SONG OF THE DAY (#158)

the strangest thing seems to be happening: OMD is making a colossal comeback. now this is great news to me. i adore OMD to no end. there was a time OMD was a member of matt's holy trinity of music (depeche mode and erasure being the other two). i can't listen to a single OMD song without thinking about cross-desert road trips from provo to los angeles in our family's ford aerostar. those are some great memories.

a new generation of music enthusiasts seem to be discovering the brilliance of OMD. i'm hearing a LOT of covers of classic OMD songs and they're all great. sure, they're not revolutionary, but who cares? most covers, i think, are done out of love and admiration and i get the feeling these are no different. to add the comback, OMD just wrapped what was, by all accounts, a successful UK tour. all the original members were present, even esrtwhile prodigal son and founding member, paul humphreys. paul sang some of OMD's best tracks: secrets and (forever) live and die, among others. martin cooper is back on the keys and sax and malcolm holmes is back on the skins. everything feels complete. and i feel very happy about it.

i was lucky enough to see them in 1990 during the 'sugar tax' tour with my friend jenner (who snuck in a mini tape recorder only to get busted some security goon a few songs in. luckly they let us back into the show after we were forced to get rid of the tape recorder. jenner hid it behind the toilet in the men's room. no lie. it was still there when we went back, thankfully, but i have never heard what he had recorded!). i hope hope hope they come back stateside.

��� OMD: if you leave
��� OMD: we love you
��� OMD: so in love
��� nada surf: if you leave
��� frost: messages
��� klaus & krinski: souvenir