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!

Comments

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

for a long time, OMD were unjustifiably high in my last.fm charts, because I happened to "rediscover" their greatest hits album shortly after I signed up (and then - this being the digital age -- went back and delved into all the other albums. rock solid, IMO, as far as the singles go -- this is one of the few canon votes were I really felt the number of ticks was totally insufficient. speaking purely empirically, i think crush is my "favorite" album, although something about the singles seems less clever than their earlier stuff. i played dazzle ships a lot but it never really grew on me (and i never heard 'genetic engineering' as a single!) on the other hand, i never got tired of listening to it either.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Something I just remembered (and I dunno why I didn't remember this when I posted on poptimists about Dazzle Ships last year, cf. link upthread): in my student days I used to have this fantasy about performing DS in its entirety "live". I had it all worked out in my head, the venue (small, intimate), the instrumentation, the staging, the lighting...

OMITD responsible for my one and only wanna-be-a-rock-star moment there.