The Friday Canon: OMD

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

OMG its OMD! You get SIX ticks covering the awkward synthpoppers' seventeen Top Forty hits.



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I was going to combine this with a canon for top OMD side project Atomic Kitan but it will have to wait!

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[umlauts.livejournal.com]

http://www.polyhex.com/music/chartruns/chartruns.php

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

All five of those are terrific! Telegraph wd have muscled something else out of a tick ("Souvenir" maybe?) - "Never Turn Away" has a really gorgeous riff.

Junk Culture and Crush both quite overlooked I think!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

(haha you were quick off the mark there. I thought I deleted that post and replaced it with the one below within seconds!)

Junk Culture and Crush both quite overlooked I think!
Yes! Fairlight/Emulator/whatevs heaven!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The thread starter gets deleted posts delivered too - this is an annoying feature rly as it leads to LJ conversations getting even more broken than normal!

Bubblin under

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Ed! I must remember existence of that site.

Tom appears to be right about "the huge clutch" - there were loads of OMITD singles in the late 80s and early 90s that just missed the 40.

But of the earlier, funnier material, i.e. first 6 alBUMs (after which I went off them), there is:

Red Frame, White Light (peaked at #67) - this is grebt
Telegraph (#42) - almost as grebt
Never Turn Away (#70)
La Femme Accident (#48) - more grebness
If You Leave ("from the Pretty in Pink OST") (#42)