Arcadia - Election Day (PatC's Election Mix)

"Election Day" was the first single released by the Duran Duran off-shoot band, Arcadia. It was released by Parlophone Records in October 1985 and subsequently hit the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic, peaking at #6 in the US and #7 in the UK, but was the most successful in Ireland, peaking at #5 and in Italy, peaking at #1 (also reaching the Top 25 in Germany). Along with the Arcadia members, "Election Day" features Grace Jones on vocals and speech segments.

When Smash Hits published the lyrics in their magazine, they published the complete lyric, which included a verse that was subsequently dropped from the released version of the song:

Don't even try to induce, In all my restrain there's no hesitation
All the signs on the loose 'cause sanity's rare this end of the hard day
Shadows are crawling out of the subway
Any way that you choose in every direction just to confuse me

A total of 7 mixes were done for this song.

* Album Version 5:27 - original mix; all bar the Early Rough Mix are different permutations of this version
* Single Version 4:30 - edited Album Version
* Consensus Mix 8:39 - 12" and promo video version
* "She's Moody and Grey, She's Mean and She's Restless" 4:28 - instrumental B-side; the title comes from the song's first verse
* Cryptic Cut/Fact and Story Mix 9:06 - largely instrumental, featuring extended passages and a short 'political speech'
* Cryptic Cut No Voice 8:27 - the Cryptic Cut mix, with the speech edited out
* Early Rough Mix 9:04 - an early, mostly instrumental version