Enola Gay (song)
| "Enola Gay" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | ||||
| from the album Organisation | ||||
| B-side | "Annex" | |||
| Released | 26 September 1980[1] | |||
| Studio | Ridge Farm Studio (Dorking) | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:33 | |||
| Label | Dindisc | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Andy McCluskey | |||
| Producer(s) | ||||
| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark singles chronology | ||||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Enola Gay" at YouTube | ||||
"Enola Gay" is a 1980 song by British band Orchestal Manoeuvres in the Dark and was the only single from their second studio album Organisation. It went to number 8 in the United Kingdom, number 1 in Spain, Portugal and Italy, number 14 in Ireland, number 31 in New Zealand, number 6 in France and number 47 in Australia.
Track listing[change | change source]
1980 original release[change | change source]
| Side one | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Enola Gay" | 3:33 | |||||||
| Side two | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Annex" | 4:33 | |||||||
The 12" single contained the same tracks as on the 7".
2003 remix 12"[change | change source]
| Side one | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Enola Gay" (Dancefloor Killa Remix) | 9:02 | |||||||
| Side two | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Enola Gay" (dub remix) | 6:57 | |||||||
| 2. | "Enola Gay" (radio edit) | 3:05 | |||||||
2020 re-release 12"[change | change source]
| Side one | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Enola Gay" (extended mix) | 4:49 | |||||||
| Side two | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "Enola Gay" (slow mix) | 4:05 | |||||||
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Cite error: The named reference
NZwas used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page). - ↑ Houghtaling, Adam Brent (2012). This Will End in Tears: The Miserabilist Guide to Music. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-0617-1967-7.
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) made the haunting shadows left behind by the flashburnt victims of the first atomic bombs into the synthpop hit 'Enola Gay', which imagines an eternal kiss that is 'never gonna fade away'.
- ↑ Pirnia, Garin (12 June 2012). "Enola Gay". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- ↑ QUINN, COLE. "Songs so good, they make the album look bad". The Daily Evergreen.
