One of the first albums that I bought back in 1981, and one that I continue to play almost forty five years later.
Gosh.
OMD mastered the delicate balance of subverting beautiful pop ballads with a dark and atmospheric message. The music hooks you first, before the lyrics then leave you thinking.
Any album that can have a song (and consecutive singles!) with the same name sitting side by side, tells you that OMD weren’t playing the game.
A rare example of 80’s music that understood that the medium is the message.
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