“Call My Name” by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

"Call My Name" rounded off the run of singles from Sugar Tax, the eighth studio album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, when Virgin put it out in a remixed version in November 1991. Andy McCluskey wrote it with Stuart Kershaw and Lloyd Massett, and it finds the English electronic band in full dance-pop flight. The 12-inch and CD tacked on an extended mix dressed with an uncredited woman's voice on the telephone and the clatter of a rotary dial, while the seven-inch's B-side, "Walk Tall", came straight off the album.

It stalled at 50 in the UK, and NME's Steve Lamacq was withering, writing it off as one of the album's duds and likening the 12-inch to a Star Wars sound-effects tape. KROQ still made room for it among its top songs of 1991, and AllMusic's Dave Thompson later heard real splendor in it.

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