This is how the music documents should be made. Not a single bloody critic, pointles comments, crazy fans. Just lots of fascinating facts, places and moments presented by the band members.
I absolutely love love love OMD I'm starting my own campaign to have them elected into hall of fame!!! Yes they belong there so far ahead of there time, there music just keeps sounding better!!! Not to mention they are totally electricifying live!!!! You definitely get your money worth singing every song!!!!long life to all members to see themselves nominated!!!! I cannot wait.
Love them. Finally caught them 'live' in Atlanta last April. Along with The Church, XTC, and U2, one of 'my' favourite bands. My bands. Not me mum's, nor my dad's.
Likely like many, and now in my mid 50’s, OMD have and always will be part of myself, musicality speaking. Those wonderful tunes forming lifelong memories, fond ones indeed.
@@Satansclawps3 in the same way Gary Numan “stole” from John Fox get was totally original. Isn’t that how music continues to evolve over time. All artist have their influencers and yet go down their own path breaking new ground.
@@Satansclawps3 No, not the case. Ralph and Florian used to sit in the front row enjoying the music and scaring the shit out of Andy and Paul with their presence. Kraftwerk recognised fellow travellers.
I was a 70’s and 80’s kid, but didn’t discover OMD until the 90’s in my early 20s. Their music evokes a whole different set of memories. In my 50’s and I’ve finally moved from playing piano to playing synths, and now I see how those classic synth sounds came together to form some really fantastic music. Thank you for this documentary. Much appreciated!
What I love about this band is its connection and influence in early post punk. Most people laugh them off, but they INSPIRED Joy Division, Depeche Mode and so many more. OMD is ICONIC. And I will say, on a few occasions, saved my life through music.
OMD inspired New Order, rather than Joy Division. JD were actually quite influential on OMD's second album, 'Organisation' ("Statues" was partly written about Ian Curtis). That said, OMD were hugely influential from the 80s up to the present day. They're finally starting to get the credit they deserved decades ago.
That was the best documentary I’ve ever seen. I love the ending with what Andy said. Thank you both for being any important part of my life. The 80’s and the bands in them were the soundtrack of my young life. Thank you for the music.. I will never stop dancing to OMD.. I’m 52 now and I’m proud to be an 80’s kid. Xo
Thank you! It brings me great pleasure to see that fans are enjoying my documentary after all these years. I have wondered many times whether I should get UA-cam to tear down this bootleg of my film but, when I see comments like yours, I decide to leave it be for month or so, maybe! x Rob
Your music and song's helped me through to the 80's and 90's , loved you lot and created so many time slots in my life from been 19 years old and onwards, good or bad , I go back to you boy's, from the last song hearing from you while my bro had cancer helping me and understanding life , thank you so very much.👍
The most memorable concert I ever went to was OMD on the beach at Plettenberg Bay, 30th December 1993. Open air, stage in front of us, sea behind us, sand between our toes; Magical.
This video is beyond brilliant - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is my favourite band of the 🤔 EVER!! Maid of Orleans is my favourite song, it's an absolute dreeeeeam.
I watched this some years back. Had to watch again. What Andy says at the very end is touching, so true. Absolutely wonderful days, music. Thank you 0MD x
What a well done, low key, real life, real human documentary! Give the artists the time and the place to talk, and watch a human connection being made! Thank you!
Absolutely down to earth, hardworking blokes you can totally relate to as a musician, while at the same time being pioneers and inovators of their art, and complete legends in their own time. My hat is off to you both, an inspiration to all that will last into eternity🤗
My favorite as well. I’ve been a fan since their first album. For me, their music between Dazzle Ships and Crush doesn’t measure up to the first four albums. This documentary has given me some insight as to why. Crush was definitely the best of their more popular sound after DS, from start to finish.
@@0cer0 It was literally, music to wake up to. If you fell asleep listening to a radio station in Czechoslovakia, that was the music you would be woken up with, when the station came back on the air.
We love you........ Thank you boys, for some great memories! Your honesty is incredible, your talent is immeasurable, your talent is gratefully accepted! You are immense!!!
The first album I ever brought with my pocket money, aged 12, was Architecture & Morality, when it came out in 81. Haunted by the single Souvenir, I've been hooked on that album ever since. I also love Organization. Enola Gay was the first OMD song I heard, at the school disco! Forever a classic.
Oh when you look around the room, there is so much more gray hair showing , and life experience oozing out of all that where there. So glad OMD makes up the fabric of my life story as I was there and it is a part of who I was and are today. Kris frm NZ
I know OMD all My life only from 3 singles. In 2023 I'm discovering the band completly and this documentary, the reunion, is the best way to incorporate it in the discovery of Bunker soldiers. ;)
Perhaps it's ironic that I was introduced to OMD by Brit Army Signallers while I, a Canadian Army Signaller was visiting a Brit camp in Verden, Germany in 1982. The lads played for me, among other electronic acts I had not yet heard of, OMD's latest album Architecture & Morality and I was hooked. I took that inspiration back home and showed them off to all my friends. I loved them then and I still love them today.
Was lucky enough to be one of the "100" at that Birmingham rehearsal gig. (Also one of the people interviewed, which was cracking !). Never imagined, another 15 years later, that the gigs would still be coming. Great band and every bit as affable as they appear in this doc. Thanks Andy, Paul, Mal, Mart.
Great band and very down to earth. One of Britain's finest electro bands that wrote perfect pop songs that will live on and on. Great to see them rehearsing at around 45:00, and Paul playing a Korg M1. I have one of those synths and it still looks and sounds great for a 1988 keyboard.
I watched them at Eric’s, also the first time they played the Royal Court in Liverpool or was it the Empire. Many many years later I did a job for a friend and he thanked me with a ticket for OMD at the arena in the Albert Dock area. This band blew me away from start to finish. Absolutely wonderful to watch. I think I shed a tear when they played Messages. Brilliant documentary. All the best chaps.
An excellent documentary. It's amazing that all the great bands and songwriters started with nothing and taught themselves.... look at the history of it all.
+Paul Buttrill The influence of punk and the amount and different genres it influenced and created...its mind blowing and still unaccounted for. The amount of people who never made music but just picked up instruments, and just experimented or made stuff up and ended up on the charts, created never existed genres/new music and becoming stars/or became note worthy is staggering
I felt really emotional through most of this. Brought back loads of memories of how much I loved and was influenced by OMD - especially as a fellow scouser. I remember taping Souvenir from the top 40 when it came into the charts. I’m so pleased this massive collaboration happened for them and this got uploaded. 🖤
who gave the 18 thumbs down? these guys are so incredibly down to earth and i'm so happy for their success. they werent musicians but artists, punks, cause that's what punk is about and andy's melancholic voice is just otherworldly.
Looking forward to seeing OMD for the first time Live in November of this year. They were a part of the soundtrack of my 20s during the mid-1980s. It will be great to see them out here in California
Many moons ago. OMD had a recording studio called The Gramophone Suite. It was across the way from the famous record shop 'Probe Records'. I was about 16 and wanted to get into the music business on the tech side. Andy McCluskey invited me to their studio one Sunday. Still have the letter off him. Memories 😊 They talk about The Gramophone Suite control room. If I remember they had a cheque in a frame on the wall.
Omg, Souvenir *is* Paul. He sings it beautifully as well, it's perfect. I loved it at the very first note, I love the softness of his voice and the emotion in the melody. OMD were a huge part of the soundtrack of my girlhood. They were so different as a band, but also as persons, yet they complement each other phenomenally music wise. Good documentary, thank you for uploading.
Great sacrifices,,,, thank you so much,,, To have your music,,,, it's a great treasure for young generations... You're not be FORGOTTEN...... great music as ever......
Just finished watching this and really enjoyed it immensely. Grew up listening to them as my Sister was a massive fan and got me listening also. Sadly she died last year and this year (hopefully) going to see them in Hull as my tribute to her.
I was the keyboard tech at A1 music in Manchester when Andy McCluskey came in with a couple of kids he was mentoring when they were at their peak. Really lovely chap. Couldn't play keyboard very well but them are the breaks in life. Always a fan.. :-)
Watching them play at 45:00 and seeing how easily they got back into the grove of playing like riding a bike. They sounded awesome and dare I say they have improveď nicely live. God bless the band...my high school years Sountracks were JOURNEY, RUSH, DEPECH MODE, OMD, THE CURE, SMITHS...i hear various songs and BAM Im back there. OMDs pretty in pink music especially good memories.
Fantastic. I love these early synth bands and tunes whether it's Kraftwerk, Ultravox, OMD, Human League etc. They were nerds, innovators and genuinely interested in what they were doing. It was a different time in most areas (and especially technological), but human warmth still shines through despite the otherwise basically synthetic and relatively cold music. I think the context and focus was different at the time and that this makes a big difference when listening to these bands today. The Cold War was imminent and defined the mindset and everything imagined. Hopelessness became an opportunity and this was shown in, among other things, romantic synth music.
I have just gone sixty this year and OMD was a very big part of my Yoof music and now in my later years, i have a jukebox in my living room with the orignal 45's that i bought in the 80's of OMD and a lot of electronic bands from the 80's, it's amazing that i am old now but i am still 20 in the head sometimes, lol.
there's the moment near the end, when the crowd are going crazy; and i thought, yeah that's it. that's what it's really all about. Miss it as a performer myself; found myself living vicariously through them... made me think of all the great things about being in a band, the friendship, the creativity, the gigs. Then it mixed with all the memories as a kid of the A&M period.... being in a hotel/pub in St Germans in Cornwall when A&M was out first; on a dukebox asking me dad if I could get a play of Souvenir... him thinking it was a real orchestra by the band name... easy sell.. all that combined to thinking about what OMD went through realising what they mean to people. Room went everso dusty at that point ❤️
Amazing documentary, very insightful - on a ground breaking band from the 80's. The music still resonates positively today. Fantastic songwriting and composition. Very intelligent and creative guys with a musical chemistry together that is greater than the sum of their individual parts. The final statement from Andy McCluskey really sums it all up!!
Still just a couple of kids at heart....wonderful doc, I learned so much about the evolution of the technology and the music. Thanks for sharing this and bringing back so many memories of some of the music that shaped me. A tastefully done, thoughtful film.
I love so much that you danced so much, all of your music always felt so amazing emotionally, really made you want to move in some form or another. I love your early experimental works. Thank you OMD.
Absolutely amazing band and I really hope they continue to make records!!!! Saw them in LA for their reunion tour and they were spectacular! Haven't missed a beat!
What a delightful film! I learned much about the band that I never knew and then there's the MUSIC!!!!!!! I saw OMD in the early 80s-what an enjoyable band and enjoyable film.
My favourite band since the age of 12 and I'm now 54. Musical geniuses.
Same here! Same age.
OMD are legends yet still alive and relevant to millions
This is how the music documents should be made. Not a single bloody critic, pointles comments, crazy fans. Just lots of fascinating facts, places and moments presented by the band members.
To put it another way, no Stuart Maconie or Paul Morley.
Adam.
👍 and no camerapersons with obsessions of every camera angle possible.
I totally agree - this is fabulous.
So true. If VH1 produced it, it would have been a shitshow.
Spot on
completely agree.. band members honest and real
I absolutely love love love OMD I'm starting my own campaign to have them elected into hall of fame!!! Yes they belong there so far ahead of there time, there music just keeps sounding better!!! Not to mention they are totally electricifying live!!!! You definitely get your money worth singing every song!!!!long life to all members to see themselves nominated!!!! I cannot wait.
This is a beautiful documentary. There is nobody quite like OMD, they have a very, very special place in my heart.
Love them. Finally caught them 'live' in Atlanta last April. Along with The Church, XTC, and U2, one of 'my' favourite bands. My bands. Not me mum's, nor my dad's.
“Secret” is a gem still today, a gorgeously melodic 80’s synth masterpiece
One of my absolute favorites!!
Souvenir is an absolute masterpiece by Paul Humphreys👏
Though the credit on the disc label goes to Martin Cooper.
This is one of the best band documentaries I've seen. Great insight from the band members on their history. Very enjoyable.
It's funny how bands always have big differences and arguments. Usually over money and royalties at the end of the day. The Smiths for example.
I'm not of their time, I discovered them this year and i cannot get enough, I love their sound
Try Camouflage
If you can't get enough, see depeche mode
You missed out in some good Music
Try Blancmange, happy families album. ;)
My 1st concert was OMD 1982 Hammersmith Odeon
Folks, this is how you make a documentary. Love the little bits on how the songs were actually crafted. So well done.
Likely like many, and now in my mid 50’s, OMD have and always will be part of myself, musicality speaking. Those wonderful tunes forming lifelong memories, fond ones indeed.
They were original and their music has lasted the test of time. One of the unforgettable bands of my teenage years.
But stole from Kraftwerk so not that original after all.
@@Satansclawps3 in the same way Gary Numan “stole” from John Fox get was totally original.
Isn’t that how music continues to evolve over time. All artist have their influencers and yet go down their own path breaking new ground.
@@Satansclawps3 No, not the case. Ralph and Florian used to sit in the front row enjoying the music and scaring the shit out of Andy and Paul with their presence. Kraftwerk recognised fellow travellers.
I was a 70’s and 80’s kid, but didn’t discover OMD until the 90’s in my early 20s. Their music evokes a whole different set of memories. In my 50’s and I’ve finally moved from playing piano to playing synths, and now I see how those classic synth sounds came together to form some really fantastic music. Thank you for this documentary. Much appreciated!
Strange, but that was my case as kid in a semi rural town in Mexico
Back in the day, I recorded Enola Gay on loop and would listen to it all night til I fell asleep...
Grew up in listening to these guys in the 80s during high school, OMD and New Order will always be my favorite bands for all times :)
OMD was my first concert. Saw New Order too. Good taste you have!
What I love about this band is its connection and influence in early post punk. Most people laugh them off, but they INSPIRED Joy Division, Depeche Mode and so many more. OMD is ICONIC. And I will say, on a few occasions, saved my life through music.
One of there first ever gigs was actually opening up for Joy Division who'd been out before them already.
OMD inspired New Order, rather than Joy Division. JD were actually quite influential on OMD's second album, 'Organisation' ("Statues" was partly written about Ian Curtis). That said, OMD were hugely influential from the 80s up to the present day. They're finally starting to get the credit they deserved decades ago.
Fabulous documentary. This band were fantastic in 1980 and still are now.
That was the best documentary I’ve ever seen. I love the ending with what Andy said. Thank you both for being any important part of my life. The 80’s and the bands in them were the soundtrack of my young life. Thank you for the music.. I will never stop dancing to OMD.. I’m 52 now and I’m proud to be an 80’s kid. Xo
Thank you! It brings me great pleasure to see that fans are enjoying my documentary after all these years. I have wondered many times whether I should get UA-cam to tear down this bootleg of my film but, when I see comments like yours, I decide to leave it be for month or so, maybe! x Rob
@@aspecttv1315why not put it up officially? It’s amazing. Heck, see if a streaming service wants to host it too
Very good documentary. Thanks.
Your music and song's helped me through to the 80's and 90's , loved you lot and created so many time slots in my life from been 19 years old and onwards, good or bad , I go back to you boy's, from the last song hearing from you while my bro had cancer helping me and understanding life , thank you so very much.👍
I was waiting to see them live on stage 37 years. The Most exciting moment in my live................
The most memorable concert I ever went to was OMD on the beach at Plettenberg Bay, 30th December 1993. Open air, stage in front of us, sea behind us, sand between our toes; Magical.
What a lovely, modest couple of guys who made great music at a time when the greatest music was being made...suppose every generation says that!
Well,i am a late sixties child when music was fab but most eighties music was fab too
I am 62 and the 80s are my favorite. Yet I just discovered this band from a movie. Cant wait to hear more!!
Such fantastic nostalgia, the music of my early teens and the songs you remember best for the rest of your life. Amazing!
This video is beyond brilliant - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is my favourite band of the 🤔 EVER!!
Maid of Orleans is my favourite song, it's an absolute dreeeeeam.
I Love You OMD, thank you for your music.
Did they die?
love this. so down to earth. honest,appreciative. this is how a band should be. i loved OMD before. im obsessed now. love it 1981 ❤👌
This documentary is simply fantastic, moving, human and totally enjoyable! :)
I grew up listening OMD and never get enough. Love the music, love the voices. Good old days
I watched this some years back. Had to watch again. What Andy says at the very end is touching, so true. Absolutely wonderful days, music. Thank you 0MD x
Superb music documentary. What struck me the most was what a lovely sweet guy Paul Humphreys is.
He is.
What a well done, low key, real life, real human documentary!
Give the artists the time and the place to talk, and watch a human connection being made! Thank you!
Souvenir, my fave song of OMD. Loved them.
Absolutely down to earth, hardworking blokes you can totally relate to as a musician, while at the same time being pioneers and inovators of their art, and complete legends in their own time. My hat is off to you both, an inspiration to all that will last into eternity🤗
"Dazzle Ships" was and is my favorite album by OMD. The irony that it was the beginning of the end…
I recently discovered this album & I love it
My favorite as well. I’ve been a fan since their first album. For me, their music between Dazzle Ships and Crush doesn’t measure up to the first four albums. This documentary has given me some insight as to why. Crush was definitely the best of their more popular sound after DS, from start to finish.
I agree. Dazzle was a dark masterpiece. It haunted me at the time. Still does, actually. Czechs love it, by the way.
@@Columba_Kos Radio Prague
@@0cer0 It was literally, music to wake up to. If you fell asleep listening to a radio station in Czechoslovakia, that was the music you would be woken up with, when the station came back on the air.
Just saw that they're coming to my neck of the woods in August 2022. I will be there!!
They are SO good live. You won't regret it! Their energy is infectious and palpable!
Great band great documentary.
Very nicely done documentary. This two are really nice and down to earth kind of artists-love them!
Great music, reminds me of the early 80s and being very young
We love you........ Thank you boys, for some great memories! Your honesty is incredible, your talent is immeasurable, your talent is gratefully accepted! You are immense!!!
The first album I ever brought with my pocket money, aged 12, was Architecture & Morality, when it came out in 81. Haunted by the single Souvenir, I've been hooked on that album ever since. I also love Organization. Enola Gay was the first OMD song I heard, at the school disco! Forever a classic.
Saw them at Leeds on Saturday night just gone, at Leeds First Direct Arena ...absolutely amazing, it's still ringing in my ears now 👏 👏👏
I can hardly watch great docs like this. It makes me miss the 80's way too much.
I just love how down to earth, self critical and funny Andy and Paul are!
Saw OMD and Thompson Twins in Hamilton, Ontario at Copps Colliseum in December 1986. My first concert ever. Incredible times.
I saw both of them in Las Vegas in 1986 too, though I can't remember the month
this video is a treasure for those of us that grew up with these sounds
Oh when you look around the room, there is so much more gray hair showing , and life experience oozing out of all that where there. So glad OMD makes up the fabric of my life story as I was there and it is a part of who I was and are today. Kris frm NZ
Souvenir and If you leave are my two favorites. So many more but they both bring back so many memories.
This is a very epic documentary thanks for the share
I know OMD all My life only from 3 singles. In 2023 I'm discovering the band completly and this documentary, the reunion, is the best way to incorporate it in the discovery of Bunker soldiers. ;)
OMD, one of the best bands of all times. These guys marked my 80s for me, together with Kraftwerk, Joy Division.... Thank you guys
I love this documentary. I love OMD's songs. And now I know and love their story. I'm happy they performed together again...
Perhaps it's ironic that I was introduced to OMD by Brit Army Signallers while I, a Canadian Army Signaller was visiting a Brit camp in Verden, Germany in 1982. The lads played for me, among other electronic acts I had not yet heard of, OMD's latest album Architecture & Morality and I was hooked. I took that inspiration back home and showed them off to all my friends. I loved them then and I still love them today.
One of the best bands ever! Great documentary!
Thank’s to this music, I made the peace with my past.💖
what a fantastic bloke Paul is! I could listen to him for hours :)
I could as well.
Was lucky enough to be one of the "100" at that Birmingham rehearsal gig. (Also one of the people interviewed, which was cracking !). Never imagined, another 15 years later, that the gigs would still be coming. Great band and every bit as affable as they appear in this doc. Thanks Andy, Paul, Mal, Mart.
Great band and very down to earth. One of Britain's finest electro bands that wrote perfect pop songs that will live on and on. Great to see them rehearsing at around 45:00, and Paul playing a Korg M1. I have one of those synths and it still looks and sounds great for a 1988 keyboard.
It was Korg T3.
Synth or keyboard? Make your mind up please...
Opposite of down to earth
This is at least my third re-visit to this, I find Andy McLusky so engaging and funny ...and LOVE OMD.
Through it all these guys stayed good mates. They clearly enjoy preforming together and having fun.
I’d love to meet these guys. I’ve loved Omd since the start.
I watched them at Eric’s, also the first time they played the Royal Court in Liverpool or was it the Empire. Many many years later I did a job for a friend and he thanked me with a ticket for OMD at the arena in the Albert Dock area. This band blew me away from start to finish. Absolutely wonderful to watch. I think I shed a tear when they played Messages.
Brilliant documentary. All the best chaps.
The band that were playing the night Keith Moon died were The Specials (Too Much Too Young)
Elvis Costello later produced their first album.
It is watching this that has reminded me just how good this band was.
An excellent documentary. It's amazing that all the great bands and songwriters started with nothing and taught themselves.... look at the history of it all.
+Paul Buttrill
The influence of punk and the amount and different genres it influenced and created...its mind blowing and still unaccounted for.
The amount of people who never made music but just picked up instruments, and just experimented or made stuff up and ended up on the charts, created never existed genres/new music and becoming stars/or became note worthy is staggering
An incredible influential band that still to this day I listen to daily.
I felt really emotional through most of this. Brought back loads of memories of how much I loved and was influenced by OMD - especially as a fellow scouser. I remember taping Souvenir from the top 40 when it came into the charts. I’m so pleased this massive collaboration happened for them and this got uploaded. 🖤
who gave the 18 thumbs down? these guys are so incredibly down to earth and i'm so happy for their success. they werent musicians but artists, punks, cause that's what punk is about and andy's melancholic voice is just otherworldly.
Looking forward to seeing OMD for the first time Live in November of this year.
They were a part of the soundtrack of my 20s during the mid-1980s.
It will be great to see them out here in California
I love Souvenir to bits : it gets me really emotional 😊
OMD always have been one of my favorite bands - thanks for this great documentary! Love it!
Thank you for this gem....made my friday night...the history of OMD is something I've always appreciated..and always will....
Many moons ago. OMD had a recording studio called The Gramophone Suite. It was across the way from the famous record shop 'Probe Records'. I was about 16 and wanted to get into the music business on the tech side. Andy McCluskey invited me to their studio one Sunday. Still have the letter off him. Memories 😊
They talk about The Gramophone Suite control room. If I remember they had a cheque in a frame on the wall.
God, I miss OMD! Great documentary!
Great spirit, great guys, great music! Thanks OMD.
Omg, Souvenir *is* Paul. He sings it beautifully as well, it's perfect. I loved it at the very first note, I love the softness of his voice and the emotion in the melody. OMD were a huge part of the soundtrack of my girlhood. They were so different as a band, but also as persons, yet they complement each other phenomenally music wise. Good documentary, thank you for uploading.
Beautiful
Great documentary - My favourite group with great music - -talking loud n clear is one of their best - long live OMD
BEAUTIFUL. THE SOUND BROUGHT ME BACK TO MY YOUTH AND GOT ME DANCING.
I grew up with their Sound. I really Made my world. Still Love it
Great sacrifices,,,, thank you so much,,,
To have your music,,,, it's a great treasure for young generations...
You're not be FORGOTTEN......
great music as ever......
Just finished watching this and really enjoyed it immensely. Grew up listening to them as my Sister was a massive fan and got me listening also. Sadly she died last year and this year (hopefully) going to see them in Hull as my tribute to her.
Such a joy to watch long takes, listen to longer statements etc. Not this unbearable cut cut cut bullshit we have to usually watch these days. ❤
I was the keyboard tech at A1 music in Manchester when Andy McCluskey came in with a couple of kids he was mentoring when they were at their peak. Really lovely chap. Couldn't play keyboard very well but them are the breaks in life. Always a fan.. :-)
fab tunes they had......love !!!!! omg enola gay gives me chills of JOY
Best band I have ever seen live.. Never got to see them in the 80's, but had the privilege to see them 3 years ago, totally amazing.
Watching them play at 45:00 and seeing how easily they got back into the grove of playing like riding a bike. They sounded awesome and dare I say they have improveď nicely live.
God bless the band...my high school years Sountracks were JOURNEY, RUSH, DEPECH MODE, OMD, THE CURE, SMITHS...i hear various songs and BAM Im back there. OMDs pretty in pink music especially good memories.
Fantastic. I love these early synth bands and tunes whether it's Kraftwerk, Ultravox, OMD, Human League etc. They were nerds, innovators and genuinely interested in what they were doing. It was a different time in most areas (and especially technological), but human warmth still shines through despite the otherwise basically synthetic and relatively cold music. I think the context and focus was different at the time and that this makes a big difference when listening to these bands today. The Cold War was imminent and defined the mindset and everything imagined. Hopelessness became an opportunity and this was shown in, among other things, romantic synth music.
I have just gone sixty this year and OMD was a very big part of my Yoof music and now in my later years, i have a jukebox in my living room with the orignal 45's that i bought in the 80's of OMD and a lot of electronic bands from the 80's, it's amazing that i am old now but i am still 20 in the head sometimes, lol.
there's the moment near the end, when the crowd are going crazy; and i thought, yeah that's it. that's what it's really all about. Miss it as a performer myself; found myself living vicariously through them... made me think of all the great things about being in a band, the friendship, the creativity, the gigs. Then it mixed with all the memories as a kid of the A&M period.... being in a hotel/pub in St Germans in Cornwall when A&M was out first; on a dukebox asking me dad if I could get a play of Souvenir... him thinking it was a real orchestra by the band name... easy sell.. all that combined to thinking about what OMD went through realising what they mean to people. Room went everso dusty at that point ❤️
Amazing documentary, very insightful - on a ground breaking band from the 80's. The music still resonates positively today. Fantastic songwriting and composition. Very intelligent and creative guys with a musical chemistry together that is greater than the sum of their individual parts. The final statement from Andy McCluskey really sums it all up!!
Still just a couple of kids at heart....wonderful doc, I learned so much about the evolution of the technology and the music. Thanks for sharing this and bringing back so many memories of some of the music that shaped me. A tastefully done, thoughtful film.
I love so much that you danced so much, all of your music always felt so amazing emotionally, really made you want to move in some form or another. I love your early experimental works. Thank you OMD.
Utterly brilliant! A whole new insight into the early lives of Paul and Andy, and those great songs. A top, top documentary.
Thank so much for uploading this as the full documentary! Great viewing!!
Absolutely amazing band and I really hope they continue to make records!!!! Saw them in LA for their reunion tour and they were spectacular! Haven't missed a beat!
Ich Liebe OMD über alles thank you for all yours songs😍😍😍😍😍😜😜😜😜
Great harmonious, melodious singers and songwriters.
What a delightful film! I learned much about the band that I never knew and then there's the MUSIC!!!!!!!
I saw OMD in the early 80s-what an enjoyable band and enjoyable film.