Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 13

Form: Intro → Verse → Interlude → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Interlude → Chorus → Interlude → Chorus ×3 → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Intro

• B♭ – Fsus4 – Dm – E♭ (×2)
  I – Vsus4 – iii – IV
• F – B♭ – E♭ (×4)
  V – I – IV

Verse 1

• E♭ – F – B♭ (×4)
  IV – V – I
• E♭
  IV

Interlude 1

• E♭ – F – Dm (×2)
  IV – V – iii
• E♭
  IV

Chorus 1

• E♭ – F – B♭ (×2)
  IV – V – I
• E♭
  IV

Interlude 2

• E♭ – F – B♭ (×2)
  IV – V – I
• E♭
  IV

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Interlude 3

Same chords as Interlude 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude 4

• E♭ – F – B♭/D (×2)
  IV – V – I⁶
• E♭ – F – B♭ (×4)
  IV – V – I
• E♭ – F – B♭/D (×2)
  IV – V – I⁶
• E♭
  IV

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 5

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• E♭ – F – B♭/D (×2)
  IV – V – I⁶
• E♭ – B♭
  IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
B♭	I	Home chord (tonic)	Intro, Verse, Chorus, Interlude, Outro
Fsus4	Vsus4	In the key	Intro
Dm	iii	In the key	Intro, Interlude
E♭	IV	In the key	Intro, Verse, Interlude, Chorus, Outro
F	V	In the key	Intro, Verse, Interlude, Chorus, Outro
B♭/D	I⁶	Home chord (tonic)	Interlude, Outro

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. Expert by-ear harmonic analysis of the original recording, shown on this page.
• Cross-check: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by David Temperley. Independent by-ear analysis of the same recording. The two analysts agree on the chord (root and major/minor) for 94% of the song.
• Verified: two independent expert transcriptions agree on this song's harmony.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.