The joy of a long-ish train journey, apart from admiring the frosty countryside and marveling at what an utter shit-hole Birmingham is, is the chance to just listen to music more carefully than usual. Today, I used the opportunity to re-visit Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Darks Dazzle Ships, which has divided critics and fans opinions. After selling 2 million copies of the previous album Architecture and Morality, which was widely praised, OMD have admitted they committed commercial suicide with a much more experimental and industrial follow up that only sold a tenth of the previous album. I was initially a bit floored when Dazzle Ships came out in 1983 (just before I left for university in Liverpool), though it did have a few commercial singles such as Genetic Engineering and Telegraph. I was entranced by Dazzle Ships (Parts II, III and VII), but didnt get the brilliance of Time Zones (just a compilation of speaking clocks around the world) or Radio Prague at the time. ABC Auto-Industry, This is Helena and The Romance of the Telescope left me a bit bewildered too as an 18 year old. However, now I just think this it is a sublime classic album. Belting album cover too. The whole thing is available on YouTube. Be warned, it is not too everyones taste, but dip your toe in or just dive in head first! :-) https://youtube/playlist?list=PLq2zGwS_aVcmIORJP24FbUUvh9SyTh07d
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:30:16 +0000
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