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I didn't used to like them that much, but now I'm really getting into their older albums. Is their newest work any good? |
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Yes it is, their newest album is very good, and Ultra (released in the 90's) is excellent! |
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I wish I had caught them on their latest tour. Have you seen them live? |
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I just bought the violator re edition for xmas... love it |
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nope, but I'd like to as well |
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their newest album is very uneven. all because of gore's personal problems, his creative block and gahan putting his "composition skills" into the tracklist. i hope mark bell produces their next album or, at least, gahan gets some block this time. CS2x, check Exciter. excellent production. |
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Like the Funkmaster said, Ultra was surprisingly good.. I think that one came out around 97 or 98, and as obara mentioned the production qualities on Exciter are great thanks largely to Mark Bell, although the songwriting's a little spotty in my opinion. If you are talking about anything from their later period, I'd recommend Songs of Faith and Devotion. It's not perfect (sometimes the soul influence gets a little grating..), but I think it has some of their most powerful, gorgeous moments on it.. and if I'm not mistaken it was produced by Flood, so it has a great sound to it. |
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To make it a bit easier for CS2x: Violator is perfect - so you should grab it ASAP. "Songs" is a soul-electronic album, still with Alan Wilder in the recording studio, as he left the band after this album. next is "Ultra", a strange and cold electronic album with a few very warm moments. all i'm saying might be a bit rubbish - you'll get your own idea of DM 90s if you take the time to listen to their albums from the period. |
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depeche mode is really back on track after alan wilder's departure, now if he only could produce gahan's next solo album = perfect (gahan's three tracks on "playing the angel" saves the whole record!) Since I started collecting dm in 1987, all remixes has been my special interest. Nowadays there are far too many and several of the good ones never gets released. robag wruhme's and Pantha Du Prince's versions of "lilian" and james holden's versions of "the darkest star" are simply awesome! (The new single "martyr" is great too, the original version + at least three of the remixes are really good) You haven't missed anything if you didn't caught them on the last tour, Gahan screams the lyrics of every track and completely ruins every song. The tracks aren't much re-arranged either (as they used to when Wilder was in charge) so it's basically just mediocre versions of the recorded original LP-versions... (I'm spoiled with autechre's approach to live-performance! :D ) You can always watch the live-spectacle on dvd. |
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"violator" is mixed by dub-house-legend francois kevorkian and his mixes of both the album and the singles sets a standard that few of todays mixers can match! "songs of faith and devotion" is the absolute peak albumwise, Alan Wilder and flood were a great productionteam for Gore's songs... |
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I've seen dm live 90, 93 and 98 (93 was larger than life, a glimpse can be seen on "devotional", 98 was mediocre - you really c a n get enough of "just can't get enough"!) |
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Violator and even more Exciter are very good. Ultra is good also. I'm into the older stuff though. The prod by Mark Bell on Exciter is awesome. |
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*I'm not into the older stuff... |
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there are almost two completely sepaerate entities working when you compare older dm material ie 80's and early 90's versus newer dm late 90's to present. and that can widely be attributed to the fact that there was creative divide among members during the early stages of success in their careers. one of the dudes left to start "erasure" (i'm too lazy to look up his name nor, can i remember atm) and you can tell how well that went for him... personally, i think they went to crap when they released "songs of faith and devotion". although, i do feel they had a sorta 'resurgence' if you will, with the releases of both "ultra" and "exciter" that seemed to go back to their roots. now with their latest release, again, i get a sense of struggle to appease corp big wigs and the long time fans alike, which does not compute to me. still, their early stuff will always be some of my favorite all time toons! |
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one of the dudes left to start "erasure" That was Vince Clarke, he was only with them on the first album Speak and Spell, I think. He also was in Yaz/Yazoo.. you know 'Situation.' I love Erasure though.. in fact I think they were much more consistent in their output than DM. Although, if you think their output was consistently shit, then I suppose that doesn't help much. |
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"Enjoy the Silence" - Only track on Singstar where I've gotten "Singstar" (The highest rating) on my first go on it. |
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i watched one of their recent gigs..they're sort of a circus band. |
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Great great song! I'd probably have to include it on the list if I ever sat down and really tried to list my top 10 or 20 songs. |
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Depeche most is good, I listen to depeche most mostly always for my favorite snoggy hits like 'who bringed the slippy bag' and 'how's about franch fries 2'. Depeche most's lest earliest ones are thb better like viliaptor and black sunsay. |
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thank you sir, i appreciate the back up! :) |
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playing the angel is great |
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thanks for the tips, I'm going to explore all these suggestions. :-) |
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just find the album "101" and be over and done with it... |
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been enjoying Songs of Faith and Devotion this evening. Judas is a pretty hot dark synth number... sort of reminds me of Massive Attack |
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I love "A Question Of Time." |
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I love them one of the really few bands where actually I put attention to the lyrics besides the music |
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I can't believe the worst DM albums are mentioned again and again. Ultra, Exicter and Playing the angels are the last albums you should buy. |
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And Some great reward, Violator and Songs of faith and devotion should be the first. |
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Yeah...apart from the odd annoying moment here and there, I find their lyrics surprisingly involving. It's a rare quality, imo; a lot of the time, with other bands, I find lyrics to be predictably "abstract", or painfully bland. |
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no, it's awful. 2 songs that quite good and that's it. this must be their worst album so far. |
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Depeche mode are great! I tend to like their older stuff though. Definitely check out "Blue Dress" and "Here is the house"...... |
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Music taste is not universally the same. Personally I prefer a lot of their newer albums, although I still like the older stuff. |
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everything counts is my fav by some way. |
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hit me. its depeche mode night. |
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its no good - giving me bad thoughts! |
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Violator is really the last great Depeche Mode album... After that it's simply not the same band anymore. Ultra is ok, I guess. Exciter is surprisingly awful, considering that Mark Bell produced it. I feel sorry for him. He should rather have produced Ultra. Black Celebration is my fave. I think the reissue series with the sacd + dvd is FANTASTIC! I love those documentaries. They are a must for old fans like me. I love DM, but they should have called it quits when Alan left.... |
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I second Black Celebration Music for the Masses a close second...PIMPF is the greatest tune Aphex never made... |
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Only really like Speak & Spell to be honest. Broken Frame's alright. Their later stuff I can't stand, mainly cos of the late 80s technology/sounds. |
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Pimpf is a laugh. I would love to hear an aphex twin remix of it. I really love their early stuff. They have some stunning b sides from the early days that I feel sort of archetype that synht-pop idea of a "new romantic". Take for instance "Now this is fun", the "See you" b side. A synth pop symphony in its own right, without even knowing it itself... Its my fave depeche mode track ever. Of course it's all really Kraftwerk in the end anyway... |
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just realised what a brilliant song 'a question of lust' is i need to sing that in the presence of co-workers |
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its like ball-breaking supermarket music |
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lately it's all about Blue Dress. |
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I also did the crunchy metallic percushions of "Construction Time Again"...plus the track "People are People" is just too damn catchy... not to mention the often covered Personal Hayzues |
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One of the best songs ever, makes my eyes water. A Photograph of You is one of the most perfect pop songs I've ever heard, I've been listening to it a lot lately. |
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i'm slowly beginning to enjoy this PTA album. bloody hell, it's the hardest one. Martin, get over your life |
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I've been listening to "Ultra" and "Playing the Angel" a lot these last few days. I like the first 5 tracks of PTA (don't really enjoy the rest too much), but the entire album is badly affected by it's awful mastering, imho. I love "Ultra"; it's got some of the best lyrics they've written, and it's broodlingly catchy. |
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the vinylversion sounds nice (it's all about "vinylisation" these days if you're actually still buying music, eh mainstream music, that is) |
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Depeche Mode are a singles band, great singles - patchy albums. The exceptions are Black Celebration and Songs of Faith and Devotion. Exciter was one of their worst albums, dull and the production horribly digital. The more Gahan interferes with the songwriting the worse they're going to get. |
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