![]() OMD’s sophomore album Organisation doesn’t necessarily come up all the time in the conversation about classic ’80s albums. Before they soundtracked Pretty In Pink, they soundtracked a vision of the world that was far more tense and eerie. But before OMD became one of the acts to successfully bridge the futurism and avant-garde tendencies of early synth-pop into the grand romantic gestures and bulletproof pop hooks of its mid-’80s mainstream insurgence, they were architects of a whole different thing. That is one idea of the ‘80s, one historical pop shorthand we go back to again and again. You think of giant swooping synths and yearning vocals and gauzy memories of young love and heartbreak. When you think of big end-credits drama and synth-pop swoon, when you think of that shorthand of an ’80s prom ballad beamed in from our collective pop culture memory, you think of “If You Leave.” You think of OMD’s signature song playing behind that climactic high school scene and you think of Molly Ringwald. Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark gave us an archetype.
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