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The Best of OMD is a compilation album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released in 1988; marking a decade since the band's beginnings. The record essentially delineates the group's experimental early years from their pop-oriented later work: side one features recordings from 1979 to 1984, while side two is drawn from the group's 1984–1988 efforts.
Messages: Greatest Hits (sometimes listed as Messages: OMD Greatest Hits) is a compilation release by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), issued in 2008. At the time it was the most comprehensive of the band's retrospective packages, featuring a CD of 20 charting singles and a DVD of all the band's music videos. Material was drawn from the ...
The discography of English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) includes 14 studio albums and 46 singles, among other releases. The group issued their debut single, "Electricity", in 1979, and achieved several international top 10 hits during the 1980s and 1990s, including their signature songs "Enola Gay" (1980) and "If You Leave" (1986).
Readers of Smash Hits voted OMD the seventh-best group of 1981, [48] while Record Mirror readers named them the eighth-best band (as well as the 10th-best "new artist") and the third-best live act of the year. [49] The group came close to breaking up in 1982, with McCluskey later saying, "We had never expected the success, we were exhausted." [50]
[4] Classic Pop ' s Mark Lindores called it a "massively underrated OMD anthem". [5] Conversely, McCluskey named "Dreaming" as a track he wishes OMD had never released, while criticising its lyrical content. [6] KROQ ranked the song the 43rd-greatest of 1988; [7] in a Slicing Up Eyeballs reader poll, it was voted the 62nd-best of the year. [8]
"Locomotion" is a song by the English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released on 2 April 1984 as the lead single from their fifth studio album, Junk Culture (1984). It was one of the band's biggest European hits, charting within the Top 5 in the UK, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands, while also peaking at No. 14 in ...
KROQ ranked it the 21st-greatest song of 1991, [6] while MTV Europe placed it 55th. [7] In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Dave Thompson noted a "fabulous dance-fired arrangement", a "jubilant melody" and a "bounding rhythm that defies efforts not to dance along". He added that the upbeat sound belies the "tragic tale" of its lyrics ...
McCluskey and Humphreys originally recorded "Electricity" as members of OMD precursor group the Id, in early 1978. [8] After OMD's first concert, opening for Joy Division in a 1978 appearance at Eric's Club in Liverpool, McCluskey was inspired to send a demo of the song to Factory Records founder Tony Wilson. They later heard that while he was ...