"Video 5 8 6", originally titled "Prime 5 8 6",[1][2] is an electronic instrumental piece written and produced in 1982[citation needed] by the British group New Order.[3] In December 1982, the track was initially released in two sections in Touch Music's first cassette magazine, Feature Mist.[1][3][4] Touch re-released the entire track as a CD single in 1997.[1][4]
Composed primarily by Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris, "Prime 5 8 6"/"Video 5 8 6" was an early version of "5 8 6" (from Power, Corruption & Lies), which contained rhythm elements that would later surface on "Ultraviolence" and the 1983 hit "Blue Monday".[1] After Factory Records' Tony Wilson asked New Order for twenty minutes of "pap", it was first played in public during the opening of The Haçienda on 21 May 1982.[1]
On release it reached #81 on the main British singles chart and #19 on the British indie chart. Bassist Peter Hook has said the key to the title "5 8 6" can be found in another of the group's songs, "Ecstacy"; 5, 8 then 6 is the song's bar structure.[citation needed]
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- "Video 5 8 6" – 22:25
- "As You Said" (Joy Division song, 12" version only)
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