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Genre:
Rock
Release Date: 11/24/1998
Run Time: 69:29
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 Guide
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