Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Music videos started out like pirate radio: furtive half-hour broadcasts during the day, slipped into alternative programming at night. So it was in a diet that included (at its best) Duran Duran, Split Enz and Talking Heads that OMD slipped in a simple wonder, "Joan of Arc." Not that the video was so visually stunning, but that song! Here was a holy grail worth hunting. I snatched up the single, Architecture & Morality, Dazzle Ships, backwards to the Kraftwerk-influenced experimental pop and forward to oblivion (dance pop). They've never made an impression on me to equal their first, but their ear for a pleasant melody seldom fails them. Their music generally falls in dark and light halves; Dazzle ends the dark, JC demarcates the light. By the way, there's a brilliant UK OMD discography at www.omd.uk.com/html/discography.html that shows us how it should be done.
| Date | ALBUMS / Singles |
|---|---|
| 1979 May | Electricity |
| 1980 February | Red Frame - White Light |
| 1980 February 22 | ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK |
| 1980 May 2 | Messages |
| 1980 September 26 | Enola Gay |
| 1980 October 24 | ORGANISATION |
| 1981 | O.M.D. |
| 1981 August 4 | Souvenir |
| 1981 October 9 | Joan of Arc |
| 1981 November 8 | ARCHITECTURE & MORALITY |
| 1982 January 15 | Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc) |
| 1983 February | Genetic Engineering |
| 1983 March 4 | DAZZLE SHIPS |
| 1983 April | Telegraph |
| 1984 April 2 | Locomotion |
| 1984 April 30 | JUNK CULTURE |
| 1984 June 4 | Talking Loud And Clear |
| 1984 August 28 | Tesla Girls |
| 1984 October | Never Turn Away |
| 1985 May 13 | So In Love |
| 1985 June 17 | CRUSH |
| 1985 July 8 | Secret |
| 1985 October | La Femme Accident |
| 1986 March | If You Leave |
| 1986 August 26 | (Forever) Live And Die |
| 1986 September 29 | THE PACIFIC AGE |
| 1986 November | We Love You |
| 1987 April | Shame |
| 1988 January 25 | Dreaming |
| 1988 February | THE BEST OF OMD |
| 1988 | Brides of Frankenstein |
| 1990 November | CD BOXED SET |
| 1991 March | Sailing On The Seven Seas |
| 1991 June 11 | SUGAR TAX |
| 1991 June | Pandora's Box |
| 1991 September | Then You Turn Away |
| 1991 November | Call My Name |
| 1993 May | Stand Above Me |
| 1993 June 29 | LIBERATOR |
| 1993 July | Dream of Me |
| 1993 September | Everyday |
| 1996 | UNIVERSAL |
| 1998 September 7 | THE OMD REMIXES (EP) |
| 1998 November 24 | THE OMD SINGLES |
| 2000 | PEEL SESSIONS 1979-1983 |
| 2001 May 22 | NAVIGATION: THE OMD B-SIDES |
SEE ALSO...
Messages: A Tribute to OMD
Pretty In Pink soundtrack
Urgh! A Music War
THE LISTENING POOL discography
ANDY McCLUSKEY discography
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