![]() ![]() "People didn't listen to the lyrics," McCluskey recalls. ![]() However, when Dave Lee Travis played the single on Radio 1, he said - with some gravitas - that it was about time someone in the music world stood up to the evils of tinkering with nature. "I was very positive about the subject! I didn't expect someone like Monsanto to come along and say, 'Fuck it, we can make money out of cross-pollination.'" For starters, the first single was called Genetic Engineering. It wasn't as though OMD wrote conventional love songs to start with - Enola Gay was famously about Hiroshima, Stanlow about a power station - yet Dazzle Ships took off what McCluskey calls "the sweet wrapper". So when we sold 3m albums and the world didn't change, we were scared." And somehow we believed that would change the world, the way people think. The music we made had to be interesting and different. "It was the naive confidence of youth, the idea that music is that important. "It sounds strange, I know, but we had been trying to change the world," says McCluskey. Wait until you hear the next single - it's our Mull of Kintyre." Maid of Orleans duly became another huge hit in the UK, and Germany's best-selling single of 1982. When Joan of Arc got rave reviews ahead of the album's release, McCluskey told Smash Hits: "That's nothing. Souvenir was first out of the block and made No 3. A DVD of this concert came with the 2007 reissue of Architecture & Morality.ĭocumentary on the band during the recording of Crush, with promo videos of the album's singles.Architecture and Morality, OMD's third album, had been a monster hit following its release in 1981, with any number of potential singles. " Brides of Frankenstein" (US and Canada-only release) " Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)" Limited release with initial copies of Organisation.Formats: 2xCD, 5xCD+2xDVD, 3xLP, digital download.The Punishment of Luxury: B Sides & Bonus Material So80s (Soeighties) Present OMD – Curated by Blank & Jones Live with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 07/10/18 Live with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 06/10/18 The History of Modern Tour – Live in BerlinĪrchitecture & Morality/Dazzle Ships – Live at the Royal Albert Hall "-" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. The group's overall record sales stand in excess of 40 million, with sales of 15 million albums and 25 million singles as of 2019. OMD disbanded in 1996 but reformed in 2006, and have since re-established themselves as a top 10 presence on international album charts. OMD's albums Architecture & Morality (1981), The Best of OMD (1988) and Sugar Tax (1991) were certified platinum or higher in the UK the gold-certified Dazzle Ships (1983) became one of the band's most influential works. The group issued their debut single, " Electricity", in 1979, and achieved several international top 10 hits during the 1980s and 1990s, including their signature songs " Enola Gay" (1980) and " If You Leave" (1986). The discography of English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) includes 13 studio albums and 40 singles, among other releases. Co-founders Andy McCluskey (left) and Paul Humphreys in 2011 ![]()
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