| Call My Name | |
| Cover: | OMD Call My Name Cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark |
| Album: | Sugar Tax |
| Released: | [1] |
| Genre: | Dance |
| Length: | 4:15 (album version) 4:23 (remix) |
| Label: | Virgin |
| Prev Title: | Then You Turn Away |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Stand Above Me |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
"Call My Name" is a song by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). Remixed for its single release, it was issued as the fourth and final single from the group's eighth studio album, Sugar Tax (1991), on 18 November 1991. The single peaked at number 50 on the UK Singles Chart The B-side to the 7-inch single, "Walk Tall" is featured as the tenth track on Sugar Tax. An extended remix version was also released on the CD and 12-inch issues, featuring an uncredited female voice speaking over a telephone and the sounds of a rotary telephone dial.
Upon its release, Steve Lamacq, writing for NME, considered "Call My Name" to be "one of the crap tracks from Sugar Tax" and added that the 12-inch version "is not a million light years away from a Star Wars effect tape".[2] On the other hand, KROQ included the track in its "Top 106.7 Songs of 1991".[3] In a retrospective article, AllMusic critic Dave Thompson wrote of the track's "musical splendor", calling it a "dance-fired extravaganza with a melody that's as memorable as the beats are incendiary."[4]
All songs were written by McCluskey/Kershaw/Massett.
7-inch: Virgin / VS 1380 (UK)
12-inch: Virgin / VST 1380 (UK)
CD: Virgin / VSCDT 1380 (UK)