depeche mode is the best shit ever.

[leisuremuffin]

evidence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZdL4JlnxI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dBtfeoXM8I




electronic romance forever and ever.....





what the fuck is wrong with me?



.lm.

[leedsquietman]

+1 I saw them play live on the Music For The Masses and Violator tours and they were amazing.

[aisling]

what the fuck is wrong with me?



.lm.

Nothing! They are, and always have been amazing.

[shimmy]

RUSH is the best band ever.

[slatepipe]

yup. fly on the windscreen is quality. cant argue with that

[aisling]

RUSH is the best band ever.

RUSH is also a great band. Can't compare the two though.....
2112, hemispheres, fly by night......so many great tracks.

[sunaivod]

I like the deftones cover To Have And To Hold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5IoN6Qu ... re=related

[Jarvisimon]

I totally agree with you, however, my definition of the word shit is more literal as I think depeche mode are a pile of steaming doggy do. I know they cracked it in the USA big time but I still remember them as being a frail teenybop light-weight electro band with silly haircuts.

[UKRuss]

RUSH is the best band ever.

RUSH is also a great band. Can't compare the two though.....
2112, hemispheres, fly by night......so many great tracks.

can't think of Rush without picturing the Trailer Park Boys episode where they kidnap Alex Lifeson and tape him up and force him to play guitar with Bubbles back at the park.

[3dot...]

...the have some mighty good albums,, but most suck,,
I can't listen to them because a girl I was dating for a year was ONLY listening to them or Nick Cave..
so I got my quota..anytime a DM tune comes up I get a mental picture of her.
she ruined 2 very nice acts me...another girl ruined Tom Waits for me..
that's not to say I don't respect...
Depeche Mode ain't half bad.. some genius tunes there..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rdfFroO ... re=related
put this track on .. and you're sure to get laid with almost any goth chick..
(no guarantee...)
never understood this.. I mean .. the melody is very good.. but the rest is just crap!
the guitar sounds like a bedroom recording...
and the synths like a preset browsing session..
I love this one though...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNrbiZoK ... re=related

[leedsquietman]

They grew out of the teenybop thing really fast after Vince Clarke moved on.
Within 18 months they went from 'Just Can't Get Enough' to 'Leave In Silence'.
Only the first album is teeny synthpop, with a couple of other singles such as 'See You'.

Compare that to Black Celebration, Behind The Wheel, Strangelove, Stripped etc which were less than 5 years down the line from 'See You'.

The Beatles started off as a rock and roll covers band - compare that to Sgt. Pepper. David Bowie did 'The Laughing Policeman', compare this to Space Oddity, To Life On Mars, to Ashes To Ashes etc.

Growth and change can really take a band from one level to a whole other level. This is the case with Depeche Mode. Violator remains one of my all time favourite albums.

In Britain, goth girls would never go near DM. They went for The Cult, The Cure, The Mission and Siouxsie and the Banshees. DM were always seen as a synthpop band, even though they were only truly so for a real short time.

[Jarvisimon]

David Bowie did 'The Laughing Policeman'

It's actually the laughing gnome and despite its utter silliness, Bowie was certainly taking a fair amount of acid around the time....sort of puts a different spin on it.

Also, the tune rocks when you give it a proper listen.

[silveriofunk]

just saw DM at the o2 last saturday and they did rock!

[beats me]

...the have some mighty good albums,, but most suck,,
I can't listen to them because a girl I was dating for a year was ONLY listening to them or Nick Cave..
so I got my quota..anytime a DM tune comes up I get a mental picture of her.
she ruined 2 very nice acts me...another girl ruined Tom Waits for me..

Luckily most women only have about 10 albums they listen to their entire life and about half of those you hate anyway without them needing to ruin them for you.

[aisling]

...the have some mighty good albums,, but most suck,,
I can't listen to them because a girl I was dating for a year was ONLY listening to them or Nick Cave..
so I got my quota..anytime a DM tune comes up I get a mental picture of her.
she ruined 2 very nice acts me...another girl ruined Tom Waits for me..

Luckily most women only have about 10 albums they listen to their entire life and about half of those you hate anyway without them needing to ruin them for you.

that is so very true.....at least Alanis Morissette and Ani defranco have been relatively silent as of late....