Crush (OMD album)

Crush
Studio album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Released 17 June 1985 (1985-06-17)
Recorded 1984–1985
Amazon Studios, Liverpool
Genre Synthpop
Length 38:37
Label Virgin
Producer Stephen Hague
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark chronology
Junk Culture
(1984)		 Crush
(1985)		 The Pacific Age
(1986)
Singles from Crush
  1. "So in Love"
    Released: 13 May 1985
  2. "Secret"
    Released: 8 July 1985
  3. "La Femme Accident"
    Released: 12 October 1985
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Altus Times(favourable)[2]
Colin Larkin[3]
The Michigan Daily(favourable)[4]
Orlando Sentinel(favourable)[5]

Crush is the sixth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1985. It was the first of two OMD albums produced by Stephen Hague, who had previously produced albums by Jules and the Polar Bears, Slow Children, Elliot Easton, Gleaming Spires and others.

Aimed primarily at the US market, where the album sold well, Crush is notable for moving the band's sound in a far more commercial direction, although elements of earlier experimentation are still evident on the title track, which is built around a tape loop of samples from Japanese television commercials, and the closing track "The Lights Are Going Out". "So in Love" (co-written with Hague) became the group's first hit single in the US. A long-form video, Crush - The Movie was also released, showing the group talking about their career and performing the songs from the album.

"Hold You" was later covered by Color Theory.[6]

In a 2013 online poll, Crush was voted the 23rd best album of 1985 based on the opinions of over 45,000 respondents.[7]

Track listing

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "So in Love" (Humphreys, McCluskey, Stephen Hague) 3:29
2. "Secret"   3:56
3. "Bloc Bloc Bloc"   3:28
4. "Women III"   4:26
5. "Crush"   4:27
Side two
No. Title Length
6. "88 Seconds in Greensboro"   4:15
7. "The Native Daughters of the Golden West"   3:58
8. "La Femme Accident"   2:50
9. "Hold You"   4:00
10. "The Lights Are Going Out"   3:57

Personnel

Album singles

Release date Single UK
[8]		 GER IRE
[9]		 NLD
[10]		 US Hot 100 US Dance
13 May 1985 "So in Love" 27 18 13 7 26 16
8 July 1985 "Secret" 34 — 24 — 63 —
12 October 1985 "La Femme Accident" 42 — — — — —

References

  1. ↑ AllMusic review
  2. ↑ Merrill, Bill (18 August 1985). "Record review". Altus Times. Google News. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music. Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0753501597.
  4. ↑ Fertig, Beth (18 September 1985). "Records". The Michigan Daily. Google News. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  5. ↑ Henderson, Bill (7 July 1985). "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Crush". Orlando Sentinel. Tribune Company. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  6. ↑ Messages: Modern Synthpop Artists Cover OMD. AllMusic. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  7. ↑ "Top 100 Albums of 1985: Slicing Up Eyeballs' Best of the '80s — Part 6". Slicing Up Eyeballs. 1 August 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  8. ↑ "everyhit.com search results for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark". Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
  9. ↑ "irishcharts.ie search results for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark". Archived from the original on 1 February 2010. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
  10. ↑ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 28, 1985". Archived from the original on 28 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
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