Slithering slowly back to the future, I leave the eighties without letting it out of my sight with Orchestral Manoeuevres In The Dark's, "Stand Above Me", from their 1993 album, "Liberator" Actually, there was no "their" there by that time, with Paul Humphreys having bowed out in '89, Andrew McCluskey was left as sole proprietor of the franchise. While "Stand Above Me" couldn't quite match the success of "Pandora's Box" from two years earlier it wasn't for lack of trying; it's another sad tale of disillusion surrounded by deceptively festive sounds. This time, a trashy glitter-esque gallop replaces the cinematic sweeps of "Pandora's Box", suggesting that everyone is having fun at the moment but they'll be paying for it later.
While the music made me delirious on the dance floor or drive my car faster-faster to maximize the wind in my hair, the lesson of unity simply for the comfort of saying we are a we, even when no one is quite truthful with their words and goals, lingers long after the movement ended.
And who doesn't like to look at Louise Brooks?
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