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1978-81
1-1	–Joy Division	Digital	2:51
1-2	–Cabaret Voltaire	Baader Meinhof	3:23
1-3	–A Certain Ratio	All Night Party	3:15
1-4	–OMD*	Electricity (Factory Version)	3:45
1-5	–Joy Division	She's Lost Control	4:54
1-6	–The Distractions	Time Goes By So Slow	3:21
1-7	–Joy Division	Transmission	3:36
1-8	–The Durutti Column	Sketch For Summer	2:58
1-9	–X-O-Dus	English Black Boys	4:46
1-10	–Joy Division	Love Will Tear Us Apart	3:26
1-11	–A Certain Ratio	Shack Up	3:14
1-12	–Section 25	Girls Don't Count	4:28
1-13	–Crawling Chaos	Sex Machine	5:39
1-14	–A Certain Ratio	Flight	6:04
1-15	–The Names	Nightshift	3:37
1-16	–New Order	Ceremony (Original Version)	4:37
1-17	–Minny Pops	Dolphin's Spurt	2:51
1-18	–John Dowie	It's Hard To Be An Egg	3:09
1-19	–Crispy Ambulance	Deaf	3:57
1-20	–Section 25	Dirty Disco	5:19
1981-84
2-1	–New Order	Everything's Gone Green	5:34
2-2	–Tunnelvision	Watching The Hydroplanes	3:52
2-3	–The Durutti Column	Messidor	2:31
2-4	–A Certain Ratio	Knife Slits Water (LP Version)	7:36
2-5	–Royal Family And The Poor	Art On 45	4:49
2-6	–Swamp Children	Taste What's Rhythm	6:06
2-7	–New Order	Temptation	8:58
2-8	–52nd Street	Cool As Ice	7:48
2-9	–New Order	Blue Monday	7:29
2-10	–Cabaret Voltaire	Yashar (John Robie Remix) Remix – John Robie	7:31
2-11	–Quando Quango	Love Tempo	7:55
2-12	–The Wake	Talk About The Past	6:25
1983-87
3-1	–New Order	Confusion	8:13
3-2	–Marcel King	Reach For Love	5:27
3-3	–Section 25	Looking From A Hilltop (Megamix)	8:10
3-4	–Stockholm Monsters	All At Once	2:57
3-5	–Life	Tell Me	3:10
3-6	–The Durutti Column	Without Mercy (Duet)	2:33
3-7	–James	Hymn From A Village	2:53
3-8	–Kalima	Trickery	4:28
3-9	–A Certain Ratio	Sounds Like Something Dirty	6:56
3-10	–Quando Quango	Genius	6:25
3-11	–Happy Mondays	Freaky Dancin'	3:45
3-12	–Miaow	When It All Comes Down	3:30
3-13	–The Railway Children	Brighter	4:55
3-14	–Biting Tongues	Compressor	4:52
3-15	–New Order	True Faith	5:54
3-16	–Happy Mondays	24 Hour Party People	4:38
1988-92
4-1	–New Order	Fine Time	4:45
4-2	–Happy Mondays	W.F.L. (Think About The Future)	7:12
4-3	–Revenge	Seven Reasons	4:09
4-4	–Happy Mondays	Hallelujah (Club Mix)	6:29
4-5	–Electronic	Getting Away With It	5:16
4-6	–Happy Mondays	Step On	5:18
4-7	–Northside	Shall We Take A Trip	4:24
4-8	–England New Order*	World In Motion	4:32
4-9	–Happy Mondays	Kinky Afro	3:59
4-10	–The Durutti Column	Home	5:39
4-11	–Electronic	Get The Message (DNA Remix) Remix – DNA	5:27
4-12	–Northside	Take 5	4:12
4-13	–Cath Carroll	Moves Like You (Remix)	6:33
4-14	–The Other Two	Tasty Fish	3:51
4-15	–Happy Mondays	Sunshine And Love (Lionrock Remix) Remix – Lionrock	7:19

Credits

• Compilation Producer – Rick Conrad
• Compiled By – Jon Savage
• Design – Matthew Robertson, Saville Parris Wakefield
• Mastered By – Giovanni Scatola
• Other [Project Assistance] – Dan Chambers, Helen Varley, James Rose, Julie Eldridge, Kathy Kelly, Keith Ormondroyd, Lee Alexander, Mat Smyth, Rachel Gutek
• Other [Project Consultant] – Alan Parks
• Other [Research And Print Consultant] – Daniel Mason / Something Else
• Photography By – Kevin Cummins, Peterjwalsh.com*

Notes

4 CD in deluxe packaging with a postcard (of FAC 136 - Factory logo tape) and a book containing a short essay by Paul Morley, a paragraph on each track, and pictures and details of each release in this compilation.
10,000 copies were released worldwide.
1-5 is credited as being from the "Unknown Pleasures" album, but it is the 12" single mix.
1-9 is the Palatine box set/Tears in Their Eyes edit which cuts over half of the song.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (String): 4943674110278
• Barcode (Text): 4 943674 110278

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
2564-69379-0	Various	Factory Records - Communications 1978-92 ‎(4xCD, Comp + Box)	Warner Music UK Ltd.	2564-69379-0	UK	2009
none	Various	Factory Records - Communications 1978-92 ‎(63xFile, AAC, Comp, RM, 256)	Warner Music United Kingdom	none	UK	2009
none	Various	The Factory Box Set ‎(4xCDr, Promo, Comp)	Warner Music UK Ltd., Rhino Records	none	UK	2008

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