Violator!

"Blue Dress" deserved more.

The lurkers won. Personally I am happy to see "Personal Jesus" not getting a lot of votes. It's the most "Songs Of Faith And Devotion" sounding song on this album after all.

"There's that awesome moment when the string swoop right before doubletracked Gahan sings "It will be worth it" that's my favorite DM moment ever."

yeah!!

god how fucking good is the sensual mix of "dangerous"?!? that sexy acid riff that snakes around the beat is ridiculous, flood is responsible for this right? or was it francois k? my only complaint is that it should go on for twice as long!

Nearly all the mixes around that time are flawless -- "Kaleid" doesn't get enough love, I think.

does anyone know what synthesizers were used on this record ? some of the sounds they got out of their synths are brilliant.

more and more i am of the opinion that "sweetest perfection" is the best song on this album. lyrics just on the right side of camp so as to be melodramatic as opposed to just angsty, those almost jazz-y brush strokes during the verses and the growling guitar menacing beneath, that fucking orchestral breakdown, martin's voice and the deep satanic backing vocals, dave joining in at the end during the huge swollen swirling outro... it's like some mutant post-industrial broadway number or something. just amazing.

Sweetest Perfection would fit perfectly on the Counterfeit EP. Halo has been my fav. on this album for the last year or so.

"pass undetectedly" rankles somewhat </grammarnazi>

blue dress is my secret crush.

I'm pretty new to this album, and I'm totally addicted to World In My Eyes.

every song's great

i have this on constant rotation on my computer and in my car's tape deck. right now 'Waiting for the Night' is my jam.

I think "Halo" is really underrated.

heard "waiting for the night" on shuffle last night in the middle of a cold night run, it was glorious

Halo's one of my faves too. The production and arrangements on the whole album are so meticulous and forward-looking. I wonder if they were aware of NIN? It reminds me of Pretty Hate Machine in a lot of ways.

This album is front-to-back great; I think the weakest song on it is "Sweetest Perfection" which is a mere 9/10.

Halo.

Loved the video too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjeEqKWhpE

Halo's the heart of this album for me - not the best track necessarily but the most quintessentially Violator-ish.

^^^ yeah, in some strange way, a lot of the non-single tracks seem to be the most "quintessentially Violator-ish". Maybe that's because the singles are too familiar, or maybe it's because the album tracks are darker and therefore more representative of the album's overall mood.

"blue dress" is my hands-down favorite here

ok that 'halo' video is not what i was expecting.

um, so, i've been thinking about this a lot, and i'm just wondering: does anyone find it REALLY WEIRD that none of these dudes are gay? or at least not out? i mean, really....

as a heterosexual fan of this kind of music: why?

you've got it all wrong -- Martin Gore is a sexual deviant, not a homosexual.

half their songs are about balling chicks and their vids got hot chicks half the time plus they got alot of hot chick fans = red flag obv

OTM:

NOT ENOUGH LOVE FOR "HALO."

There's that awesome moment when the string swoop right before doubletracked Gahan sings "It will be worth it" that's my favorite DM moment ever.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, October 29, 2007 6:08 PM

Seriously, this makes no sense:

Halo 5

meaning it got 5 votes
an eventual fifth Halo video game would make sense

haha

"Never Let Me Down Again" is, like, one of the gayest pop songs ever. an old flame of mine used to do it to the fuckin track, ffs. DM are a bunch of closet cases.

not that this changes the fact that they rule, and i love them more than almost any other musical group of the past 30 years.

me personally: halo > world in my eyes > waiting for the night > policy of truth > enjoy the silence > clean > personal jesus > blue dress > sweetest perfection

this plus de la soul is dead plus goo = the music i learned to drive to

halo + waiting for the night for me
then the singles
then everything else

straight ppl do drugs also, not sure what's gay about 'never let me down again'

Hoping your best friend doesn't let you down again, which is such an odd sentiment (I'll ignore chatter that the "best friend" is a drug metaphor). I've always thought it was a sound in search of a song.

it's awkward and ungainly, despite the awesome mix and arrangement. The lyrics don't sound finished.

and i guess that i just don't know

AS LONG AS I REMEMBER WHO'S WEARING THE TROUSERS.

i dunno, it seems pretty explicit to me. maybe i'm just biased cuz i used to have great sex to that song all the time.

always thought that song was homoerotic

'I'm taking a ride with my best friend' ffs

The swagger of the arrangement is definitely two bros in a car.

I finished my run today with Halo coming on random. Great track and probably my favorite off Violator. Is there a better sounding live recording of that tour than the SF show?

Halo was robbed here. ROBBED.

i love this remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8onMJT7Os6g

As another Halo stan I'm looking forward to the Depeche Mode tracks poll in a few weeks

"Halo" is ace, no doubt about that.

I always found it a bit of an also-ran compared to the rest of the album. I just wasn't convinced by the lyrical imagery: "a halo in reverse", "a discomfort in your seat" (time to buy a new armchair?), and those terrible "lips of tragedy". I seem to have warmed to it over the years though and I can't criticise it musically - Alfred is certainly otm about that awesome moment when the string swoop right before doubletracked Gahan sings "It will be worth it".

halo is awesome, the end.

the strings!

"halo", along with the rest of this album, has incredible bass parts.

Happy 25th to "Personal Jesus" in particular.

http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/96459898922/as-i-mentioned-in-a-comment-on-facebook-last

I've been "Enjoying" the "Silence" of this band*!

*they're broken up