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HoagsObject
The 2008 remaster is great, You get some awesome promo shots of the band in their neo-Kraftwerk anti-pop star garb, alongside some nicely informative liner notes. Bonus tracks include "4-Neu", which is always a good thing.
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BrainofMorbius
The Kid A of 1983. Indecipherable to the hacks of the time but what did they know?
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randomnoodles
Just found this album again on vinyl in my house. I don't know why people slate this album, imo it is one of the best they ever did. Most people who slate it just wanted another Organisation or A&M, which I'm glad they didn't do.
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hearditfirst
Silent Running should have been a Top 10 single - didn't even get a release strangely. At the time I thought OMD were rather brave to even present this remarkably fresh album to Virgin's execs, let alone get it released. I rarely listen to individual tracks from it, always the whole album as a lump.......the reissue is even better....
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ctd55
An elegy for human sounds lost among the mechanical clamor of the modern world. It's a sort of update of Kraftwerk's Radio-Activity--pop songcraft colliding with radio transmissions, telegraph messages, processed voices, and any number of beeps, boops, and blips. But where Kraftwerk are happy to be ghosts in the machine (their robotic voices are the human swallowed up by the mechanical), OMD are, at best, conflicted (they refuse to lose their recognizably human voices). This leaves them open to a charge of biting the hand that feeds them: Why, after all, is a group so heavily indebted to technology worrying about its dehumanizing effects? Such questions betray a fundamental misunderstanding, however: Which other groups are going to be concerned with such issues? A folk group will not be releasing the great pop-music rumination on man and his relationship to technology--of that you can be sure. You need to know Frankenstein's monster before you can decry its influence.
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knightriderno2
Experiment wonderness is the best way to describe this, probably their best album, just above Architecture & Morality I think. I really do need the new remaster of this...
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Michael1984360
Excellent fourth album. They jumped the shark with Junk Culture and the later albums.
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futureimage
Why on earth everything on OMD I read always slates Dazzle Ships God only knows. (hehe see what I did there? :P) But yeah, this is such a great album, probably their best under Architecture & Morality. It's a shame that its bad sales made the rest of their work so commercial.
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