By the way, these are great titles for albums aren't they? My favorite track on this cd is "The More I need You" which features what has to be a classic TR808 drum track that is reminiscent of something Zeppelin's John Bohnham would have played. You can certainly hear the descednat sounds of Kraftwerk in this album and some of the other early OMD releases such as Dazzle Ships and Architecure + Morality. Even today it sounds great because its got a sort of a rough, evolving sound to it. Early synth pop with the trademark angst and melancholy of the 80's. This work will be cemented as a classic for the band and the electronic music field. "Organisation" may not be for everyone, but I bought it for "Enola Gay" and nothing more. OMD actually released some pretty decent songs towards the mid part of the eighties including the hit "If You Leave" from the "Pretty In Pink" soundtrack. There are five bonus tracks on this remastered edition of "Organisation", but I found only the hit "Electricity" (DINDISC 1980 Version) to be worth listening to as the other songs are just OMD experimenting on a number of electronic keyboards. While nothing on the album matched the instant appeal of "Enola Gay", most of the songs are rather dark, dreary and downtempo for the most part.
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But "Organisation" also included a few other decent electro tunes such as "2nd Thought", "The Misunderstanding", and "The More You See". "Organisation", their second album produced the popular hit "Enola Gay", which in my opinion is one of their best songs ever released. Pretty handsome.īred from the late seventies "New Wave" explosion, Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark (OMD) produced purely electronic music, similar to artists such as Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, and Fad Gadget. The bonus tracks include 'Annex' (the B-side to 'Enola Gay') and the post-Factory version of 'Electricity', as well as the four tracks from a 7-inch EP included with early copies of the LP (I think it was released with a brown background rather than black), consisting of very early live and experimental tapes. Only the downer version of 'The More I See You' seems out of place, but it's redeemed by its ironic stance. 'Second Thought', 'Statues', and especially 'Stanlow' (dedicated as it is to the power plant where the father of singer Andy McCluskey worked) achieve a stateliness that few of the band's contemporaries could even approach. Other tracks barely rise to the energy-level of the single, but this is not a bad thing. Even the single, 'Enola Gay', is in wry memoriam of the atomic bomb-dropping airplane of World War II. It's mostly rather pretty, but its prettiness is undermined by a pervasive melancholy. As melodic as many of its like-minded contemporaries were musically angular-ironic, considering the Kraftwerk reference of the title-this second album by OMD transcends its immediate predecessor and most of its contemporaries by miles. However, please note that you can enable or disable cookies by following the instructions of your browser.Pretty remarkable. If you want you can disable cookies from Google Analytics. Cookies added by Google Analytics are governed by the privacy policies of Google Analytics.
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