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}} ''Architecture & Morality'' is the third album by the British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1981. It became a commercial and critical success, selling over 4 million copies by early 2007 and being hailed as the band's seminal work. Its associated singles – "Souvenir", "Joan of Arc", and "Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)", a retitled "Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)" – were international hits, selling more than 8 million copies combined. A more ambitious and downbeat affair than prior releases, ''Architecture & Morality'' is widely regarded as one of the greatest electronic albums of the 1980s, with some publications hailing it as one of the best records ever made.〔See Legacy.〕 ==Album information== According to the album's credits, its title was suggested to the band by Martha Ladly, formerly of Martha and the Muffins, after the 1977 book ''Morality and Architecture'' by David Watkin.〔 Musically, the album was notable for making liberal use of the mellotron, a mechanical tape-replay keyboard more commonly associated in Britain with progressive rock bands of the early 1970s than with the synthpop of the 1980s. The tenth through sixteenth tracks of the remastered album are bonus tracks and were B-sides from the album's three singles, except "Gravity Never Failed" which was out-take from the album sessions, originally intended to have been a single A-side, but not released until 1988, as the B-side of "Dreaming". Remixes of "The Romance of the Telescope (Unfinished)" and "Of All The Things We've Made" appeared on OMD's next album, ''Dazzle Ships'', released in 1983. All of the album's songs were included in the first part of the setlist on OMD's 2007 comeback tour. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Architecture & Morality」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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