“Shellshock” by New Order

"Shellshock" hit the Pretty in Pink soundtrack in early 1986, and New Order put it out as their eleventh single on 17 March 1986, a month later. John Robie co-produced and shares the writing credit with Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, and the track takes loose inspiration from "One More Shot", the 1983 club hit Robie made as C-Bank with Jenny Burton singing.

It's New Order at their most dance-floor ready, all gleaming synths and a club-sized pulse, and it became an international hit, charting in Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The 12-inch stretched it out to nearly ten minutes, backed with a dub called "Shellcock", while the version on Substance is that remix trimmed down, a whole verse gone. The full 12-inch finally came to streaming in 2022.

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