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* [[Synth-pop]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/bizarre-love-triangle-mt0002928296|title=Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order |first=Stacia |last=Proefrock |work=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/essential_guide_to_new_order | title=An Essential Guide to New Order | work=[[Exclaim!]] | date=8 September 2015 | access-date=11 April 2016 |last=Lindsay |first=Cam}}</ref>
* [[Synth-pop]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/bizarre-love-triangle-mt0002928296|title=Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order |first=Stacia |last=Proefrock |publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/essential_guide_to_new_order | title=An Essential Guide to New Order | work=[[Exclaim!]] | date=8 September 2015 | access-date=11 April 2016 |last=Lindsay |first=Cam}}</ref>
* {{nowrap|[[alternative dance]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/arthur-baker-presents-dance-masters-shep-pettibone-the-classic-12-master-mixes-mw0003573291|author=Andy Kellman|title= Arthur Baker Presents Dance Masters: Shep Pettibone - The Classic 12" Master-Mixes|work=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=19 July 2022}}</ref>}}
* {{nowrap|[[alternative dance]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/arthur-baker-presents-dance-masters-shep-pettibone-the-classic-12-master-mixes-mw0003573291|author=Andy Kellman|title= Arthur Baker Presents Dance Masters: Shep Pettibone - The Classic 12-inch Master-Mixes|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=19 July 2022}}</ref>}}
* {{nowrap|[[New wave music|new wave]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2016/09/scarlett-johanssons-band-sugar-for-sugar-covers-new-orders-bizarre-love-triangle-listen/|title=Scarlett Johansson's band Sugar for Sugar covers New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" -- listen|date=22 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/erry-2018/08/efb48829707147/80-best-love-songs-of-the-1980.html|title=80 best love songs of the 1980s|date=31 August 2018|website=Cleveland}}</ref>}}
* {{nowrap|[[New wave music|new wave]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://consequence.net/2016/09/scarlett-johanssons-band-sugar-for-sugar-covers-new-orders-bizarre-love-triangle-listen/|title=Scarlett Johansson's band Sugar for Sugar covers New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" -- listen|date=22 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/life-and-culture/erry-2018/08/efb48829707147/80-best-love-songs-of-the-1980.html|title=80 best love songs of the 1980s|date=31 August 2018|website=Cleveland}}</ref>}}
* [[disco]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/dreams-never-end-29084/|title=Dreams Never End|website=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|date=1 January 2003|access-date=11 November 2023}}</ref>
* [[disco]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/dreams-never-end-29084/|title=Dreams Never End|website=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|date=1 January 2003|access-date=11 November 2023}}</ref>
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"'''Bizarre Love Triangle'''" is a song by English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[New Order (band)|New Order]], released as a single in November 1986 from their fourth studio album, ''[[Brotherhood (New Order album)|Brotherhood]]'' (1986), which reached the top five on the [[Hot Dance Club Songs|US Hot Dance Music/Club Play Singles]] chart,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/new-order-mn0000334193|title=New Order - Music Biography, Streaming Radio and Discography - AllMusic|first=Jason|last=Ankeny|work=AllMusic}}</ref> and {{abbr|No.|Number}} 5 on the Australian [[ARIA Charts]] in March 1987. It failed to enter the top 40 of both the [[UK Singles Chart]] and the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]; however, a new mix included on ''[[The Best of New Order]]'' was released in 1994 and charted at No. 98 on the Hot 100. In 2003, the song was ranked No. 204 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s "[[List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]."<ref name="RS500">{{cite web |title=New Order, 'Bizarre Love Triangle' |date=11 December 2003 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127/new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-54750/ |publisher=Rolling Stone |access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref>
"'''Bizarre Love Triangle'''" is a song by English [[Rock music|rock]] band [[New Order (band)|New Order]], released as a single in November 1986 from their fourth studio album, ''[[Brotherhood (New Order album)|Brotherhood]]'' (1986). The song reached {{abbr|No.|Number}} 4 on the US ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Dance Club Songs|Dance/Disco Club Play]] chart and {{abbr|No.|Number}} 5 on the Australian [[Kent Music Report]] in March 1987. It failed to enter the top 40 of both the [[UK Singles Chart]] and the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]]; however, a new mix included on ''[[The Best of New Order]]'' was released in 1994 and charted at No. 98 on the Hot 100. In 2003, the song was ranked No. 204 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s "[[List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]."<ref name="RS500">{{cite web |title=New Order, 'Bizarre Love Triangle' |date=11 December 2003 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-151127/new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-54750/ |publisher=Rolling Stone |access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref>


==Releases==
==Releases==
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==Reception==
==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 (magazine)|Billboard]]'' described it as a "synth-pop masterpiece" and "an incandescent jewel of mid-'80s computer love."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Unterberger |first1=Andrew |title=10 Reasons Why New Order's 'Bizarre Love Triangle' Is One of the Greatest Songs of All Time |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7565682/new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-30th-anniversary |publisher=Billboard |access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref> ''[[NME]]'' praised the song as New Order's "finest pop moment" and credited its simplicity in comparison to previous singles such as "[[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Elan |first1=Priya |title=Why 'Bizarre Love Triangle' is New Order's finest pop moment |date=29 November 2017 |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-greatest-pop-songs-in-history-no5-new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-780056 |publisher=NME |access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref> In 2004, the song was ranked No. 204 in ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s list of "[[List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]."<ref name="RS500"/> In 2013, ''[[Stereogum]]'' ranked the song No. 2 on their list of the 10 greatest New Order songs,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1244332/the-10-best-new-order-songs/lists/|title=The 10 Best New Order Songs|first=Aaron|last=Lariviere|work=[[Stereogum]]|date=25 January 2013|access-date=1 April 2022}}</ref> and in 2021, ''[[The Guardian]]'' ranked the song No. 7 on their list of the 30 greatest New Order songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/07/new-order-30-greatest-tracks-ranked|title=New Order's 30 greatest tracks – ranked!|first=Alexis|last=Petridis|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=7 January 2021|access-date=1 April 2022}}</ref>
"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 (magazine)|Billboard]]'' described it as a "synth-pop masterpiece" and "an incandescent jewel of mid-'80s computer love."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Unterberger |first=Andrew |title=10 Reasons Why New Order's 'Bizarre Love Triangle' Is One of the Greatest Songs of All Time |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-30th-anniversary-7565682/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref> ''[[NME]]'' praised the song as New Order's "finest pop moment" and credited its simplicity in comparison to previous singles such as "[[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Elan |first1=Priya |title=Why 'Bizarre Love Triangle' is New Order's finest pop moment |date=29 November 2017 |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-greatest-pop-songs-in-history-no5-new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-780056 |publisher=NME |access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref> In 2004, the song was ranked No. 204 in ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s list of "[[List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time|The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time]]."<ref name="RS500"/> In 2013, ''[[Stereogum]]'' ranked the song No. 2 on their list of the 10 greatest New Order songs,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1244332/the-10-best-new-order-songs/lists/|title=The 10 Best New Order Songs|first=Aaron|last=Lariviere|work=[[Stereogum]]|date=25 January 2013|access-date=1 April 2022}}</ref> and in 2021, ''[[The Guardian]]'' ranked the song No. 7 on their list of the 30 greatest New Order songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/07/new-order-30-greatest-tracks-ranked|title=New Order's 30 greatest tracks – ranked!|first=Alexis|last=Petridis|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=7 January 2021|access-date=1 April 2022}}</ref>


==Music video==
==Music video==
The [[music video]], which was released in November 1986, was directed by [[United States|American]] artists [[Robert Longo]] and [[Gretchen Bender]]. 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 [[Lithography|lithographs]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kinoteca.net/Text/Bizarre.htm |first=Michael |last=Shamberg |author-link=Michael Shamberg |title=Bizarre Love Triangle |work=kinoteca.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060115071858/http://www.kinoteca.net/Text/Bizarre.htm |archive-date=15 January 2006}}</ref> 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.<ref>"Gretchen Bender, Tracking The Thrill", Page 62, "Music Video's",2013.</ref> It also features clips that Gretchen would later use for her next project "Total Recall".
The [[music video]], which was released in November 1986, was directed by [[United States|American]] artists [[Robert Longo]] and [[Gretchen Bender]]. 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 [[Lithography|lithographs]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kinoteca.net/Text/Bizarre.htm |first=Michael |last=Shamberg |author-link=Michael Shamberg |title=Bizarre Love Triangle |work=kinoteca.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060115071858/http://www.kinoteca.net/Text/Bizarre.htm |archive-date=15 January 2006}}</ref> 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.<ref>"Gretchen Bender, Tracking The Thrill", Page 62, "Music Video's",2013.</ref>


==Track listings==
==Track listings==
{{track listing
{{track listing
| all_writing     = [[Gillian Gilbert]], [[Peter Hook]], [[Stephen Morris (musician)|Stephen Morris]], [[Bernard Sumner]]
| all_writing   = [[Gillian Gilbert]], [[Peter Hook]], [[Stephen Morris (musician)|Stephen Morris]], [[Bernard Sumner]]
| headline       = 7-inch: FAC 163 (UK)
| headline     = 7-inch: FAC 163 (UK)
 
| title1       = Bizarre Love Triangle
| title1         = Bizarre Love Triangle
| note1        = Shep Pettibone Remix UK 7-inch edit
| length1         = 3:43
| length1       = 3:43
| title2         = Bizarre Dub Triangle
| title2       = Bizarre Dub Triangle
| length2         = 3:23
| length2       = 3:23
}}
}}
{{track listing
{{track listing
| headline       = 7-inch: Qwest 7-28421 (US)
| headline     = 7-inch: Qwest 7-28421 (US) and 7-inch: FAC-26 (Canada)
 
| title1       = Bizarre Love Triangle
| title1          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| note1        = Shep Pettibone Remix US 7-inch edit
| note1          = edit
| length1       = 3:36
| length1        = 3:36
| title2       = Every Little Counts
| title2          = Every Little Counts
| length2       = 4:29
| length2        = 4:29
}}
{{track listing
| headline        = 7-inch: FAC-26 (Canada)
 
| title1         = Bizarre Love Triangle
| length1         = 3:36
| title2         = Every Little Counts
| length2         = 4:29
}}
}}
* Initial pressings (matrix FAC-26-A) were the UK 7-inch mix; later pressings (matrix FAC-26-A2) were the Canadian 7-inch mix
* Initial pressings (matrix FAC-26-A) were the UK 7-inch mix; later pressings (matrix FAC-26-A2) were the Canadian 7-inch mix
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| title1          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| title1          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| length1        = 3:36
| length1        = 3:36
| note1          = Shep Pettibone Remix US 7-inch edit
| title2          = [[State of the Nation (New Order song)|State of the Nation]]
| title2          = [[State of the Nation (New Order song)|State of the Nation]]
| length2        = 3:27
| length2        = 3:27
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| title1          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| title1          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| length1        = 6:44
| length1        = 6:44
| note1          = Shep Pettibone extended remix
| title2          = Bizarre Dub Triangle
| title2          = Bizarre Dub Triangle
| length2        = 7:02
| length2        = 7:02
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| title1          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| title1          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| length1        = 6:41
| length1        = 6:41
| note1          = Shep Pettibone extended remix
| title2          = I Don't Care
| title2          = I Don't Care
| note2          = Actually "Bizarre Dub Triangle"
| note2          = Actually "Bizarre Dub Triangle"
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| title4          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| title4          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| length4        = 3:43
| length4        = 3:43
| note4          = Shep Pettibone Remix UK 7-inch edit
}}
}}
* 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"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://neworder-recycle.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/recycle-13-bizarre-love-triangle.html |title=Recycle 13: Bizarre Love Triangle |date=5 September 2009 |work=neworder-recycle.blogspot |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006071852/http://neworder-recycle.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/recycle-13-bizarre-love-triangle.html |archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>
* 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"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://neworder-recycle.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/recycle-13-bizarre-love-triangle.html |title=Recycle 13: Bizarre Love Triangle |date=5 September 2009 |work=neworder-recycle.blogspot |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006071852/http://neworder-recycle.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/recycle-13-bizarre-love-triangle.html |archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>
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| length1        = 4:20
| length1        = 4:20
| title2          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| title2          = Bizarre Love Triangle
| note2          = Extended Dance Mix
| note2          = extended dance mix
| length2        = 6:44
| length2        = 6:44
| title3          = I Don't Care
| title3          = I Don't Care
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{{single chart|UK|56|date=19861109|artist=New Odrder|song=Bizarre Love Triangle|access-date=25 December 2015}}
{{single chart|UK|56|date=19861109|artist=New Odrder|song=Bizarre Love Triangle|access-date=25 December 2015}}
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{{single chart|Billboarddanceclubplay|4|artist=New Order|access-date=25 December 2015|note=remix—with "[[State of the Nation (New Order song)|State of the Nation]]"}}
{{single chart|Billboarddanceclubplay|4|artist=New Order|access-date=25 December 2015|note=remix—with "[[State of the Nation (New Order song)|State of the Nation]]" (remix)}}
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{{single chart|Billboarddancesales|8|artist=New Order|access-date=11 January 2023|note=remix—with "State of the Nation"}}
{{single chart|Billboarddancesales|8|artist=New Order|access-date=11 January 2023|note=remix—with "State of the Nation" (remix)}}
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{{single chart|Canadatopsingles|53|chartid=2508|song=Bizarre Love Triangle|access-date=25 December 2015|refname=can1994}}
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! Chart (1995)
! Chart (1995)
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! Position
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|Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/sPdqqRt.jpg|title=Kent Music Report No 701 – 28 December 1987 > National Top 100 Singles for 1987|publisher=[[Kent Music Report]], via Imgur.com|access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref>
|Australia (Australian Music Report)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://i.imgur.com/sPdqqRt.jpg|title=Kent Music Report No 701 – 28 December 1987 > National Top 100 Singles for 1987|publisher=[[Kent Music Report]], via Imgur.com|access-date=11 December 2019}}</ref>
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==Cover versions and remixes==
==Cover versions and remixes==
* Australian band [[Frente!]] released an acoustic cover version of the song in 1994, re-imagining it as a folk ballad. Issued as part of the ''[[Lonely (Frente! EP)|Lonely]]'' EP in their home country, the cover peaked at No. 7 on the [[ARIA Charts|ARIA Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Frente%21&titel=Lonely&cat=s|title=Australian-charts.com – Frente! – Lonely|publisher=[[ARIA Charts|ARIA Top 50 Singles]]|access-date=17 November 2019}}</ref> and became a hit overseas, reaching No. 49 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/frente/chart-history/hot-100|title=Frente! Chart History (Hot 100)|magazine=Billboard|access-date=7 April 2018|archive-date=17 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517110125/https://www.billboard.com/music/frente/chart-history/hot-100|url-status=dead}}</ref> No. 53 in Canada,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.2505&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.2505.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.2505|title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 2505|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]|publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]]|access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref> and No. 76 in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/32295/frente/|title=FRENTE Chart History|publisher=The Official UK Charts Company|access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref> In Australia, it came in at No. 63 on the 1994 year-end chart and was certified gold for shipments of over 35,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://i.imgur.com/LHigR9p.jpg|title=The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles 1994|publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025122130/http://i.imgur.com/LHigR9p.jpg|archive-date=25 October 2015|access-date=17 November 2019}}</ref>
* Australian band [[Frente!]] released an acoustic cover version of the song in 1994, re-imagining it as a folk ballad. Issued as part of the ''[[Lonely (Frente! EP)|Lonely]]'' EP in their home country, the cover peaked at No. 7 on the [[ARIA Charts|ARIA Singles Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Frente%21&titel=Lonely&cat=s|title=Australian-charts.com – Frente! – Lonely|publisher=[[ARIA Charts|ARIA Top 50 Singles]]|access-date=17 November 2019}}</ref> and became a hit overseas, reaching No. 49 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/frente/chart-history/hot-100|title=Frente! Chart History (Hot 100)|magazine=Billboard|access-date=7 April 2018|archive-date=17 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517110125/https://www.billboard.com/music/frente/chart-history/hot-100|url-status=dead}}</ref> No. 53 in Canada,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.2505&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.2505.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.2505|title=Top RPM Singles: Issue 2505|magazine=[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]|publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]]|access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref> and No. 76 in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/32295/frente/|title=FRENTE Chart History|publisher=The Official UK Charts Company|access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref> In Australia, it came in at No. 63 on the 1994 year-end chart and was certified gold for shipments of over 35,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://i.imgur.com/LHigR9p.jpg|title=The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles 1994|publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025122130/http://i.imgur.com/LHigR9p.jpg|archive-date=25 October 2015|access-date=17 November 2019}}</ref>
* The song was [[remix]]ed in 2005 by [[the Crystal Method]] (for their album ''[[Community Service II]]'') and by [[Richard X]] (for the New Order single "[[Waiting for the Sirens' Call (song)|Waiting for the Sirens' Call]]").{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}


==References==
==References==
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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). The song reached No. 4 on the US Billboard Dance/Disco Club Play chart and No. 5 on the Australian Kent Music Report in March 1987. It failed to enter the top 40 of both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100; however, a new mix included on The Best of New Order was released in 1994 and charted at No. 98 on the Hot 100. In 2003, the song was ranked No. 204 on Rolling StoneTemplate:'s "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."[2]

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.[3]

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).[4]

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."[5] NME praised the song as New Order's "finest pop moment" and credited its simplicity in comparison to previous singles such as "Blue Monday".[6] In 2004, the song was ranked No. 204 in Rolling StoneTemplate:'s list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."[2] In 2013, Stereogum ranked the song No. 2 on their list of the 10 greatest New Order songs,[7] and in 2021, The Guardian ranked the song No. 7 on their list of the 30 greatest New Order songs.[8]

Music video

The music video, which was released in November 1986, was directed by American artists Robert Longo and Gretchen Bender. 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.[9] 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.[10]

Track listings

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  • Initial pressings (matrix FAC-26-A) were the UK 7-inch mix; later pressings (matrix FAC-26-A2) were the Canadian 7-inch mix

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  • 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"[11]

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Charts

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Cover versions and remixes

  • Australian band Frente! released an acoustic cover version of the song in 1994, re-imagining it as a folk ballad. Issued as part of the Lonely EP in their home country, the cover peaked at No. 7 on the ARIA Singles Chart[14] and became a hit overseas, reaching No. 49 on the US Billboard Hot 100,[15] No. 53 in Canada,[16] and No. 76 in the United Kingdom.[17] In Australia, it came in at No. 63 on the 1994 year-end chart and was certified gold for shipments of over 35,000.[18]

References

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