Crystal (song)

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“Crystal”
“Crystal” cover
Single by New Order
from the album Get Ready
B-side "Behind Closed Doors"
Released 13 August 2001
Format CD, 12"
Recorded 2001
Genre Alternative
Length 4:20
Label London
Writer(s) New Order
Producer Steve Osborne
New Order singles chronology
"Video 5 8 6"
(1997)		 "Crystal"
(2001)		 "60 Miles an Hour"
(2001)

"Crystal" was the first single to be released from the 2001 New Order album Get Ready, which entered the UK charts at number 8.

Backing vocals for the track are provided by Dawn Zee, who regularly tours with the band.

The song is tuned flat. Whenever New Order performs this song live, the song's key is a semitone up.

Contents

[edit] Release

Singer/guitarist Bernard Sumner originally gifted the song to German record label Mastermind for Success and it was recorded by label artist Corvin Dalek. However, DJ Pete Tong heard the song and declared it to be the best New Order single since "Blue Monday", leading Sumner to reconsider the gift and have New Order record and release it.

A special version was also released that featured classic New Order and Joy Division songs from the Reading Festival, 30th August 2001. It also includes a brand new cover. [1]

The single was B-sided by a variety of remixes, and an original song titled "Behind Closed Doors".

[edit] Marketing

The video, directed by Johan Renck (otherwise known as Stakka Bo) does not feature New Order; instead, it depicts a younger band miming to New Order's music and words. At the end, a large number of people coming on stage towards the end to pull them off stage.

The fictional band is named "The Killers" (the name appears on the bass drum in the video). This name later inspired a real band of the same name, who lifted a number of elements of the layout of the set in the "Crystal" video for the their own video "Somebody Told Me". In 2005, at Scotland's T in the Park festival, New Order performed the song with The Killers' frontman Brandon Flowers singing the main vocals in a guest performance.

The DVD single contains an alternate video, set to the "Special Circumstances Mix" of the song, and directed by Gina Birch and Simon Tyszko. It depicts a motorcycle ride through city streets at night, viewed through two side-by-side shots.

The cover art for the CD and DVD shows model Nicolette Krebitz removing her trousers.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] UK CD1 - NUOCD8

  1. "Crystal (Radio Edit)" (4:19)
  2. "Behind Closed Doors" (5:24)
  3. "Crystal (Digweed & Muir 'Bedrock' Mix Edit)" (10:06)

[edit] UK CD2 - NUCDP8

  1. "Crystal (Digweed & Muir 'Bedrock' Radio Edit)" (4:16)
  2. "Crystal (Lee Coombs Remix)" (8:44)
  3. "Crystal (John Creamer & Stephane K Main Remix Edit)" (6:39)

[edit] UK DVD - NUDVD8

  1. "Crystal [video]" (5:19)
  2. "Behind Closed Doors" (5:24)
  3. "Temptation [video]" (0:30)
  4. "Isolation [video]" (0:30)
  5. "True Faith [video]" (0:30)

[edit] UK CD special edition (Cat No. unknown)

  1. Crystal
  2. True Faith
  3. Temptation
  4. Atmosphere
  5. Isolation
  • Numerous Crystal 12" records have been released; each featuring differing remixes.
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"