What would happen if you mixed The Smiths, New Order and Pet Shop Boys together to form a supergroup? You’d come up with Getting Away With It because Electronic’s debut single really does sound exactly like the confluence of its components.

And that’s hardly surprising since it’s sung by Bernard Sumner and Neil Tennant, with a guitar solo by Johnny Marr, and a bassline by Chris Lowe.

Adding to the all-star mix, the drums are by David Palmer of ABC and The The, and the orchestra is conducted by Art of Noise’s Anne Dudley.

The tongue-in-cheek lyrics, by Tennant and Sumner, obviously parody Morrissey’s maudlin and miserable public persona. Which may be why he predictably called the song out as “totally useless.”

Most of all though, it’s just a fantastic tune, composed by Sumner (verses) and Marr (chorus), that came out in 1989 on Factory records with a sleeve, featuring a stock photo of a glass of whisky on the rocks, by Peter Saville.

There are at least two remixes that came out on 12-inch singles – one in a disco style, the other (very on-trend in ’89) acid house – as well as an instrumental B-side, Lucky Bag, that’s in an Italian house style.