Crush

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1989)
• Original Release Date: June 17, 1985
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A&M
• ASIN: B000002GE4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #89,858 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. So in Love

2. Secret

3. Bloc Bloc Bloc

4. Women III

5. Crush

6. 88 Seconds in Greensboro

7. Native Daughters of the Golden West

8. Femme Accident

9. Hold On

10. Lights Are Going Out

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Crush is a mild-mannered, soft-spoken new wave album that is most definitely the least exploratory of all O.M.D. recordings. A proper sign-off of for the new romantic movement ending in the mid-'80s, it's breezy, and slightly pleading. The signature tracks, "So in Love" and "Secret" are unassuming pop songs, teetering toward cute. Substance lies in the rich vocal arrangements. --Beth Bessmer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Commercial. Very Good, September 28, 2001

By	R. Toomey (Piscataway, NJ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the OMD most people are familiar with. The big songs "So In Love" and "Secret" were chart singles and they both had videos that MTV played in their heyday. But I think this album started OMD on their short up and coming road to stardom. I like the tracks "The Native Daughters Of The Golden West", "Women III" and the title track "Crush" in which Andy McCluskey curses out the rain. OMD continued to have a couple more hits after this. They had the theme song in the movie PRETTY IN PINK (If You Leave) and the single only "Dreaming" which was the new track on the BEST OF collection. My favorite album by OMD came out after CRUSH and was entitled "The Pacific Age" which is now unfortunately nearly impossible to find on CD. CRUSH definitely put Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Martin Cooper and Malcolm Holmes on the 80's New Wave map.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my all time highs. , March 7, 2005

By	B. Charles (Somewhere in Arizona) - See all my reviews

I've been listening to a variety of music for many-a-year. This album was a fav in the hay-day mid 80's and to this day it remains without dust on my shelf. This is certainly a one of a kind album that no-one has tried to duplicate. Ironicaly, the best songs were the least popular, thus the are always fresh because they are never overplayed on the radio (free or satellite). I did not like much after this, Pacific age had 2-3 songs that I liked but nothing, but nothing, touches 'Crush'...

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars No doubt their best, June 28, 2003

By	xx001a45 "xx001a45" (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews

If you get this album plus one of their many greatest hits
you have completed your obligation to this band. 1986
was the height of the futuristic pop progressive movement
and OMD had been waiting for this moment since 1979.
The album reaches into glorious nostalgic riffs and exotic
synth only seen in the 86-87 window of time.

The album artwork is even nostalgic to a sort of
re-enlightenment of good sound before the dark times,
before the days of grundge.