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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Album: “OMD Singles”
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Release Date:1998-11-17
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Pop, New Wave, 1980s Alternative
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:724384652050
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Review - :
Looking back on 20 years of creative growth since the {\electro}-{\pop} band's inception, {^The OMD Singles} is logically and chronologically arranged. The earliest recordings, 1980's {&"Electricity"} and {&"Messages,"} prove electric messages were being channeled from such German pioneers as {$Kraftwerk} and {$Neu!} These English boys were enamored of melody, though, and it was not long before such dulcet, song-like structure became self-evident, as in 1984's {&"Tesla Girls."} From then on, it is a steady climb in coherence, with synth rhythms downplayed in order to bring the melodic theme to the front. The pinnacle of this progression is {$OMD}'s memorable {&"So in Love"} (1985) and {&"If You Leave"} (from 1986's {#Pretty in Pink}). The album closes with their last hit, 1996's {\glam}-influenced autobiography {&"Walking on the Milky Way."} The last original member, {$Andy McCluskey}, has blessed this greatest-hits package as the final swan song for the long-lived group. Originating in {\post-punk} synth experimentation and closing in dated, but still strong, {\pop} productions, {^The OMD Singles} is an excellent time line of the band whose sound covered in a single career that same territory explored by {$the Human League}, {$Erasure}, {$Yaz}, {$New Order}, and beyond. ~ Thomas Schulte, All Music GuideReview - :
Looking back on 20 years of creative growth since the {\electro}-{\pop} band's inception, {^The OMD Singles} is logically and chronologically arranged. The earliest recordings, 1980's {&"Electricity"} and {&"Messages,"} prove electric messages were being channeled from such German pioneers as {$Kraftwerk} and {$Neu!} These English boys were enamored of melody, though, and it was not long before such dulcet, song-like structure became self-evident, as in 1984's {&"Tesla Girls."} From then on, it is a steady climb in coherence, with synth rhythms downplayed in order to bring the melodic theme to the front. The pinnacle of this progression is {$OMD}'s memorable {&"So in Love"} (1985) and {&"If You Leave"} (from 1986's {#Pretty in Pink}). The album closes with their last hit, 1996's {\glam}-influenced autobiography {&"Walking on the Milky Way."} The last original member, {$Andy McCluskey}, has blessed this greatest-hits package as the final swan song for the long-lived group. Originating in {\post-punk} synth experimentation and closing in dated, but still strong, {\pop} productions, {^The OMD Singles} is an excellent time line of the band whose sound covered in a single career that same territory explored by {$the Human League}, {$Erasure}, {$Yaz}, {$New Order}, and beyond. [A bonus disc edition was released in the European Union, the bonus disc comprised of latter-day remixes by outside producers.] ~ Thomas Schulte, All Music Guide
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