"Big In Japan" was a real horror. Sickeningly twee but a big enough hit to be played into infinity at tacky Continental discos or dragged out annually as a Radio 1 golden oldie: "Back in time with Alphaville . . . All of which makes "Forever Young" a real surprise. A stately and well-sung melody floating along on echoey church organ, it does everything but scream `follow up'. Big in the credibility stakes if not in the charts. (Martin Townsend, No1, November 3, 1984)
PH: It started off for me quite interesting, but then it went into something which was quite MOR. AM: They're from Munster, I met them three weeks ago in Cologne, I was doing an interview. They made me feel like Grandad, because they came up to me and said "Oh OMD, big heroes of ours, your first album was really important, made us want to make music." They're all our age, and one of them's 30, actually. That song started off sounding like Toto on synths, then got strange... it's a mega Euro-ballad. (Andy & Paul of OMD, Record Mirror, November 3, 1984)
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