Depeche Mode -- Sounds of the Universe

I Feel You, Walking In My Shoes and Precious are really all you need to hear from DM after 1990.

...I see we will have to agree to disagree here.

the highlight of my saturday night was overhearing a very young bartender at a wedding hitting on a girl. he was talking about going to lollapalooza and twice mentioned seeing "day-peh-shay mode".

Maybe he was secretly a Dead Milkmen fan.

I think it would be great to see DM and have them rely less on all of the big hits. Or even do a show of all post-SOFAD material.

I figure there's always five songs they'll play no matter what -- "Never Let Me Down Again," "Personal Jesus," "Enjoy the Silence," "I Feel You," "Walking In My Shoes." After that, whatever they want to do. I was actually surprised at the inclusion of "It's No Good" but not as surprised as seeing how huge a reaction it got, given that Ultra feels like a bit of a lost album due to the lack of tour for it.

Also a little surprising -- the only song from either Exciter or Playing the Angel was "Precious."

I recently rediscovered Ultra and I think it's one of their best: song for song it just works, and given the stress under which it was made that makes it all the more impressive.

Surprised they didn't at least play "Suffer Well".

Anyway, sister of a friend took some *really* good shots at the show.

Great photos, Ned's friend's sister!

I only picked up SotU about a month ago, because my initial listen was so disappointing, especially after the excellent last album. I almost considered making it the first DM album I wouldn't purchase, but I ended up finding it for cheap, and I don't regret buying it. I felt (and still feel) like not a one of these songs sounds like a single; instead they're a compelling group of album tracks with some interesting songwriting here and there. That probably sounds awful to some people, haha. I'd say it's on par with Exciter, but not as high highs and not as low lows.

OH FUCK YES

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=63278919

these guys are really winning the "effortlessly disturbing" video stakes

I like how it just keeps getting more...wrong.

lol@mustard kiss

Make-out song of the year?

But really, what am I supposed to make of this video? Ideas?

this fucking album.

<3 eric wareheim's videos.

People better not forget about this album when compiling their end of year list...

saw them live tonight. never really paid attention to them save for three singles. will give this new one a serious listen, then consider what earlier stuff to tackle first.

Grimly Fiendish supposedly caught them tonight as well so I await his thoughts.

Just barely got the deluxe boxset & i'm blown away by the books and remix postcards. Now desperate to collect them all.

Hello:

Alan Wilder's playing piano for the encore. First time he's been on stage with Depeche Mode in 16 years.

Shot of same.

Holy shit.

oh shiiiiiii

Here's hoping for a tour with only Alan Wilder-era stuff being played.

We have video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2umJr_dGpw

Sing-along cameraman?

Only at the start, thankfully.

This concert is going to be up there with the Rose Bowl.

Shot from further back so you can both Alan and Martin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_9EK6BK9ws

(And a different angle, more accurately! The HD focus helps a lot when the closeup section begins.)

I had no idea that Liars' Julian Gross was passenger in the "wrong" video.

Would be great if he'd actually rejoin the band. He's like the great dark horse of the band, and his input in terms of arranging was very important. After he left, their producers have had more power.

Julian Gross was in Depeche Mode?

Does Dave say 'charlie's good tonight' at the end of that clip?

It's kind of heartbreaking how patchy this album is. Half of it approaches career-defining brilliance (first 4 songs, "Come Back", "Corrupt") and the rest is kind of this big pile of anonymous filler that could have been put out by a competent Depeche Mode tribute band.

Which makes it really no different than any Depeche Mode album since, but obviously not including, Violator.

Eh, not really. Both Ultra and Playing the Angel are much stronger.

seconded. Really love Come Back and Miles Away but the rest is just pretty uninteresting. Although to their credit they seem to have tried to go for a different sound, breezier and poppier, but it just isn't a very good one and the songs are mostly kinda meh

I really like this one too, but sure not as good as "Playing The Angel".

What's odd is that some of the B-sides are better than some of album tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyD8xIsUVSo

Here's another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-2wPAMUq3k&feature=related

And the inevitable DVD:

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Depeche Mode

"Tour of the Universe - Live In Barcelona"

DVD and Blu-ray released November 8th, 2010

Playing 102 shows in 40 countries, Depeche Mode's acclaimed Tour Of
The Universe saw Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andrew 'Fletch' Fletcher
performing to over 2.7 million people.

Their epic trip across the globe was one of the most successful tours
of recent history and saw them playing a host of stunning material
spanning their impressive 30 year history.

"Tour Of The Universe - Live In Barcelona" contains 21 tracks
recorded over two sold out nights at the Palau St Jordi in Barcelona
on November 20th and 21st 2009, both shows being highlights of the
celebrated tour.

Released on Mute, this spectacular DVD release comes with a host of
bonus content including four bonus tracks recorded across the two
nights, a tour documentary - Inside The Universe - two tracks filmed
at tour rehearsals in New York and Anton Corbijn's specially created
"screen films" for seven tracks plus further bonus montages created
from the on-stage screens.

In addition the four promotional videos from 2009's acclaimed 'Sounds
Of The Universe' album including the Grammy nominated Wrong, directed
by Patrick Daughters, are included.

*"Tour of the Universe - Live In Barcelona" comes in three formats:*

*Super deluxe 4-disc version (2xDVD, 2xCD):*

DVD1 (a 21 track live performance plus four alternate/bonus tracks)

DVD2 (extra bonus content including documentary and promo videos)

2 x CD (audio of the 21 tracks from DVD1)

*Deluxe version (1 x DVD, 2 x CD):*

Contains DVD1 and the two audio CDs

*Blu-ray (2x Blu-ray discs)*

*Depeche Mode - Tour Of The Universe Barcelona 20/21:11:09*

*DVD1*

1. In Chains

2. Wrong

3. Hole To Feed

4. Walking In My Shoes

5. It's No Good

6. A Question Of Time

7. Precious

8. Fly On The Windscreen

9. Jezebel

10. Home

11. Come Back

12. Policy Of Truth

13. In Your Room

14. I Feel You

15. Enjoy The Silence

16. Never Let Me Down Again

17. Dressed In Black

18. Stripped

19. Behind The Wheel

20. Personal Jesus

21. Waiting For The Night

*-Bonus tracks*

World In My Eyes (20th)

Sister Of Night (21st)

Miles Away / The Truth Is (20th)

One Caress (20th)

*DVD2*

-Inside The Universe

Tour documentary with subtitles: English, German, French, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Hungarian and Czech.

*-Tour Of The Universe / Screens*

In Chains

Walking In My Shoes

Precious

Come Back

Policy Of Truth

Enjoy The Silence

Personal Jesus

*-Tour Of The Universe / Rehearsals*

Wrong

Walking In My Shoes

*-Bonus tracks*

Insight

Hole To Feed

Behind The Wheel

Never Let Me Down Again

*-Sounds Of The Universe - Videos*

Wrong

Peace

Hole To Feed

Fragile Tension

"In Chains" has subsumed my life

such a fucking great song

For Immediate Release

Depeche Mode Press Conference
Paris October 23 at 1:30pm

Depeche Mode - Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher – host a press conference in Paris October 23rd where they will be making an exciting announcement.

The press conference will begin promptly at 1:30pm and will be broadcast live online. Please stay tuned to depechemode.com for more details.

Depeche Mode have spent much of this year recording their forthcoming new studio album in Santa Barbara, California and New York City.

I bet it's ... a new album!

or they're adopting a child together

Bouncing baby Dan.