insanity. how can an album with souvenir on it rate a 3? that song along rates it as a 6.
― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Goofy is right. I remember watching them perform the splendiferous Forever Live and Die on TOTP in 1986 - and you know the bit half-way through, where the music suddenly cuts out and there's a little bass slide into the next verse? Presumably by prior arrangement, the camera zoomed in on McCluskey at that precise moment, and he just could not stop himself from making a wacky "oooh" face. It was kind of like Michaelangelo inviting people in to view the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and then tricking them into sitting onto whoopee cushions.
The good news is that, having made do for years with the greatest hits compilations, I have been inspired by this thread to purchase Organisation and Architecture and Morality. (Would have bought Dazzle Ships too, but HMV only had the non-remastered version in stock.)
― Palomino (Palomino), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
fuck.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 28 May 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR_nsoF_1AI&search=OMD
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 28 May 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 May 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Search "Organisation", "Architecture And Morality" and a good singles compilation.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh god, "Souvenir" is just killing me right now. So swoonsome!
― Drew Daniel, Friday, 15 February 2008 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I was thinking of that very song on the way home this evening! :-)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 February 2008 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
The new live album, Architecture & Morality And More is a great listen. It's just what I was in the mood for. Also, I'm looking forward for the release of the dvd.
― van smack, Thursday, 1 May 2008 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, still don't see the fuss about a collection of tapes from Easten European radio stations, combined with (eek!!) lots of digital synths in an era where digital synths were mostly not around in pop music yet.― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 10:13 (3 years ago)
i've never felt the need to do this before, but geir, you are crazy. there is not one digital synth on this album, unless you count the emulator which i imagine was used mainly for all the radio samples. do you even own this album? there's a list of all the synths used in the sleeve. i know you've gone into great detail about how you dislike hard synth sounds, but this album practically defines warmth
― rio (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
this album = dazzle ships
Dazzle Ships is so great; I wish I'd heard it before yesterday! The chords in "Of All The Things We've Made" are heartbreakingly gorgeous.
― wacky spelling error (Euler), Thursday, 17 September 2009 07:57 (fourteen years ago) link
My favourite OMD album by a long shot - and I quite like their stuff. Greyish, unbalanced, icy and emotional, conveying this almost 50's cold war paranoia, eerily prescient - so great indeed.Like I read somewhere, it is the sound of Joe Meek teaming up with Kraftwerk.
― Marco Damiani, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm listening through their discography now, and it's amazing, though I keep wanting to put on Dazzle Ships between the other albums. Between "Genetic Engineering", "The Romance of the Telescope" and the "Of All The Things We've Made" plus the interludes gluing things together, I can't get enough. I gather the lyrical subject matter is weighty but I'm not yet at the point of attending to that, not when there are chords and progressions as overwhelming as these.
― wacky spelling error (Euler), Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:45 (fourteen years ago) link
As I said over on the DzSh thread, when they made "Locomotion", I liked the song a lot, but knew they would never do 'experimental' a'la Dazzle Ships again, and felt sad.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 09:46 (fourteen years ago) link
After listening to the first four albums + the Peel sessions over the last couple of days, I wanted to go back and relisten to them but tried "Locomotion" off the next album just to see. And it seems to be a move away from the lush swoon of the earlier albums, esp. Dazzle Ships. I'm kinda reluctant to go further for now, in fear of having the spell broken; but for now it's puppy love and I'm relistening to Architecture & Morality and starting to hear the influences more, e.g. Joy Division especially. I'm having a "where have you been my whole life" moment with this band right now.
― wacky spelling error (Euler), Thursday, 17 September 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm kinda reluctant to go further for now, in fear of having the spell broken
With OMD, that's a very wise approach. There is stuff worth hearing in the post-Dazzle Ships albums -- hell, I'll rep for most of The Pacific Age (see above!) -- but the magic had vanished and they're fundamentally a different band.
And whatever the fuck else you do, don't go and see them live: OMD to tour Architecture And Morality
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 17 September 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
So what came first, OMD's 'The Boy From the Chemist is Here to See You' or Pulp's 'Disco 2000'. Same year, too similar to be a coincidence?
― MC Hamer Hall (S-), Thursday, 17 September 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
OMD, frm Universal (1996).
Disco 2000, 1995
So, there you go.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 September 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
lolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HuSDV9mnjU
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
having listened to almost all of dazzle ships (thanks to the ILM 80's poll), holy shit how had I not heard this band before? there is so much music to hear; fortunately i am of a mind to set aside a while for these guys
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Architecture & Morality is even better imo
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Quite frankly LJ I am a little shocked at this. <3 OMD. Also, I think that Scooter clip made my ears bleed.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
as a massive fan of early ultravox!, rio, new gold dream and others of that ilk it seems so obvious that i ought to have heard them earlier
'the romance of the telescope' is particularly stunning
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG 'STATUES'
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I am enjoying bearing witness to this new discovery of yours btw.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i see people compare dazzle ships to kid a
'the romance of the telescope' is *miles* better than anything on kid a
― Puddle of Thudd (acoleuthic), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
and Organisation is right up there with A & M, too.
Really, though, you can't go wrong with everything up to and including Dazzle Ships.
― big darn deal (Z S), Sunday, 29 November 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
IF YOU LEAVE
― FACK, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone ever noticed the similarity between "Romance of the Telescope" and "Venus" from Air's Talkie Walkie? It can't be coincidence.
― Daruton, Monday, 30 November 2009 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ, be sure to check out the Remaster CDs with the extra B-Side goodness as there is some great stuff lurking there too like Annex for example.
― MaresNest, Monday, 30 November 2009 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
And the BBC sessions disc is worth checking out too.
― MaresNest, Monday, 30 November 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
'ABC Auto-Industries' is awesome too! As is most of what I've heard. (Joan Of Arc = great, Stanlow = great, etc)
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Monday, 30 November 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice one: genuinely delighted you're enjoying this stuff. I've waxed lyrical about Dazzle Ships enough round here, really, so I won't say any more.
Really, though, you can't go wrong with everything up to and including Dazzle Ships
... exactly, although another way of putting it might be: "Be very, very careful with everything after Dazzle Ships". Actually, I've grown to really like The Pacific Age, but even so ...
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Monday, 30 November 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Crush is a 100% solid album, love every track on it (esp. 'Native Daughters of the Golden West').
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 30 November 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Great fake Hopper cover, too.
― mascara and ties (Abbott), Monday, 30 November 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
new album! who knew?
9/28 - OMD (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) - History Of Modern (Bright Antenna)That's right, the kings of new wave are back and better than ever with their first new album in 14 years.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/35/OMD_History_of_Modern_album_cover.jpg/600px-OMD_History_of_Modern_album_cover.jpg
okay, anyone with any interest in omd probably knew this for years. geir will dig it. that's for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rCMo1zfAKs
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 August 2010 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry if there is a thread. its early...
― scott seward, Thursday, 5 August 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link
saw the quietus tweeting that it isn't very good.
― heterosexist matrix of desire (Gukbe), Thursday, 5 August 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
that sounded pretty good except for the hi-hat
― hobbes, Thursday, 5 August 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Buying this for the cover alone btw.
― Guernsey Shore (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Psyched
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Will likely go and see them again, with any luck they'll play Stanlow at brain welding volume like at the Roundhouse gig, it was aces.
― disastrous sixth series (MaresNest), Thursday, 5 August 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
That new song is rather lovely. I absolutely love the artwork, it would be so great if the music was as good.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 9 August 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Do you get the 7" with Organisation also?
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
I don't think Organization has the 7".
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link