Originally released via the legendary Factory Records, Substance compiled all of the band's singles to that point in their 12” 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".
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.
2LP Tracklisting
Side 1
Ceremony
Everything’s Gone Green
Temptation 87
Side 2
Blue Monday
Confusion 87
Thieves Like Us
Side 3
The Perfect Kiss
Sub-culture
Shellshock
Side 4
State Of The Nation
Bizarre Love Triangle
True Faith
2CD Tracklisting
CD1
Ceremony
Everything’s Gone Green
Temptation 87
Blue Monday
Confusion 87
Thieves Like Us
The Perfect Kiss
Sub-Culture
Shellshock
State Of The Nation
Bizarre Love Triangle
True Faith
CD2
In A Lonely Place
Procession
Cries And Whispers
Hurt
The Beach
Confused Instrumental
Lonesome Tonight
Murder
Thieves Like Us Instrumental
Kiss Of Death
Shame Of The Nation
1963
4CD Tracklisting
CD1
Ceremony
Everything’s Gone Green
Temptation 87
Blue Monday
Confusion 87
Thieves Like Us
The Perfect Kiss
Sub-Culture
Shellshock
State Of The Nation
Bizarre Love Triangle
True Faith
CD2
In A Lonely Place
Procession
Cries And Whispers
Hurt
The Beach
Confused Instrumental
Lonesome Tonight
Murder
Thieves Like Us Instrumental
Kiss Of Death
Shame Of The Nation
1963
CD3
Ceremony (Original)
Mesh
Temptation (12”)
Confusion (Original 12”)
Dub Vulture
Shellcock
Bizarre Dub Triangle
True Dub
Confusion (Dub 87)
True Faith (Remix)
CD4
Live from Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, California 1987
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