‘Enola Gay’ is the name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. The plane was named after the pilot’s mother and the bomb was referred to as ‘little boy’ and was released over Hiroshima at 8.15am on 6th August 1945.
What excites me about the music of OMD beside the sometimes cold and clinical sounds that the early synthesisers produced and the often warm and lyrical tones of their more ‘pop’ song output is their genuinely interesting choices of subject matter. This is a truly great pop song from the opening drumbeats and bass line to the extremely distinctive refrain and melody while at the same time educating us to the truly horrific actions, which led to the use of the worlds first nuclear weapon during the second world war.
It is possible that the subject of the song may well have passed some people by and for them it is nothing more than an elegant pop song, but for me it works on a number of levels and as a result is one of the true greats of the 1980s.
Now listen to the song…..
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