We're like crystal, we break easy
I'm a poor man, if you leave me
I'm applauded, then forgotten
It was summer, now it's autumn
I don't know what to say, you don't care anyway
I'm a man in a rage (just tell me what I've got to do), with a girl I betrayed
Here comes love, it's like honey
You can't buy it with money, you're not alone anymore, (whenever you're here with me),
You shock me to the core, you shock me to the core
We're like crystal, it's not easy
With your love, you could feed me
Every man, and every woman
Needs someone, So keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming
I don't know what to say, you don't care anyway
I'm a man in a rage (just tell me what I've got to do), with a girl I betrayed
Here comes love, it's like honey
You can't buy it with money, you're not alone anymore, (whenever you're here with me),
You shock me to the core, you shock me to the core
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep it coming |
Original Artist
New Order
Live Statistics
Credits
Written by New Order.
Produced by Steve Osbourne for 140db.
Engineered by Bruno Ellingham and Andrew Robinson.
Programmed by Pete Davis.
Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent.
Mix engineer and protools Jan "Stan" Kybert.
Backing vocals by Dawn Zee.
Official Versions
Advanced Promo Version (7:22)
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Album Version (6:51)
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Alternative Mix (6:51)
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Big Day Out, Gold Coast 20 January 2002 (6:54)
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Bootleg Remix (?:??)
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Digweed & Muir "Bedrock" Mix Edit (10:06)
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Digweed & Muir Bedrock Dub (10:36)
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Digweed & Muir Bedrock Radio Edit (4:15)
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Digweed & Muir Bedrock Remix (12:53)
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Digweed & Muir Bedrock Remix 7 Minutes Edit (7:19)
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Electric Remix (8:03)
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John Creamer & Stephane K Intro Mix (3:22)
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John Creamer & Stephane K Main Mix (11:25)
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John Creamer & Stephane K Main Remix Edit (6:39)
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Lee Coombs BOC Remix (?:??)
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Lee Coombs Dub (7:04)
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Lee Coombs New Remix (?:??)
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Lee Coombs Remix (8:44)
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Mix by Spike (7:38)
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Radio Edit (4:19)
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Special Circumstance Mix Video (4:15)
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Video (4:19)
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Bands that covered this song
Notes
How did 'Crystal' get written?
Bernard Sumner: "'Crystal's' an interesting track because that was something I wrote here at home and it was kind of written, and there's still a version around of it as a dance track really, with drum loops and like a house bass line and you know, a very synthetic track. And I'd just written it before New Order had got back together, before we'd started working on the album, I just had it lying around and said 'how about us... I've got this track' and I just brought it in, I said 'how about us doing a different version of this,' you know, 'cos I didn't think the house direction was suitable for the direction that we were going in.
"So I played it to Steve Osborne and I was like 'oh we've got all these tracks and we've got this other track as well,' you know I was quite dismissive of it really because I wasn't that bothered about whether we used it or not and it just didn't seem to fit in really. And he really liked it so we took it down to Rockfield Studios in Wales and worked on it and it made this amazing transformation from a banging dance track to a kind of guitar orchestra. It's a really kind of spiky hard-edged sound. That gave us our direction really on the rest of the album because that was the first track we worked on and we got it and we got it in the bag and put it in the pocket and we thought right that's very interesting that, that's really interesting that kind of style does set the shape of the album and it was good."
Words from Corvin Dalek:
"Crystal was originally planned as a track exclusively for mfs (Mastermind For Success, Corvin Dalek's label) which bernard gave to mfs label manager, Mark Reeder. He wrote the song for Mark and also sang it and i and a couple of other MFS artists made the music for our versions (not remixes). But after Pete Tong (BBC Radio 1 DJ) heard them, he thought it was the best New Order single he´d heard since Blue Monday (not knowing that Bernard had given the song to Mark as a present) and the project was then rearranged to become a New Order record.
What that meant was that MFS were not actually allowed to release it as originally planned - in june 2000 - until New Order knew what they were going to do with it.
So much time has gone by without it getting released. Pete let me put it on my wet&hard compilation album Hotkunst and in the meantime we have now finally been granted permission to release it in Germany. The vocals have been used on the New Order version of the song (theirs is more guitar sounding) and the track sounds nothing like the mfs versions. Their track was produced by Steve Osborne and mixed by Mark Stent."
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