Today marks the 35th anniversary of the release of New Order's fourth studio album, Brotherhood. It was kind of a split album, with half being post-punk and half being synth pop. The album was the band's third in a string of seven consecutive Top 10 studio albums on the UK album chart, reaching #9. It didn't do quite as well across the pond, topping out at #117 on the Billboard album chart. Despite having had seven Top 40 hits on the UK pop chart, the band hadn't yet broken through in the U.S., other than on the Billboard Dance chart.
"Bizarre Love Triangle" helped break the band in the U.S. Even though it only sniffed the Billboard Hot 100, hitting #98, and oddly enough, that wasn't until 1995, when the band's "best of" album was released -- I was shocked to see that it was that low -- it went to #4 on the Billboard Dance chart. Maybe the song was played more on Z-95 in Chicago than in other places, but I remember it being bigger. It's one of those songs that immediately takes me back to the mid '80s and grade school as soon as I hear it. Regardless, the song is a synth pop/new wave masterpiece. The video is pleasantly weird.
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