i love music but i kind of hate music fans.
― stephen, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"right, i give up. you clearly have the cognitive skills of a whelk.
-- grimly fiendish"
youre so superior to me beacuse you use $.50 words. congratulations, dood! you rule! have fun listening to the pet shop boys.
― pipecock, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 04:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Tears For Fears >>>>>> Depeche Mode
oops.
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Is pipecock 15-years-old?
― JN$OT, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 09:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Probably 45.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
And very very lonely.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Sundar, you don't like New Order? wow... it's like i don't even know you!
i missed voting, but it would have been DM, NO, almost neck and neck for a while, but at the end, DM takes it easily when i think about which has affected me most. PSB distant 3rd. if the Cure had been in this poll also, they would have been riding right on NO's ass.
― Kim, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Just to annoy the goth even more, I venture that:
New Order > PSB > Human League > Depeche Mode
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
That's how I'd order those bands, FWIW.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess Erasure could have been another option, but they'd probably have come a distant fourth.
xpost bah pshaw. Human League don't have the career longevity.
― ledge, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
we need a similar poll involving the cure.
xpost: which version of the human league?
NO > DM > dare-era human league > PSBs > human league post-dare
human league mk I >>> almost everything else in the world. new order being one of the exceptions, mind.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
(i know, i know: we didn't break down NO or DM into versions either. but with the HL there's a spectacular and staggering divide, along the lines of JD/NO, so i think it's valid.)
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
(in fact: dare-era HL are more different to pre-dare HL than JD are to early NO.)
(i'll stop now.)
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
(A likely story!)
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I love New Order, PSB, Depeche Mode, Human League, and Erasure and I don't care how you order them.
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought we'd established that liking Depeche Mode is an American thing?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Or non-British at any rate
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
no, we hadn't. because it isn't.
that said: it is less "cool" to like DM in the UK than it is ... well, almost anywhere else. funny ... i was pondering this (no, really) in the gym this morning, listening to "playing the angel". i read somewhere, ages ago, that the reason for this was martin gore looking like such a knobber in his leather vest etc, but i can't believe this is the case.
hey ho. i've always loved 'em. in 1991 i had a massive poster of them (circa some great reward) on my bedroom wall. my friend shumon, probably the coolest man i've ever known, always thought they were cool. so i've been out and proud about them for years ;)
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
that said: it is less "cool" to like DM in the UK than it is ... well, almost anywhere else.
That's exactly what I mean. I think a lot of people in the UK thought they (Depeche Mode that is) were trying far too hard to come over all rawwwwwwwwwwwwwk 'n' roll with the leather trousers and the heroin and the whatnot when they stil considered them a nancyboy plinky-plonky synth band
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
A lot of people in the UK have cloth in their ears.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Depeche Mode were at their best as a nancyboy plinky-plonky synth band. Fantastic!
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Nancyboy plinky-plonky synth bands have always been more popular in the UK than leather-trousering smacked-up pseudo-rockers
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
actually, you've cracked it: it's the KNOW YOUR PLACE mentality, innit?
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
A bit... also that wearing leather trousers and trying to be Jim Morrison was crap even when Jim Morrison did it
― Tom D., Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
thing is, when i'd left school and was working for the DSS, i had hair, beard and leather trousers exactly like SOFAD-era dave gahan. i never got round to the tattoos, although i keep thinking about fixing that ;)
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
"Is pipecock 15-years-old?
-- JN$OT"
"Probably 45.
-- HI DERE"
if you average your two guesses, youd be pretty close.
"And very very lonely.
-- Ned Raggett"
it certainly depends on your definition of lonely. being married and having a kid and a cat could be lonely i guess, but not for me.
― pipecock, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
What's wrong with a nancyboy plinky-plonky synthband?
I mean, the same question should be applied to DM members themselves (AND Flood!!!!!!) in 1993 too, but, still....
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:17 (sixteen years ago) link
NEW ORDER!!! Depeche Mode second, but only if you stop before late 80s.
― Pookas, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm only about 1/3 of the way plowing through Depeche Mode's massive discography (currently jamming the one with "Blasphemous Rumours" on it), but I gotta say the haters in this thread are insane.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 01:05 (six years ago) link
The correct answer to this thread is "all of 'em" ...
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 05:55 (six years ago) link
Poll remains correct.
― yesca, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
Democracy workes in this case
― Treeship, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
Although if we're talking about the acts in terms of level of high quality over a sustained length of time, it's Pet Shop Boys, followed by Depeche Mode, followed by New Order.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
i think i might have even voted for "Blue Monday" over PSB and DM. Or "Confusion" even. And I LOVE 80s PSB and DM.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
Discography is never far from me. Wait, was it DJP who hates "Domino Dancing"? Why do I even remember that? Best song!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
throw OMD onto this list and we might coax Turrican into making the longest post in ilx history
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
At this point, I am pretty sure my tombstone is going to read "He died as he lived; hating the fuck out of fucking 'Domino Dancing'."
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
Throw OMD and The Cure onto this list and the answer would still be "all of them"
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 06:08 (six years ago) link