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Sugar Tax by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Sugar Tax is an album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1991. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Sailing on the Seven Seas”, on 2 lists with a best position of #109.
Sugar Tax, the eighth studio album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, arrived on Virgin on 7 May 1991, their first in five years and the first without co-founder Paul Humphreys, who had left in 1989. That left Andy McCluskey steering the ship with a fresh crew, Stuart Kershaw on drums among them, and it's the only OMD album without a Humphreys songwriting credit.
McCluskey pointed the synths at the dance floor, riding the dance-pop wave with glistening keyboards and big, bittersweet melodies, and some of the songs are shadowed by the collapse of his partnership with Humphreys. Critics have never agreed on it, some ranking it with Architecture & Morality and others shrugging it off, but the public made up its mind fast: it hit number three in the UK, threw up top-10 singles in "Sailing on the Seven Seas" and "Pandora's Box", and had sold three million copies by 2007.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Sugar Tax on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sailing on the Seven Seas | 2 | #109 | – | 2002–2003 | |
| 2 | Call My Name | 1 | #61 | – | 1991 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.