Hard-Wired Synthpop Review
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Artist
OMD
Title
Messages - Greatest Hits
Format/Cat
B001EGFQNU
Label
EMI/Virgin
Style
Synthpop
Date of review
16 November 2008
Reviewer
Anya Hastwell
Rating
8/10
The brains behind 80s club classic "Enola Gay" have made it into the noughties with this EMI-released greatest hits package, which also contains a DVD of 31 promo videos. Twenty-eight of these have never been available on DVD before and 11 released for the first time. It marks the reformation (well, at least for a 2008 tour and CD) of OMD, with original members Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys.

OK, but what of the CD? Well, it's got the synth classics you would expect – the luscious "Enola Gay" being the most obvious, "Souvenir", "Joan Of Arc" and "Tesla Girls" are all here. Not forgetting the party congo-classic "Sailing On The Seven Seas". If you call yourself a fan of the 80s you really need to have this particular greatest hits CD.