Artist: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Genre(s):
Pop
Rock: Pop-Rock
New Age
Discography:
Best of OMD
Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
Universal
Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Architecture and Morality
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Featuring the core members Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey, the Liverpudlian synth pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark formed in the late '70s. Humphreys and McCluskey began playing in concert in school, playing in the bands VCL XI, Hitlerz Underpantz, and the Id. After the Id split in 1978, McCluskey was with Dalek I Love You for a brief clock time. Once he left Dalek, he coupled with Humphreys and Paul Collister to physical body Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. The grouping released its first-class honours degree single, "Electricity," on Factory Records; the record light-emitting diode to a get with the Virgin subsidiary DinDisc. Using their record march on, McCluskey and Humphreys built a studio apartment, which allowed them to substitute their four-track, and recorded with drummer Malcolm Holmes (at one time of the Id) and Dave Hughes (erst of Dalek I Love You).
In 1980, the grouping released its self-titled debut album. Organisation appeared the same year, which featured the U.K. Top Ten single "Enola Gay"; Hughes was replaced by Martin Cooper after its release. The band's next few albums -- Computer architecture and Morality (1981), Dazzle Ships (1983), and Junk Culture (1984) -- set up the band experimenting with its effectual, resulting in several U.K. hit singles. Recorded with two new members, Graham and Neil Weir, Crush, their most pop-oriented album, launch more success in America than in Britain as the single "So in Love" hit numeral 26 on the charts. "If You Leave," taken from the Pretty in Pink soundtrack, was their biggest American hit, climbing to number quaternity in 1986. The Pacific Age was released the same twelvemonth, all the same America was the only state where it was popular. Shortly after its release, the Weir brothers left the band, followed by Holmes, Cooper, and Humphreys. McCluskey continued with the band, cathartic Refined sugar Tax in 1991; in the meantime, Humphreys formed the Listening Pool.
After Sugar Tax failed to gain an audience, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark returned with Liberator in 1993, which besides was unheeded. It was followed three old age later with Universal. The OMD Remixes appeared in 1998.
