Origineel op het legendarische Factory label, dit perfecte overzicht mat alle 12” inch versies van hun singles tot 1987. Natuurlijk met de mega floorfiller Blue Monday, was dit meteen ook het best verkochte album van het label. Hun dansbare new wave is sindsdien net meer weg te denken uit het alternatieve clubcircuit.

Brand new deluxe edition of the of the classic 1987 compilation originally released via the legendary Factory Records.

4CD version includes the original album remastered across 2CDs, with a third disc of tracks that were released exclusively on the cassette album. The final disc features ‘Substance Live’ – an unreleased concert from Irvine Meadows, California 1987.

Substance compiles all of the band's singles to that point in their 12” versions with their respective B-sides, plus the non-album single True Faith and B-side ‘1963’ with new versions of ‘Temptation’ and ‘Confusion’.

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 in True Faith which was accompanied with the seminal video, directed by French choreographer Philippe Decouflé.

Tekst: Mania