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1.Messages: Greatest Hits/+DVD by: OMD September 29, 2008
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Unpromoted which is a shame, Thanks to Amazon This Compilation is easy to obtain. As an OMD fan from thier early days this a must for all collectors. I bought this for the DVD alone but I am sure the Cd will get some use. Excellent purchase for any music fan as this Band have infuenced so many over the years. Great to see them on thier reunion Tour. And may they continue to please thier fans for years to come, Timeless.

2.Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Remastered by: OMD March 10, 2003
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It never ceases to amaze me how in those early days Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey were able to create such incredible sounds out of such basic, rubbish equipment. But I guess that's why their music had so much appeal to me. It was inventive and creative. For me, their self-titled debut album more than any other captured this inventiveness and creativity. Songs like Electricity, The Messerschmitt Twins and Pretending To See The Future have stood the test of time well. Sadly, after the commercial failure of their 4th album Dazzle Ships they lost much of that inventiveness and creativity, by focussing on trying to write records that sell. Sadly, OMD will be remembered as a middle of the road, 80s pop band; let's not even ... Read More:

3.The Best of OMD by: OMD February 29, 1988
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Besides the obvious highlight, 'Enola Gay', most of this is mediocre 80's synth, grating and dated-sounding. The synth grates after a while, and the likes of 'Messages' is repetitive and hokey, without even any lyrics to drag it above average. 'Souveneir sounds like something you would hear playing in B&Q or General George, utterly banal. The vocals are unpleasant, and the rest of the album plays out in the same way, so inoffensive it's offensive. Droning synth-by-numbers.

4.Organisation: Remastered by: OMD March 10, 2003
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Over the past 28 years, whenever I'm playing this album in the presence of someone who's never heard it before, they always say how beautiful the music is; Stanlow, in particular, comes in for much praise - no surprise there. For me, I still get the same pleasure from listening to it now as I did when I first played it all those years ago. I just feel sorry for all those people who've never heard this album. They're missing something very special.

5.The Omd Singles by: OMD September 28, 1998
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Excellent compilation though I have 1 gripe. Red Frame White Light, where is this track? For a compilation advertising itself as The OMD singles this is a striking ommision.

6.Junk Culture by: OMD August 31, 1998
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By the time Junk Culture was released (1984), OMD were riding something of the crest of a wave. With a good few hits, successful tours and critically-acclaimed albums to their credit, they set about recording a set of songs which was once a departure from its more industrial predecessor Dazzle Ships but which used a familiar language. Using the sort of album titles which journalists love to ask questions about once more - both Architecture & Morality (their masterpiece from 1981) and Dazzle Ships had both 'arty' and 'complex' reasons for their names - Junk Culture once again needed explaining! Andy McCluskey went to some length in interviews of the time to explain that it was about popular culture and the way things fit together (or don't). That ... Read More:

7.The Peel Sessions 1979-1983 by: OMD April 24, 2000
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Covering tracks from the first, second and fourth OMD albums (the third being omitted probably because of it's huge cross-over mainstream appeal) this compilation confirms the original creativity and experimentation that pushed OMD forward as one of the stawalarts of the early 80's pop-synth scene. The mix of tracks is surprising & welcome - obvious numbers are overlooked in place of obscure B-Sides & album tracks (eg Annex, Dancing) but that is typically perverse of OMD! Also included is the original single version of 'Electricity'. The highlights are a frenetic version of 'Pretending to See the Future' and the wonderful 'Dancing' and 'Motion & Heart'. It's often said OMD were better live than recorded and this album confirms this - every track benefits from ... Read More:

8.Pacific Age by: OMD April 10, 1989
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This was the last album by the Original line up of OMD. I can't believe it was 20 years ago! Andy McClusky kept the name and produced a couple of excellent Synthpop cds in the 90s while Paul Humphries and the others formed the entirely forgetable The Listening Pool. The Pacific Age is a huge improvement on the awful Crush, the only pointless track being the intrumental Southern. Of the singles We Love You is an excellently strong synth tune while Forever Live and Die and Shame can only be described as nice (but I still like them). Goddess of Love and the title track are also strong tracks in the same spirit as We Love You. The Dead Girls harks back to their Architecture and Morality days though it doesn't quite recapture the feel or the mood of tracks like Sealand. ... Read More:

9.Dazzle Ships by: OMD April 14, 1997
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...........so not a big seller. And ultimately, its lack of success pushed the band too far in the commercial direction of their subsequent albums. But as an end to end listen this is still a thrilling album that with a couple more tunes would have been the Sgt Pepper of the electro pop era... seriously

10.Pacific age (1986) by: OMD
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...........so not a big seller. And ultimately, its lack of success pushed the band too far in the commercial direction of their subsequent albums. But as an end to end listen this is still a thrilling album that with a couple more tunes would have been the Sgt Pepper of the electro pop era... seriously

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