Thanks for sharing that reaction, THSWL. I hadn't paid close attention to OMD's work, except for enjoying what little I know from their more popular releases. I'll most certainly check them out more closely now.
I always really enjoyed Donald Fagan's album "The Nightfly", with the namesake song about an overnight jazz station DJ in Baton Rouge, and the entire album reflecting a fascinating and highly entertaining imagined inner life of an adolescent Fagan, growing up in suburban NJ, imagining the world around him and in the future, shaped seemingly from radio and TV in the 60s. Every song is a gem on that album.