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Best of Berlin focuses in on Berlin’s three biggest albums – Pleasure Victim, Love Life, Count Three & Pray – and still somehow comes up short in the song choices. No “Dancing in Berlin,” “Touch,” “Pleasure Victim,” or “Pink and Velvet,” but you can be damn sure there’s a new bombastic song (“Blowin’ Sky High”), a groan-worthy power ballad (“For All Tomorrow’s Lies”) and a generic 80s synth-rocker (“Will I Ever Understand You”). Although, nothing is truly as bad as “Like Flames,” which starts out like a cracked New Wave cover of “Whistle While You Work” before the overindulgent electro-pop kicks in. All the synthesizer glitz and growly vocals can do is cover such MOR material for so long, but there’s still some gems to mine from the group. “Masquerade” is full of spunk, “Take My Breath Away” is delightfully cheesy, “No More Words” is a tart bit of synth-pop. But nothing is quite as good as “The Metro,” a classic of the genre with its disaffected attitude and neo-noir music video. They had a handful of hits and were big for a time in the era, but Best of Berlin proves that they’re more curio object of the time than anything else.
DOWNLOAD: “Blowin’ Sky High”
