rediscovery: depeche mode

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:50 am

well, it's been a long time, but i've come back to loving the mode.

i really think that if there were an instrumental version of violator it wouldn't be easy to place it in the early 90's.....

just sayin. great stuff.

.lm.

glitchrock-buddha · Post by **glitchrock-buddha** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:02 am

Violator still kicks I must say. So does exciter. Songs of faith and devotion too.
I'm not a big fan of their early stuff but that was the sound of the times in electro I guess.

They were ahead of there time I'd say, once they broke out of the early cheese and got a little darker.

I think I first got into violator when I was 12 years old, rediscovered them when I was 20, and then again when I was 27. Now with Ipods and Itunes I don't need to "rediscover" thngs too much anymore 'cause it's just there.

I definitely throw on the mode here and there.

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:33 am

no doubt, we're about the same age then.

i do like some of the stuff on music for the masses too. but that's as old as i'll go with em.

violator is a solid electronic record for sure, though...

.lm.

dm_hawk · Post by **dm_hawk** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:41 am

violator's a masterpiece

djimagine · Post by **djimagine** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:33 am

Flood`s remixes of depeche mode tracks are bomb.

DJ VAKIS · Post by **DJ VAKIS** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:56 am

Yes violator for me is very good album.Also the black celebraton.

melocoton · Post by **melocoton** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:26 am

leisuremuffin wrote:i do like some of the stuff on music for the masses too. but that's as old as i'll go with em

Woah, insanity. Nothing after Masses is worth a damn but everything before that is pure classic. I swear, kids these days

melocoton · Post by **melocoton** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:29 am

I mean, seriously people, what kind of revisionist history is this? A Broken Frame through to Black Celebration is inarguably the height of Depeche Mode's career.

glitchrock-buddha · Post by **glitchrock-buddha** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:36 am

melocoton wrote:I mean, seriously people, what kind of revisionist history is this? A Broken Frame through to Black Celebration is inarguably the height of Depeche Mode's career.

You can't tell me exciter's not a good album.
Well you can, but I won't listen.

I think 'just can't get enough' was the first song I figured out on any instrument, I think some piano somewhere when I was about eleven. So for that, I have a soft spot in my heart for it. But I still prefer the later stuff. personally.

arctic ranger · Post by **arctic ranger** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:00 am

music for the masses here for me

commuter · Post by **commuter** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:16 am

IMHO,DM are simply the best "mainstream" electronic act of all time.
The production side of Violator and Song of faith is of very high standard.
I miss the production skills of Alan Wilder though.........
I think that their last album Playingh the Angel is up with their best....
Martin Gore still has things to show.....

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:17 am

the other day i was at a party where they played shake the disease.
i had shivers....

meep_audio · Post by **meep_audio** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:28 am

melocoton wrote:I mean, seriously people, what kind of revisionist history is this? A Broken Frame through to Black Celebration is inarguably the height of Depeche Mode's career.

I think your right in respect of using technology to make something new. Sampling anything and everything and making textures and songs from those sounds. I really liked it all at the time but i don't think they have aged very well. Black celebration was the making of them for me. A dark and moody album, Just what you want aged 14! I find construction time and Some great reward especially hard to listen to now.

I think they really hit a peak with Violator. Just a brilliant electro pop record. Really accessable but dark at the same time
Superb sounds, interesting lyrics and just a great 'complete' feel about it. The next two were good but never as good. I lost interest after that.

rsagevik · Post by **rsagevik** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:01 pm

DM is one of, if not the best band of their kind.
..but I hope they stop before we end up with
a synthpop equivalent of the Rolling Stones

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:32 pm

melocoton wrote:I mean, seriously people, what kind of revisionist history is this? A Broken Frame through to Black Celebration is inarguably the height of Depeche Mode's career.

Well spoken!

-M