Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

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Enola Gay is like a perfect song, we always play it at parties. Annex is pretty mediocre though.

Fuck me, I think I'm really growing to like synth-pop. Not that you'll ever see me jamming Duran Duran or anything, but these dudes are really legit. I mean, how do you say no to a melody like that? How?

I agree, this is an awesome tune. Four stars.
Lush synth sounds, and lyrics about nuclear holocaust, one of new wave's favorite topics. 
Other ubiquitous new wave subjects include, but aren't limited to, the following:
-China
-masturbation
-technology, especially radio waves and electricity
-dance hall nostalgia

Alongside Hot Butter's hit single Popcorn / At the Movies from 1972, "Enola Gay" is my favorite synth pop song of all time.

PS. There was a time when I had "Enola Gay" as a default ring tone on my cell phone. Whenever my phone started ringing, the crazier of my two dogs, Jehu-Petteri, started to howl (to sing?). The story doesn't tell whether he liked the song or was annoyed by it, but I like to think that he loved it.

Andy McCluskey - pop's Seb Coe - brings us 'A'-level electro-cheddar at it's finest best, and my god if those drums don't almost rock. Not the teeny-tiny Casio beat - that just sets the scene. I'm talking about the big real proper ones that come in when the whole thing gets going. See, life under the nuclear umbrella of the '80s was a bit tense at times. You'd sit down for your Saturday night take-away and suddenly something like Threads would come on telly. A lady wetting her pants on the streets of Sheffield, a man selling a basket of rats for supper in the endless rubble strewn landscape of a neutron aftermath.

Of course, today it all seems quite frightening - but back then it was hilarious. We needed songs like Enola Gay to tell us that it wasn't funny at all and that we might all be so many shadows on a wall in the next four minutes if we didn't throw aside our Ted Hughes anthologies and leg it off down to Greenham Common with a bowl of lentils. So yes -  when your kids' kids ask What did you do in the Cold War, Granddad? you can say oh I danced awkwardly, wore a skinny tie and sat some retakes.

This song just makes me want to do things like B.O.B. by Outkast, just a stunning track. The beats are between new wave and post punk, and the vocals are straight out of the Ian Curtis play book. What a magnificent triumph.