Less "More" would have been ....

... And in about 2 or 3 years when Steve then ON !!! is then personally, have of course handwritten, apologizes for this gaffe with each fan, real And One album should be, instead of the unnecessary amount of albums.
This review is in first and foremost on the actual main album "Magnet" .The two bonus albums are a thing in itself, while the album "Warning 80" is a disappointment, it is on the "propeller" album at least still the old AND ONE Synth / Bodypopfeeling - see Addendum at the end of the article.

At the beginning of my Rezi yet carved in stone fact: It forbids itself, from a purely artistic point of view, to compare Depeche Mode with And One! Who Kaem already at the thought power plant with Schiller want to equate? Nobody! or? and that is where the problem lies with And One "who had nothing to say, but were allowed to talk." - was once a quote from an And One number ("Life is not easy in Germany" anno 1993 from the cool album "SPOT" ) - Perhaps it is the most appropriate description for this the swan song And One here have delivered.

ALL I have in the past, Steve accepted (even one-time gaffe "Virgin Superstar") and always with views of the glorious beginnings of And One between 1989 - 1997.Mit "aggressor" and "Bodypop" even with "Tanzomat" and "STOP" I got along very well - because always knew the boy (a boy called Steve) to inspire me - but this time, unfortunately, I'm not at all clear with the material that Mr. Naghavi has delivered here.
Alone in the first nearly 4 minutes from the opener's "Love Needs a saving hand," the magnetic album, Steve quoted almost too Tode.Frei any irony there is in the intro first a Depeche Mode Feeling anno 1990 (very similar to the spacer by "Enjoy the silence" to "Policy of Truth" from Violator album) then sets Steve's singing a as if it were a Recoil number with Douglas McCarthy at the microphone followed by a guitar delay sound brand David Gilmour at times of Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" and then the whole is topped by a poor imitation of the guitar track from Depeche Mode's Single Remix "In Your Room" ... oops, that has me simply gerreicht - that's almost record-breaking when it comes to's creative "Quote" musical ideas!
Later the songs with bonds often takes at Joy Division (Vocally) and also in The Cure (with regard to the overly exaggerated guitar playing style) .And as if that were not enough is then also in the play "Love me" the melody intro of "Never Let Me Down Again" quotes / copied and at the end of the song to follow a piece of "Walking In My Shoes" -Gitarren.Steve might better album to baptize "magnet for the masses".
Unfortunately, the lyrics are infusions own previous ideas and not get out of the stereotype box.
All this is simply too much of a good and even if you are faithfully followed since 24 years rich AND ONE, so there is still such a thing as Schmerzgrenze.Das does just hurt to have to write it - because basically were always AND ONE exact opposite of a set-off of cheap synth band.
Steve always knew his own ideas using fresh synth sound under one roof with the love for Depeche Mode, Front 242 or Nitzer Ebb to bekommen.All the years had a beneficial AND ONE enriches the Electropop outside the Major league in Depeche Mode now once play correctly.
And One never ever indulged in embarrassment - Steve always had the knack: Fan and artists to be at the same time, but suddenly he comes up with a trilogy on the description of each spottet.Die basically as "innovative" unwanted Guitar Samples / game (why suddenly now and in this excessive amount ???) indulging in plates standards and often seem out of place and awkward part.
Instead of cool synthetically produced Slapbass effects or Guitar Noises - there are hackneyed rock riffs (Ugh) and a plethora of gemopsten "The Cure" riffs .And One or rather Steve wanted to change - only one must therefore equate the entire And One concept on its head ? Worse still, the fact that this time great songs such as "Killing the mercy" of the previous album completely ausbleiben.Stattdessen run the melodies loose again into the void without barbs - there is not a single song on magnetic wants free boxes of it.
Well - as a Rezi writing does one really hurt - if, like me, an And One Fan of the first hour, and basically all right have will.Aber I never was so disappointed by what I from And One to Listen bekam.Und I did it myself now in its 6 times angetan.Nichts will be set here.

As for Depeche Mode - now for me was and is "Delta Machine" and his previous albums just the exact opposite of And One's "magnetic" Disaster.Depeche fashion show is still relevant and remain surprisingly fresh and innovative in terms of their new albums .Since I forgive you also like the unpleasant routine which hat.Denn crept in your current concerts least it understand me Depeche Mode with their new albums and songs to begeistern.Martin Gore and Co. still in search of new sounds, and even though you are already arrived in pop scene for over 20 years.
Perhaps it is so that I prefer to quality rather than quantity of AND ONE!

PS:. 2016 - which is the return of the German Synthpoplegende And One:)

ADDENDUM - Epilogue
The "propeller" album remains at the end of the only viable disc, because after all, sound 8 Title least according to the "good old" times although that too little consolation ist.Genau is here the problem is open - instead of the top 8 songs (actually to pack only "Men Music" and "Up & Down" dispensable) from propeller album and the 2 good ("time without time" and the ironic "Fake Of Pleasure") from the magnet to a Album Album ....... torments the listener by a whopping 3 Alben.Am which leaves just one big question mark and the bitter realization that someone here has overestimated quite dolle in his creative output.

>>> I would like to evaluate the albums individually, here are my post-Review:

1.MAGNET: 2 stars! - 4 songs are useful for a main album simply wenig.Schade - here would be so much more have been possible if it have about the use of guitar sounds geht.Apoptygma Berzerk was once done better (based on the album "You and me against the world" ).

2.Propeller: 4 stars! - Would I like as main album gehabt.Hier there is the classic AND ONE Feeling!

3.Achtung 80: 1 1/2 star! - 2 songs were found on the "Magnet" a better home!

Even now comes to my Supplement (despite positive review of the propeller) the Gesamtbox ​​to a maximum of 3 stars.

A single album with 15 songs rich would end up far from better solution gewesen.Schade - maybe next time!

PS .: For me the NAGHAVIBOX remained the only alternative - because it is quite plump with Merchandise packed (great T-shirt along with AND ONE Zippo and the trailer looks cool) the opulent Content true even a entäuschten AND ONE - Fan at the end friedlich.Allein the box is worth the third star.