Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Satellite - OMD
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Recorded during the Architecture and Morality sessions and wasted as a b-side on the 1988 Dreaming CD single. What a waste! One of OMDs best, in my opinion. - uploaded via www.mp32u.net/
absolutely stunning and sadly overlooked. perhaps one of my favorites of theirs
Hypnotic! Just typed this to the beat. Like a juggernaut......
Dave Grundy you are right my friend-still got it on cassette tape...
This has always been one of my favorites of theirs.
I literally have been looking for this song for 25 years.
it is one their best
This took me forever to find!!
Same here!!!
es un tema increible, guardado...
This is amazing! Although I struggle to see that it was recorded during the Architecture and Morality sessions. If it was conceived at that time then I bet this is a re-record or a remix - it sounds more late '80s than early '80s to my ears. All the same, thanks for sharing!
Gravity Never Failed was the Dreaming b-side recorded during the A&M sessions. Iirc Satellite was recorded in 1987 as Andy and Paul tried and failed to make their 'album of two halves' as the pair were diverging in the musical sense. To date it's been the only other track that's ever emerged from that spell other than Dreaming - itself something that originated during the Crush era.
I wish this was available as a digital download. I love this track. Seems it's only out on vinyl.
@@VoodooMick666It's on the CD maxi-single if you can find it.
It is most definitely their best song. I saw them last night and was disappointed they didn't perform it. I didn't think they would though. It was on heavy rotation when I DJ'd in a nightclub in Atlanta.
Well most acts never really perform B-sides or shelved tracks. Maybe once every 8 years or so. They've likely forgotten it. But as they say, most people just want to hear the obvious hits.
i herd 'dreaming' and kept waiting for the new cassette ...
So I have it on some authority that this was supposed to be the single for the Greatest Hits album. Then the A&R guy or girl heard the Dreaming recording and said "no that is the single"
Well the A&R tits are there to make these dumb decisions. But as OMD have wimped out of some neat choices before, they'd likely do the same here. Funny how the label didn't override them with the stupid OMD boys themselves had the utterly retarded temerity to insist the beautiful 'She's Leaving' NOT be the 4th single from "A&M" to not "over-exploit" the record. And followed up with the equal genius of not making 'Gravity Never Failed' a standalone single back then. The pair of them need shooting with a 'Firegun' at times, yet they're happy with the faceless 'We Love You' as a single!
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I have the limited edition cd single
I may say that Satellite could be the first part of Gravity never failed.
Should have been the A side but OMD had lost their way by this time. Huge rifts within the band, lack of decent management, promotion from the label and tiredness of touring made this one of the last songs they wrote before the big split.
Possibly one of the best ever songs ever written by OMD during those times was during some of their last sessions and it was a beautifully haunting ballad called "Everyday" which later resurfaced on the album Liberator, sadly butchered and sounding nothing like the melancholic beautiful track that McCluskey/Humphreys originally wrote. Paul Humphreys also wrote a fantastic upbeat song called "Satellite" with The Listening Pool in 1993. It had a huge bass and great lead vocals by Humphreys. Hopefully one day it will be found and released.
You forgot to add that their desire to continue US success coupled with their US label's dictatorial forcing of the matter didn't help. I don't think 'Satellite' was ever going to be an A-side any more than 'Julia's Song', 'Statues', 'Concrete Hands' or the great 'Firegun' were ever going to be. Don't forget the 2 idiots also harm themselves. They pick 'We Love You' as a single over the few strongest tracks that weakish 1986 albums of theirs has, and they wouldn't even make 'Gravity Never Failed' a single (the very least they could do after dumping it from the album! where they committed the equally awful sin by insisting their label DON'T release 'She's Leaving' as a 4th single from the "A&M" album??!!), so them being in charge not always a good thing. I like how they wanted to release "The Pacific Age's" album opener as a single, though this was overruled. 'Dreaming;' itself is a fine single, it's just where they'd got to by the mid-late 80s. You can't always deal out the hugely experimental, and they'd got through a lot of material in a short time, much of which still in the archives and they won't release stupidly. Though apparently there's a 5th disc of "80s extras" on an expensive boxed set, and even then the 2nd single from the 'So In Love' 12" 'Maria Gallante' STILL didn't make the cut, nor on the "Navigation" compilation, yet they waste space with another version of 'Almost' & 'Telescope Romace'-2 songs already ON an album. Typical arsehole choices a label would make, but acts do not make the best of themselves treating fans this way.
@@kyachdistent1301 There's a lot more to it than that...
@@kyachdistent1301 I am not referring to Satellite on this single. I am referring to the Listening Pools track.
IMHO, their best piece of work and almost impossible to find.
Sometimes the CD single of it ('Dreaming'-it's A-Side) appears on eBay or amazon.
Took me 25 years to find it.
Unbelievable it's not on any album
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Absolutely excellent.