OMD’s “Dazzle Ships” (with Tom Murphy)

June 04, 2019 01:20:48
OMD’s “Dazzle Ships” (with Tom Murphy)
Detours and Outliers
OMD’s “Dazzle Ships” (with Tom Murphy)

Jun 04 2019 | 01:20:48

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Show Notes

OMD GETS EXPERIMENTAL! Local music historian, Tom Murphy, joins us to discuss the album that nearly killed OMD’s career. How can you lose 90% of your audience with one album? What is the strategic disadvantage of painting your battleships in bright garish colors? Did Andy McCluskey really think the key to commercial success was to get even weirder? What time period is this album supposed to take place in? Who is the biggest rock-star from Albania? Do all one-hit wonders grow to resent their one hit? What is the steampunk equivalent of EDM? We’ll try to figure it out on this episode of Detours and Outliers.

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