"Video 5 8 6" | ||||
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Single by New Order | ||||
Released | 22 September 1997 | |||
Recorded | 1982 | |||
Genre | Electronic | |||
Length | 22:23 | |||
Label | Touch | |||
Producer(s) | New Order | |||
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AllMusic | [1] |
"Video 5 8 6", originally titled "Prime 5 8 6", [2] [3] is an electronic instrumental piece written and produced in 1982[ citation needed] by the British group New Order. [4] In December 1982, the track was initially released in two sections in Touch Music's first cassette magazine, Feature Mist. [2] [4] [5] Touch re-released the entire track as a CD single in 1997. [2] [5]
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". [2] 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. [2]
On release it reached #86 on the main British singles chart [6] 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.[ citation needed]
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.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Video 5-8-6" (Performed by New Order) | 22:25 |
2. | "As You Said" (Performed by Joy Division - only included on 12" versions TONE 7.1) | 2:01 |
Chart (1997) | Peak position |
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UK Singles Chart [6] | 86 |
UK Indie Singles | 19 |
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