Top 10 Favorite New Order Songs #2 - "The Perfect Kiss"

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I have always claimed that Pwer, Corruption & Lies is my favorite New Order album. While I was putting this Top 10 Favorite New Order Songs series together, as I edited the list down to ten, I realized that I had a lot of songs from their 1985 album Low-Life on the potential list, and not too many from Power, Corruption & Lies. Which leads me to believe that Low-Life has been my favorite all along. And why not? Low-Life contains one of New Order's best-ever songs, "The Perfect Kiss," a fun piece of danceable synth-pop that even contains, at one point, croaking frogs (trust me. It works.) Depending upon which chart you're looking at, "The Perfect Kiss" was a hit of sorts. The song peaked at #46 on the UK Singles Chart, but #1 on the UK Indie Singles. It also was a #5 hit on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Dance Singles Sales charts. Fun Fact: Drummer Stephen Morris did not play live drums on the song. The drums on "The Perfect Kiss" were entirely pre-programmed. Morris usually played along with programmed drums, but that was not the case here. @JohnRoberts started these fun Top 10 Series'. You are more than welcome, encouraged, even, to join the fun.