Enola Gay is the tle of an OMD song wrten by Andy McClkey and first issued as the group's fourth sgle September 1980. It went on to bee an ternatnal h, makg the group known several untri worldwi and beme one of their bt known songs to date. The song tak s...
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- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- ENOLA GAY
- “ENOLA GAY” BY ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK (OMD)
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
" Enola Gay", Orchtral Manovr the Dark's (OMD's) wonrfully dulgent synthpop classic named after the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima,... * is omd gay *
“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.
ENOLA GAY
* is omd gay *
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.
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” BY ORCHTRAL MANOVR THE DARK (OMD)
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". Are any of the members openly gay?