“So In Love” by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

"So in Love" led Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's sixth album, Crush, out into the world in 1985, which is funny, because it nearly didn't make the record. The song arrived late in the Crush sessions and had been dropped altogether until Martin Cooper talked Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys into demoing it.

Good call. With Stephen Hague producing and sharing the writing credit, it's OMD at their most polished: bright synth lines, a chiming hook, and McCluskey singing about a relationship ending painfully over a melody that practically dares you not to hum along. It finally cracked America for them after five years of trying. The sleeve, designed by XL Design, and the video both borrowed their imagery from Mexico's Day of the Dead.

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