I expect "Precious" and "Wrong" to do well on this poll, with at least one of them cracking the top 20
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Post-first-crappy-demo Bon Jovi. Actually make that post-founding-of-band Bon Jovi...
Ned Raggett, bad medicine is what you need
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've done my part to ensure "Precious" does well.
xpost -- I have this image of being interrogated by the ghost of Sam Kinison holding a crappy 8mm camera...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think Precious is a big contender - that was my only post-93 pick. It's also one of their few attempts at going outside their guilt/pain comfort zone and addressing genuinely adult emotion. My major issue with their later albums isn't the music so much as the lyrical tail-chasing.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sent. No deep cuts. All singles (I think) Nothing after 1993, lol.
― pandemic, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 7:39 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
They're a great singles band!! I have nothing after 1993 either and for very good reason.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also mine will look similar. I think I may have two songs that weren't singles. Maybe.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok barely on this site these days but I bookmarked this thread thinking I'd somehow find time to put together a ballot & missed the deadline but if it's still open maybe I can fling one together today. I just wanted enough time to listen through the oeuvre but I know what I like already (i.e. Music for the Masses b-sides) & it won't take long I suppose.
― Euler, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
My major issue with their later albums isn't the music so much as the lyrical tail-chasing.
I don't really see their later lyrics as being demonstrably worse as their earlier lyrics.
I mean, we're talking about a band who, in the smack middle of their artistic peak, released a single that opens with the lyric "There's something beating here inside my body and it's called a heart"
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's not a bad lyric in itself
― crüt, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I voted for at least five post-93 tracks
― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
well then how about "I take pictures/Photographic pictures"?
Even allowing for the fact that most lyrics scan as dumb when you remove them from the context of the song, Depeche Mode still has some remarkably stupid ones scattered all throughout their career. I still love the band, but come on.
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh they're totally dumb. the "photographic" lyric is a better example.
― crüt, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh yeah, of course they were often dumb but they were dumb in lots of different directions. The range of themes on Construction through Masses is impressive, even when they got it catastrophically wrong. The later lyrics are oppressively competent, dwelling on the same basket of themes. Before Violator DM felt like a band trying to work out what they were doing, experimenting furiously en route. After Violator they felt like they'd decided on their sound and themes and have spent the last 20 years gently tweaking them - a rockier one, a quieter one, a darker one. SOFAD was the last significant development in their sound and songwriting imo, much though I enjoy parts of the subsequent albums.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok threw one together, fuck yeah "Stjarna"
― Euler, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
What is the stupidest Depeche Mode song?
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
i voted!
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sent!
― Kent Burt, Thursday, 3 May 2012 01:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
CRUTIS I just sent to your hotmail!!!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Errr I mean gmail.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh and the poll-specific one I now see we were meant to send to in the first place.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
If we ever do a New Order poll I wonder how many participants would consider "Regret" or "Crystal" post-peak.
i'm set up to do New Order poll at number 37
― Bee OK, Thursday, 3 May 2012 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
VOTED
― Bee OK, Thursday, 3 May 2012 04:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
poll is closed. will try to get results thread started by Thursday afternoon.
― crüt, Thursday, 3 May 2012 08:12 (1 year ago) Permalink