Talk:Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

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"They should have been stars, but the US was not comfortable with any pop star(s) that wasn't blatantly hetero." This is not NPOV (saying "they should have been stars"), nor is the implication that they weren't "blatantly hetero". (This is debatable, as is the connexion between the two.) --Daniel C. Boyer

Surely it would be wrong to say that there were "not blatantly hetero" as Paul Humphreys is married. As far as I know, Andy McCluskey has never married, but I believe he did have relationships with girls at school, as he once narrated in the magazine Jackie. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:40, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Not NPOV, true nonetheless.

Agree - article is notally non NPOV. I think it's best if fans don't write up their favourite bands - they get too carried away! Still it's better than nothing. Rewrite or edit called for here at some point I think. GRAHAMUK 07:10, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Rewrite is the key word here: wholesale deletion of the text containing the statements Daniel C. Boyer pointed out was uncalled for. I re-inserted part of that deleted text, leaving out the questionable and overhyped stuff. Lupo 10:53, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Not right to discuss Messages as a single without mentioning Electricity, their first single and from the audience reaction at the Hammersmith Apollo last night one of their 3 favourite songs - along with Enola Gay and Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)

There was a comment that "It is best if fans don't write about their favourite bands" above - but let's face it, that is probably how most articles on pop groups get created! ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:26, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

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Singles

Why? what is the need to create articles for "Sailing on the Seven Seas", "Pandora's Box (It's a Long, Long Way)", "Then You Turn Away", "Call My Name", "Walking on the Milky Way". i can understand soem of these perhaps. A few months ago I created (or co-created) articles for singles like electricity, enola gay and if you leave. I deemed that these were important singles, which had interesting stories. They also were useful in reference to other articles, If you leave in reference to bratpack movies and the pretty in pink soundtrack.

What is the need for these singles which were not even hits, and thus far have no useful information written within them? Chadwholovedme 12:41, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't say "Sailing on the Seven Seas" and "Pandora's Box" "were not even hits" - both made the top ten in the UK. -88.109.63.214 (talk) 14:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Just a bit of pedantry from a fan of the early stuff but it is my personal opinion that dazzle ships was their best ever work and i avoided buying the greatest hits because of the omission of tracks from this album. Commercial success allows for experimental stuff - but do not try to eliminate it from the regocnised works! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.149.142 (talk) 22:51, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

They were an electronic rock band, as many bands in that era, 1975-1979, before terms like new wave or ]]synthpop]] were invented Doktor Who (talk) 02:56, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

VCL XI is not a misread

The article states that VCL XI was a misread of "VCL 11" but I don't think so. Unless there is proof that it is, I'd rather see it as a homage to Kraftwerk's VCL 11, and a play on it, since V, C, and L are Roman numerals too. (A small issue, I know, I wish I could use a smaller heading style for it.) User.Zero.Zero.Zero.One (talk) 07:43, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Agreed that it's not a misread. And it's not a valve. But in typical Wikipedia fashion, obviously incorrect information will continue to be propagated because there's a "verifiable source" that commits the error. 71.200.35.243 (talk) 17:03, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Comment on listing of genres

I would have thought that OMD were best remembered as an electronic pop group - therefore, I would urge the listing of the genres to put synthpop before new wave or post punk. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:22, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Also, we could add electronic music to their genres. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:27, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Just a thought

I am not sure that this is encyclopaedic enough to go in the article, but because the Human League came from Sheffield and OMD came from Wirral, the former were seen as the working class group, the latter as the middle class group - and OMD were nicknamed "The Human League for people who like to go to garden centres". I shall leave it to others to decide whether this is beyond triviality enough to go in the encyclopaedia! ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:40, 15 February 2012 (UTC)