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"Bizarre Love Triangle" is a song by English rock band New Order, released as a single in November 1986 from their fourth studio album, Brotherhood (1986), which reached the top five on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart, and No. 5 on the Australian ARIA Charts in March 1987.
- 4:21 (album version), 3:43 (7-inch version), 6:43 (extended mix)
- Factory
- 5 November 1986
A shiny bauble of pure pop goodness, electronic synth-waves, and resonant vocals, “Bizarre Love Triangle” is a fantastic taste of ‘86 wine from the pioneers of post-punk electronica.
- The title. Like few other rock bands of its stature, New Order eschewed titling its songs after its most obvious or oft-repeated lyrics, instead naming them like they were impressionist paintings: “Ceremony,” “Everything’s Gone Green,” “Your Silent Face.”
- The drum launch. Different edits of “Bizarre Love Triangle” begin in different ways — more on that in a bit — but each of them shoots off into turbo-pop hyper-space the same way: with a pummeling 13-note drum pattern that interrupts all the synthy sparkle and bursts through with the panic and over-excitement of a heart arrhythmia.
- The opening line. “Every time I think of you / I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue.” New Order frontman Bernard Sumner never got much respect as a lyricist — especially when compared to the gothic poetry of Ian Curtis, the band’s leader in its previous incarnation as Joy Division — but his ability to capture the essence of an emotion in a single lyric was singular among his new-wave peers.
- The non-instrumentation. New Order spent much of the ’80s fascinated with the idea of turning itself over to the machines — if only to have a song available for encores that could play without its involvement — and by the time the band got to “Bizarre,” every element in the song was sequenced besides the vocals and some bass.
Nov 5, 2023 · 05 November 2023. A standout track on their fourth album, Brotherhood, and an evergreen live favourite, Bizarre Love Triangle is rightly ranked among the best New Order songs.
- Alan York
Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position.
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