OMD The New Stone Age

[astrophonix]

I can definately hear an Eno influence in the guitars and noise effects, great song!

[allmodcons1965]

1965raj fucking spot on,I bought this album on release and thought they'd go on to do brilliantly,but alas your spot on about the turtlenecks,funny as fuck by the way...

[nickthelick]

If you like this and The Cure, for fucks sake - check out THE SOUND! As in, The Sound, the band!

[dkthg]

@nickthelick the sound of the band?

[nickthelick]

@dkthg I literally mean, a band called "The Sound" =O) They are/were awesome... Some of their popular songs are called "Winning" "Sense Of Purpose" "New Dark Age" man, there's loads of good stuff. Never heard a dud track from them. "New Dark Age" is quite Joy Division-y...

[1965raj]

Just to put everybody straight, this song is very reminiscent of The Cure circa. 1980/1981. Nothing wrong with that, and it may be purely coincidental. Fact is, many bands operating in the post-punk period played around with similar ideas and sounds. To claim OMD as "more experimental" than The Cure during this period has no value whatsoever. A large number of bands then were, by default or design, "experimental". After this album, however, OMD experimented more with turtlenecks than music.

[beefjyrki]

@1965raj Um, Dazzle Ships?

[Happysundaze]

Yes kids we were once very worried about the coming nuclear war.

[scosha371]

excuse the lingo but fcking amazing the best band in the world love their stuff.....

[davedenisetigg]

OMD are brilliant! This is a fantastic sound for when it was recorded! Way way way ahead of their time!!

[brimane]

Enola Gay and Electricity are other favs from OMD

[billychan21]

the best!

[lrrlrr]

sounds like it could have been an early record from the Cure

[avalanchealonso]

@lrrlrr Ummm. . . this sounds like nowhere near The Cure. The Cure were a really great band, don't get me wrong. But this OMD track is just so experimental and amazing, that only someone like them with a sound like that could had pulled it off in the early 80s.

[lrrlrr]

@avalanchealonso Dearest Alonzo, (just a thought, but) I don't think you have spent enough time listening to the cure to hear some similarity in the vocal sound. That was where my comparison was based. Also, it was my opinion. Please respect mine as I respect yours.

[messthetics]

@lrrlrr I agree. When i first heard this track coming from my housemates bedroom, i thought it was Pornography era Cure cos of the vocal sound. The vocal melody is actually quite similar to 'Cold' off that LP.

[hammertoejoe]

@messthetics Pornography's "Cold" is one of the most amazing and thrilling songs I've ever heard. The same goes for this OMD song, for me it was like moving furnitures by pushing them and making those rubbing noises (from the keyboard)

[BIGINSF]

Such pioneers they were! Brilliant!

[oncemas]

I love NO's EGG... and I love this song. The two are nowhere near being similar... or one ripped off from the other.

[lismclis51]

I remember buying this album when it came out. God!!! I wore the thing out. LOL. I absolutely loved this music. These guys were right at the top of my list, along with New Order, Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen, U2 and Simple Minds. They sure don't make music like they did back then. PS...........I forgot The Cure.

[rushnerd]

Pay close attention, They made this song before there was a category for it.

[MrTrinklied]

I don't think it sounds like JD's Ice Age, I always thought it was a rip off of NO's Everything's Gone Green. They both sound extremely similar. Oddly, EGG came out Sept 1981, this song Nov 1981! strange...

[youboob1981]

This my goal the aim of my life

Thi is the feeling they warned me about

These are the correct lyrics

[ajglamourphotography]

Genius, love love love it. It really don't get any better than this !

[PillageFilms]

0:25 until the vocals come in sounds like a dance/rave song from these days, great stuff

[Volgan16666]

One of the first, if not the first, album I bought.. i still remembered the words after almost 30 years.

[IDIOSYNCRATICS]

best song of the 80's ever produced, and I mean it

[CRANWELLPOACHER]

"Oh my god what have I done this time"? Awesome

[transfoby]

Their songs were so prophetic

[transfoby]

OMD's Architecture and Morality, debut album by Flock of Seagulls, and Sons and Fascination by Simple Minds all from 1981 are the landmark albums of that time...sophisticated, epic sound...they were all on the same wavelenght, so to speak

[zsonohanz]

james holden played this track as the set closer at cielo on 7/8/2010

[googoobh]

I do really love the sound of deep remorse and loss and the desperation of not being able to go back and change what must be changed.

[TheConstantin69]

A Cure-nak is tiszteletére vált volna ez a szám!!

[oogie11]

I heard this song on the show 'Money' that was on BBC2, interesting show it was, the song suited it very very well

[oneover2many]

you know, i could imagine Lestat singing this

[MegaDumkopf]

VERY good. I was thinking that this came out maybe around the time of 3 mile island?

[depechemodevilla]

sounds like joy division. great track, cant believe these guys also did if you leave

[transfoby]

@depechemodevilla They started at the same time as Joy Division...that special, epic sound and great voices

[4nom4ly]

feel the anguish

Oh my God what have I done this time

[tertommy]

This song and Ice Age by Joy Division. portend imminent Earth changes, at least I hope so.

[transfoby]

@tertommy I think this would be a nice tune to accompany the CERN experiment :)

[retsiembrU]

One of their MASSIVE BEST song

happy i found it after somany other moments during the period of my life

[glenrualrene]

Fantastic...then they do Call My Name which is utter pants, what was Mr McC thinking or not thinking as it seems to be!

[MarkMargo]

Great song

[angievigilante]

omg, i love this song!

[MeroveeG]

My favourite song of OMD, a masterpiece.

[reso745]

also I think its "this is the feeling they warned me about" not "this is the feeling that wont be amassed"

[reso745]

i think thee lyrics are "this is my goal, the aim of my life" not "the end of my life" and "the feeling the longing, that everythings gone".