Video 5 8 6

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox song Template:Album ratings "Video 5 8 6", originally titled "Prime 5 8 6",<ref name="Johnson, Mark 1984. Pg. 103">Johnson, Mark. An Ideal For Living: An History of Joy Division. London: Bobcat Books, 1984. Pg. 103.</ref><ref>Flowers, Claude. New Order + Joy Division: Dreams Never End. London: Omnibus Press, 1995. Pg. 51.</ref> is an electronic instrumental piece and twenty-fourth single written and produced in 1982Template:Citation needed by the British group New Order.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In December 1982, the track was initially released in two sections in Touch Music's first cassette magazine, Feature Mist.<ref name="Johnson, Mark 1984. Pg. 103"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name="touchmusic.org.uk">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Touch re-released the entire track as a CD single in 1997.<ref name="Johnson, Mark 1984. Pg. 103"/><ref name="touchmusic.org.uk"/>

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".<ref name="Johnson, Mark 1984. Pg. 103"/> 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.<ref name="Johnson, Mark 1984. Pg. 103"/>

On release it reached #86 on the main British singles chart<ref name="ChartlogUK">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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, "Ecstasy"; 5, 8 then 6 is the song's bar structure.Template:Citation needed

A video was released for the song called Primitive 586 on the FACT 56, IKON 3 VHS and BETA tape 'A Factory Video', the footage is mostly primitive 80s computer graphics.

Legacy

Dave Simpson of The Guardian, including "Video 5 8 6" in a list of ten of New Order's best tracks, called it a "motorik electronic odyssey" and added: "Eventually released as a CD single in 1997, this combination of endlessly repetitive groove and electro bassline is as hypnotic as anything they recorded."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Chart positions

Chart (1997)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart<ref name="ChartlogUK"/>	86
UK Indie Singles	19