OMD - Enola Gay Multi-Track

Contents:

• ENOLA GAY, OMD Y UNA BOMBA ATóMI
• HOW WE MA: ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK ON ENOLA GAY
• ENOLA GAY
• THE 40 GREATT SYNTH SOUNDS OF ALL TIME, NO 39: OMD - ENOLA GAY
• THE TIME THAT IT’S ALWAYS BEEN: OMD’S ‘ENOLA GAY’ & THE LEGACY OF HIROSHIMA
• OMD - ENOLA GAY MULTI TRACK
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• OMD - ENOLA GAY LYRICS

ENOLA GAY, OMD Y UNA BOMBA ATóMI

“Enola Gay”, Orchtral Manovr the Dark’s (OMD’s) wonrfully dulgent synthpop classic named after the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, has jt turned 40. While the last 40 years have seen OMD produce multiple chartg rerds, break to Ameri wh Pretty Pk‘s “If You Leave”, and more recently, rerd the crilly acclaimed The Punishment of Luxury, ’s “Enola Gay” that most hontly ptur the band’s triumphant legacy.

Synthizg tellectual lyrics wh popular sensibili, “Enola Gay” reflects bandmat Andy McClkey and Pl Humphreys’ efforts to brg the cerebral and often, monplace, to the mastream.

More than any of their other songs, “Enola Gay” is evince of how OMD masterfully ptured the ncerns of the morn world and packaged them up such a way that they won over the mastream.

HOW WE MA: ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK ON ENOLA GAY

I’m here to talk to you about the 40th anniversary of “Enola Gay”, the lead sgle om your send album, Organisatn.

The lyrics and tle of “Enola Gay” expose your love of history and efforts to make telligent pop mic. You followed up “Enola Gay”/Organisatn wh Dazzle Ships, and didn’t perform as well as you had hoped. Tell me how this lks wh your recent remix of “Enola Gay”, the llaboratn wh Hot Chip, and puttg out the 12-ch vyl?

ENOLA GAY

The human era lns and lns of years, when there are no longer homo sapiens on the pla.

They believe now that you will be able to look back to the sediments, that’s if there’s a sentient beg that after , you’ll be able to look back and go, oh, that’s where the homo sapiens were. You n see where the homo sapiens were 200 ln years ago; ’s the Anthropocene era. It wasn't as though OMD wrote nventnal love songs to start wh - Enola Gay was famoly about Hiroshima, Stanlow about a power statn - yet Dazzle Ships took off what McClkey lls "the sweet wrapper".

En 1980, Orchtral Manovr the Dark, también nocidos o OMD, lanzaron un sencillo que fue un gran éxo s que salió al aire, llamado Enola Gay. El piloto, Pl Tibbets ente al Enola Gay. Enola Gay era el nombre l bombarro Boeg B-29 Superfortrs que lanzó la bomba atómi sobre Hiroshima el 6 agosto 1945.

THE 40 GREATT SYNTH SOUNDS OF ALL TIME, NO 39: OMD - ENOLA GAY

El Coronel Pl Tibbets, su piloto, nombró Enola Gay al avión en honor a su madre, Enola Gay Tibbets. Enola Gay, is mother proud of ltle boy today. Enola Gay, tará madre ullosa l pequeño niño hoy.

THE TIME THAT IT’S ALWAYS BEEN: OMD’S ‘ENOLA GAY’ & THE LEGACY OF HIROSHIMA

We were a pair of anoraks wh a fascatn for old tras and aeroplan, which evably led me to wre about Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We still close our gigs wh Enola Gay, leavg the stage wh the dm mache playg.

I never unrstand bands who tire of playg their biggt h, the song that’s been the key to their entire Humphreys, keyboardsI was always uneasy about the fact that Enola Gay was a bright, perky pop song about a nuclear holot, but was sanely tchy. Most of the melodic parts of Enola Gay were rerd on a K Micro-Pret bought om a mail orr talogue – the cheapt one you uld found the master tape recently. Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yterday.

OMD - ENOLA GAY MULTI TRACK

Aha, Enola Gay, shouldn't ever have to end this way. Enola Gay, is mother proud of ltle boy today? Enola Gay, shouldn't ever have to end this way.

Aha, Enola Gay, shouldn't fa our dreams away. Enola Gay.

#1#2#3#4Enola Gay#6#8#10#13#14#15#16#17#18#20#21#22#24#25#26#28#29#30#100#102#103#104#106#107#108#111#113#114#115#116#117#119#120#121#136#148#149#150#151#152#154#157. Named after the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb to be ed anger at the end of WWII, Enola Gay’s cheery synth l were ntrast to the sombre lyrics, which qutned the validy of the cisn to drop a nuclear bomb on drew spiratn for their mic om early synth pneers such as Kraftwerk, but had a relatively humble selectn of synths and dm mach at their disposal when they wrote the album Organisatn, released 1980, om which Enola Gay was taken.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

The Enola Gay, the Uned Stat Army Air Forc plane that dropped the bomb, spired Orchtral Manovr the Dark (OMD) to wre a synth-pop song of the same name, which reach s fortieth anniversary this therefore seems an appropriate moment to rensir, through the lens of OMD’s song, how we might beg to prehend the seemgly prehensible. But also the fact that, the day before the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the aircraft’s pilot and mandg officer, Colonel Pl Tibbets Jr, had named the Enola Gay after his mother. The Enola Gay, a Boeg B-29 Superfortrs, be the first aircraft history to drop an atomic bomb.

Seven s later, he said, ‘the proment keloid sr on my neck is a daily remr of the atomic bomb’ Augt 5, 1945, knowg the missn that lay ahead, Pl Tibbets had named the Enola Gay after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets (nee Haggard), who turn had been named after the heroe of Enola; or, Her fatal mistake, a novel by Mary Young Rinbgh. In a roundabout way, if he uld put his mother’s name to , and she approved, the act self mt surely be right, cent, asked why he wrote ‘Enola Gay’, Andy McClkey of OMD said the ia for the song had arisen om his own qutng of the Hiroshima bombg.

McClkey and Humphreys both hail om the Wirral Pensula Merseysi, England, and had bee iends primary part of his wrg procs for ‘Enola Gay’, McClkey head to the library wh his tsty rg br, which he rerd tertg facts and tidbs that he might rporate to the lyrics. Unfortunately McClkey’s phy allns were lost on some listeners, who assumed the lyrics were a semi-cryptic claratn of homosexualy, and such spicns led to the track beg pulled om the BBC children’s show Swap Shop.

OMD - ENOLA GAY LYRICS

Although Pl Collister, OMD’s manager at the time, unrstood the song’s meang and referenc, and saw as a surefire h, he ially dismissed ‘Enola Gay’ as ‘pop crap’, and threatened to rign if they released as a sgle.

‘Enola Gay’ beme an inic synth-pop track, and would be the closg song at OMD’s ncerts for the majory of their reer. ’In Augt 1945, when Tibbets’ mother heard on the rad that the Enola Gay had been named after her, she was — at least ially — greatly amed. ‘You should have seen the old gal’s belly jiggle on that one, ’ Tibbets’ father told him later lyrics of OMD’s ‘Enola Gay’ ask, ‘is mother proud of ltle boy today?