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“Vanishing Point” by New Order
From the album Technique (1989)
“Vanishing Point” by New Order appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1989 and 2003. It was first released in 1989 on the album Technique. Its best result is #27 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1989. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #68 alternative song of 1989, #5,671 alternative song of all time and #493 of the '80s.
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"Vanishing Point" is from Technique, the fifth New Order album, released by Factory in 1989, and it comes from the moment the band's dance-rock was soaking up the acid house and Balearic beat sounds of the day. Part of the record was cut on Ibiza, and Bernard Sumner's nights at Shoom in London fed into it; he wrote all of the lyrics, while the music is credited to all four members, Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris, and the band produced it themselves.
Hook has joked that the sessions were a tug-of-war between him and the sequencers, with him fighting to keep New Order a rock band, and that tension is the whole charm of the album: machines pulsing, a bassist refusing to go quietly. Technique became their first album to top the UK charts.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 57 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1989 | 107 |
| 1989 | 27 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1989 | 50 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1212 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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