Lyrics : Enola Gay You should have stayed at home yesterday Ah-ha words can't describe The feeling and the way you lied These games you play They're going to end in more Than tears some day Ah-ha Enola Gay It shouldn't ever have to end this way It's eight fifteen And that's the time that it's always been We got your message on the radio Conditions normal and you're coming home Enola Gay Is mother proud of little boy today? Ah-ha this kiss you give It's never ever gonna to fade away Enola Gay It shouldn't ever have to end this way Ah-ha Enola Gay Should've faded our dreams away It's eight fifteen And that's the time that it's always been We got your message on the radio Conditions normal and you're coming home Enola Gay Is mother proud of little boy today? Ah-ha this kiss you give It's never ever going to fade away
CRAZY🤩 ... AFTER 40 YEARS THE TRANSLATION OF THE SONG 🎵. HOW LONG WAS IT TAKEN 🤔... YOU IMAGINE MY AMAZING😁 AND MY SURPRISE.😃.FIND THE TEXT TRANSLATED ... THANK YOU 👍SO MUCH .. GREETINGS FROM ITALY ✋🇮🇹✋
my dad is a massive history nerd who grew up with 70’s/80’s electronic music. it makes so much sense that this is his all time favorite song. so proud to have a dad with a music taste that goated
When this was aired back in the days, it was like a punch to the stomach to me: WHAT a sound, WHAT originality, this was impossible to forget! Impossible to imagine this level of creativity today…
I listened to this when i walked to school everyday , 34 years I still absolutely love it, nobody cant beat the good times from the 80s, im so glad i grew up on these awesome tunes!!! ♥
I never realised what this song was about until much later in life... I was about 13 and now I'm 53.... atomic bomb on Hiroshima.. we were never even taught this at school. Just remember loving the tune as a teenager. Anyway on a musical note, those drums and symbols are spot on... I love OMD.
@@garybradley1 It's what Enola Gay's pilot said to his boss over radio just before launching Little Boy over Hiroshima. They only would be throwing the bomb if there were a set of pre-established conditions of wind, light... to maximum effect. The "Is mother proud of Little Boy? it's so good. Enolay Gay is the name of the bomber but it's too the name of the pilot's mother. The lyrics are well estudied to be simple and harming at the same time.
@vanesag.9863 I am fully conversant with the details of the dropping of the bomb and the lyrics, for example 8.15 was the time, Hiroshima time, when the bomb detonated. I was being sarcastic, they've just killed thousands of people, yet "conditions normal". I don't think they were normal if you were on the ground.
@@garybradley1 😅 Oooops, I didn't catch your sarcasm. Sorry. That "conditions normal" was dettached from reality but I think it's a mindset all militars have to try to survive psychologically a war.
Enola Gay is one of those strange concoctions of the 80s, where the tone of the song is so danceable and shiny you fail to notice the sad and serious lyrics hidden inside ..
What! Enola Gaye was the bomber that dropped the ATOM bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima killing millions of people at the end of the war. Also, The word Gay has become quite literally the Plutomia as the sting in the tail called aides.
@@kamikazestryker I could add it's like homosexuality (what is AIDS) in 'modern times' it's the sting in the tail! but getting back it's a dam good song to listen to.
I turned 17 in 1980 - I feel as if I won the lottery in terms of the music served up for my time on the British pub/club scene! Incredible songs such as this one make my youth UNFORGETTABLE!!
Hey mate, I'm a 63 model. We really did grow up in fantastic times regarding music. My first concert was seeing the Buzzcocks.....supported by Joy Division at the Manchester Apollo. That was pretty cool. The Clash, PIL, Stiff Little Fingers and more I saw there. I saw James back in the day too, oh and Stone Roses eventually. Yes we had some great times, when we were young, we grew up listening to The Beatles, T Rex and David Bowie.......it doesn't get much better.
April 1991, a small town in eastern Poland. My parents' wedding party, people craving Western music after 40 years of communism, and a band that doesn't know a bit of English. The boys played the Enola Gay melody on a loop for 20 minutes, everyone, whether teenagers or 80-year-old grandmothers, had a great time. To this day, this melody evokes my parents' emotions. Of course, they still don't speak English, and I will never translate the lyrics of this song for them
Can't believe. We had western music throughout the 80s and most of the 70s in the GDR. There was even a percentage of that music allowed in official events. Given that Poland was far more open and people could travel to the west (we couldn't).
@@tinowildenhain2324 Well... I didn't live in those days. But I'm interested in history, I like listening to my parents' and older people's stories. As far as I know, for Poles, East Germany was almost like the West. Everyone dreamed of a Simson or MZ motorcycle. For many, a plastic bag bought in the GDR was a cause for show. I don't know about the openness towards the west in DDR, but I do know that even if something was available in Poland in the 80s, people simply couldn't afford it.
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
Thank you mate, that made me very proud. There's a beer waiting for you if you come to London! Although Italy gave the world some pretty hot music too with Opera.
Surreally nostalgic. Brings back feelings and memories that I cant quite explain in words. Joyful, sad, delirious, cheerful, memorable, etc. all at the same time. Keep rockin it steady.
What a crazy mix of emotions listening to this. I’ve just been to an OMD concert here in Dublin. This song of course got the crowd bopping big time but the horrendous evil act of dropping bombs 2 consecutive days on innocent civilians mixed with an upbeat music genre is hard to swallow.
@@emeroregan5298 All war is horrendous. Everyone’s death diminishes me, for I am a part of mankind. Is it the #’s? The number of deaths at once? Or is it the fact that war is now home and can wipe out all? Some argue that WW3 has not occurred yet because we realize it will be the last. Remember, the US estimated that 10 million Japanese would die in a conventional invasion. The Japanese government expected 1/3 to 1/2 of its population would die.
Why? Why were they such great bands? Because they always had stories in the song. Not just today's repeated babble about nonsense. For instance... Poker face. Singing of nonsense.
@nicovdwesthuizen844 The big problèm today it s internet. The producers has a problem to.make money with tourney! Impossible to Produce with today s extra cost
This song is perfect for this moment in history: no more nuclear bombs! No more war! No more world wars! Please like if you agree and if you want nuclear bombs away from this world!
I don't want nuclear bombs used again. Sadly they exist now, and you can't really get rid of them. The knowledge exists, if somehow you managed to destroy all of them, someone would still make them again to gain power over others. So I can't advocate no more nuclear bombs, just I hope they're never used again.
And how many likes are needed to accomplish anything toward that goal? Everyone knows that only "thoughts and prayers" can actually accomplish real progress.
It saved countless lives. Agreed it is awful but they asked for it. The flattening of Tokyo and other cities with carpet bombing was arguably more destructive but if we had done a land incursion many more would have died on both sides. Naive hippy dippy Lily Allen-level "politics" just make you sound foolish and ill-informed Also, asking people to like on such a subject is a pretty shallow thing to do
Bravo, timeless OMD! A 50 something y.o. from Spain who appreciates the difference and understands that the best pop music in the 80s (by far) came from England.
Yeah, absolutely. Let me get this straight: So we have OMD, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Ultravox, Queen, Slade, The Police. Not enough? Okay. Yazoo, Erasure, Eurythmics or Frankie goes to Hollywood. Tears for Fears, Wham and Def Leppard. And that's just a few bands. No solo artists as Nik Kershaw, Billy Idol or Chris de Burgh and so on...
It`s a jewels OMD - Heroes of my youth time in Germany-Bavaria. Was war das nur für ein wunderbares, unbeschwertes, freies Leben ohne Smartphone-Gedudel und ständiger Erreichbarkeit. I miss this time more than ever. Greetings to all the people in the world.
Eulnglidis curbani pois essa música Eu ofereço o grupo BTS essa seria o início da carreira de vocês a volta faça o livro eu conto do livro qual o primeiro nome de todos vocês a data de nascimento o dia e o ano começa incorreto para terminar em reconhecidos como a obra o qual teve um começo mas terá um legado perfeito
This song has special meaning to me. I'm a physicist who somehow found myself working for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory back in the 1990's. At its core the place is essentially devoted to developing H-bombs, and I never had any interest in that. Don't they do their job pretty well already?! I was on the floppy-necked liberal side of the lab, working on Magnetic Fusion Energy, the long-imagined energy source of the future. But there was clear pressure for me to move over to bomb work, so I eventually quit physics entirely in order to become the independent mad scientist that I am today. OMD's "Enola Gaye" expresses the same sentiment, and will never get old for me.
My mother was born in the 60s, she literally had no idea what this song was about until I told her 2 weeks ago and has since listened to this song as if it was the first time. She really had no idea and gave her a shiver.
A friend of mine, who didn't know that Enola Gay was the plane that bombed Hiroshima and Little Boy the code-name of the bomb, was convinced this was a happy song about a young woman giving birth to a son. It rather spoilt it for her when I explained the true meaning of the lyrics.
To me, this song has a really catchy and "cheerful" rhythm that makes you feel well, BUT it carries a message that makes you feel exactly on the opposite, at the same time. This is why i love this song. Today is 6th August, anniversary of the first atomic bombing in Hiroshima We must not forget
Eulnglidis curbani Eu ofereço essa música eletrônica ao príncipe ramadi Deus edifica a sua casa Deus edifica a sua família Deus edifica o homem a qual é você Deus identifica o seu país Deus edifica as crianças A qual obra Deus fez Deus edifica o homem e a criança a qual você se tornou um homem de honra um homem de palavra um homem a quem educa A família o homem que honra o pai ao qual retorna ao ser um filho ao chegar aos céus um filho que é honra pai e mãe honra a terra e honra os céus
Just in case anyone doesn't know, this song is about the bombing of Hiroshima. "Enola Gay" was the name of the plane that dropped it. The bomb was dropped at 8.15 AM on 6 August 1945. It's a beautiful song about a tragedy.
omd, another legendary British band. Even though I belong to another generation, I am forced to go back decades in the past due to the quality of the songs, which are in fact true masterpieces!
I wouldn't exactly call them legendary; not in the same class as Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order etc. But this song, Locomotion and If You Leave were their trademark hits...still great today.
@@KydenBufect Piffle. OMD were one of Depeche's key early inspirations, and stand right alongside NO in terms of influence. Absolutely a legendary electronic outfit.
Je laisse juste ce commentaire ici. Pour que dans un mois, un an ou une décennie plus tard, si quelqu'un aime ou commente ce fil, je puisse revivre cette chanson. Intemporel.
An absolute masterpiece.They'll be playing this on UA-cam and radio stations around the world for the next 100 years and beyond.Mark my words : ) November 23rd 2023.
its about the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima during world war 2, welcome to history. Seen Jaws? the boat went down most eaten by sharks uss Indianapolis , some history sucks make a better one
YES YES I’ve been looking for this song’s name for over a decade. Hearing it years after years every February without knowing where it was from. I found peace.
Emp iio I think you are one of these sort of people that are brain disabled as the result of the massive radiation waste that are created by your own Nuclear tests in your country O poor boy.
I first heard it and thought this was a fun song. But the more i listen to, the more despair i hear in the singer's voice. Almost crying. How is that possible? Btw, today's 78 years since Hiroshima was bombed. We as humanity must never let it happen again. 👐🏻
We should never let the events that preceded the bombing of Hiroshima happen again. do not forget that the bombs came as a response to unprecedented aggression and despondency as to how to tackle it.
I was like 8 years old when I first heard it, in the early 2000. It was at my primary school party. I danced all along, and felt both happy and sad. I couldn't understand a word but I thought it was hypnotic. One of my favourite 80's song.
It's kind of insistent, over and over again in the background, that little motif, it hectors and niggles. Yet it's hauntingly beautiful. And then you hear the lyrics......oh, Lord.
Enola gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday Oho it can't describe the feeling and the way you lied These games you play, they're gonna end it all in tears someday Oho Enola gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way It's 8:15, that's the time that it's always been We got your message on the radio, condition's normal and you're coming home Enola gay, is mother proud of little boy today Oho, this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away Enola gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way Oho Enola gay, it should've faded our dreams away It's 8:15, oh that's the time that it's always been We got your message on the radio, condition's normal and you're coming home Enola gay, is mother proud of little boy today Oho, this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away
OH MY GOD!!!!!! O.M.D. ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK CON "ENOLA GAY"..... UN PEZZO ANNI 80 CHE ANCORA SI ASCOLTA IN RADIO..... E CHE SPACCA DI BRUTTO!!!!!!!!!!!
I was a child back then, one of my oldest brothers bought this record, and all the kids in the house danced this glorious song like crazy nearly everyday that year, was absolute happiness 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Such a pain , so vain , this song stays for future thoughts, we have to stop hurt other people , we live on the same planet , no mather what borders are , we are the same people , but we keep hurting ourselves , so sad...
I bought this when I was 17-yrs-old, went to a party with my little stack of vinyl discs & we hijacked the turntables...this song played for most of the night! So blessed to have been a true '80's teen/twenty-something 😁 What an amazing pub/club scene in the '80s.
Cette musique est l'une des musiques que j'écoutais dans ma jeunesse. Comme j'ai été heureuse de la retrouver il y a quelques années. Je la trouve géniale de la première note à la dernière. Merci.
No nareszcie mi się podoba..To prawidłowo. Wreszcie sam z siebie prawidłowo się zachował. Tylko jakieś głodny, to się nie kryguj tylko przyjmij, zjedz i podziękuj. A nawet przytul w podzięce. Chce pan jeść? Tak, bardzo. Proszę wejść i jeść. Smacznego. Dziękuję, dziękuję, dziękuję 😊. Jestem taki szczęśliwy. Najadłem się.
Yes, but that was true of so many songs of the 80s - I really didn't know how darned lucky I was to live through that decade at the right time in my life
Born in 1969, i was around ten years old when i heard this incredible song for the first time at the radio and i will never forget the earthquake it has been in my head. We all entered the eighties by Enola Gay...
We were the generation who were perched on the edge of nuclear annihiliation. Someone pressed the wrong switch, The Russians got too angry with the Yanks, or vice versa, and ker-boom, we'd have all been mincemeat.
@@CathyKitson My dad was born in 68, and he frequently tells me about those days. I think it may have been mass hysteria though. While it's true that nuclear annihilation was a threat back then, it is just as serious now, if not even more prevalent with the dictator of russia threatening to use nukes over the course of the war in ukraine MULTIPLE times. The difference between now, and then, is that now people don't even want to live. Your generation had some semblance hope for a brighter future, and economy. We are all depressed and a lot of us work to survive.
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change them for the world!
I was a child when this came out so for me it was a happy tune back in 79, but when i grew up i've got the massage and, well, there was nothing to be cheer about...but then i've always loved the contrast of a "merry" melody and a sad lyrics in this song.
@@humanchannel7825 and this kiss you give...is never ever gonna fade away. I actually went to Hiroshima went I visited Japan, and saw that clock tower where the time is frozen at 8:15. I hope no place in the World has to go through that again
David Mills I used to think that, but I changed my circumstances (got rid of negative GFs and bad friends) and am now having as much fun now as I did in 1985. You can too!
Yaass .........then I remember they kept saying USA or USSR was going to nuke us then they said AIDS would kill us all and they began banging on about the ozone layer but still happier times we all had our freedoms if you told me what we have let happen to our liberties and those of our children back then I would have said you were on drugs and had read too much 1984
Hmm I used to think that as well then I became a dad and even though we're so far down the socio economic ladder iam the happiest I've ever been. I didn't know what happiness was until I became a parent.
The threat of nuclear war brought me here. My kids hear me listen to this song all the time but now I finally told them what it’s about. Praying for the whole world right now.
@@michelle88960 Do you know the history, obviously not!!! The plane was named after the pilot's mother.........his mother wasn't named after the plane.
this comment was written august 6. this song was always one of my favorites mostly because of the music and melody but when i got to understand the song and what it talked about i swear i cried. i waas impressed of how this band got the balls to write a song so controvertial to talk about one of the most horrifying acts human kind has made in human history.
@@humanchannel7825 There’s one called "Die Moorsoldaten", written by the German resistance made up of political opponents to the Nazi regime. They too had been locked up in concentration camps.
"Enola Gay" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark isn’t just a catchy '80s track-it carries a profound message about the course of human history. Beneath its upbeat rhythm lies the tragic story of the Hiroshima bombing and the plane that forever altered the world. OMD masterfully blend a seemingly simple melody with a deep and haunting subtext, reminding us of the devastating impact our choices can have. Sometimes, a song can speak louder than any speech.
Born in 66 and saw OMD as a 14 year old in 1980 in Vredenburg Utrecht. It was my first popconcert and it was awesome. I feel blessed I could grow up with the beautiful music of the eighties.
A couple of brilliant parts in the lyrics: “It’s eight fifteen, and that’s the time that it’s always been.” This could be figurative, referring to how that one moment forever defined the era that came after it. But it could also be referring to the Hiroshima Peace Clock, permanently stuck at 08:15 forever. Similarly, “Enola Gay, is Mama proud of Little Boy today?” Little Boy was the name of the bomb itself, but Enola Gay the aeroplane was named after the mother of one of the crew. So the song is asking if that man’s mother is proud of what her son did.
The way I interpreted, when he says "It's 8;15, and that's the time that it's always been" he's actually picturing a scenario where the bombing on Hiroshima didn't happen, because then he says "Conditions normal and you're coming home" which implies that in this scenario either the bombing happened against a military base as it was supposed to (if the weather conditions were normal) or didn't happen at all.
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Lyrics :
Enola Gay
You should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha words can't describe
The feeling and the way you lied
These games you play
They're going to end in more
Than tears some day
Ah-ha Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's eight fifteen
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay
Is mother proud of little boy today?
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never ever gonna to fade away
Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
Ah-ha Enola Gay
Should've faded our dreams away
It's eight fifteen
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay
Is mother proud of little boy today?
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never ever going to fade away
Merci pour les paroles c'est super sympa 👍 👍 👍
The second line on the last paragraph should say "it shouldn't ever have to end this way"
@@themanwiththeplan1401 thanks
CRAZY🤩 ... AFTER 40 YEARS THE TRANSLATION OF THE SONG 🎵. HOW LONG WAS IT TAKEN 🤔... YOU IMAGINE MY AMAZING😁 AND MY SURPRISE.😃.FIND THE TEXT TRANSLATED ... THANK YOU 👍SO MUCH .. GREETINGS FROM ITALY ✋🇮🇹✋
@@valentine2037 thanks 😊 for the effort
Always a classic Melody. Was a class tune.
Still🎉😢
@@evieeable what's the matter?
@@magentaMegi Un mec qui ne connait rien et qui la ramène
@dominique578 ok
my dad is a massive history nerd who grew up with 70’s/80’s electronic music. it makes so much sense that this is his all time favorite song. so proud to have a dad with a music taste that goated
Same bro
Same and it’s a very clever and poignant lyric and song
I am 84 and still love it and listening to it
Sabes q Enola gay es en referencia al nombre de la madre del comandante que llevo el nombre del Boing q lanzo la bomba en Hiroshima?
@@lilianneknight3039 old wise person, hat off
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@@lilianneknight3039 good for you 👍
When this was aired back in the days, it was like a punch to the stomach to me: WHAT a sound, WHAT originality, this was impossible to forget!
Impossible to imagine this level of creativity today…
the song they were about had a much bigger punch
Nonsense I can imagine this level of creativity today. I'm doing it now. *Imagines*
Easy.
I listened to this when i walked to school everyday , 34 years I still absolutely love it, nobody cant beat the good times from the 80s, im so glad i grew up on these awesome tunes!!! ♥
انا متزوج ولكنى عندى صديق يبحث عن عروس جميله فبعد اذنك ممكن ادزى عنوان سكنك لكى تزوركم امه واخواته لكى يخطبوكى وكان وافقتو سيأتو ابوه واخوته واعمامه واخواله لكى يدفعو لكم المهر وشكرا..فتاح
You went to school for 34 years?
Slow reader?
Or just an insanely long walk to school?
34 years agooo lmao@@chrish1489
They were the best of times to grow up in. so grateful to be a teenager back then.
but did you realise what it was about?
"It's eight fifteen - And that's the time that it's always been." One of the most haunting lines in any song, ever.
I never realised what this song was about until much later in life... I was about 13 and now I'm 53.... atomic bomb on Hiroshima.. we were never even taught this at school. Just remember loving the tune as a teenager. Anyway on a musical note, those drums and symbols are spot on... I love OMD.
"Conditions normal" ????
@@garybradley1 It's what Enola Gay's pilot said to his boss over radio just before launching Little Boy over Hiroshima. They only would be throwing the bomb if there were a set of pre-established conditions of wind, light... to maximum effect. The "Is mother proud of Little Boy? it's so good. Enolay Gay is the name of the bomber but it's too the name of the pilot's mother. The lyrics are well estudied to be simple and harming at the same time.
@vanesag.9863 I am fully conversant with the details of the dropping of the bomb and the lyrics, for example 8.15 was the time, Hiroshima time, when the bomb detonated. I was being sarcastic, they've just killed thousands of people, yet "conditions normal". I don't think they were normal if you were on the ground.
@@garybradley1 😅 Oooops, I didn't catch your sarcasm. Sorry.
That "conditions normal" was dettached from reality but I think it's a mindset all militars have to try to survive psychologically a war.
I grew up mid 90s and 2000s and I was meant to be an 80s kid. Calling on the landlines
This is epic.
❤
If it weren't for during the late 70's early 80's synthesisers we would not have dance music
This song is the BOMB💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
Enola Gay is one of those strange concoctions of the 80s, where the tone of the song is so danceable and shiny you fail to notice the sad and serious lyrics hidden inside ..
What! Enola Gaye was the bomber that dropped the ATOM bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima killing millions of people at the end of the war.
Also, The word Gay has become quite literally the Plutomia as the sting in the tail called aides.
Like The Smiths
@@greywolf8931 noope :o how can you think that way !
What did you think he is singing about? the 'little boy was the name of the bomb' look it up on the internet.!
@@kamikazestryker I could add it's like homosexuality (what is AIDS) in 'modern times' it's the sting in the tail! but getting back it's a dam good song to listen to.
one of the best things about 50 years old is the fact that i lived my teenage in the 80's that is priceless and Iam grateful !!!
I'm 55 and I caught the tail ending of punk being replaced by the new romantics...1979 till 1988 was the best decade of my life.
I so hate you ❤
@@wasanoix English left the chat?
Same as glad I grew up in the 80s
Me too. I am 52 and a pure product of the 80’s.
Its 8.15 thats the time its allway been... this kiss she gave is never ever going to fade away.....
Terrific song.
Read it somewhere: "80's music had got to come from another planet". Good decade for music.
The 80s were fucking awesome wish I could go back thank god for youtube 👍🏻
Ho ho! THE BEST!
@@wcoke ppp
There was no good decade for music. People just forget the crummy songs. The vast majority of songs in any decade were mediocre.
@@wcoke There being no treatment for AIDS and the threat of nuclear annihilation? The 80s were not awesome.
Still an absolute classic. Totally brilliant even in 2023. Definitely one of my all time favourites. Timeless!
Agree 👍👍
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@@annatrentinella6888 it aint - ya never heard it for years! i likes it better than you! i listen to it 16 times a day!
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That kiss you gave is never ever gonna fade away.....
This phrase always gives me chills.. so true.
Sorry to brother you but It goes by"this kiss you gave/ive
Lubie wracać do tej muzyki z tamtych lat 👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯👍💯
I turned 17 in 1980 - I feel as if I won the lottery in terms of the music served up for my time on the British pub/club scene! Incredible songs such as this one make my youth UNFORGETTABLE!!
Hey mate, I'm a 63 model. We really did grow up in fantastic times regarding music. My first concert was seeing the Buzzcocks.....supported by Joy Division at the Manchester Apollo. That was pretty cool. The Clash, PIL, Stiff Little Fingers and more I saw there. I saw James back in the day too, oh and Stone Roses eventually. Yes we had some great times, when we were young, we grew up listening to The Beatles, T Rex and David Bowie.......it doesn't get much better.
BEST DAYS EVER.
And all the beautiful fricken cars too you lucky bastard!
Late 70s-early 80s was the best era for music. You're lucky!
I'm 13 years younger, I started listening to this music when it was at it's end already. The best period in pop music ever! Nothing like this today.
April 1991, a small town in eastern Poland. My parents' wedding party, people craving Western music after 40 years of communism, and a band that doesn't know a bit of English. The boys played the Enola Gay melody on a loop for 20 minutes, everyone, whether teenagers or 80-year-old grandmothers, had a great time. To this day, this melody evokes my parents' emotions.
Of course, they still don't speak English, and I will never translate the lyrics of this song for them
Czesc, from Glasgow. What a comment.
you won the comment section
This comment is beautiful, but The Enola Gay was a crime against Humanity.
Can't believe. We had western music throughout the 80s and most of the 70s in the GDR. There was even a percentage of that music allowed in official events. Given that Poland was far more open and people could travel to the west (we couldn't).
@@tinowildenhain2324 Well... I didn't live in those days. But I'm interested in history, I like listening to my parents' and older people's stories. As far as I know, for Poles, East Germany was almost like the West. Everyone dreamed of a Simson or MZ motorcycle. For many, a plastic bag bought in the GDR was a cause for show. I don't know about the openness towards the west in DDR, but I do know that even if something was available in Poland in the 80s, people simply couldn't afford it.
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
That's very kind of you Benedetto, greetings from London.
Benedetto Bruno dude a badass comment makes m e feel great to British you rule!!
Thank you mate, that made me very proud. There's a beer waiting for you if you come to London! Although Italy gave the world some pretty hot music too with Opera.
Thats OK, but the best music is allways from Spain :)
Its our pleasure Benedetto!!
Surreally nostalgic. Brings back feelings and memories that I cant quite explain in words. Joyful, sad, delirious, cheerful, memorable, etc. all at the same time. Keep rockin it steady.
Even without words, I understand what you mean.
also goosebumps
Brilliant. This is why 80s music is so unique and timeless
Who? Lol
80s best than the 60s and 70s ! wow , better than everything ever
It's not timeless, it's from the 80s.
@@gilgameshhawhaw2651 the 70s.........What the fuck. No?
@@gilgameshhawhaw2651 1979
"is mother proud of little boy today" is a genius line
Along with "it 8:15, thats the time its always been"
@@davidtalbot2545 Why is 8:15 the time that it has always been? I get the reference but why it has ALWAYS been 8:15?
@@PiekniaczekZiemniak The time Little Boy exploded over Hiroshima and stopped so many timepieces forever
What a crazy mix of emotions listening to this. I’ve just been to an OMD concert here in Dublin. This song of course got the crowd bopping big time but the horrendous evil act of dropping bombs 2 consecutive days on innocent civilians mixed with an upbeat music genre is hard to swallow.
@@emeroregan5298
All war is horrendous.
Everyone’s death diminishes me, for I am a part of mankind.
Is it the #’s?
The number of deaths at once?
Or is it the fact that war is now home and can wipe out all?
Some argue that WW3 has not occurred yet because we realize it will be the last.
Remember, the US estimated that 10 million Japanese would die in a conventional invasion. The Japanese government expected 1/3 to 1/2 of its population would die.
OMD,Erasure,a-ha,Alphaville,Pet Shop Boys,Depeche Mode,Eurythmics...Great Synthpop Bands 80's ! Greets From Poland ;-)
Visage -- Fade to Grey
Why? Why were they such great bands?
Because they always had stories in the song. Not just today's repeated babble about nonsense. For instance... Poker face. Singing of nonsense.
Yes indeed my polish friend❤
@nicovdwesthuizen844 The big problèm today it s internet. The producers has a problem to.make money with tourney! Impossible to Produce with today s extra cost
This song gives me goosebumps, it’s just so amazing the melody , the beat everything is amazing . I love it 2024 🎉 and I’m still listening to it.
It definitely has a Ramones vibe to it, especially the vocals.
This song is perfect for this moment in history: no more nuclear bombs! No more war! No more world wars! Please like if you agree and if you want nuclear bombs away from this world!
I don't want nuclear bombs used again. Sadly they exist now, and you can't really get rid of them. The knowledge exists, if somehow you managed to destroy all of them, someone would still make them again to gain power over others. So I can't advocate no more nuclear bombs, just I hope they're never used again.
And how many likes are needed to accomplish anything toward that goal? Everyone knows that only "thoughts and prayers" can actually accomplish real progress.
@@finncullen Ha ha you a funny dude!
It saved countless lives. Agreed it is awful but they asked for it. The flattening of Tokyo and other cities with carpet bombing was arguably more destructive but if we had done a land incursion many more would have died on both sides. Naive hippy dippy Lily Allen-level "politics" just make you sound foolish and ill-informed
Also, asking people to like on such a subject is a pretty shallow thing to do
One of the most intelligent and underated anti war songs ever made.
Its clever isn’t it
La vita è bella, mai più guerre, mai più bombe, solo amore per tutti.
@@alfiemclennan3630 yes it is , historically accurate as well its 8.15 and that's the time it will always be.,
One of the most naive songs ever, anyway
@@docsavage8640 why . explain
It’s a little bit haunting to consider that this song is now farther away in time (41 years) than its subject matter was then (35 years).
Oh wow
O.o
It's strange how time seems to accelerate the older we all become. When we were children the time positively dragged!
wow you're so right
WWII wasnt 35 years ago
Talk about an underrated band, fantastic songs, the synth sound they had was glorious
Bravo, timeless OMD! A 50 something y.o. from Spain who appreciates the difference and understands that the best pop music in the 80s (by far) came from England.
Yeah, absolutely. Let me get this straight: So we have OMD, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Ultravox, Queen, Slade, The Police. Not enough? Okay. Yazoo, Erasure, Eurythmics or Frankie goes to Hollywood. Tears for Fears, Wham and Def Leppard. And that's just a few bands. No solo artists as Nik Kershaw, Billy Idol or Chris de Burgh and so on...
Here we are in 2020 and this is still a banger
Ha, *Banger*
A very sausage answer.
Well yes
They still sound exactly the same live when I saw them in 2019 a true testament to Andy McClusky’s voice
1980 was a more innocent time- no deadly viruses to worry about, just the threat of nuclear war.
OMD and Ultravox were my two favourite bands from the 80's. This sounds as good now as it did back in the day.
And just as relevant.
Same here
discover Depeche Mode dude!
Ahhh Ultravox “Vienna” one of my favorite songs!
@@chezchezchezchez No Depeche without OMD tho.
It`s a jewels OMD - Heroes of my youth time in Germany-Bavaria. Was war das nur für ein wunderbares, unbeschwertes, freies Leben ohne Smartphone-Gedudel und ständiger Erreichbarkeit. I miss this time more than ever. Greetings to all the people in the world.
Genau so!
You sir! You're a bloody liar!
Eulnglidis curbani pois essa música Eu ofereço o grupo BTS essa seria o início da carreira de vocês a volta faça o livro eu conto do livro qual o primeiro nome de todos vocês a data de nascimento o dia e o ano começa incorreto para terminar em reconhecidos como a obra o qual teve um começo mas terá um legado perfeito
@@kevinchamberlain7928 Why?
well said Sir
One of the best pop songs ever and a reminder of just how good 80s music could be.
one of the best pop song with visage "fade to grey" : the best of the new wave
This is a great example of "prog-pop" Rush like this song to, get my drift? ... y,know...Vienna man.
This kiss you give is never ever gonna fade away, is perhaps the most poignant line ever written in a pop song
But it was a mean to a end , sadly a high price but thats was the times ,
@@daviddavies2819 ĺ
@@auroragiovannetti5813 hhhhjjú
Is mother proud of Little Boy today?
@@cesarincamendozaloyola4407 aha this kiss you give it’s never ever gonna fade away
THIS SONG HAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SYNTH IVE EVER HEARD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE !!!
The sound of the synth solo is so incredibly pleasing to me. Analog gooey ear candy at its finest!
This song has special meaning to me. I'm a physicist who somehow found myself working for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory back in the 1990's. At its core the place is essentially devoted to developing H-bombs, and I never had any interest in that. Don't they do their job pretty well already?!
I was on the floppy-necked liberal side of the lab, working on Magnetic Fusion Energy, the long-imagined energy source of the future. But there was clear pressure for me to move over to bomb work, so I eventually quit physics entirely in order to become the independent mad scientist that I am today.
OMD's "Enola Gaye" expresses the same sentiment, and will never get old for me.
Good for you
Hypnotic music, wrought lyrics... OMD, you are a major band in the industry!
i love how this sound so pleasant yet the context of this song that change the world forever
My mother was born in the 60s, she literally had no idea what this song was about until I told her 2 weeks ago and has since listened to this song as if it was the first time. She really had no idea and gave her a shiver.
A friend of mine, who didn't know that Enola Gay was the plane that bombed Hiroshima and Little Boy the code-name of the bomb, was convinced this was a happy song about a young woman giving birth to a son. It rather spoilt it for her when I explained the true meaning of the lyrics.
Enola Gay was also the name of the pilot's mother
And she had a very hard time finding a husband because everyone thought she was gay!
i saw the enola gay just recently it’s in a museum ❤
And Enola Gay is the name of the mother of Paul Tibbets, the man who flew the plane; he chose to put her name on the plane.
I absolutely love this song! It’s OMD’s most famous and was the first one I ever heard! Best of luck to them on their tour this year!
To me, this song has a really catchy and "cheerful" rhythm that makes you feel well, BUT it carries a message that makes you feel exactly on the opposite, at the same time.
This is why i love this song.
Today is 6th August, anniversary of the first atomic bombing in Hiroshima
We must not forget
Never forget!
Hot damn - when I found out that the one airplane was named 'Enola Gay' -- that messed the song up for me.
Absolutely, well said 😊
@@draisens It was the named after the Pilots mother.
@@uhtred7860 the singers mother was called Boeing B29 Superfortress??
We must not forget Pearl Harbor!
I'm glad this started playing when the full-total Oppenheiming kicked off. Truly memorable.
I'm 19 and my dad raised me with OMD which made me a really big 80s music fan. I'm so thankful to know this amazing band :>
Sames
GOOD
R 4 U @@misatoholic
Good lad or lass 👍👍👍👍✌️
Occhio..alle..sorprese...by..gio..sss..primo..ciao..
Watching from Greece.hi everybody.
One of the best songs ever written.
If you don't know OMD you don't know 80"s.
If you don't know What haunting someone IS then tout do not know thé 80's
Eulnglidis curbani Eu ofereço essa música eletrônica ao príncipe ramadi Deus edifica a sua casa Deus edifica a sua família Deus edifica o homem a qual é você Deus identifica o seu país Deus edifica as crianças A qual obra Deus fez Deus edifica o homem e a criança a qual você se tornou um homem de honra um homem de palavra um homem a quem educa A família o homem que honra o pai ao qual retorna ao ser um filho ao chegar aos céus um filho que é honra pai e mãe honra a terra e honra os céus
Just in case anyone doesn't know, this song is about the bombing of Hiroshima. "Enola Gay" was the name of the plane that dropped it. The bomb was dropped at 8.15 AM on 6 August 1945.
It's a beautiful song about a tragedy.
Also, "Little Boy" was the codename of the bomb.
Love this song!! Nothing beats the 80's with their music! Synthesisers rock! Brings back memories from School!
The fact is that OMD was an 80's hits factory and up to these days they continue to save us from our misery!
omd, another legendary British band. Even though I belong to another generation, I am forced to go back decades in the past due to the quality of the songs, which are in fact true masterpieces!
Today's so called music is S--T
I wouldn't exactly call them legendary; not in the same class as Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order etc. But this song, Locomotion and If You Leave were their trademark hits...still great today.
@@KydenBufect Piffle. OMD were one of Depeche's key early inspirations, and stand right alongside NO in terms of influence. Absolutely a legendary electronic outfit.
Je laisse juste ce commentaire ici. Pour que dans un mois, un an ou une décennie plus tard, si quelqu'un aime ou commente ce fil, je puisse revivre cette chanson. Intemporel.
tiens vas y, ça fait déjà deux semaines, profite xD
@@Agesilas2 merci pour ce kif
yeah I like kiff too
@@zomart4016 Salut! Me voici Juin 2024!
What about after death
An absolute masterpiece.They'll be playing this on UA-cam and radio stations around the world for the next 100 years and beyond.Mark my words : ) November 23rd 2023.
Agree.
Regards from Finland
"This kiss you give
It's never ever going to fade away"
heard it yesterday on the radio, greetings from spain.
Only because since 2010 music has become a shadow of itself. Never been so many old bands reforming, only because new ones blow chunks
How is it that this song was released 42 years ago yet it sounds like something that could be but a few years old? 80s truly were an awesome decade ❤️
Like Chaka Khan's "I feel for you"
its about the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima during world war 2, welcome to history. Seen Jaws? the boat went down most eaten by sharks uss Indianapolis , some history sucks make a better one
@@scottnever8732 nobody gives a flying f--k on that boy
Top one in that category is Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin), from 1970 but sounds awesome and current.
1980's at its very best.
YES
YES
I’ve been looking for this song’s name for over a decade. Hearing it years after years every February without knowing where it was from.
I found peace.
THE LYRICS!
Enola Gay
You should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah-ha, words can't describe
The feeling and the way you lied
These games you play
They're going to end in more than tears some day
Ah-ha Enola Gay
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's 8:15
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal, and you're coming home
Enola Gay
Is mother proud of little boy today?
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never ever gonna to fade away
Enola Gay
You shouldn't ever have to live this way
Ah-ha Enola Gay
You should've faded our dreams away
It's 8:15
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio
Conditions normal, and you're coming home
Enola Gay
Is mother proud of little boy today?
Ah-ha this kiss you give
It's never ever going to fade away
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Mc Cluskey Andy / Mc Cluskey Andrew
Enola Gay lyrics © Bmg Dinsong Limited
forty years later, still makes me cry every time i listen to it. takes me right back to california in that era, with the nuclear protest movement.
I used to think 08:15 was F15
@@antoniohagopian213.. 😂😂Brill
It is about to turn 8.15am in Hiroshima on 6 August 73 years after the event. May it never be repeated, great song and tribute
More should have been dropped including in Germany
one should be dropped on NYC
No. Only the culprits
Emp iio I think you are one of these sort of people that are brain disabled as the result of the massive radiation waste that are created by your own Nuclear tests in your country
O poor boy.
I think some humour is called for....
I first heard it and thought this was a fun song. But the more i listen to, the more despair i hear in the singer's voice. Almost crying. How is that possible? Btw, today's 78 years since Hiroshima was bombed. We as humanity must never let it happen again. 👐🏻
We should never let the events that preceded the bombing of Hiroshima happen again. do not forget that the bombs came as a response to unprecedented aggression and despondency as to how to tackle it.
@@yvettakollega5791 that aggression didn't come from the peaceful civilians tho
it was directed at peaceful civilians though. @@태이씨
@@yvettakollega5791 that's what I'm saying
This song just sums up 80s music
I was born in 1986, even though I didn't experience these guys on the radio, I still found my way to them, and they are on my top 5 bands
that is why the 80's is the best decade ever
He’s right, amazing decade of music , blondie, jam, specials , smiths , omd, joy division, cult , fck me , it’s amazing
@@issyjas3309 Depeche mode, The Police, Aha, Dura Duran, Human League, Talk Talk, Pet Shop Boys, Ultravox, Etc Etc.
Que suerte la mía por vivir esa época tan maravillosa.OMD también están en mi top 5...❤❤❤
Allora sei sulla strada giusta!💪
Master piece of art. Let's forgive and do we not forecast the spare of lives, just like if they were numbers. A tribute to this OMD ! !
Playing bass and singing at the same time is a sign of great musicality
His hand movements do not match the bass line you hear.
@@Ricardo-cl3vs You're right. But in fact he does, like here: ua-cam.com/video/8PTm7FSDMU4/v-deo.html
A special song indeed. Writing these lyrics is nothing short of genius.
(not making fun of this song cause i LOVE this song)
My brain:oH LoOk YoU HaVe uNlOcKEd a New memory
The memory:
Not really.
I was like 8 years old when I first heard it, in the early 2000. It was at my primary school party. I danced all along, and felt both happy and sad. I couldn't understand a word but I thought it was hypnotic. One of my favourite 80's song.
Until you knew that the song talks about hiroshima and then dropping of the atomic bomb
What a cute little keyboard riff - one of the best 80's melodies. I-vi-IV-V never fails.
It's kind of insistent, over and over again in the background, that little motif, it hectors and niggles. Yet it's hauntingly beautiful. And then you hear the lyrics......oh, Lord.
Enola gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday
Oho it can't describe the feeling and the way you lied
These games you play, they're gonna end it all in tears someday
Oho Enola gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's 8:15, that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, condition's normal and you're coming home
Enola gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Oho, this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away
Enola gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way
Oho Enola gay, it should've faded our dreams away
It's 8:15, oh that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio, condition's normal and you're coming home
Enola gay, is mother proud of little boy today
Oho, this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away
Gat Taca fine terxt
The most upbeat song about nukes I can think of.
but it had, tragically, to end that way
Ty
A universal crime !
OH MY GOD!!!!!! O.M.D. ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK CON "ENOLA GAY"..... UN PEZZO ANNI 80 CHE ANCORA SI ASCOLTA IN RADIO..... E CHE SPACCA DI BRUTTO!!!!!!!!!!!
Spacca, infatti perche' gli americani hanno squarciato i cieli, dell'abominio.....
nothing will ever come close to the 80's music
Qué buena canción!! Marcó diferencia en su época y está en mi lista Top de canciones de los 80s. Recordando desde Perú 🇵🇪🇵🇪
This is Awesome this song🎸
I was a child back then, one of my oldest brothers bought this record, and all the kids in the house danced this glorious song like crazy nearly everyday that year, was absolute happiness 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Yeah bet you didn’t think how many thousands of people in Hiroshima were killed by atomic bomb carried by the airplane called “Enola Gay”
@@Ceebz39 6 years old Kids hardly have any idea of the Hiroshima / Nagasaki events, and that's just perfect ;)
@@Ceebz39 Yeah bet you didn't think that without it we wouldn't have had a great song to dance to. ;-) miserabilist.
Such a pain , so vain , this song stays for future thoughts, we have to stop hurt other people , we live on the same planet , no mather what borders are , we are the same people , but we keep hurting ourselves , so sad...
Para mim uma das melhores músicas de Sempre , Espetacular Revolucionária nos Anos 80 simplesmente Geniais inesquecíveis os OMD, grande Banda 👏👏👏✨✨✨✨
Anos😯😯😯😯
I bought this when I was 17-yrs-old, went to a party with my little stack of vinyl discs & we hijacked the turntables...this song played for most of the night! So blessed to have been a true '80's teen/twenty-something 😁 What an amazing pub/club scene in the '80s.
Cette musique est l'une des musiques que j'écoutais dans ma jeunesse. Comme j'ai été heureuse de la retrouver il y a quelques années. Je la trouve géniale de la première note à la dernière. Merci.
No nareszcie mi się podoba..To prawidłowo. Wreszcie sam z siebie prawidłowo się zachował. Tylko jakieś głodny, to się nie kryguj tylko przyjmij, zjedz i podziękuj. A nawet przytul w podzięce. Chce pan jeść? Tak, bardzo. Proszę wejść i jeść. Smacznego. Dziękuję, dziękuję, dziękuję 😊. Jestem taki szczęśliwy. Najadłem się.
Música fantástica. Anos80 ao melhor nível. Das melhores dos OMD.
Bons tempos
Went to see OMD last night in concert at Demontford Hall Leicester.....absolutely amazing concert!
Got to be one of the best songs ever written, melody, lyrics, meaningful and you can dance to it
Yes, but that was true of so many songs of the 80s - I really didn't know how darned lucky I was to live through that decade at the right time in my life
Andy and Paul are masters of their art
This is a song that you can call an ANTHEM. CLASS
Born in 1969, i was around ten years old when i heard this incredible song for the first time at the radio and i will never forget the earthquake it has been in my head. We all entered the eighties by Enola Gay...
We were the generation who were perched on the edge of nuclear annihiliation. Someone pressed the wrong switch, The Russians got too angry with the Yanks, or vice versa, and ker-boom, we'd have all been mincemeat.
@@CathyKitson My dad was born in 68, and he frequently tells me about those days. I think it may have been mass hysteria though. While it's true that nuclear annihilation was a threat back then, it is just as serious now, if not even more prevalent with the dictator of russia threatening to use nukes over the course of the war in ukraine MULTIPLE times. The difference between now, and then, is that now people don't even want to live. Your generation had some semblance hope for a brighter future, and economy. We are all depressed and a lot of us work to survive.
One of the absolute greatest rock songs of all time. Not only does it sound great, it sends a strong message that we should all think about.
I’d say pop
Yeah pop, and i hate the song, but the message is good 😂
nope
Solomon BF no it’s a good song.
The Wizard i disagree but we all have different opinions which is fine :)
The synth and high hat is the perfect combo in this song. Love it so much!
Brilliant track. Didn’t realise its lyrical power at the time as it was just a weekend new wave anthem you couldn’t prevent yourself from dancing to!
I first heard this on the Ministry of Sound Electronic 80s album at the end of 2009. I was ten then, and had no clue what it was about.
The best dance song about nuclear destruction ever made
I also like RADIOACTIVITY from KRAFTWERK even if it's a little more difficult to dance on it
@@jma1795 and 99 Luftballons...
Vamos a la playa is also quite good.
A post nuclear apocalyptic play list is slowly being developed here... I would add burning down the house -talking heads
"Is There Something I Should Know" by Duran Duran
You know, one of the best things about being in my 50's now is that I lived my teenage years in the 80's..........Priceless and I wouldn't change them for the world!
I was a child when this came out so for me it was a happy tune back in 79, but when i grew up i've got the massage and, well, there was nothing to be cheer about...but then i've always loved the contrast of a "merry" melody and a sad lyrics in this song.
in 2021, this song still sends shivers down my back. An epic.
Is mother proud of little boy today gives me goosebumps
@@humanchannel7825 and this kiss you give...is never ever gonna fade away. I actually went to Hiroshima went I visited Japan, and saw that clock tower where the time is frozen at 8:15. I hope no place in the World has to go through that again
😊
i k r,,, I've been listening to this since i was 7 bruh
@@cielidhs And,,,
I wish I could go back to the 80s again, my best years when I was genuinely happy
And made it. X
David Mills
I used to think that, but I changed my circumstances (got rid of negative GFs and bad friends) and am now having as much fun now as I did in 1985.
You can too!
Yaass .........then I remember they kept saying USA or USSR was going to nuke us then they said AIDS would kill us all and they began banging on about the ozone layer but still happier times we all had our freedoms if you told me what we have let happen to our liberties and those of our children back then I would have said you were on drugs and had read too much 1984
Hmm I used to think that as well then I became a dad and even though we're so far down the socio economic ladder iam the happiest I've ever been. I didn't know what happiness was until I became a parent.
Then you must have missed the 90s.
Bummer...
The threat of nuclear war brought me here. My kids hear me listen to this song all the time but now I finally told them what it’s about. Praying for the whole world right now.
Good for you! Keep the faith and support billions who want peace. God bless.
That is something to be aside, off topic, what if the asteroid that killed 75% of life 65 million, years ago, happened today, what would happen?
No war
No War
@@elkeschroeder2930 To quote Frankie Goes To Hollywood... "War. What is it good for... Absolutely nothing!"
Please please take me back to the 80s I can't handle this modern world
Přesně tak!!! Taky chci zpět ❤😢
Touché
The world is not modern any more, it's just fucked up!!! 😜😜
The world is not modern any more, it's just fucked up!!! 😜😜
A different era a different outlook, the best musical decade and you could afford to buy fuel.
“Enola gay, is mother proud of little boy today? This kiss you give, it’s never ever gonna fade away.” chefs kiss
I think the bomb was called little boy. Though it could be taken both ways as in the pilot’s mother.
@@michelle88960Enola Gay was the name of the Pilots mother and the name of the plane. Little boy was the codename of the bomb.
@@garybradley1 well I bet his mother is proud that she’s named after one of the most horrible atrocities in history.
@@michelle88960 Do you know the history, obviously not!!! The plane was named after the pilot's mother.........his mother wasn't named after the plane.
@@garybradley1 well naming a bomber after your mother is hardly thoughtful.
this comment was written august 6. this song was always one of my favorites mostly because of the music and melody but when i got to understand the song and what it talked about i swear i cried. i waas impressed of how this band got the balls to write a song so controvertial to talk about one of the most horrifying acts human kind has made in human history.
Well no one made a song about the Holocaust
@@humanchannel7825 There’s one called "Die Moorsoldaten", written by the German resistance made up of political opponents to the Nazi regime. They too had been locked up in concentration camps.
2023, enola gaye is nearer than ever... lets wish for peace...
Daniel 2:44
I can't describe my feelings after listening this song. It's incredible...
"Enola Gay" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark isn’t just a catchy '80s track-it carries a profound message about the course of human history. Beneath its upbeat rhythm lies the tragic story of the Hiroshima bombing and the plane that forever altered the world. OMD masterfully blend a seemingly simple melody with a deep and haunting subtext, reminding us of the devastating impact our choices can have. Sometimes, a song can speak louder than any speech.
Wow! Now I’m really going to ‘listen’ to the words!
Pink Floyd were great for getting the truth out ❤
Born in 66 and saw OMD as a 14 year old in 1980 in Vredenburg Utrecht. It was my first popconcert and it was awesome. I feel blessed I could grow up with the beautiful music of the eighties.
Also born in 66 and going to see them next week. Love their music
Born in '67 and I feel young myself seeing you elderly people here 🤗😂
Fun fact: everyone born after the '80s is able to grow up with the music of the '80s.
One of the best songs ever made in my opinion.
I’m with you Rob.
Yep 👍
@@baggerdaveand me 🤝
It's been used on several adverts. Vitality is the latest.
A couple of brilliant parts in the lyrics:
“It’s eight fifteen, and that’s the time that it’s always been.” This could be figurative, referring to how that one moment forever defined the era that came after it. But it could also be referring to the Hiroshima Peace Clock, permanently stuck at 08:15 forever.
Similarly, “Enola Gay, is Mama proud of Little Boy today?” Little Boy was the name of the bomb itself, but Enola Gay the aeroplane was named after the mother of one of the crew. So the song is asking if that man’s mother is proud of what her son did.
8.15 was the time the bomb detonated.
She was the mother of the pilot, Paul Tibbets
The way I interpreted, when he says "It's 8;15, and that's the time that it's always been" he's actually picturing a scenario where the bombing on Hiroshima didn't happen, because then he says "Conditions normal and you're coming home" which implies that in this scenario either the bombing happened against a military base as it was supposed to (if the weather conditions were normal) or didn't happen at all.
War does not decide who is right, it decides who is left!