Depeche Mode!!! - Page 2

floatingslowly · 02.26.2009, 12:48 PM

^^^ I <3 Nitzer Ebb (coincidentally enough, I saw them open for Depeche Mode...back in the day)

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor

Here is a picture of the more standard cover:

nah, mine looks like the first one. I honestly don't know which version I have, but I'm fairly certain I got it before the album even came out. either way, it's sitting at the top of my closet, lonely and unused.

sonic sphere · 02.26.2009, 02:55 PM

great video & a pretty good tune as well. my favourite album is speak & spell. the only album of theirs that didn't realy grab me was exciter and i haven't heard playing the angel.

02.26.2009, 03:00 PM

I don't mind them, but I don't want to listen to them, if it makes sense. They seem to have some of the nicest fans.

02.26.2009, 03:01 PM

Goths or ex-goths are some of the nicest people.

DJ Rick · 02.26.2009, 03:20 PM

I was a huge DM fan in my youth. Still enjoy some of the 80s stuff. I can still appreciate Violator, although at times it is bit too emotionally overwrought.

Revisiting the 80s stuff now, and discounting A Broken Frame as an album too trifling (aside from its beautiful cover art), it seems that Black Celebration has not aged as well as I thought it would. The title track, "Stripped", and "Fly on the Windscreen" still sound good to me, but much of the rest is just embarrassing. I used to think that was the best DM album. Now I'm of the mind that Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward, and Music for the Masses are the essentials.

Everything from Ultra and thereafter was just rubbish...sorry! I'll give this new one a listen-to, though.

Also, as a record, 101 is terrible. As a movie, it's pretty fun. And I was actually there at the Rose Bowl show! I was about 100 rows back surrounded by screaming girls. My older cousins took me along, figuring I'd be so stoked. But just a few weeks before, I had seen my very first live show....a backyard pool-party event with Savage Republic which was so sublime and incredible. I was really excited that Wire opened the Rose Bowl show, but no one seemed to care. It didn't matter that Wire were only playing songs from their last two (pretty bad) albums and nothing from the great first three albums...I was still bummed that no one seemed to show any respect. This may have contributed as much as anything to my Northern California supremacist attitude about Angelenos.

Torn Curtain · 02.26.2009, 03:26 PM

It seems that I'm the only one who really likes Ultra.

PAULYBEE2656 · 02.26.2009, 04:58 PM

love em up to about 1990.. black celebration and violatot are fantastic albums and 101 has to be in the top 3 live albums of all time.

gualbert · 02.26.2009, 05:34 PM

Cool.
And they play trumpet so well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9747G...eature=related

02.26.2009, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by greedrex

Yo yo yo
Here be the new Depeche Mode video for song WRONG.
Pretty creepy stuff.
funny song.

You can also tell us what you think of the band.
yep.

I really don't see/hear what's creepy about that video or the song, but hey, fair enough, you do.

uhler · 02.26.2009, 05:49 PM

at times i like them and at times i hate them. i think when they get overplayed on someone's ipod at work then that's when i hate them (the same damn three songs too). i remember really liking "black celebration" at one point in my life.

demonrail666 · 02.26.2009, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by floatingslowly

I have that! it's worth something???

ps: I'm old. I was really into them around 1984-85, but my interest waned after Personal Jesus.

Ditto. That track ruined them for me. The 101 film they made is incredible.

Rob Instigator · 02.26.2009, 10:35 PM

ultra's first side is GREAT

dionysusundone · 02.27.2009, 12:41 AM

Haven't heard Ultra but the last one Playing The Angel was good. John The Revelator's really noisy, turn it up loud and RAWK. Not sure how I feel about "Wrong" but I heard another song from the album that was really good.

dionysusundone · 02.27.2009, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Antagon

Electronic Body Music, a subgenre of modern Industrial and Aggrotech. While most Aggrotech artists sound well "aggressive" and harsh EBM is kind of "softer". I would consider it "Advanced Synthpop". Popular EBM artists: Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Die Krupps, Assemblage 23

I was so afraid you were going to say VNV Nation. God I hate that band.

greedrex · 02.27.2009, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop

I really don't see/hear what's creepy about that video or the song, but hey, fair enough, you do.

yep, creepy.

acousticrock87 · 02.27.2009, 04:55 AM

All I have to say about this topic is...

Let your mind do the walking
And let my body do the talkiiiiing
Let me show you the world in my eyes

_slavo_ · 02.27.2009, 05:14 AM

I think I'm about to dust off my old Depeche Mode CDs and give them all a listen tonight.

Tokolosh · 02.27.2009, 05:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antagon

Electronic Body Music, a subgenre of modern Industrial and Aggrotech. While most Aggrotech artists sound well "aggressive" and harsh EBM is kind of "softer". I would consider it "Advanced Synthpop". Popular EBM artists: Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Die Krupps, Assemblage 23

Let's not forget Meat Beat Manifesto.

DM influenced so many bands after them.
Gods, I say!

greedrex · 02.27.2009, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by _slavo_

I think I'm about to dust off my old Depeche Mode CDs and give them all a listen tonight.

WIN
that's kind of the overall aim of this thread.
let's get it on.

greedrex · 02.27.2009, 06:01 AM

c'mon

sing with me:
"Put it on
And don't say a word
Put it on
The one that I prefer
Put it on
And stand before my eyes
Put it on
Please don't question why

Can you believe
Something so simple
Something so trivial
Makes me a happy man
Can't you understand
Say you believe
Just how easy
It is to please me

Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn

Put it on
I can feel so much
Put it on
I don't need to touch
Put it on
Here before my eyes
Put it on
Because you realise
And you believe

Something so worthless
Serves a purpose
It makes me a happy man
Can't you understand
Say you believe
Just how easy
It is to please me

Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn

02.26.2009, 02:55 PM	#22
sonic sphere invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 4,446	great video & a pretty good tune as well. my favourite album is speak & spell. the only album of theirs that didn't realy grab me was exciter and i haven't heard playing the angel. __________________ "trolling asshat" - All Hail WATT "wanker" - All Hail WATT
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02.26.2009, 03:00 PM	#23
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	I don't mind them, but I don't want to listen to them, if it makes sense. They seem to have some of the nicest fans.
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02.26.2009, 03:01 PM	#24
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	Goths or ex-goths are some of the nicest people.
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02.26.2009, 03:20 PM	#25
DJ Rick 100% Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sacto (CA) Institute for Record Collection Scrutiny Posts: 817	I was a huge DM fan in my youth. Still enjoy some of the 80s stuff. I can still appreciate Violator, although at times it is bit too emotionally overwrought. Revisiting the 80s stuff now, and discounting A Broken Frame as an album too trifling (aside from its beautiful cover art), it seems that Black Celebration has not aged as well as I thought it would. The title track, "Stripped", and "Fly on the Windscreen" still sound good to me, but much of the rest is just embarrassing. I used to think that was the best DM album. Now I'm of the mind that Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward, and Music for the Masses are the essentials. Everything from Ultra and thereafter was just rubbish...sorry! I'll give this new one a listen-to, though. Also, as a record, 101 is terrible. As a movie, it's pretty fun. And I was actually there at the Rose Bowl show! I was about 100 rows back surrounded by screaming girls. My older cousins took me along, figuring I'd be so stoked. But just a few weeks before, I had seen my very first live show....a backyard pool-party event with Savage Republic which was so sublime and incredible. I was really excited that Wire opened the Rose Bowl show, but no one seemed to care. It didn't matter that Wire were only playing songs from their last two (pretty bad) albums and nothing from the great first three albums...I was still bummed that no one seemed to show any respect. This may have contributed as much as anything to my Northern California supremacist attitude about Angelenos. __________________ http://artforspastics.blogspot.com/
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02.26.2009, 03:26 PM	#26
Torn Curtain invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: France Posts: 7,997	It seems that I'm the only one who really likes Ultra. __________________ "Si seulement nous avions le courage des oiseaux qui chantent dans le vent glacé"
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02.26.2009, 04:58 PM	#27
PAULYBEE2656 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: wexford, rep of ireland Posts: 6,930	love em up to about 1990.. black celebration and violatot are fantastic albums and 101 has to be in the top 3 live albums of all time. __________________ myspace facebook *twitter*
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02.26.2009, 05:34 PM	#28
gualbert the end of the ugly Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,088	Cool. And they play trumpet so well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9747G...eature=related
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02.26.2009, 05:49 PM	#30
uhler invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 3,615	at times i like them and at times i hate them. i think when they get overplayed on someone's ipod at work then that's when i hate them (the same damn three songs too). i remember really liking "black celebration" at one point in my life.
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02.26.2009, 10:35 PM	#32
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,959	ultra's first side is GREAT __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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02.27.2009, 12:41 AM	#33
dionysusundone the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 871	Haven't heard Ultra but the last one Playing The Angel was good. John The Revelator's really noisy, turn it up loud and RAWK. Not sure how I feel about "Wrong" but I heard another song from the album that was really good. __________________ -James
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02.27.2009, 04:55 AM	#36
acousticrock87 invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,515	All I have to say about this topic is... Let your mind do the walking And let my body do the talkiiiiing Let me show you the world in my eyes
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02.27.2009, 05:14 AM	#37
_slavo_ invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ðîññèÿ Posts: 10,901	I think I'm about to dust off my old Depeche Mode CDs and give them all a listen tonight. __________________ you're the boy that can enjoy invisibility
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02.27.2009, 06:01 AM	#40
greedrex invito al cielo Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: in yr fotobukit Posts: 6,588	c'mon sing with me: "Put it on And don't say a word Put it on The one that I prefer Put it on And stand before my eyes Put it on Please don't question why Can you believe Something so simple Something so trivial Makes me a happy man Can't you understand Say you believe Just how easy It is to please me Because when you learn You'll know what makes the world turn Put it on I can feel so much Put it on I don't need to touch Put it on Here before my eyes Put it on Because you realise And you believe Something so worthless Serves a purpose It makes me a happy man Can't you understand Say you believe Just how easy It is to please me Because when you learn You'll know what makes the world turn __________________ Greed Recordings bandcamp ~The Rex~, stalkin' yr shit since 2008.
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