold, going platinum in the UK with a Top 5 hit in True Faith which was accompanied by the seminal video, directed by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé.