When the first few beats begin playing for New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle, it is almost immediately recognizable to me and I think “hey cool, it’s NO’s BLT; such a cool song from the 80s, I wish they played more 80s”. I’m not a New Order fan, insomuch that I like New Wave and they exist in that genre; but Bizarre Love Triangle has a great beat (including the distinctive bassline intro), a good synth melody, and sufficient listens from when I was growing up.

That ends up making BLT the epitome of 80s New Wave to me. I think of New Wave consisting of a guy who sounds pretty good at karaoke backed by synths and a dance beat. For reasons unknown (mostly because I never grew up with it), I really enjoy listening to the 80s New Wave style now. Perhaps it’s because New Wave combines several music techniques that I like, such as dance music, and electronica. Or maybe I just like the 80s production techniques (I can’t say the same for 90s or 00s).

I find it surprising that I still enjoy listening to BLT so much though. Nowadays I look to the lyrics to give a song more depth, and well this is not one of BLT’s strong points. Combined with the fact that the singing is not that great, and I’ve heard it so many times over the last 2 decades, you would think I would be tired of it rather than thinking that it is one of my all-time favorite songs!

My Fave Songs is a recurring feature on my blog about the songs in my iTunes playlist which I rate as 5 stars.

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