An Ideal for Living

For the song by the Manic Street Preachers named after this record, see A Design for Life.
For the play by Noël Coward, see Design for Living.
An Ideal for Living
a black and white illustration of a Hitler Youth beating a drum. To the right the band’s name is stylized in blackletter with an exclamation point before the word “Joy”
EP by
Joy Division
Released3 June 1978[1]
Recorded14 December 1977
StudioPennine, Oldham, England
GenrePunk rock[2]
Length12:47
Label
  • Enigma
  • Anonymous
ProducerJoy Division
Joy Division chronology
An Ideal for Living
(1978) 		Unknown Pleasures
(1979)
Alternative cover
12" cover

An Ideal for Living is the first EP by the English post-punk band Joy Division. It was released on 3 June 1978 by the band's own label, Enigma, shortly after the group changed their name from Warsaw.

  1. ^ Hook, Peter (2012). Unknown Pleasures. Simon & Schuster. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-4711-4833-0.
  2. ^ http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/news/2019/on-this-day-42-years-ago-joy-division-recorded-their-very-first-ep-an-ideal-for-living/1000/"The EP has an overall more punk-rock sound than towards the post-punk/new wave sound that their future releases would get."