Confusion (song)

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“Confusion”
“Confusion” cover
Single by New Order
Released August 1983
Format 12" (1983)
CD (1995, 2002)
Recorded  ???
Genre Electro
Length 8:12 (1983)
Label Factory - FAC 93
Producer New Order, Arthur Baker
New Order singles chronology
"Blue Monday"
(1983)		 "Confusion"
(1983)		 "Thieves Like Us"
(1984)

Confusion is a single released by British group New Order in August 1983 with the catalogue number FAC 93. It was the follow-up to their massive club hit "Blue Monday". The song is produced by influential New York DJ Arthur Baker. As a result it was recorded in New York, a first for the band. Three remixes served as b-sides on the initial 12" release: "Confused Beats", "Confusion Instrumental" and "Confusion Rough Mix".

Contents

[edit] Video

The video for the single features live footage of the band in concert, intercut with images of nightlife in New York City and producer Arthur Baker at work.

[edit] Legacy

A re-recorded "Confusion" as well as the original "Confusion Instrumental" appear on the group's 1987 Substance release. The track reappeared on the 1995 remix collection The Rest of New Order as a radical acid techno remix by Pump Panel. This new version was used in 1998 as part of the Blade film soundtrack.

The song has also been sampled on two popular dance tracks, "Operation Blade" by Public Domain and "Phat Bass" by Warp Bros and Aquagen. Both of these songs came out in the UK in the same month, December 2000, a fact that was played up by the latter song by including the sticker "The original Blade theme - accept no imitations" on the front of the CD single. Both songs reached the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] UK 12" - FAC 93

  1. "Confusion" (8:12)
  2. "Confusion Beats" (5:19)
  3. "Confused Instrumental" (7:38)
  4. "Confusion (Rough Mix)" (8:04)

[edit] 12": QAL-249 [Minimal Records 1990 release]

  1. "Confusion (Alternative Mix)" (5:30)
  2. "Confusion (Essential Mix)" (5:10)
  3. "Confusion (Trip 1-Ambient Confusion)" (3:40)
  4. "Confusion (Accapella)" (1:17)
  5. "Confusion (Con-om-fus-ars-ion)" (7:05)
  6. "Confusion (Ooh-Wee Dub)" (6:50)

[edit] CD: FCD260 [ffrr 1995 release]

  1. "Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)" (10:11)
  2. "Confusion (Pump Panel Flotation Mix)" (9:15)

[edit] CD: WACKT002 [Whacked Records 2002 release]

  1. "Confusion (Koma And Bones Edit)" (3:45)
  2. "Confusion (Arthur Baker 2002 Edit)" (3:09)
  3. "Confusion (Electroclash Edit)" (3:40)
  4. "Confusion (Outputs Nu-Rocktro Edit)" (3:41)
  5. "Confusion (Asto Dazed Edit)" (4:22)


New Order
Singles
Singles: "Ceremony" | "Procession" | "Everything's Gone Green" | "Temptation" | "Blue Monday" | "Confusion" | "Thieves Like Us" | "Murder" | "The Perfect Kiss" | "Sub-culture" | "Shellshock" | "State of the Nation" | "Bizarre Love Triangle" | "True Faith" | "Touched by the Hand of God" | "Blue Monday 1988" | "Fine Time" | "Round & Round" | "Run 2" | "World in Motion" | "Regret" | "Ruined in a Day" | "World (The Price of Love)" | "Spooky" | "True Faith-94" | "1963" | "Blue Monday-95" | "Bizarre Love Triangle" (US re-release) | "Video 5 8 6" | "Crystal" | "60 Miles an Hour" | "Someone Like You" | "Here to Stay" | "Krafty" | "Jetstream" | "Waiting for the Sirens' Call" | "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion"
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