Crush

Crush may refer to:

Music

Bands

Albums

Songs

Crush (OMD album)

Crush is the sixth album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1985. It was the first of two OMD albums produced by Stephen Hague, who had previously produced albums by Jules and the Polar Bears, Slow Children, Elliot Easton, Gleaming Spires and others.

"So in Love" (co-written with Hague) became the group's first hit single in the US. The album also sold well in the US. Aimed primarily at the US market, it is notable for moving the band's sound in a far more commercial direction, although elements of earlier experimentation are still evident on the title track, which is built around a tape loop of samples from Japanese television commercials, and the closing track "The Lights Are Going Out". A long-form video, Crush - The Movie was also released, showing the group talking about their career and performing the songs from the album.

In a 2013 online poll, Crush was voted the 23rd best album of 1985 based on the opinions of over 45,000 respondents.

Track listing

Crush (singer)

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Shin Hyo-seob (born May 3, 1992), professionally known as Crush (hangul: 크러쉬), is a South Korean R&B and hip hop artist under Amoeba Culture. He debuted in 2012 with the single "Red Dress".

Career

Crush made his official debut with the single "Red Dress" featuring TakeOne on December 7, 2012. In the following year, he released two singles, "Crush On You" and "어디 갈래 (Where Do You Wanna Go)" which featured Taewan and Gary.

He released another single in April 2014, called "가끔 (Sometimes)". He also collaborated with Gaeko for the single "Hug Me". In August, he sang "잠 못드는 밤 (Sleepless Night)" for the OST of the SBS Drama It's Okay, That's Love. He then released the song "SOFA" in October.

In 2015, he collaborated with Zion.T for the single "그냥 (Just)". The song was released on January 30, 2015, and debuted at #1 on the Gaon Singles Chart. They also won Best Collaboration & Unit at the 17th Mnet Asian Music Awards. In July, he released the single "Oasis" which featured Block B's Zico. He also held his first solo concert Crush On You from November 13 to 14.

Hip hop skit

A hip hop skit is a form of sketch comedy that appears on a hip hop album or mixtape, and is usually written and performed by the artists themselves. Skits can appear on albums or mixtapes as individual tracks, or at the beginning or end of a song. Some skits are part of concept albums and contribute to an album's concept. Skits also occasionally appear on albums of other genres.

The hip-hop skit was more or less pioneered by De La Soul and their producer Prince Paul who incorporated many skits on their 1989 debut album 3 Feet High and Rising.

The Hip Hop Skit although dominant throughout the 90s and the early 2000s began to be phased out in the later half of the 2000s and the early 2010s. Reasons for this include the popularity of MP3 as well as the invention of the iPod Shuffle, which could only play tracks in a random order.

Writing for The AV Club, Evan Rytlewski opined that skits may have originally been in vogue because an expanded tracklisting would look more appealing to would be buyers, although he noted that their first inclusion on a De La Soul record was most likely just them being "eccentric".