Enola Gay by OMD - Songfacts

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• O.M.D.(ORCHTRAL MANOVR IN THE DARK) ENOLA GAY
• THE 40 GREATT SYNTH SOUNDS OF ALL TIME, NO 39: OMD - ENOLA GAY
• ENOLA GAYORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARKTRACK 1 ON ORGANISATN PRODUCED BYMIKE HOWLETT & ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK“ENOLA GAY” IS A SONG BY BRISH SYNTHPOP GROUP ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK. THE ANTI-WAR TRACK WAS RELEASED AS THE ONLY SGLE OM THEIR 1980 ALBUM ORGANISATN AND… READ MORE SEP. 26, 19801 VIEWER61.2K VIEWS50 CONTRIBUTORSENOLA GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]ENOLA GAYYOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT HOME YTERDAYAH-HA, WORDS N'T SCRIBETHE FEELG AND THE WAY YOU LIEDTHE GAM YOU PLAYTHEY'RE GONNA END MORE THAN TEARS SOMEDAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[INSTMENTAL BRIDGE][BRIDGE]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY[INSTMENTAL BREAKDOWN]YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T FA OUR DREAMS AWAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[OUTRO]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY14EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
• ENOLA GAY
• OMD – ENOLA GAY
• OMD - ENOLA GAY LYRICS

O.M.D.(ORCHTRAL MANOVR IN THE DARK) ENOLA GAY

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

Also had the knack for wrg chart-botherg and tchy sgl, none more so than Enola Gay.Wh s tle, and spiratn, taken om the name of the aeroplane which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Augt 1945, the song is most memorable for s tchy synth hook – somewhat at odds wh the sombre subject matter. Such is Enola Gay’s stant appeal, has gone on to sell more than five ln pi. In fact, was banned om beg played on the BBC children’s programme Swap Shop – not bee of the events referenced the track, but a bizarre misterpretatn that was promotg homosexualy.Here, Andy McClkey talks through the creatn of the ternatnal h which ntu to pose a moral dilemma… More ‘How I wrote’ featurReleased: 26 September 1980.

I also had a fascatn for warfare, not a celebratory way but a sense that I was drawn by the horror of and the moral dilemma that people were allowed to do thgs war that were illegal at tim of peace.“If you’re terted Send World War aeroplan then ultimately you have to e to the one that effectively end the war, the B-29 Superfortrs the Enola Gay that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. I still have a rg br which has my not on the Enola Gay and I n see that I ed some of those not to help wh the lyrics.“The mic always has to e first wh Orchtral Manovr the Dark.

ENOLA GAYORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARKTRACK 1 ON ORGANISATN PRODUCED BYMIKE HOWLETT & ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK“ENOLA GAY” IS A SONG BY BRISH SYNTHPOP GROUP ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK. THE ANTI-WAR TRACK WAS RELEASED AS THE ONLY SGLE OM THEIR 1980 ALBUM ORGANISATN AND… READ MORE SEP. 26, 19801 VIEWER61.2K VIEWS50 CONTRIBUTORSENOLA GAY LYRICS[VERSE 1]ENOLA GAYYOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED AT HOME YTERDAYAH-HA, WORDS N'T SCRIBETHE FEELG AND THE WAY YOU LIEDTHE GAM YOU PLAYTHEY'RE GONNA END MORE THAN TEARS SOMEDAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[INSTMENTAL BRIDGE][BRIDGE]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY[INSTMENTAL BREAKDOWN]YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE[VERSE 2]ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T EVER HAVE TO END THIS WAYAH-HA, ENOLA GAYIT SHOULDN'T FA OUR DREAMS AWAY[CHOS]IT'S 8:15AND THAT'S THE TIME THAT 'S ALWAYS BEENWE GOT YOUR MSAGE ON THE RADCONDNS NORMAL AND YOU'RE G HOME[OUTRO]ENOLA GAYIS MOTHER PROUD OF LTLE BOY TODAY?AH-HA, THIS KISS YOU GIVEIT'S NEVER EVER GONNA FA AWAY14EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

The Enola Gay was Pl Tibbets’ mother’s name. It has a pth and a darkns and a requirement to ask yourself moral qutns.”Enola Gay was the only sgle om the OMD’s 1980 album Organisatn.

Songfacts®:The Enola Gay was the Amerin plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima World War II. It was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the plane's pilot, Pl Tibbets. Some even thought was a d msage that we were gay.

ENOLA GAY

The most famo and fluential sgle bomber was Enola Gay. "The BBC misperceived "Enola Gay" as beg a homosexual love song and banned on the kids' show Swap Shop. “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.

OMD – 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.

OMD - ENOLA GAY LYRICS

Tell me how this lks wh your recent remix of “Enola Gay”, the llaboratn wh Hot Chip, and puttg out the 12-ch vyl? 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.

About“Enola Gay” is a song by Brish synthpop group Orchtral Manovr the Dark. Enola Gay is the name of Brigadier General Pl Tibbets’s mother. The sgle reached ternatnal succs, managg to sell over 5 ln pi and beg one of the band’s signature a qutn about this songAsk a qutn *CredsRelease DateSeptember 26, 1980Songs That Sample Enola GaySongs That Interpolate Enola GayEnola Gay Live PerformancView Enola Gay samplTags.

Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yterday.

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.