Bizarre Love Triangle

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"Bizarre Love Triangle"
Blt New Order.jpg
Single by New Order
from the album Brotherhood
Released 5 November 1986[1]
Recorded January 1986 (London)
Genre
Length
  • 4:21 (album version)
  • 3:43 (7-inch version)
  • 6:43 (extended mix)
Label Factory (FAC 163)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) New Order
Script error: The function "ucfirst" does not exist. singles chronology
"State of the Nation"
(1986)		 "Bizarre Love Triangle"
(1986)		 "True Faith"
(1987)
Music video
"Bizarre Love Triangle‬” on YouTube

"Bizarre Love Triangle" is a song by the English rock band New Order, released as a single in 1986 from their fourth studio album, Brotherhood (1986), which reached the top five on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart,[8] and No. 5 on the Australian ARIA Charts (No. 1 on the Victoria state chart) in March 1987.[9]

It failed to make the top 40 in either the United Kingdom (only reaching No. 56)[10] or the US Billboard Hot 100. In the United States, the song reached No. 8 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, but failed to chart on the Hot 100 during its original 1986 release. However, a new mix included on The Best of New Order was released in 1994 and finally made a brief appearance on the Billboard Hot 100 in the No. 98 position in 1995.

In 2004, the song was ranked No. 204 in Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."[11]

Personnel

Releases

The 12-inch version, remixed by Shep Pettibone, also appears on the compilation Substance and a second remix by Stephen Hague features on their Best Of album. The original album version appears on the 2005 compilation Singles, the 7-inch version appears on the 2016 reissue of this compilation. New Order's live versions since 1998 are based on the Shep Pettibone remix.[12]

The single mix features more electronics than the album version, with the Fairlight CMI music workstation used to provide sounds such as the orchestral hits, and to sequence the song. All instruments except vocals and Peter Hook's melodic bass were sequenced (the song also prominently features synthesised bass and synth choir parts).[13]

Music video

The music video, which was released in November 1986, was directed by American artist Robert Longo. It prominently featured shots of a man and a woman in business suits flying through the air as though propelled by trampolines; this is based directly on Longo's "Men in the Cities" series of lithographs.[14] The video has a black and white cut-scene where Jodi Long and E. Max Frye are arguing about reincarnation, in which Long emphatically declares "I don't believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit!" Frye responds, "You know, you're a real 'up' person," before the song resumes.

Reception

"Bizarre Love Triangle" has been critically acclaimed since its release. In a 30th anniversary retrospective citing the song as one of the greatest of all time, Billboard described it as a "synth-pop masterpiece" and "an incandescent jewel of mid-'80s computer love."[15] NME praised the song as New Order's "finest pop moment" and credited its simplicity in comparison to previous singles such as "Blue Monday".[16] In 2004, the song was ranked No. 204 in Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."[11] In 2013, Stereogum ranked the song number two on their list of the 10 greatest New Order songs,[17] and in 2021, The Guardian ranked the song number seven on their list of the 30 greatest New Order songs.[18]

Cover versions

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner. 

7": FAC 163 (UK)
No. Title Length
1. "Bizarre Love Triangle"   3:43
2. "Bizarre Dub Triangle"   3:23
7": Qwest 7-28421 (US)
No. Title Length
1. "Bizarre Love Triangle" (edit) 3:36
2. "Every Little Counts"   4:29
7": FAC-26 (Canada)
No. Title Length
1. "Bizarre Love Triangle"   3:36
2. "Every Little Counts"   4:29
  • Initial pressings (matrix FAC-26-A) were the UK 7" mix,[24] later pressings (matrix FAC-26-A2) were the Canadian 7" mix[25]
7": FAC-163153 (Australia)
No. Title Length
1. "Bizarre Love Triangle"   3:36
2. "State of the Nation"   3:27
12": FAC 163 (UK)
No. Title Length
1. "Bizarre Love Triangle"   6:44
2. "Bizarre Dub Triangle"   7:02
12": Qwest 0-20546 (US)
No. Title Length
1. "Bizarre Love Triangle"   6:41
2. "I Don't Care" (Actually "Bizarre Dub Triangle") 7:02
3. "State of the Nation"   6:31
4. "Bizarre Love Triangle"   3:43
  • US editions mis-credit "Bizarre Dub Triangle" as "I Don't Care", reputedly due to a record company person contacting New Order's Manager Rob Gretton to ask what to name the mix as, Gretton is claimed to have said "I don't care"[26]
CD: Qwest 9 20546-2 (US) - released in 1994
No. Title Length
1. "Bizarre Love Triangle" (album version) 4:20
2. "Bizarre Love Triangle" (Extended Dance Mix) 6:44
3. "I Don't Care" (Actually "Bizarre Dub Triangle") 7:02
4. "State of the Nation"   6:31
5. "Bizarre Love Triangle" (single remix) 3:43

Charts

References

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  30. ↑ "Archive Chart: 19861109" UK Singles Chart.
  31. ↑ "Archive Chart: 19861109" UK Indie Chart.
  32. ↑ "New Order – Chart history" Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs for New Order.
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