OMD - Tesla Girls (Extra Version)

OMD's 1984 extended version of 'Tesla Girls'.

Official site www.omd.uk.com

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Music

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• djliberator31
• omd
• tesla
• girls
• 1984
• junk
• culture
• extended
• remix
• version
• OMD
• HD

[jaht3z]

The guy with the blue tinted glasses and the baseball cap at :09 and later walking around in video... is that Thomas Dolby?

[djliberator31]

@jaht3z No! Just an actor pretending to be the director!

[OMDYogi]

Ok it was new - 1984 :O)

[djliberator31]

The version I recorded from was the US version which notes it "New Extended". Looking into the UK discography it says 2nd version is noted as "Extra Version". To make it clear I will note it appropriately.

[OMDYogi]

Not new,simply the Extended Version

from the 1984 Album JunkCulture but

great.

[djliberator31]

..it's the 2nd 12" release, hence the name it was given "new extended"!! Clear as mud!!

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

@TheXtro101 huh that's interesting. i knew a cheerleader and they danced to this at their school. where did you grow up?

[mrhomerbojangles]

OMD certain without a doubt kknw how to puump out some amazing songs.

Brillaint group with superb music and songs.

Thanks for sharing.

[TheXtro101]

I remember when I saw OMD perform live back in 1988,they were the opening band for "Depeche Mode".I asked my friend who I went with to the concert,"Who's OMD again?"My friend says,"the group who does "Tesla Girls",our school's drill team routine song,you know,it goes no no no".I remember I said,"Oh yeaaah"(back then long ago,I was a young teenage Freshman in HS).

[Andsaca1]

the video, which was Andy McCluskey's idea, was lampooning the style of American music videos the band was pressured into making by Virgin Records in the hope of breaking into the U.S. market. He believed that American music videos relied heavily on attractive young female models posing and preening in front of the camera. While no one but the band appeared to get the joke, a furor did develop. It was the last time Virgin Records interfered with the style of videos of the band's singles.(Wiki)

[TheMjblades]

OMD are crazy-they're totally the Kim Wilde of album versions being the exact length of the cut singles or barely longer. I DON'T GET IT?! Why do they do this. 'Tesla' in normal form only goes to 4.36-that's a time that would be considered a short cut for Simple Minds/New Order/U2/Depeche Mode/Eurythmics/Bonnie Tyler and many others that love to stretch everything to inordinate length. This and the longer 'Never Turn Away' should have been put on the album. Talk about editing yourself to death!

[RyanDunnsLostSneaker]

@jaht3z Ignore the other cunt who answered this, it is indeed Thomas Dolby Great Spot

[joanne2011fr]

Love this song.

[Veit81]

What is a Tesla Girl?

[i4zetec]

@ 1:04 ...Who the F#%!! Took my poptart!!!

[missjules41]

i loved omd,they were brill,.at the time of this song coming out,.the boy i was dateing at the time said i was his tesla girl,he use to play it really loud in his car,.happy days...the music was great then