, this debut laid out the template and still sounds innovative today. There is a longer single of "Messages" whose bassier, fuller mix greatly improves upon the album version, and three B-sides: the dark "I Betray My Friends," an instrumental remix/dub of "Messages" titled "Taking Sides Again," and a pop-staccato cover of Lou Reed's "Waiting for the Man." Though critics more highly laud the band's follow-ups, The original ten tracks are augmented by four bonuses (though not the band-disliked Martin Hannett 7" productions of "Electricity" and "Almost," which were included on Microwerks' CD reissue is delivered in a tri-fold cardboard slipcase that reproduces the original LPs die-cut front cover and adds excellent liner notes by Jim Allen. The boozy near-instrumental "Dancing" sounds like a record caught off spindle, and the atmospheric "The Messerschmitt Twins" brings to mind the Human League's first full-length,
The new-wave "Red Frame/White Light" unspools a series of telephone box snapshots, and the album's most conventional lyric in "Messages" finds the singer recoiling from the unwanted contact of a departed lover. Their lyrics are often impressionistic sketches of emotions and concepts, including a soldier's life (a theme they'd revisit to even greater effect on "Enola Gay"), the illusions of time, and fatalism.
The flip, "Almost," is an equal combination of synthetics and warmth, but the keyboards are less angular and more expansive, with a soaring lead line and steam-like backing for the lush, Bryan Ferry-esque vocal of longing and indecision.įor this first full-length album, issued in 1980, McCluskey and Humphries followed the same template, using their primitive electronic instruments to create pulsating and jabbing backings for vocals that borrow the strident tone of mod and punk. The band's 1979 single, "Electricity," pushed its synthetic instruments and machine rhythms up front, but warmed them with Andy McCluskey's bass, a catchy electric pianotron riff and a duet vocal from McCluskey and Paul Humphries that celebrated the power source of their music. The album features four singles " Love Train", " Americanos", " Atomic City" and " Heavens Here".OMD is one of the transitional entities that bridged early electronic music pioneers like Kraftwerk, Brian Eno and Wendy Carlos, with the synthpop bands that populated the New Wave and dominated the early years of MTV.
The song was written by producer and then Modern Talking member, Dieter Bohlen for crime TV show "Tatort" (starring Götz George).ġ989 Former Frankie Goes To Hollywood frontman, Holly Johnson reached number one in the UK with his debut solo album, " Blast". The album produced four successful singles: " One More Night", " Sussudio", " Don't Lose My Number", and " Take Me Home"ġ986 English musician Chris Norman started a six-week run at #1 in Germany with " Midnight Lady". The song was written for the film Beverly Hills Cop II.Ĭharts 1985 British actor and singer Murray Head reached #1 in Spain with " One Night in Bangkok", the song from the album and musical " Chess" by Tim Rice.ġ985 Phil Collins started a three-week run at #1 in Australia with his third solo album, " No Jacket Required". Cette tournée donne lieu à la publication en avril 2008 dun DVD et dun CD intitulés Live: Architecture and Morality and More. In 1987, he topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. Enola Gay, Messages, Souvenir, Tesla Girls, Talking Loud and Clear, Locomotion, If You Leave, (Forever) Live and Die, Walking on the Milky Way, Sailing on the Seven Seas, Pandoras Box. This Day In 80’s Music Birthday 1945 American musician Bob Seger was born.
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