A Different Kind of Tension

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Paradise
  2:25
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Sitting Round at Home
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 3
  You Say You Don’t Love Me
  2:54
  3.5 ★
• 4
  You Know You Can’t Help It
  2:22
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Mad Mad Judy
  3:34
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Raison d’Etre
  3:36
  3.0 ★
• 7
  I Don’t Know What to Do With My Life
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Money
  2:44
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Hollow Inside
  4:46
  3.0 ★
• 10
  A Different Kind of Tension
  4:38
  3.0 ★
• 11
  I Believe
  7:08
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Radio Nine
  0:49
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Everybody’s Happy Nowadays
  3:11
  4.2 ★
• 14
  Why Can’t I Touch It?
  6:36
  4.5 ★
• 15
  Harmony in My Head
  3:09
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Something’s Gone Wrong Again
  4:33
  3.6 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Are Everything
  4:00
• 2
  Why She’s a Girl From the Chainstore
  2:27
• 3
  Airwaves Dream
  3:54
• 4
  Strange Thing
  4:10
• 5
  What Do You Know?
  3:16
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Running Free
  3:14
• 7
  I Look Alone
  3:03
• 8
  You Say You Don’t Love Me (demo)
  2:33
• 9
  I Don’t Know What to Do With My Life (demo)
  2:20
• 10
  Harmony in My Head (demo)
  3:18
• 11
  I Don’t Know (demo)
  2:48
• 12
  Run Away From Home (demo)
  2:48
• 13
  The Drive System (demo)
  2:48
• 14
  Mad Mad Judy (demo)
  2:06
• 15
  Jesus Made Me Feel Guilty (demo)
  2:21
• 16
  Something’s Gone Wrong Again (backing track) (demo)
  2:55
• 17
  You Know You Can’t Help It (demo)
  2:33
• 18
  I Believe (demo)
  5:23
• 19
  Everybody’s Happy Nowadays (John Peel Show)
  2:20
• 20
  I Don’t Know What to Do With My Life (John Peel Show)
  2:43
• 21
  Mad Mad Judy (John Peel Show)
  2:41
• 22
  Hollow Inside (John Peel Show)
  3:46

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Release credits

• Alan Winstanley
  engineer [15-16]
• Martin Hannett
  producer [4]
• Martin Rushent
  engineer [1-14], producer [2.5, 2.7, 1.1-16]

Issues

• A
  (Combined release view)
• 

  A
  A Different Kind of Tension

  12" Vinyl
  September 1979
• A
  A Different Kind of Tension

  CD
  20 November 2001
• A
  A Different Kind of Tension

  2x CD
  27 October 2008
• 

  A
  A Different Kind of Tension

  Digital Media
  27 October 2008
• 

  A
  A Different Kind of Tension

  2x CD
  2010
• 

  A
  A Different Kind of Tension

  CD
  14 June 2019