#o.m.d.

[awakeonsundaynight]

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK-ELECTRICITY

[cosmonautroger]

[the-nightpig]

OMD - Enola Gay live

[gotankgo]

1982

[omegaplus]

# 4,464

O.M.D.: "Tesla Girls" (1984)

If my narcissistic, self-centered, starfuck-attitude former friend from community college was right on one thing, it was his taste in music - specifically synthpop and new-wave after the Eighties when it was mostly tossed out. Good thing he stuck to his guns. "Tesla Girls" would be the only unidentified song on a mixtape he gave me that I recently ended up revisiting. I saw why I scoffed at something that was once cute, silly, and full of charm. Of course, this was in the era of new-wave Romantics (hi, With Sympathy-era Al Jourgensen!), but revisiting your Atari youth, via local retro- arcades and having the ones closest to you waving the synthpop / new-wave flag, meant that I would appreciate it even more, even if I didn't catch this through Weird Science (Hughes, 1984).

Though I discovered this at the time of receiving my former friend's mixtape (turn of the millennium), there would be one O.M.D. single I'd hear all the time during my single-digits: "If You Leave" ('86).

[awakeonsundaynight]

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK-TESLA GIRLS

[bodie-r-hart]

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the dark

Dream of Me (Based on Love's Theme)

[whateverpossessedyou]

In YouTube comments they say “ it's my time machine to the happiest years of my life”. I hope when I am 40 years old I can feel the same about a song.