The tripartite division follows the building's own physical segmentation of social classes: the richest on the upper floors, represented by the high-rise's architect Anthony Royal the poorer on the lower, represented by the documentarian Richard Wilder and in middle-class, we have Robert Laing, a university physician, a more typical Ballard protagonist. Ladly had originally thought of using the title for her solo album.Contrary to the survivalist narrative of Concrete Island, which reduced social life to its bare minimum, High-Rise (1975) resorts to some conventions of social realism, foregrounding naturalistic concerns with social anthropology and objectivity, made evident by Ballard's use of third-person narration and the one-off use of three different narrative perspectives. & The Muffins) after a book by David Watkins called Morality And The album title was suggested by Martha Ladly (of fellow DinDisc act Martha It's worth noting that there's a slight variation with the blue sleeve release: On the matrix number on the runout groove it states DID12 A7 on side A and D1D12 B6 on side B. Released in a yellow sleeve, the album was subsequently released in pale blue The sleeve design featured a square cut-out revealing the inner sleeve. Back then, the band had problems in getting it to sound right and they remarked in an issue of the OMD Newsletter that the version used on the album was "quite successful" but that perhaps they would do it again differently in the future. 'The Beginning And The End' was an old song dating from Andy and Paul's VCLXI days. The original 'Georgia' was dusted down in 1988 and renamed 'Gravity Never Failed' which featured as a B-side to the single 'Dreaming'. They were happy with the title however and wrote a new song that they decided to name 'Georgia'. The band had written a song called 'Georgia' for the album but decided they weren't happy with the result and decided to shelf the song. Over the three days we gradually added and subtracted all manner of sounds until we had made something from all the noises" OMD Newsletter 1981. We decided to call it 'Architecture And Morality' and then proceeded to throw onto tape everything 'architectural' and 'moral' that we could think of. 'Architecture And Morality': "We wrote the whole thing in the Manor Studio in three days. 'Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans)' was the third single from the album. 'Joan Of Arc' was the second single from the album. Although the song isn't about the location itself, Andy was struck by the visual strength of the name, which seemed to conjure up a striking image of a place between the land and the sea. 'Sealand' takes its title from a RAF base on the Wirral. 'Souvenir' was the first single released from the album and is the first OMD single that features Paul Humphreys on lead vocals. This song was suggested as the fourth release by DinDisc but the band disagreed, concerned that they were exploiting the album. Recording at The Manor, they slowed it down and made it a bit simpler. It was only when they discovered an old version recorded at The Gramophone Suite that they tried again. But the band's attempts to record it resulted in them getting bored very quickly. 'She's Leaving' had a troubled history: the song had been written in January 1981 - and tried out on tour in Canada and France. The band were hoping people would take the record back to shops convinced it wasn't OMD! 'The New Stone Age' was a radical departure from what people would expect from OMD with its use of guitars.
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