RK 50: Orchestral Manoeuvres
9-1-08 RK 50: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
LP ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK VIRGIN DE 201.653
1980 10 TRKS 2nd cover
CD ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK re VIRGIN
1980 16 TRKS ('03 re-master, 6 x bonus tracks)
LP ORGANIZATION DINDISC DE 202.971
1980 9 TRKS 2nd cover
CD ORGANIZATION re VIRGIN
1980 15 TRKS 6 x bonus tracks ('03 issue)
7" ELECTRICITY / ALMOST DINDISC FR 2097 827
1980 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
7" RED FRAME WHITE LIGHT / I BETRAY MY FRIENDS DINDISC
1980 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
7" MESSAGES / TAKING SIDES AGAIN DINDISC
1980 2 TRKS with pic sleeve
10" MESSAGES DINDISC
1980 3 TRKS with pic sleeve
7" LIVE AT THE FACTORY DINDISC
1980 4 TRK EP; no pic sleeve, promo-only; original came in 2nd album (I think)
CD ARCHITECTURE & MORALITY re VIRGIN
1981 16 TRKS ('03 re-master) (7 x bonus tracks)
10" SOUVENIR / MOTION AND HEART / SACRED HEART DINDISC
1981 3 TRKS with pic sleeve
CD BEST OF A&M US CD 5186
1988 16 TRK Collection
I distinctly remember the time in 1980 when there were lots of good groups coming out of
“Red Frame / White Light” was one such single – I remember it came home with me in a big stack of maybe 20 new British 45’s that week. There were legendary drunken Friday nights of me and my friends playing Jukebox Jury – thumbs up, thumbs down. Often, if we all gave something a ‘thumbs down’, the 45 would be removed from the turntable, snapped in half and thrown in the trash!
Not the case with O.M.D. – the next single we got to hear by them was “Messages” – as a mighty little 10” (not quite a 12”, folks). Great sound, nice version of the song, too. I eagerly got the die-cut cover of their debut LP. At some later point in the 80’s, I sold it at a swap meet – the re-issue I found does not have the die-cut, alas.
I didn’t do “Architecture and Morality” at the time, just too busy with other stuff. But it sounds good now. As per the usual, my friend Joe got a laser disc of O.M.D. “Live at
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posted by Ron Kane @ 9:49 PM
1 Comments:
OMD is kind of an odd bird in my music collection -- there is a lot of their stuff that I think is just great, and an almost-equal amount of stuff that I find painfully "meh" knowing who it comes from.
Their "look" -- short hair, skinny ties, very "clean," angular lines, sparse design -- defines the early 80s for me. Loads of great songs (Arch & Moral is as good as any of their early albums) but I started with them with Organisation. I started to lose interest when they cracked the US Top 40, but that's not me being a snob (this time) -- the material went downhill! Honest! :)
Anyway, their more recent stuff has been awesome, and that's always nice. Somebody tell Kate Bush how to make a great album again, and we'll be back in business.
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