Hearts can never be POLLed -- ILM Artist Poll # 18 -- Depeche Mode RESULTS THREAD

i'm so far 12/20

Me too. And I expect at least 5 of the remaining ones to show in the top 10. (Though I am a little amazed that all of the big Some Great Reward singles have already placed. Just my age, I guess, but those are so foundational to my idea of Depeche Mode.)

I'm 8/20. "I Feel You" is so bad-ass.

right. let's do this!

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10. "Walking In My Shoes"
Songs of Faith and Devotion, 1993
333 points (13 votes, 2 #1 votes)

http://youtu.be/GrC_yuzO-Ss

My no.1

So happy to see Home make it. I gave it my number one vote. As I said in the other thread, the combination of those beautiful strings and the incredible vocal gets me everytime. Really happy to see Lie to me place so high too, great song.

See You is the only song in the list so far that I really just don't like at all. I've always hated how lazy the chorus sounds, it's the same problem I have with The Meaning of Love.

Walking In My Shoes is a classic piece of songwriting, terrific to bellow out passionately. I really like the long ebowed coda too. It reminds me of another tune from the era, Suede's 'Europe Is Our Playground', which ends on a similar guitar figure. Any other songs like this, structurally?

http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/111/378/11137853_640.jpg
9. "Just Can't Get Enough"
Speak & Spell, 1981
342 points (13 votes)

http://youtu.be/_6FBfAQ-NDE

(too low?)

oh, and there was 1 #1 vote for Just Can't Get Enough.

ehh it's a nice enough pop ditty

probably not (ask me again when i see what's to come) though i am surprised at zero #1 votes, it is a perfect little thing. clarke did better things later but (despite many attempts) he never quite managed another bauble that equaled this one.

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early 80s a bad time for chins in the uk

"Walking in My Shoes" in my top ten.

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8. "Strangelove"
single/Music for the Masses, 1987
378 votes (17 votes)

http://youtu.be/JIrm0dHbCDU

"Strangelove" is probably the best DM music video.

"Strangelove" is also totally badass, it's one of my new favorite songs to sing

that song seemed so brazen in 87

another great video:

http://otriva.net/_ld/26/2658.jpg
7. "Stripped"
Black Celebration, 1986
389 points (16 votes, 1 #1 vote)

http://youtu.be/qU8UfYdKHvs

you have to make this life livable

girls thought they were being "pervy" by singing the lyrics.

This period had no trouble crossing over to Miami radio stations because deejays knew how fabulous Company B sounded next to "Strangelove."

"Breathing In Fumes" was the first Depeche Mode song I heard that wasn't on Some Great Reward; when I got 101 I recognized its elements in "Stripped" immediately and that's been one of my favorite DM songs ever since. It was #2 on my ballot.

I'd've'd Strangelove really high if I'd given it a few more days - terrific vocal.

This period had no trouble crossing over to Miami radio stations because deejays knew how fabulous Company B sounded next to "Strangelove."

whoa ultimate radio station

seriously that swankass sleazy hook (probably the closest depeche mode come to jam-lewis right?), the casual kinkiness of the lyrics, that vague air of doom. i was 13 when 'strangelove' hit (and it hit BIG on mtv) and it felt mysteriously dirty and vulgar in a way that unnerved me; i listened to ALOT of 2 live crew and as vulgar as they were they also basically allowed me to think that at 13 via playground scuttlebutt, 80s teen comedies, and stolen playboys and penthouses i had a fairly good grip so to speak on sex. 'strangelove' hinted that i didn't know ANYTHING.

I have this very deep desire for a Señor Coconut-tyle album of DM covers, esp. Strangelove, which I think would sound fabulous on a marimba.

strangelove is really about relationships, not sex

ok bono

lol

no, I guess that came out wrong. there's definitely sex there, written purposefully in away so that the song can be interpreted in a sexual way, but it's really about being mean to a loved one and awaiting the pain that will be returned

opinions4u

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6. "World In My Eyes"
Violator, 1990
400 points (16 votes)

http://youtu.be/nhZdL4JlnxI

oh yeah there's a sweetness and, um, emotional depth there that's not present in something like say 'sex dwarf' (waiting to have someone correct me by telling me that 'sex dwarf' despite its title has basically the same theme as 'the living years'). no way i was hearing that in 1987.

yay my fave violator single though nay half the top six composed of violator singles

'World in My Eyes' kind of sneaks up on you with how good it is.

Often, the first track on an album loses its appeal just because you hear it so many time. Not in this case.

my #1

Yeah, it's great.

yeah, sorry, 1 #1 vote for World In My Eyes.

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5. "Policy of Truth"
Violator, 1990
436 points (17 votes, 1 #1 vote)

http://youtu.be/M2VBmHOYpV8

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4. "Everything Counts"
Construction Time Again, 1983
583 points (22 votes, 1 #1 vote)

http://youtu.be/1t-gK-9EIq4

not a fan

Nice!

"Everything Counts" might be the most consistently overrated DM single, although that doesn't mean it still isn't great.

I know what two of the top three will be, but blanking on the third.

perhaps this will jog your memory.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/28108571/Depeche+Mode+Shake+the+Disease.jpg
3. "Shake the Disease"
single, 1985
591 points (21 votes, 3 #1 votes)

http://youtu.be/r_0sL_SQYvw

Aw yes, the 3-for-1 sale on hair bleach era.

^^^ otm

Shake The Disease was my number one. I'm relieved to see it there, I was begining to think nobody else liked it.

Can't argue with the top two.