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To get it straight first: All the songs included here are at least very good. Well, we are talking about a great, underrated band of the 70s. Plain and simple!
BUT: As a proper overview over the bands excellent output this compilation fails miserably!!!!!!!!!!!
First: It relies much too heavily on the first two albums. If I want to buy them, i buy them - not this cd.
Check out the bgo-release, where you can get the complete albums together for a pretty good price!
Second - and this is the main point: They left out SO MANY classics. To name but a few:
If I Only Knew
Thin ice
Fly away home
You know like I know
Noah
River to the sun
Crazy lovin
Following the way that I feel
There's is too much missing, you say. Yes it is!
I just don't know why...
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I love OMD! I am from St. Louis, so this band is kinda hometown. They are from across the state but OMD are hometown to anyone in Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas. This is a brilliant collection of songs.
HOWEVER... it it absolutely CRIMINAL to not have included their most brilliant song of all. I'm talking about, You Know Like I Know. The vocals and songwriting are second to none. None of OMD, none of The Eagles and none of Poco.
Buy this CD anyway, it's great. In fact, buy everything they have ever released. I mean that in every since of the word.
THIS BAND HAS TALENT... SO MUCH TALENT... YOU CANNOT BELIEVE!
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Sorry I have to break the 5-star-spell here. How you could put together a "Best of" for OMD and not include "Men from Earth"'s FLY AWAY HOME is beyond me!!! It's a moral outrage! It's worse than torture!!! It's.... okay, I'm messin'. But still, that is a terrific piece, their greatest in my mind, on all counts, and could easily have been in this package in lieu of "Jackie Blue". Never understood the popularity of that song, whimsical though it is. Anyway, do get Men From Earth just to hear, or at least to hear, FLY AWAY HOME. Country Rock at it's best.
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The OMD have a very unique style, if I had to describe their overall style, I'd say it's like "psychadelic country". Even that isn't a complete description, but I think it comes pretty close. My personal favorite has always been "Jackie Blue", which is actually atypical of the usual OMD style. They are country with a bit of psychadelia and a little rock. This disc reflects their best hits and I'd highly recommend this to anyone who likes folk/rock and country/rock.
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one of a kind band with a one of a kind sound. I bought this disc with no knowledge of the band whatsoever, and it has turned out to be one of the best decisions i have ever made, when it comes to music.
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