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“Touched by the Hand of God” by New Order
From the album Brotherhood (1986)
“Touched by the Hand of God” by New Order appears on 6 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1987 and 2003. It was first released in 1986 on the album Brotherhood. Its best result is #8 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #28 alternative song of 1988, #5,688 alternative song of all time and #139 of the '80s.
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New Order made "Touched by the Hand of God" for the soundtrack of the film Salvation!, and when it came out as a Factory single in December 1987, it was an Arthur Baker remix doing the talking, with a dub version, "Touched by the Hand of Dub", on the flip. The band kept the production credit for themselves.
It's New Order at their most unashamedly dancefloor-minded, a skipping, glittering synth-pop pulse with a melancholy undertow. It never belonged to a studio album, though it was later added to the 2008 collector's edition of Brotherhood, and it turned up on The Best of New Order in 1994 and, remixed, on The Rest of New Order a year later. In America it rode out as the B-side of "Blue Monday 1988", though the dance charts billed the pair as a double A-side.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 47 | WLIR / WDRE Long Island, NY | WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1987 | 99 |
| 1988 | 8 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1988 | 107 |
| 1988 | 45 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1988 | 91 |
| 1988 | 51 | WLIR / WDRE Long Island, NY | WLIR Top 100 Songs of 1988 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 348 | Live 105 | Live 105 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (Memorial Day 1988) | 501 |
| 2003 | 1849 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
Also listed as: Touched By the Hand of God.
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