Description
Side 1
- “Junk Culture”
- “Tesla Girls”
- “Locomotion”
- “Apollo”
- “Never Turn Away”
Side 2
- “Love and Violence”
- “Hard Day”
- “All Wrapped Up”
- “White Trash”
- “Talking Loud and Clear”
Junk Culture is the fifth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1984. The three most successful singles from the album were “Locomotion”, which reached #5 in the UK, “Talking Loud and Clear” (#11), and “Tesla Girls” (#21).
Junk Culture has a different sound because of a change in instrumentation due to the band's acquisition of the Fairlight CMI digital sampling/sequencing workstation. The title track is an instrumental with heavy dub overtones and tape collages, “All Wrapped Up” is a calypso pop song. “Talking Loud and Clear” features a soprano saxophone melody.
