Video 5 8 6
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other Template:Album ratings "Video 5 8 6", originally titled "Prime 5 8 6",[1][2] is an electronic instrumental piece and twenty-fourth single written and produced in 1982Script error: No such module "Unsubst". by the British group New Order.[3] In December 1982, the track was initially released in two sections in Touch Music's first cassette magazine, Feature Mist.[1][3][4] Touch re-released the entire track as a CD single in 1997.[1][4]
Composed primarily by Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris, "Prime 5 8 6"/"Video 5 8 6" was an early version of "5 8 6" (from Power, Corruption & Lies), which contained rhythm elements that would later surface on "Ultraviolence" and the 1983 hit "Blue Monday".[1] After Factory Records' Tony Wilson asked New Order for twenty minutes of "pap", it was first played in public during the opening of The Haçienda on 21 May 1982.[1]
On release it reached #86 on the main British singles chart[5] and #19 on the British indie chart. Bassist Peter Hook has said the key to the title "5 8 6" can be found in another of the group's songs, "Ecstasy"; 5, 8 then 6 is the song's bar structure.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
A video was released for the song called Primitive 586 on the FACT 56, IKON 3 VHS and BETA tape 'A Factory Video', the footage is mostly primitive 80s computer graphics.
Legacy
Dave Simpson of The Guardian, including "Video 5 8 6" in a list of ten of New Order's best tracks, called it a "motorik electronic odyssey" and added: "Eventually released as a CD single in 1997, this combination of endlessly repetitive groove and electro bassline is as hypnotic as anything they recorded."[6]
Track listing
Chart positions
| Chart (1997) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Singles Chart[5] | 86 |
| UK Indie Singles | 19 |
References
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- ↑ a b c d e Johnson, Mark. An Ideal For Living: An History of Joy Division. London: Bobcat Books, 1984. Pg. 103.
- ↑ Flowers, Claude. New Order + Joy Division: Dreams Never End. London: Omnibus Press, 1995. Pg. 51.
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