The Seeker of Good Songs
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from:
http://bornagain80s.blogspot.com/2007/04/electronic-are-getting-away-with-it.html
Electronic were an alternative rock/dance group formed by New Order singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner and ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. They co-wrote the majority of their output between 1989 and 1998, collaborating with Neil Tennant from Pet Shop Boys on three tracks in their early years, and former Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos on nine songs in 1995.
Getting Away With It was the first single released by Electronic and first issued by Factory Records in the United Kingdom in December 1989, released the following year in the rest of the world. Along with Get the Message and perhaps Disappointed, it remains their best known song, and was also their biggest selling single, reaching #12 in the UK and #38 in North America, shifting over a quarter of a million copies worldwide. The song remains well-known due to its commercial success, the calibre of its performers, and the fact that it was Electronic's debut single, thus anticipated by both the music press and fans of New Order, The Smiths and Pet Shop Boys at the time.
Getting Away With It was not included on Electronic's first LP eighteen months later, although it was slotted in between tracks four and five on the international versions and the subsequent 1994 reissue on Parlophone, to bolster sales. Truly a top and perfect tune!!!