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Dazzle Ships

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The album dates back to the 80's, and is a top class representative of the synth / electronic pop genre of the time. This is probably the most experimental OMD album, and a number of tracks being arrangements of various sampled sounds - for example Radio Prague, ABC Auto Industry, This is Helena, Dazzle Ships, and Radio Waves. Although not too extraordinary, these tracks are enjoyable. The other tracks do stand out though, with Genetic Engineering and Telegraph making it onto their Best Of compilation. The others are subtle and deep with strong lyrics if you get into it. My favourite off the album is International, an anthem about a young girl whose hands had been cut off.

If you do not own any OMD music, then perhaps the "Best Of" compilation is the place to start. If you already own that, then maybe move to "The Pacific Age" or "Crush" next, especially if you're a recent OMD fan. Hardcore fans should find this album stunning and unique - it's definitely a favourite of mine, and I recommend it.

Not as perfectly integrated as Architecture and Morality ( in my opinion their best) Dazzle Ships is worth a listen if you enjoy quirky, minimalist synth-based dance-ish pop music. Very highly recommended. Telegraph bounces along quite nicely. Of All the Things We've Made is one of my favorite OMD ballads. Radio Waves is cool. The submarine effects in the title track are trippy like Pink Floyd. Foreign language radio samples are used frequently throughout the CD,to varying degrees of sucess, but they somehow tie it all together, whatever "it" is. Overall, one of their best, if I could give four and a half stars I would.

A must for any OMD fan. One of my favorite OMD albums. I was skeptic about purchasing this album after hearing many negative reviews about the album. Boy was I glad I ignored the reviews. Dazzle Ships is a treasure with songs like Telegraph, This is Helena, and Silent Running. Electronically complex yet thought provoking & dreamy.

Dazzle Ships is my favorite OMD album and one of my favorite 80s albums of all time. I still have an old vinyl album with its spectacular cover art. I was stationed in Germany in the 80's and I love all the Eastern European radio samples. iTunes tells me that I listen to Telegraph, ABC Auto Industry and Genetic Engineering the most but I think I like Time Zones more than any other. Dazzle ships was one of the best "Albums" to come out of the 80s synth scene and it never got the recognition it deserved even from OMD fans. Tower Records used to have a Desert Island Disks column in Pulse Magazine where you had to choose the 10 Albums you would want if you were stranded on an island. Dazzle ships would be in the top half of my list. Highly recommended for anyone who still enjoys a full album experience.

I bought this in a sale in Tower Records ( €5 ) and when I first listened to it I thought it was diabolical. Half the tracks were horrible and half were really weird. I promptly didn't play this for a long time and it was only a couple of weeks ago I played this again and surprisingly enough it really gelled as an album on a whole. It's got some good things going. It can be irritating sometimes but generally the album's a pleasure to listen to. Pity that this album got turned up on first release but then on first listen I could understand why. A surprising rare treasure that should be enjoyed

Im new to OMD, and uncovering this album was exciting. If you like sounds, this album has them. An album any fan of Radiohead should be envious of, as early as this album was made.

There is an Eastern European, montagey, Battleship Potemkin theme that runs through the album. A concept of communication, and various sound bytes laid underneath beautiful hooks keep you thinking about far away places. This album has been described as "futuristic pop", but listening to the album straight through its as if the label "futuristic pop" was defined in the thirties and fourties. A time of radar and propaganda. A time of soot and machination, one piece uniform dresses, salutes and emotional distance with so much underlying passion.

"If You Leave" is probably OMDs most recognizable song, an eighties classic. But to realize they contributed to making complete albums like this is reinvigorating. "Radio Waves" is the most all around playble song from this album, but "Genetic Engineering" and "Telegraph" are the tracks give the album more meat. Then, tracks like "Silent Running" and "All the Things Weve Made" in conjunction with the montage of horns calling the workers to attention and invoking images of staring into an orange horizon from the deck of a submarine in hopes of seeing your true love again, round Dazzle Ships out, creating the most pleasant and listenable techno pop eighties concept albums ive heard.