TS: Depeche Mode vs. New Order vs. Pet Shop Boys

put it this way: i'll be very surprised if NO don't win it, comfortably.

then PSBs, then depeche -- lagging a bit, i fear.

Pet Shop Boys: too arch, too calculated

how are these bad things?

HITLER was arch and calculated!

uh...so was Martin Luther King Jr.

what's yr point?

Anthony, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you've used up your quota of Hitler references for at least a year in the past week alone, no?

Depeche: almost all their best moments are ripped off from other bands, such as - New Order: mystical, transcendent, dumb, magical, inexplicably brilliant.

Okay, I'm having trouble parsing this sentence, but... are you saying Depeche Mode, who were a synth pop band years before New Order were (and who make better synth pop than New Order), ripped off New Order?

(NB I am a huge New Order fan.)

AKA, pretty much the most impossible ILM poll, ever.

Not really. New Order handily trounces both with one hand.

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are you saying Depeche Mode, who were a synth pop band years before New Order were (and who make better synth pop than New Order), ripped off New Order?

THANK YOU

New Order is a "synth pop band"?

They were a synth pop band before they turned into a goth band.

i think flood/francois k-era dep-mode ripped off mid-late-80s new order.

I'd rather say Joy Division were a goth band before they turned into a synth band (not synth pop though, wouldn't call them pop with the exception of "True Faith" and maybe a few more singles)

Flood era Depeche Mode was "Songs Of Faith And Devotion", and that album isn't a Depeche Mode album. Most true and devoted Depeche fans hate that particular album.

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that's you that is.

xxpost

i quite like it!

THAN YOU MUST NOT BE A TRUE OR DEVOTED DEPECHE MODE FAN

REAL DEPECHE MODE FANS THINK THE BAND BROKE UP IN 1990

Some true Depeche Mode fans gave up on the band after their U2/NIN wannabe album. But the fact is that already on "Ultra", they had their good old synthpop style back. And they have kept it since.

They were a synth pop band before they turned into a goth band.

New Order were neither.

Whoops, for some reason I mixed NO and DM there!

ah, okay.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

accurately predicted

hey, not bad! go me.

These results were really quite obvious if you know ILM.

don't spoil it for me, tuomas.

New Order is a "synth pop band"?

THIS POLL IS FUCKING ABOUT SYNTH POP:

I've always seen these guys as the 3 giants of synth-pop

Which is why I didn't vote for them!!! I love New Order, but while they're great at many things (post-punk/dance) they're not a synth pop band!!!

Can someone please tell me how Depeche Mode ripped off New Order? I'd really love to know!

i think maybe this forum should be called "i love questionable music more than depeche mode". stupidest poll results ever.

Which is why I didn't vote for them!!! I love New Order, but while they're great at many things (post-punk/dance) they're not a synth pop band!!!

Yes.Can someone please tell me how Depeche Mode ripped off New Order? I'd really love to know

Once in a while Martin Gore plays twang guitar.

Whoops, for some reason I mixed NO and DM there!

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I eagerly await Blue Monday - Tuomas mix

Just seen the results! I didn't know DM got so much love here! I thought it was just Geir plus one!

i think maybe this forum should be called "i love questionable music more than depeche mode". stupidest poll results ever

calm down, dear, it's only a poll.

(also: much roffling at "questionable music". what, is everything that isn't pure DM "degenerate art" or something?)

justice was done.

I've always seen these guys as the 3 giants of synth-pop

only just noticed this wtfness.

They bestride the land, like colossi of the Roland.

"(also: much roffling at "questionable music". what, is everything that isn't pure DM "degenerate art" or something?)"

i mean, DM are definitely one of my favorite artists, i own more records by them than by any other artist except theo parrish, "violator" is one of my all time favorite albums and has been for many many years. but i dont hold them as anything more than fantastic musicians. New Order are definitely awesome too. but really, the Pet Shop Boys? come on, now. they were not bad but they shouldnt even be in a discussion with depeche mode.

Why not?

any winner in this poll is the right winner

xpost to pipecock: guess what? i disagree. and hey, they are, and have been for several hundred posts.

next up: a discussion involving depeche mode, dumpy's rusty nuts and dom's spunk, spread on a boot. because, hey, that's the joy of ILM, as opposed to -- say -- monomaniacal DM fans' private DM-only DM discussion board (DM).

grimly otm. Just because you disagree with the poll results, you shouldn't start saying "the poll is illegitimate".

sorry, i don't see what's so WTF about calling new order a synth pop band. a lot of their music (sure, not all), even their best known stuff, could be described that way

xposts

yep, it was a generalization guys; sorry to get yr panties in a wad

any winner in this poll is the right winner

This is completely correct. The only thing I dislike about this poll is the outright/implied hatred expressed towards Depeche Mode. I understand why some people want to leave their mopey teen years behind but DM expresses so much of that angst so well and in a manner far more adult than it should be expressed that I don't understand how people don't enjoy them. (I also don't understand how people can hate the singing, especially from Violator onwards, but that's a completely different thing.)

"xpost to pipecock: guess what? i disagree. and hey, they are, and have been for several hundred posts.

next up: a discussion involving depeche mode, dumpy's rusty nuts and dom's spunk, spread on a boot. because, hey, that's the joy of ILM, as opposed to -- say -- monomaniacal DM fans' private DM-only DM discussion board (DM)."

again, i do not put DM up on a pedestal or anything like that. but comparing them to PSB is like comparing John Coltrane to Kenny G. sure theyre both jazz sax players, but to compare them in any way is pretty stupid.