"Confusion" | ||||
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![]() UK single | ||||
Single by Electric Light Orchestra | ||||
from the album Discovery | ||||
A-side | "Last Train to London" (UK) | |||
B-side | "Poker" (US) | |||
Released | 8 October 1979 (US) | |||
Recorded | 1979 | |||
Studio | Musicland Studios, Munich | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Length | 3:42 | |||
Label | Jet | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jeff Lynne | |||
Producer(s) | Jeff Lynne | |||
Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology | ||||
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Discovery track listing | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Confusion" on YouTube |
"Confusion" is the second song from the 1979 Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) album Discovery. It features 12-string acoustic guitar and vocoder.
It was released in the UK as a double A-side single with "Last Train to London". It peaked at number 8 in the UK Singles Chart, making it the fourth consecutive top 10 single to be taken from the Discovery album.[1] In the United States the song was released as a single with "Poker" on the B-side becoming a more modest hit, reaching number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2]
Billboard rated "Confusion" as "a superbly crafted single," describing it as "a mid-tempo rock track that mixes a Beatlesque sound with a hint of disco."[3] Cash Box called it a "bubbly Lynne concoction, mixing glossy pop melody with alternately grandiose and circus-like keyboard fills" and praised the song's hook and craftsmanship."[4] Record World called it a "mellifluous, pop disc with the everpresent falsetto vocals & keyboard gymnastics."[5]
I'd just got hold of the very latest synthesizer, the Yamaha CS-80. The song is based entirely on the sound it made.
— Discovery remaster (2001), Jeff Lynne
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