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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I wd need to look at some other chart site to check but I get the feeling OMD had a huge clutch of singles that fell just outside the Top 40.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

I needed at least twice as many ticks. Early OMD was grate.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I know precisely 1 of these tracks. Shameful to admit perhaps, but apart from 'Walking On The Milky Way', OMD are a complete mystery to me. I love that song though, but since no-one else has ticked it yet, I'm guessing that it's quite different to their earlier material?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Who/what is/are OMD?!

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

NOES too much love for boring Joan twofer, not enough for lovely snippety Genetic Engineering!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I voted the only three I could remember. OMD seem a very forgotten band - I don't think I've heard or seen their name on TV since The Chart Show ended.

[mippy.livejournal.com]

Souvenir is one of the most depressing singles ever.

"Romance of the Telescope" (b-side to joan of arc)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/old-ft/nylpm/2005/05/heaven-knows-their-recipe/

not entirely typical of them, for those that don't know, but not far off their formula either.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

OMD's only really bit hit in America was "If You Leave" - a terrific song which isn't even on this list. They had a handful of other top 20 and top 40 songs, and I do enjoy what I know, but I do think it's odd that the one song they are known for in America isn't even top 40 in Briton.

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I don't know any OMD songs!

[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.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I don't know any OMD songs apart from 'Dream Of Me', which was on Now 25. I will go away and research before ticking.