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"Tesla Girls" is a song by the English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released as the third single from their fifth studio album, Junk Culture (1984). It peaked at No. 21 in the UK and Ireland, and No. 8 on the Dutch Top 40.
The third single, "Tesla Girls" did not make the UK Top 20 but became one of the band's biggest club hits. [16] A fourth single, "Never Turn Away", was released at the behest of Virgin. [11] Junk Culture was the first OMD album to be released contemporaneously on all three formats of vinyl, cassette and compact disc.
"So in Love" is a song by the English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released as the first single from their sixth studio album Crush (1985). It reached the top 30 of both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming their first entry on the latter. The track was a top 10 hit in Belgium and Holland.
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.
"Talking Loud and Clear" is a song by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released on 4 June 1984 as the second single from their fifth studio album Junk Culture (1984). The single was a European hit, reaching the Top 10 in Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands, and No. 11 in the UK.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark credits Ladly for suggesting the titles of their 1981 hit album Architecture & Morality and their 1984 hit single "Tesla Girls". In 1982, Ladly provided backing vocals for Roxy Music and joined cult Scottish post-punk act the Associates appearing with them on Top of the Pops.
The first OMD release in the wake of parent album Dazzle Ships ' critical panning, "Telegraph" also received negative appraisals. [3] Mike Gardner of Record Mirror described the song as "a well-recorded piece of nonsense that doesn't show any ideas apart from starting and ending", [4] while Smash Hits journalist Dave Rimmer called it "jolly, jangly, deliberately obscure and dull as proverbial ...
The album version of "Almost" is similarly a remix of Hannett's version. Version IV ("Electricity" only) A fourth mix of "Electricity" (3:43) was produced by Mike Howlett. This version of "Electricity" was recorded during the Organisation sessions when the band decided to extend the instrumental section in the middle of the song.