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Brotherhood by New Order
Brotherhood is an album by New Order, released in 1986. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 191 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Bizarre Love Triangle”, on 92 lists and voted number one three times.
Brotherhood, New Order's fourth album, came out on Factory on 29 September 1986, and it's a record with two faces. Roughly one side leans on guitars and chilly, driving post-punk, the other on synthesizers and the dance floor, and the fun is hearing a band pull in both directions at once without snapping.
The prize is "Bizarre Love Triangle", a shimmering, heartsick electro-pop rush of sequencers and yearning that became their breakthrough single in the United States and Australia. Nothing else on the record got a single release or a video of its own, although most CD editions tacked on "State of the Nation". "Paradise" hits hard, all nervous energy.
Peter Saville's sleeve is as cool as the music: a camera study of a titanium-zinc alloy plate, and some early copies even came wrapped in shiny metallic packaging.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Brotherhood on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bizarre Love Triangle#165 of all time | 92 | #1 | 3 | 1986–2026 | |
| 2 | True Faith#347 of all time | 78 | #3 | – | 1987–2026 | |
| 3 | 1963 | 14 | #15 | – | 1987–1996 | |
| 4 | Touched by the Hand of God | 6 | #8 | – | 1987–2003 | |
| 5 | Paradise | 1 | #63 | – | 1986 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.