Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark has long been one of my favorite bands. During the 80's I was pretty much obsessed with them, and their albums were in frequent rotation (even the much-hated Dazzle Ships). Needless to say, I was pretty upset when the band imploded back in 1988.
Sure Andy McCluskey carried on and released some albums I loved... Sugar Tax, Liberator, and Universal... but it wasn't the same without Paul Humphreys, and it seemed as good a time as any when OMD finally died in 1996.
But then... a miracle.
McCluskey and Humphreys reunited. Then released History of Modern in 2010.
It was amazing and I loved it. The follow-up in 2013, English Electric, was equally good. And while listening to the album this morning I was reminded just how good it was when I got to Night Cafe. Not just for the song... but for the video, which is both remarkable and disturbing in equal measure. It's a song I can't get enough of, and it surprises me just how overlooked a gem it is...
The next album, The Punishment of Luxury came out last year and was pretty great once all the experimental interludes were deleted. But it was no English Electric, despite some pretty great songs...
And so...
Back to life after this OMD musical interlude.
Or maybe just one more song first...
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I’ve been a huge OMD fan since I was about 14 or so and I played their records to death in my bedroom. Dazzle Ships is such a good record and has their best song of all time on it, The Romance Of The Telescope. I only managed to see OMD once at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in England and it was bittersweet. For on the one hand it was the “Andy only” OMD circa Sugar Tax, on the other hand he asked the audience what they wanted to hear and got a resounding “Telegraph” and he played it!