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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[Poll #1024857]

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

Comments

Re: Using all resources to the best of our ability

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

haha! BURN THE WHICH!!!

sorry.

Re: Using all resources to the best of our ability

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i voted for both of em as i forgot which is the good one!

also: i am goin to see "st joan" on tue -- £27.50 :(

Re: Using all resources to the best of our ability

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"The Waltz" Joan Of Arc is the one which is a bit waltzy (I have never heard it called this outside everyhit!) i.e. "Joan of Arc / had a heart" as opposed to "Little Catholic girl who's fallen in love"

I have never liked Architecture and Morality and am a bit baffled that it's settled into rocklore as their 'best album' - too many directionless synthscapes, not enough awkwardly off-balance pop.

Re: Using all resources to the best of our ability

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

blimey they could easily have made Japan's 'Ghosts' themselves eh? the vocal style is very similar. i don't know much Japan tho, and i have still to hear John Foxx's 'Metamatic'.

Re: Using all resources to the best of our ability

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Really? I only know them from their singles, and since my interest in early 80s synth pop has grown I obviously went out and bought A&M as that's allegedly the 'classic' album. Which early ones are better then?

Re: Using all resources to the best of our ability

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Tom, i think, has a thing for Dazzle Ships which i think came after A&M. it is their 'experimental' album. it is very good and in some ways a more consistent album than A&M.

Re: Using all resources to the best of our ability

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I like the debut more too, and the two poppier mid-80s ones (Junk Culture and Crush), and I'd probably like Organisation more if I could remember anything on it aside from the singles.

But Dazzle Ships is my favourite yes!

Re: Using all resources to the best of our ability

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

as discussed in this very community! (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/245579.html) ahem

Re: Using all resources to the best of our ability

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Re Joan vs Joan: the [i]1001 albums you must hear etc[/i] buke says that they "wrote two separate paeans to the most famous of French Catholic martyrs -- both were called 'Joan of Arc' and both were released within months of each other as singles. It was only due to bosses at Virgin panicking that the second single was differentiated by having the moniker 'Maid of Orleans' added in brackets."

So the everyhit titling seems well apocryphal. Also I like this type of prank, although I too have never managed to get into [i]Architecture and Morality[/i] (a title btw that Half Man Half Biscuit have forever destroyed for me with their song title "Architecture and Morality, Ted and Alice").

Re: Using all resources to the best of our ability

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

[i]Argh![/i]