 "the perfect kiss" is a song by the english rock band new order. it is the first new order song to be included on a studio album at the same time as its release as a single. the vinyl version has factory catalogue number fac 123 and the video has the opposite number, fac 321. ==background== the song has a complex arrangement which includes a number of instruments and methods not normally used by new order. for example, a bridge features frogs croaking melodically. the band reportedly included them because morris loved the effect and was looking for any excuse to use it. at the end of the track, the faint bleating of a (synthesized) sheep can be heard. sheep samples would reappear in later new order singles "fine time" and "ruined in a day". despite being a fan favourite, the song was not performed live between 1993 and 2006 due to the complexity of converting the programs from the e-mu emulator to the new roland synthesizer. however, it returned to the live set at a performance in athens on 3 june 2006. widely regarded as a centrepiece of new order's catalogue, "the perfect kiss" reached only #46 in the uk charts. ==sleeve== the peter saville sleeve is uniform silver with the word "perfect" embossed on the front side and "kiss the" on the back, like a wraparound band. it was about this time that the photographer geoff power [see "shellshock"] was introduced to peter saville. so enamoured was peter by geoff's work that he originally offered the photographer the cover to low-life. then when that fell through, they worked on a cover for "the perfect kiss" using one of geoff's photographs, which can be seen later in new order's songbook, 'x'. with time running out and peter's decision not to run with this image - it didn't fit in peter's subsequent portraits of the band on low-life - geoff was 
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