― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Me too. My brother didn't believe me that it was there, though. Now I can prove him wrong -- I told him it was on the album version!
― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Friday, 16 September 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
And the best / creepiest part of Blasphemous Rumours is the chimy part in the middle that plays the old "so high / you can't get over it" bit from Sunday school.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 16 September 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 September 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 September 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Reviving that for the 2001 tour was a wise, wise move. Wonder if they'll bring it out again...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link
I absolutely prefer this ending, not so much for the ping, but just because it's a much better ending, and whenever I hear the instrumental part in the album version I'm always waiting for the final "reach out touch faith," but it never comes!!
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 16 September 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link
-- The Ghost of Black Elegance, September 15th, 2005 10:31 PM. (later)
I'm quite fond of "Halo" as well, but "Policy of Truth" reigns.
-- Alex in NYC, September 15th, 2005 10:45 PM
Science has already proven you wrong
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 16 September 2005 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link
"Personal Jesus" w/ ping, it exists I swear
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 16 September 2005 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 September 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 16 September 2005 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 16 September 2005 06:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 16 September 2005 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link
absolutely.
i was 15 when "violator" came out: i remember trying to use that song, and its blood-chilling brilliance, to "prove" to my dad that everything i liked pwned everything he liked. it didn't really work.
and i still think "enjoy the silence" is the best single they ever did, ping or no ping.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 16 September 2005 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx and the choco-pop babies (baaderonixx), Friday, 16 September 2005 09:08 (eighteen years ago) link
To answer the thread question tho: Dud.
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 16 September 2005 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Err, no.
― Baaderonixx and the choco-pop babies (baaderonixx), Friday, 16 September 2005 09:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 16 September 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx and the choco-pop babies (baaderonixx), Friday, 16 September 2005 09:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
NEVER AGAINIs what you sworeThe time before
― The Ghost of So Much Pwnage (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link
DETAILS PLZ.
(Who needs the Corbijn DVD when the Depeche 86-98 *is* a Corbijn DVD aside from a couple of videos at either end?)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Corbijn + DMode -- best artist/director combo? Only others I can think of are Gondry/Bjork and Dayton/Farris/Pumpkins.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Odd, because I think he did the album cover/art and maybe even came up with the title.
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
(New Order)
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris O., Friday, 16 September 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
FUTURE RETRO (CD version)"The Walk" -- The Cure (Infusion Remix)"Situation" -- Yaz (Richard X Remix)"Lips Like Sugar" -- Echo & The Bunnymen (Way Out West Remix Edit)"Need You Tonight" -- INXS (Static Revenger Mix Edit)"Shake The Disease" -- Depeche Mode (Tiga Remix)"A Little Respect" -- Erasure (Jaded Alliance 'Electrospect' Remix)"New Song" -- Howard Jones (Peter Black and Hardrock Striker Mix Edit)"Forever Young" -- Alphaville (Hamel Album Mix)"Bizarre Love Triangle" -- New Order (The Crystal Method Extended Mix)"White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) -- Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel (Elite Force Mix)"Girl U Want" -- Devo (Black Light Odyssey Mix)"Nowhere Girl" -- B-Movie (Adam Freeland Remix)"Boy" -- Book Of Love (DJ Irene Rockstar Mix)"Suedehead" -- Morrissey (Sparks Mix)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 September 2005 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 17 September 2005 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― ++++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― +++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― ++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Influences Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Meshell Ndegeocello, Michael Jackson, Sade, Prince, Mr.Fingers, love, longing...
^^^ fuck yeah
― ++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― +++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― ++++, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link
NO WHEY. That grainy sepia tone shit took all the POP out of "Strangelove" and others
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Hahahaha. We'd make the most useless buddy cop film, Ethan. (Or maybe the best, I dunno.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
o, how my 15-year-old self would boggle. several hundred listens and suddenly i like the fucking ping.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 9 April 2006 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Ah, to have these reissues...soon, soon.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Monday, 10 April 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
"the sweetest perfection" is absolutely the highlight of this album for me at the moment. that string/horn breakdown in the middle is sublime, perhaps dm's most grandiose moment. the whole song has got that ridiculous perverse adolescent feeling of being desperate and depressed but kinda enjoying it that we all get sometimes, especially where the drums kick in at the end, and gahan's brilliant backing vocal heralds this huge swirling whirl pool of noise. it is so perfect.
― rio (r1o natsume), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
In retrospect, I think this is the last album they released that didn't have a lull.
― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm, I can see that. But I tend to like the lulls because they're usually so pretty.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Eh, I don't mean the languid instrumentals as much as I mean some unspecified dip-in-quality song that I almost always skip over whenever I play the album (for example, "Suffer Well" is my lull on Playing The Angel).
― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Rio so OTFM here.
― Telephone thing, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Listening to violator w the S/O and she asked why isn't enjoy the silence the end of the side of the album?? And I was like good question so I googled "why isn't enjoy the silence the last track on violator" and this thread was the third hit AND I STILL DON'T HAVE ANSWERS. WHY ARE THERE SONGS AFTER IT ON A SIDE OF THE ALBUM. missed opportunity imo
― Campaign to move el0n mu5k thread to ILM (Will M.), Saturday, 15 February 2020 01:46 (four years ago) link
I seem to remember hearing some sort of thing on the radio when I was really young where it was just Gahan singing 'Enjoy the Silence' over and over again with his voice being processed in all these different t ways, and being very freaked out by it. This must have been 1990 before I heard the actual song. I'd like to know what the hell it was, maybe some sort of promo?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 15 February 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
Shot-in-the-dark question for dog latin: Was this a radio station in the process of changing ownership or changing formats? (For that matter: was it an American radio station?)
― SlimAndSlam, Saturday, 15 February 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
^ I like this hypothesis
― uncrut gems (crüt), Saturday, 15 February 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
I mean, I was 9 years old but I'm pretty sure it was a UK Station, probably our local one
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 15 February 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
I think it may be the Quad mix, or one of the others, but there is a mix that has the title repeated using different effects.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 15 February 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link