I was thinking of records that really changed my perception of experimental pop music.  I was trying to recall records that effortlessly staddled both genres.  Then I remembered this cassette tape that my Triangle band mate (Brian Tester) left in my vehicle.  I would lose it in the vortex of the unknown in the subaru and then I would find it and leave it in my cassette player for monthes.  This record is OMD’s Dazzle Ships.  OMD’s Dazzle Ships (1982) is a concept record that includes pop perfection along with music concrete influenced sound scapes.  This complete work is a comment on The Cold War and Eastern Bloc politics.

Then after giving this record to Peter in the studio, he actually knew what a Dazzle Ship meant.  Dazzle painting, developed by marine painter Norman Wilkinson, was a style of geometric shaped camouflage painted on war ships in WWI and WWII.  This style of camouflage was not meant to hide the ships, but to disorientate the enemies perception of the ships direction and speed.

Also, I just discovered there were two different covers for this record.  Also, OMD is not just a prom dance.