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The OMD Singles ,Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Released 1998

Tesla Girls
03:33
9,299 plays

Messages
04:45
7,359 plays

Sailing On The Seven Seas
03:45
6,598 plays

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songs

- 1
- Electricity
- 03:31
- 12,387 plays

- 2
- Messages
- 04:45
- 7,359 plays

- 3
- Enola Gay
- 03:31
- 18,983 plays

- 4
- Souvenir
- 03:35
- 6,361 plays

- 5
- Joan Of Arc
- 03:45
- 5,978 plays

- 6
- Maid Of Orleans
- 04:12
- 5,284 plays

- 7
- Tesla Girls
- 03:33
- 9,299 plays

- 8
- Locomotion
- 03:56
- 5,965 plays

- 9
- Talking Loud And Clear
- 03:56
- 5,397 plays

- 10
- So In Love
- 03:29
- 21,061 plays

- 11
- If You Leave
- 04:29
- 57,759 plays

- 12
- (Forever) Live And Die
- 03:35
- 10,551 plays

- 13
- Dreaming
- 03:58
- 13,521 plays

- 14
- Sailing On The Seven Seas
- 03:45
- 6,598 plays

- 15
- Pandora's Box
- 04:04
- 5,939 plays

- 16
- Call My Name
- 04:14
- 4,845 plays

- 17
- Dream Of Me
- 03:52
- 5,931 plays

- 18
- Walking On The Milky Way
- 04:02
- 4,480 plays

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album 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. ~ Tom Schulte, All Music Guide