Architecture & Morality

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Architecture & Morality
Studio album by Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark

Publication
(s)

November 8, 1981

admission

1980-1981

Label (s) DinDisc, Virgin

Genre (s)

Synthpop

running time

37:13

occupation
  • Malcolm Holmes - drums and electronic drums, bass synthesizer

production

Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark ,
Richard Manwaring and Mike Howlett

Studio (s)

The Gramophone Suite, Liverpool ,
The Manor Studio, Shipton-on-Cherwell

chronology
Organization
(1980) 		Architecture & Morality Dazzle Ships
(1983)
Single releases
4th August 1981 souvenir
October 9, 1981 Joan of Arc
January 15, 1982 Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)
1982 (only Benelux ) She's leaving

Architecture & Morality is the third studio album by the British pop band Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark . It was released in November 1981.

The title of the album was of Martha Ladly ( Martha and the Muffins proposed) and refers to the book Morality and Architecture ( " Moral and Architecture ") by the historian David Watkin .

Three singles were extracted from Architecture & Morality , which were able to place themselves successfully in various music charts . The album is considered the band's greatest success, both commercially and among critics. More than three million copies had been sold by 2009.

The album and its singles

From Architecture & Morality the domestic market of the band, three singles were in the UK, coupled, all high in the three UK Top 40 : able to place Souvenir ranked No. 3. Joan of Arc , ranked No. 5 and. Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc) at number 4. The singles were also very successful in other international charts. Thus achieved Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc) , a no. 1 in Germany .

Musically, the album is notable, among other things, for its extensive use of the Mellotron , a mechanical tape playback device generally more associated with progressive rock of the early 1970s than with synthpop of the 1980s.

The record cover was designed by Peter Saville and Brett Wickens . While the first publication of Architecture & Morality was held in a light yellow-orange (with a machine-punched inner cover), various re-publications appeared in blue, yellow, gray or green.

The tenth to sixteenth title of remastered reissues were B-sides of three singles and the piece Gravity Never Failed , which was originally planned as a separate single, but as outtake only in 1988 as a B-side to the single Dreaming from the album The Best of OMD published has been.

Remixes of The Romance Of The Telescope and Of All The Things We've Made appeared on the follow-up album Dazzle Ships , released in 1983 .

All songs on the album were part of the set list of the concert, the OMD on their comeback - tour played of 2007.

Charts (album)

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1981 Architecture & Morality DE8 (27 weeks)
DE 		AT16 (2 weeks)
AT 		- UK3 (39 weeks)
UK 		US144 (1 week)
US
First published: November 8, 1981
Sales: + 300,000

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

Charts (Singles)

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1981 souvenir DE39 (17 weeks)
DE 		- - UK3 (12 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: August 4th, 1981
Sales: + 200,000
Joan of Arc - - - UK5 (14 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: October 9, 1981
Sales: + 200,000
1982 Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc) DE1 (39 weeks)
DE 		AT2 (14 weeks)
AT 		CH4 (16 weeks)
CH 		UK4 (10 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: Jan 15, 1982
Sales: + 450,000

The album also reached number 1 in the album charts in the Netherlands, number 18 in Canada, number 21 in France, number 22 in New Zealand and number 28 in Sweden.

Reviews

The Guardian lists Architecture & Morality in its book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (“1001 albums you must have heard before you die”), the music magazine Mojo in their The 80 Greatest Albums from the 80’s (“Die 80 Greatest Albums of the 1980s ”). Allmusic awards 4.5 out of 5 stars for Architecture & Morality . There Ned Raggett describes the album as the high point of the band in terms of constant willingness to experiment and at the same time mainstream suitability. In his review for the BBC on the occasion of the DVD and remixed CD release in 2007, Amar Patel named the album OMD's groundbreaking work. Pitchfork Media awarded 8.7 out of 10 points, Uncut four out of five stars.

Table of contents (track list)

All songs were written by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys . (Exceptions are given in brackets).

Initial release remastered CD 2003 CD / DVD 2007
Page 1: 1. The New Stone Age (McCluskey) 3:22

Page 1:2. She's Leaving 3:28
Page 1:3. Souvenir (Humphreys, Cooper ) 3:39
Page 1:4. Sealand 7:47
Page 2: 1. Joan of Arc (McCluskey) 3:48
Page 2:2. Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans) (McCluskey ) 4:12
Page 2:3. Architecture and Morality (Instrumental) 3:24
Page 2:4. Georgia 3:24
Page 2:5. The Beginning and the End 3:48

01. The New Stone Age (McCluskey) 3:22

02. She's Leaving 3:28
03. Souvenir (Humphreys, Martin Cooper) 3:39
04. Sealand 7:47
05. Joan of Arc (McCluskey) 3:48
06. Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans) (McCluskey) 4 : 12
07. Architecture and Morality (Instrumental) 3:24
08. Georgia 3:24
09. The Beginning and the End 3:48
bonus tracks
10. Extended Souvenir (Humphreys, Cooper) 4:16
11. Motion and Heart 3:07
12. Sacred Heart 3:30
13. The Romance of the Telescope 3:22
14. Navigation 3:00
15. Of All the Things We've Made 3:25
16. Gravity Never Failed 3:24

CD as in the 2003 release

Additional DVD content :
01. Souvenir (Humphreys, Cooper) - promo video
02. Joan of Arc (McCluskey) - Live at Top of the Pops , October 29, 1981
03. Maid of Orleans (The Waltz of Joan of Arc) (McCluskey) - promo video
04. – 17. Live at the Theater Royal Drury Lane , December 4, 1981
04. Almost
0 5. Mystereality
0 6. Joan of Arc (McCluskey)
07. Motion and Heart
0 8. Maid of Orleans (McCluskey)
09. Statues (McCluskey)
10. Souvenir (Humphreys, Cooper)
11. The New Stone Age (McCluskey)
12. Enola Gay (McCluskey)
13. Bunker Soldiers
14. Electricity
15. She's Leaving
16. Julia's Song (McCluskey, Humphreys, Julia Kneale)
17. Stanlow

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dicography Albums 1980–1984 at omd.uk.com ( Memento from January 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c Discography Singles 1979–1984 ( Memento from March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at omd.uk.com
  3. ↑ Question & Answers at omd.uk.com ( Memento from December 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b Amar Patel: OMD deserve respect and adoration for their contribution to British pop music. BBC (bbc.co.uk); Retrieved June 15, 2013
  5. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  6. ↑ Chart Stats - Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark - Architecture And Morality . Retrieved June 27, 2013.
  7. ^ OMD (Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark) - Architecture & Morality . Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
  8. ↑ OMD (Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark) in the fee-based database infodisc.fr . Retrieved November 7, 2009.
  9. ↑ charts.org.nz - OMD (Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark) - Architecture & Morality . Retrieved June 28, 2013.
  10. ↑ swedishcharts.com - OMD (Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark) - Architecture & Morality . Retrieved June 28, 2013.
  11. ↑ 1000 album to Hear Before You Die: Artists beginning with O . The Guardian . November 21, 2007. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  12. ↑ The 80 Greatest Albums from the 80’s . Mojo . 2007. Retrieved June 19, 2013. Archived from acclaimedmusic.net.
  13. ↑ Architecture & Morality at Allmusic (English). Retrieved June 15, 2013.
  14. ↑ Scott Plagenhoef: Album Reviews: Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark: Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark / Organization / Architecture & Morality . Pitchfork Media . July 18, 2003. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
  15. ^ Architecture & Morality . In: Uncut . August 2003, September, p. 119.

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