Confusion (song)

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"Confusion"
Single by New Order
Released	August 1983
Format	12" (1983) CD (1995, 2002)
Recorded	???
Genre	Electro
Length	8:12 (1983)
Label	Factory Records
Producer(s)	New Order, Arthur Baker
Chart positions
#12 (UK Singles Chart) #5 (US Club Play Singles) #71 (US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks)
New Order singles chronology
"Blue Monday" (1983)	"Confusion" (1983)	"Thieves Like Us" (1984)

Confusion is a single released by British group New Order in August 1983 with the catalogue number FAC 93. It was the follow-up to their massive club hit "Blue Monday". The song is produced by influential New York DJ Arthur Baker. As a result it was recorded in New York, a first for the band, and the video was also shot in the city. Three remixes served as b-sides on the initial 12" release: "Confused Beats", "Confusion Instrumental" and "Confusion Rough Mix".

A re-recorded "Confusion" as well as the original "Confusion Instrumental" appear on the group's 1987 Substance release. The track reappeared in 1998 as part of the Blade film soundtrack with a radical techno remix known as the "Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix", which had previously appeared on the 1995 remix collection, The Rest of New Order. This was sampled by Public Domain as the basis for "Operation Blade", a UK #5 in 2000.

[edit] Track listing

12": FAC 93 [Original Factory 1983 release]

1. "Confusion [12" Version]" (8:12)
2. "Confusion [Confusion Beats]" (5:19)
3. "Confusion [Confused Instrumental]" (7:38)
4. "Confusion [Rough Mix]" (8:04)

12": QAL-249 [Minimal Records 1990 release]

1. "Confusion [Alternative Mix]" (5:30)
2. "Confusion [Essential Mix]" (5:10)
3. "Confusion [Trip 1-Ambient Confusion]" (3:40)
4. "Confusion [Accapella]" (1:17)
5. "Confusion [Con-om-fus-ars-ion]" (7:05)
6. "Confusion [Ooh-Wee Dub]" (6:50)

CD: FCD260 [ffrr 1995 release]

1. "Confusion [Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix]" (10:11)
2. "Confusion [Pump Panel Flotation Mix]" (9:15)

CD: WACKT002 [Whacked Records 2002 release]

1. "Confusion [Koma And Bones Edit]" (3:45)
2. "Confusion [Arthur Baker 2002 Edit]" (3:09)
3. "Confusion [Electroclash Edit]" (3:40)
4. "Confusion [Outputs Nu-Rocktro Edit]" (3:41)
5. "Confusion [Asto Dazed Edit]" (4:22)

New Order
Bernard Sumner | Peter Hook | Stephen Morris | Phil Cunningham
Gillian Gilbert
Discography
Albums: Movement | Power, Corruption & Lies | Low-Life | Brotherhood | Technique | Republic | Get Ready | Waiting for the Sirens' Call
Compilation Albums: Substance | The Peel Sessions | BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert | The Best of New Order | The Rest of New Order | International | Retro | In Session | Singles
Extended plays: 1981-1982 New Order | Peel Sessions 1982 | Peel Sessions 1981 | The Peter Saville Show Soundtrack
Singles: "Ceremony" | "Procession" | "Everything's Gone Green" | "Temptation" | "Blue Monday" | "Confusion" | "Thieves Like Us" | "Murder" | "The Perfect Kiss" | "Sub-culture" | "Shellshock" | "State of the Nation" | "Bizarre Love Triangle" | "True Faith" | "Touched by the Hand of God" | "Blue Monday 1988" | "Fine Time" | "Round & Round" | "Run 2" | "World in Motion" | "Regret" | "Ruined in a Day" | World (The Price of Love)" | "Spooky" | "True Faith-94" | "1963" | "Blue Monday-95" | "Bizarre Love Triangle" (US re-release) | "Video 5 8 6" | "Crystal" | "60 Miles an Hour" | "Someone Like You" | "Here to Stay" | "Krafty" | "Jetstream" | "Waiting for the Sirens' Call" | "Guilt is a Useless Emotion"