“Run 2” by New Order

Scott Litt took "Run", a track from New Order's fifth studio album, Technique, and turned it into "Run 2", which Factory released on 28 August 1989 as the album's third and last single, the band's nineteenth in all. Litt built it for radio: most of the long instrumental run-out is gone, a final pass at the chorus closes it, and much of the echo and the stacked synthesizers are peeled back so Bernard Sumner's vocal and Peter Hook's bass sit right up front.

For all that effort, it came out only in the UK, with just 20,000 copies of the Factory 12-inch pressed plus 500 seven-inch promos. The songwriting credit reads Gillian Gilbert, Hook, Stephen Morris, Sumner and, more surprisingly, John Denver. On the flip sits "MTO", which recycles a single line from their earlier hit "Fine Time".

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