“Confusion” by New Order

"Confusion" was the sixth New Order single, out on Factory in August 1983 as catalogue number FAC 93, and it had the unenviable job of following "Blue Monday". The band handled it by teaming up with New York DJ Arthur Baker, who produced it with them and shares the writing credit with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert. The result is New Order's chilly synth-pop put through an electro workout, and the dancefloors bit: it reached number five on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart and topped the UK indie chart.

The video cuts concert footage of the band with the club life of the Fun House, with Baker and John "Jellybean" Benitez at work. The band re-recorded it for Substance in 1987, and in France the instrumental became the theme for the Rockline segment on Les Enfants du Rock.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.