My feelings remain silent ...

Sometimes record companies throw again and again the same old crap in a new package on the market, but sometimes they can also think of something here. In this case, published in 1998 were "OMD Singles" supplemented not only by the Dazzle Ships offshoot "Genetic Engineering" and "Telegraph", but the same additional equipped with a complete video collection to DVD. Great idea!

For CD: Up to Titles 1 and 2 (probably due to the compiler-name) chronological ranking of the most popular singles of OMD. It starts in 1979 with sympathetic analog electronics ("Electricity"), which in the slower, warm sound collages of Architecture & Morality album ("Joan of Arc") merges, and then to step back ("Telegraph") in the mid-80s Chartspop to land ("Tesla Girls", "Secret"). This should finally be cracked the US charts, which briefly succeeded ("If You Leave" from "Pretty In Pink" soundtrack). The band grew and was located in the organic sound, but there was no common ground at the end more. The last single from the 80s, "Dreaming", reminds me today of the soulless Stock / Aitken / Waterman productions that determined the charts at that time. The subsequent and by 2010 the last three albums (1991-96) published Andy McCluskey then single-handedly, which he once gave Charts success ("Pandora's Box", "Walking On The Milky Way"), by pandering to the then trendy Euro Dance but at times was difficult to digest, especially for the old fans.
What the present compilation makes however so great: It's fun. Whether "Enola Gay", "So In Love" or "Sailing On The Seven Seas", as put energy in it, and who since the early 80s has an ear for pop, knows the songs. That's not to everyone's taste, but if you recognize some of the songs in the track list and want to hear more, is certainly well served with this compilation. If that's not enough: The less compact, more experimental OMD with extravagant moods are more likely in the first four albums, from 1984 to 1986 you get top notch Pop, last more dance-pop.

For DVD: I barely knew one of the video clips. The very early recordings between metal racks in empty factory buildings are touching because so typical of the beginnings of music television. It will be more and more small mini-dramas, each including a young lady who is a together with and at the end of withdrawing to the other, which has eventually maxed out. The late 80s there were fewer in pictures told stories, more band performances, and the early 90's waiting for the time in pop so popular blaze of color that always surprises me. In this respect, the DVD is a beautiful journey through the history of music television. However, great works of art should not necessarily be expected. But for a fun afternoon they suffice.

So if you want to have a non-exhaustive, but good overview of the first three chapters of the band OMD, may access here. The long hiatus is now past; We hope that the next chapter is similarly productive.