Just over 30 years since...

[evilC]

...this - their first single.

That makes me feel a bit old.

Mind you, my favourite album, John Foxx's 'Metamatic' came out the year before, so it shouldn't, I suppose.

Anyway... Depeche Mode top 5s or 10s even, anyone?

1. Television Set
2. Dreaming Of Me
3. Photographic
4. World In My Eyes
5. New Life
6. Waiting For The Night
7. Enjoy The Silence
8. Ice Machine
9. Behind The Wheel (remix)
10. Shout (Rio Mix)

[G-Man]

Just over 30 years since...

1. But Not Tonight
2. Everything Counts
3. See You
4. Two Minute Warning
5. Shake The Disease

[MsD]

Just over 30 years since...

Master and Servant

[hobbes]

Just over 30 years since...

Mumpo to thread!

I reckon Violator is one of the greatest albums of all time by the way. Just thought I'd mention it.

In no particular order...

Behind the Wheel
Stripped
Shake the Disease
Enjoy the Silence
policy of Truth
Waiting for the Night
Everything Counts
John the Revelator
Halo
Strangelove

[Purves Grundy]

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Never Let Me Down Again
Enjoy the Silence
Personal Jesus
Question of Time
Everything Counts

[bovril]

Just over 30 years since...

1. Never Let Me Down Again (live)
2. Personal Jesus
3. Fly On The Windscreen
4. Enjoy The Silence
5. A Question Of Time
6. Walking In My Shoes
7. Black Celebration
8. Everything Counts
9. Policy of Truth
10. Route 66

[RobW]

Just over 30 years since...

1. A Question of Lust
2. Enjoy The Silence
3. Everything Counts (live version)
4. Behind the Wheel
5. It's No Good
6. Policy of Truth
7. A Question of Time
8. Personal Jesus
9. Master and Servant
10. What's Your Name? (purely as Fletch and Gore both rate it as their worst song)

[dalliance]

Just over 30 years since...

1. Personal Jesus
2. I Feel You
3. Enjoy the Silence
4. Leave in Silence
5. New Life

[Mr Beast]

Just over 30 years since...

1. Barrel Of A Gun
2. Walking In My Shoes
3. Enjoy The Silence
4. It’s No Good
5. Policy Of Truth

[Mumpo]

Just over 30 years since...

Hello thread! I'll stick with the top six I posted on OTF back in 2004, before the release of Playing The Angel...

1 Stripped
2 In Your Room
3 Waiting For The Night
4 Fly On The Windscreen
5 A Question Of Lust
6 World In My Eyes

...but too many to choose from, really.

[hobbes]

Just over 30 years since...

It's also just over 30 years since The Cure released the album "Faith." I was going to do a thread, but I doubt I could get down to a top 20 songs and frankly it'd probably just annoy everyone.

[linus]

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1- New Life
2- Photographic (remix or live)
3- Any Second Now
4- Everything Counts
5- Dreaming of Me
6- My Secret Garden
7- Shout
8- The Meaning of Love
9- See You
10- Enjoy the Silence

IMHO Speak & Spell was their best album by a wide margin. It was one of those albums where I remember exactly where and when I had my first listen.

[E10 Rifle]

Just over 30 years since...

A very hits-oriented one for me, but then who doesn't dig Just Can't Get Enough is either a joyless fool or a liar

1 See You
2 Everything Counts
3 Just Can't Get Enough
4 Blasphemous Rumours
5 Precious
6 Enjoy the Silence
7 Shake the Disease
8 Walking in My Shoes
9 Personal Jesus
10 New Life

[evilC]

Just over 30 years since...

Phew! I'm glad Linus and E10 turned up - prior to that it was just me and Dalliance with any Vince Clarke era tracks in our charts!

Incidentally, if it hasn't already been said over on that thread (I haven't thoroughly looked) Depeche Mode are perhaps a great example for transatlantic success.

I remember Andy McCluskey, when asked what the biggest audience they'd played in front of was, saying that it was supporting DM at the Rose Bowl in 1988 (on the '101' tour: allegedly nearly 70,000! I've seen a photo of them (OMD) taken from the side of the stage and it looked like they were playing to just a valley that was clogged with people. Collossal venue, that.

[Fussbudget]

Just over 30 years since...

1. Behind the Wheel
2. Shake the Disease
3. Never Let Me Down Again
4. A Question of Time
5. Enjoy the Silence

I like some of the stuff with Vince Clarke but it doesn't really fit in does it, they basically sound like a different band. So, er, Vince Clarke top 5 I suppose :

1. Erasure - Drama!
2. Erasure - Chains of Love
3. Depeche Mode - New Life
4. Yazoo - Situation
5. Erasure - Sometimes

[Calvert]

Just over 30 years since...

E10 Rifle wrote:

A very hits-oriented one for me, but then who doesn't dig Just Can't Get Enough is either a joyless fool or a liar

I may well be a fool, but I ain't lying when I say I find it difficult not to laugh at bad smacked-up heavily-tattooed Dangerous Dave knocking out inoffensive blip-blop like See You to massive American audiences.
He was such a nice boy too.

It's amazing how they became so popular in the U.S.

[historyman]

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I like Dreaming of Me, but I don't think it was well received at the time. I remember reading somewhere that one reviewer labelled it the 'musical equivalent of cold sick'.

My Top Ten, which I find impossible to rank in any order:

New Life
Black Celebration
Fly On The Windscreen (version from 'It's Called A Heart 12")

Behind The Wheel (single mix)
Strangelove
Little 15
Enjoy The Silence
World In My Eyes
Personal Jesus
Walking In My Shoes

Top 5 DM 'pervy' songs:

Master and Servant (Slavery Whip mix)
Little 15
Strangelove
Stripped
Big Muff (Vince Clarke era, but written by Martin Gore)

I haven't seen the 101 video in years. It's probably dated quite a bit but that Rosebowl concert was mightily impressive.

IIRC, there's a Spinal Tap-esque moment in the documentary where Dave is wondering what to say at the start of the concert. Somebody suggests that he says something along the lines of,

"Good evening Pasadena and welcome to a concert for the masses!"

To which Dave replies,

"Who do you think I am - fucking Wordsworth?"

[George]

Just over 30 years since...

I remember laughing out loud the first time I heard The Meaning Of Love.

Blue Dress is a good pervy song, probably my favorite off Violator.

[George]

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It turned into a full scale riot as well.

[hobbes]

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I loved 101. Used to watch it a lot when we were 15 or so. I've got it on DVD somewhere from my EMI days.
"look! It says Billy Bob! Billy Bob was here!"

[Mumpo]

Just over 30 years since...

Shamefully, I've never seen it. Must get round to picking up a copy one day.

[Arturo]

Just over 30 years since...

Hobbes, I couldn't agree with you more about Violator.

In no particular order:

1. Policy of Truth
2. Halo
3. Barrel of a Gun
4. In Your Room
5. See You
6. Sea of Sin
7. Nothing
8. Rush
9. World in My Eyes
10. Leave in Silence

[evilC]

Just over 30 years since...

Y'see, although I'm a huge electronic music fan (and I started this thread) Depeche Mode are, for me, a two-album band: 'Speak and Spell' and 'Violator'. None of their other albums come close to those two, in my own little electro-universe.

The only caveat is that 'Violator' seems one track too long. 'Sweetest Perfection' is pretty tacky compared to all the other tracks on there. When I had a Walkman (still have, actually) I committed 'Violator' to tape, but to make it fit on one side of one of those Maxell 100-minute tapes, I had to cut a track out. That track was 'Sweetest Perfection' ...and it improved the album no end! I recommend you try it.

I... I just cannot get past the atrociousness of the couplet "When I need a drug in me; That brings out the thug in me..."! Jesus Christ! That is just so bad!

[Arturo]

Just over 30 years since...

evilC wrote:

Y'see, although I'm a huge electronic music fan (and I started this thread) Depeche Mode are, for me, a two-album band: 'Speak and Spell' and 'Violator'. None of their other albums come close to those two, in my own little electro-universe.

The only caveat is that 'Violator' seems one track too long. 'Sweetest Perfection' is pretty tacky compared to all the other tracks on there. When I had a Walkman (still have, actually) I committed 'Violator' to tape, but to make it fit on one side of one of those Maxell 100-minute tapes, I had to cut a track out. That track was 'Sweetest Perfection' ...and it improved the album no end! I recommend you try it.

I... I just cannot get past the atrociousness of the couplet "When I need a drug in me; That brings out the thug in me..."! Jesus Christ! That is just so bad!

Ah, I don't mind that particular track, although it's probably my least favourite on the album. As for being a two album band, while I wouldn't go that far, there's a lot of material I can do without these days. I could happily pass over 'Some Great Reward' and 'Construction Time Again' while I'd cherry pick bits and pieces from albums either side of those.

'Songs of Faith and Devotion' would be my other favourite, but I haven't actually bought any further albums since that one came out.

[hobbes]

Just over 30 years since...

Sweetest Perfection nearly made my top 10 Clive.