If You Leave

OMG ... i just died and went to heaven .. i just found a couple of rare extended 12" versions of one of my all time favourite songs from the 80's classic cult chic flick 'pretty in pink' - 'if you leave' by omd (orchestral manouevres in the dark) .. fuck! the first time i saw this film was back in 1984 - it was one wet afternoon at school .. it rained during p.e. class .. so the casual p.e. teacher rented a video instead ..

i can't tell you how many times i've watched this film over and over again .. for one, the soundtrack probably started my whole love affair with the 80's - i never felt like i really participated in the 80's since i was still a kid and not a teenager or in my 20's or 30's .. so, yes i re-lived the trash 80's via the music .. but even more so, i had a huge crush on andrew mccarthy so much back then .. then the obsession turned to james spader after that ...

oohhhh ... you have no idea what goes in my head when i listen this song .. the things that never quite happened for me .. in my life - the stories i'd concoct in my head ..

you see, just as i was sitting for the SAT's to go to college in the states (i have family over there who were going to sponsor me), i ended up getting accepted into a selective high school back here in sydney and my dreams of going to an american college (doing that american high school thing) were over - just like that ..

all my fantasies - poof! disappeared in smoke .. the closest i ever got to it, was through john hughes films like this one, ferris bueller's day off & the breakfast club - lol .. man, i get so nostalgic for the wrong reasons don't i .. ?

extended 12"

original clip by OMD