Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: The Pacific Age
John Mendelsohn, Creem, April 1987
NOT ALL THAT is wrong with modern pop is wrong with OMD. They don't try desperately to look like badasses of the most fearsome sort every time a photographer points a camera at them, and they don't write about how gigantic their dicks are, or about the treachery and loathsomeness of women.
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