\nDer var ikke meget tvivl om i firserne, hvem der bet\u00f8d mest af Depeche Mode og New Order. Fra f\u00f8rstn\u00e6vntes tidlige spinkle fors\u00f8g ud i feminin teknopop, med tilh\u00f8rende pressefotos af bandet i cricketudstyr (!), over senere pr\u00f8vende udbrudsfors\u00f8g til en mere m\u00f8rk og eksistentiel musik, havde Basildon’s Depeche Mode bare ikke samme fandenivoldskhed og vision\u00e6re styrke som New Order. Det tidligere Joy Division – minus afd\u00f8de sanger Ian Curtis – l\u00f8d som slet ingen andre og var i firserne oftest et syvmileskridt foran de fleste, i en forunderlig blanding af emotionel disfunktion og den smukkeste enkle europop. Nedenst\u00e5ende single, Bizarre Love Triangle, var bandets udgivelse op til julen, 1986. Et helforl\u00f8sende nummer taget fra samme efter\u00e5rs Brotherhood og shinet seri\u00f8st op med klare beats, lyse sequencere og englelydende vocoder, af stjernemixer Shep Pettibone. Hvis alle julesingler l\u00f8d som denne, ville ingen have noget at frygte af den kommende tid…<\/p>\n
BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE<\/p>\n
Every time i think of you
\nI feel shot right through with a bolt of blue
\nIt’s no problem of mine but it’s a problem I find
\nLiving a life that I can’t leave behind
\nThere’s no sense in telling me
\nThe wisdom of a fool won’t set you free
\nBut that’s the way that it goes
\nAnd it’s what nobody knows
\nWhile every day my confusion grows
\nEvery time I see you falling
\nI get down on my knees and pray
\nI’m waiting for that final moment
\nYou’ll say the words that I can’t say<\/p>\n
I feel fine and I feel good
\nI’m feeling like I never should
\nWhenever I get this way, I just don’t know what to say
\nWhy can’t we be ourselves like we were yesterday
\nI’m not sure what this could mean
\nI don’t think you’re what you seem
\nI do admit to myself
\nThat if I hurt someone else
\nThen I’ll never see just what we’re meant to be
\nEvery time I see you falling
\nI get down on my knees and pray
\nI’m waiting for that final moment
\nYou’ll say the words that I can’t say<\/p>\n
\u00a9 New Order<\/p>\n