“Get The Message” by Electronic

Electronic brought together Bernard Sumner of New Order and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, and "Get the Message" is the band's founding idea in miniature: New Order's synthesizers wired to the Smiths' guitar sound. The second single off Electronic, their debut album from 1991, it was a hit around the world.

Marr wrote the music, and Sumner wrote the lyric while engineer Owen Morris played the track back to him every four bars. Marr had no wish to pile guitar on guitar, but Sumner talked him into it, and at the end Primal Scream singer Denise Johnson adds a vocal of her own; she was back five years later singing on several songs from the band's second album, Raise the Pressure. The first releases were packaged by Trevor Johnson, working as Johnson/Panas, who also designed the album.

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