I didn't vote for 'Precious', but if we were allowed to vote for 30 or 40 tracks it definitely would have made it in there. A late-period gem.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
"Precious" made my top fifteen.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
I realize Sea of Sin is a b-side, but I was sure it would place higher. I'm just glad it placed at all now!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hoGKzUzzFfU/TEk1g9GDTeI/AAAAAAAAAtg/9uG3-kLFVHY/s1600/A+Man+with+wings!++-+martin-gore+photo.jpeg37. "Sweetest Perfection"Violator, 1990113 points (4 votes)
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_libq62eai01qdf16no1_500.png36. "Clean"Violator, 1990117 points (6 votes)
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
"Sweetest Perfection": http://youtu.be/YN-5W41OA0A"Clean": http://youtu.be/MAk8QvttHnk
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.depechemode.com/main_site/2009_discography_498px/singles/01_dreamingofme.jpg35. "Dreaming Of Me"7" single, 1981121 points (6 votes)
http://youtu.be/XQaXdzSjSIQ
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/4PbZvk0EhUyQksRQZo978B
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
I've always loved the drum machine sound on 'Dreaming Of Me'... I know, of all things(!)
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://theredradio.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ffb97e68834010535f02cd0970b-800wi34. "Photographic"Some Bizzare Album compilation, 1981 (original version) / Speak & Spell, 1981129 points (6 votes, 1 #1 vote)
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
Was that your #1 crüt?
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
Some Bizzare version: http://youtu.be/61_E9zuwUU0Speak & Spell version: http://youtu.be/W8woAY8bu_o
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
xpost nope! it was on my ballot though. surprisingly near the bottom.
the spelling of "Some Bizzare" still drives me up a wall.
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://image.maniadb.com/images/album/381/381910_1_f.jpg33. "Love, In Itself"Construction Time Again, 1983129 points (7 votes, 1 #1 vote)
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
video definitely worth watching: http://youtu.be/BwmgGI3KMIk
Most pre-Construction DM is all a haze to me, but Dreaming of You and Photographic are pretty good. Glad I finally got the motivation to check them out.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
'Photographic' was my #10. This track and indeed most of the Speak & Spell album remind me of being very little. My dad had Speak & Spell on vinyl, and I have a vivid early memory of running around the living room with my little sister to this track as the record crackled away in the background(!). When I got into my early teens and started getting to the age that I was beginning to listen to music a little more deeply, I fell totally into love with its pure synthpop sound.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, 'Love, In Itself' placed. I find that more surprising than 'Sea Of Sin' placing for some reason. I definitely think 'Here Is The House', for one, is a superior song.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/21700000/Martin-Gore-martin-gore-21706083-410-604.jpg32. "Useless"Ultra, 1997144 points (7 votes)
http://youtu.be/_f0zHgs0GpI
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
"Love, In Itself" is great because it's one of those DM-just-discovered-samplers tracks
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
I've never really been too keen on the album/single versions of 'Useless'. I absolutely adore that Kruder & Dorfmeister session version, though!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
The little guitar section in "Love in Itself" always makes me smile.
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
Plus one of my favorite lolsad lyrics: "consequently I've the tendency to be unhappy"
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/EKeKeVWikCc/hqdefault.jpg31. "Somebody"Some Great Reward, 1984163 points (6 votes, 2 #1 votes)
http://youtu.be/LgooMi4NYhY
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:40 (eleven years ago) link
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Friday, May 4, 2012 1:37 AM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Ah yeah, the little instrumental break... nice little snatch of piano in there as well!
I suppose 'Love, In Itself', like most of Construction Time Again does have an adventurous spirit to its production and this exciting sense of branching out and trying to move forward and do something different to what they'd done previously. It's down there as one of my least favourite '80s Depeche singles, though.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
Ah yes, and there it is! The one that Martin Gore famously sang in the studio with his dick hanging out!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
crüt is OTM, love them just exploring that new Synclavier
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
The one that Martin Gore famously sang in the studio with his dick hanging out!
Come again? I've never heard that story!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
well, he supposedly recorded the vocals while completely naked. it'd be funnier if he had just sang it with his dick hanging out.
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
sung*
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
The three big 'Depeche explores the sampler' tracks for me are 'Pipeline' (of course!), 'People Are People' and possibly 'Stripped', where they set up the microphones to sample fireworks on Bonfire Night.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Friday, May 4, 2012 1:47 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's one of those famous Depeche Mode stories. When Martin Gore did his vocal track for 'Somebody', he was apparently completely naked. I don't think the rest of the band were watching though, I remember hearing that he did his vocal well out of the way in another room.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
x-post yeah but the charm of "Love, In Itself" is that it's before they reached the more mature approach they took with those tracks, instead being rather "press this key for guitar doodle-oodles"
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
I do agree with crut, though, it'd be a hell of a lot more funnier if it had literally just been his dick hanging out.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
martin gore was a big influence on mystikal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufB-jsZkraQ
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://blowthescene.com/files/2010/06/people-are-people.jpg30. "People Are People"single/People Are People/Some Great Reward, 1984171 points (8 votes)
http://youtu.be/MzGnX-MbYE4
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
lmao dave gahan is such a trip in the "People Are People" video
My #13. I've always loved hearing stories about the recording of 'People Are People'. The way they achieved that MASSIVE sound, by sending different sounds to loud PA systems in different rooms of the studio. So loud that apparently the building was shaking! People can say what they like about the lyrics, the track has a hell of a fucking kick to it. I like to listen to this track LOUD.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
PaP was my numbah 10. <3
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/c7b81848d2a6ae51c0474795faf2d51763ff956b_m.jpg29. "Fly on the Windscreen"It's Called A Heart single, 1985 / Black Celebration ("Final"), 1986172 points (9 votes)
http://youtu.be/emOeoIJg91o
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
My #11. Far too strong to have been a mere B-side, and thankfully the band thought the same. I think that's Daniel Miller doing the 'over and done with, over and done with' bits in the intro.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
http://depechemode.shinji.be/tour/graph/1988-02-21.jpg28. "The Things You Said"Music for the Masses, 1987173 points (8 votes)
http://youtu.be/yhBElJ5dNpE
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
okay can I just say a couple of things:
"Somebody" IS TOO FUCKING LOW, WHAT THE HELLlol "Love, In Itself"! Honestly did not see that coming
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Dan, being himself
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
also lol @ "Here Is The House" coming in at the bottom of the poll, considering it would have been the 21st song on my ballot ("The Things You Said" would have been 22)
so far I voted for:
"Sea of Sin""Precious""Somebody" (#1) (you fuckers)"Fly on the Windscreen"
my biggest "wait, WAHT" is a tie between "Love, In Itself" (which I actually like a lot, I just think it's super goofy and not as good as many of their other songs) and "Sweetest Perfection" (which really is Violator's rough spot for me; I don't DISLIKE it but every other song on the album is just sooooooo much better)
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://i48.tinypic.com/212yja.jpg27. "Black Celebration"Black Celebration, 1986178 points (8 votes)
http://youtu.be/27kUmbXezNg
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
last one for tonight. will post 25-11 tomorrow and 10-1 Saturday.
http://eil.com/Gallery/47221b.jpg26. "A Question of Lust"Black Celebration, 1986183 points (9 votes)
http://youtu.be/vOtRZOlE0WM
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
I was one of the #1 votes for "Somebody," in deference to the number of mixtapes I put that song on in my teens and 20s. Still gets me.
"Love, in Itself" snuck into the lower reaches of my ballot (just above "A Question of Lust" actually). Always sounds like a Madonna song to me.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
"Photographic" was my number 20
― Bee OK, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
Just for yucks here's the ballot breakdown by album. RIP Blue Dress ;_;
(Dreaming of Me)
New LifeI Sometimes Wish I Was DeadPuppetsBoys Say GoNodiscoWhat's Your Name?PhotographicTora! Tora! Tora!Big MuffAny Second Now (Voices)Just Can't Get Enough
Leave in SilenceMy Secret GardenMonumentNothing to FearSee YouSatelliteThe Meaning of LoveA Photograph of YouShouldn't Have Done ThatThe Sun & the Rainfall
(Get the Balance Right!)
Love, in ItselfMore Than a PartyPipelineEverything CountsTwo Minute WarningShameThe Landscape Is ChangingTold You SoAnd Then...
Something to DoLie to MePeople Are PeopleIt Doesn't MatterStories of OldSomebodyMaster and ServantIf You WantBlasphemous Rumours
(Shake the Disease)
Black CelebrationFly on the Windscreen - FinalA Question of LustSometimesIt Doesn't Matter TwoA Question of TimeStrippedHere Is the HouseWorld Full of NothingDressed in BlackNew DressBreathing in FumesBut Not Tonight (Extended Remix)Black Day
Never Let Me Down AgainThe Things You SaidStrangeloveSacredLittle 15Behind the WheelI Want You NowTo Have and to HoldNothingPimpf
World in My EyesSweetest PerfectionPersonal JesusHaloWaiting for the NightEnjoy the SilencePolicy of TruthBlue DressClean
(Sea of Sin)
I Feel YouWalking in My ShoesCondemnationMercy in YouJudasIn Your RoomGet Right with MeRushOne CaressHigher Love
Barrel of a GunThe Love ThievesHomeIt's No GoodUselinkUselessSister of NightJazz ThievesFreestateThe Bottom LineInsight
(Exciter - nada)
A Pain That I'm Used ToJohn the RevelatorSuffer WellThe Sinner in MePreciousMacroI Want It AllNothing's ImpossibleIntrospectreDamaged PeopleLilianThe Darkest Star
(Sounds of the Universe - nada)
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
Rush & In Your Room >>>>>> It's No Good & Useless.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Saturday, 5 May 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
wow, ALL of my songs made it except for one that i knew wasn't going to anyway. very nice poll.
― charlie h, Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
my ballot, which was assembled haphazardly over the course of lots of random listening on Spotify having been only familiar with DM as a singles act:
Enjoy The SilencePolicy of TruthJust Can't Get EnoughInsightMartyrEverything CountsBut Not TonightI Feel YouStrangeloveIn ChainsSuffer WellNever Let Me Down AgainWalking In My ShoesNew LifeBlue DressUselessLie To MeI Want You NowBlasphemous RumoursPhotographic
― some dude, Sunday, 6 May 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
my ballot
1. To Have and to Hold2. Sweetest Perfection3. Never Let Me Down Again4. Stripped5. Barrel of a Gun6. Master and Servant7. Shake the Disease8. World in My Eyes9. Personal Jesus10. Enjoy the Silence11. Sea of Sin12. Get the Balance Right13. A Question of Time14. Black Celebration15. Happiest Girl16. Behind the Wheel17. Home18. I Feel Loved19. Rush20. Pimpf
honestly thought To Have and To Hold was more liked, such an amazing song
― silverfish, Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
can I just say, NB&S your ballot is amazing
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
wow, am i the only person who voted for Nothing? i think my only other pick that didn't place was Meaning of Love. for shame.
― Roberto Spiralli, Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
silverfish your ballot is also amazing
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Sunday, 6 May 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
Me:
01. Photographic02. Never Let Me Down Again03. Black Celebration04. Everything Counts05. Behind The Wheel06. Strangelove07. New Life08. Dreaming of Me09. Boys Say Go!10. Just Can't Get Enough11. Puppets12. Stripped13. Fly On The Windscreen14. Get The Balance Right!15. The Things You Said16. Blasphemous Rumours17. Master and Servant18. Something to Do19. Shake The Disease20. Enjoy The Silence
01. Speak & Spell 02. Music For The Masses 03. Black Celebration
Thanks for your efforts, crüt!
― Kent Burt, Sunday, 6 May 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
This was mine:
1 But Not Tonight2 Just Can't Get Enough3 Everything Counts4 Never Let Me Down Again5 Enjoy the Silence6 Policy of Truth7 Blasphemous Rumors8 Question of Time9 World in My Eyes10 People are People11 Strangelove12 See You13 Personal Jesus14 Shake the Disease15 Dreaming of Me16 The Meaning of Love17 Somebody18 New Life19 Love, in Itself20 Master and Servant
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 6 May 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
In a good way, I hope
― Pacific Trash Vortex (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 6 May 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, May 5, 2012 7:42 PM
It was my #1 vote!
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Sunday, 6 May 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know enough about DM to have voted, but just wanted to say thanks for running this poll, Crüt.
― improvised explosive advice (WmC), Sunday, 6 May 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^ yes
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 6 May 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
thanks from me too. This list will give me a good starting point to delve into DM.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 6 May 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks, Curt1s. My ballot, more or less (i.e. from memory):
1. Love, In Itself2. See You (Extended Version)3. Big Muff4. Now, This Is Fun (Extended Version)5. New Life6. I Feel You7. Personal Jesus8. Everything Counts9. Wrong10. Just Can't Get Enough
― Jeff W, Sunday, 6 May 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
GOD, IS MY FINGER NOT ON THE PULSE...
1. Stripped (#7) 2. Policy Of Truth (#5) 3. Never Let Me Down Again (#1) 4. Everything Counts (#4) 5. Shake The Disease (#3) 6. One Caress (did not place) 7. Rush (did not place) 8. Judas (did not place) 9. Surrender (did not place)10. Photographic (#34)11. Fly On The Windscreen - Final (#29)12. Here Is The House (#40)13. People Are People (#30)14. Sacred (did not place)15. Condemnation (did not place)16. The Sun & The Rainfall (did not place)17. Two Minute Warning (did not place)18. Something To Do (did not place)19. Puppets (did not place)20. Goodnight Lovers (did not place)
There are songs that I didn't vote for that I look at on the results and I think 'yeah, I can definitely understand why it's in there, and I probably would have voted for it myself if I'd had the space'.
'Love, In Itself', 'Useless', 'Lie To Me', 'Get The Balance Right!' and 'But Not Tonight' = not worthy of a placing in a Top 40 Depeche tracks list, IMO.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
One Caress should've been there I reckon
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Not only did I think "Enjoy" would sweep it, but "In Your Room" didn't even place? Maybe because it was a single (and one I love), I assumed it was a lock. Interesting results!
Yeah, One Caress barely missed my ballot.
― Vinnie, Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
ok this is crazy
― crüt, Sunday, 6 May 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for running the poll, crüt - didn't end up submitting a ballot as I only really know the early singles and MftM, but very happy "Shake The Disease" placed as high as it did.
― etc, Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks crüt
My ballot:
1. Walking in My Shoes2. Enjoy the Silence3. Stripped4. Photographic (Some Bizzare Version)5. Halo6. But Not Tonight7. Never Let Me Down Again (Split Mix)8. World in My Eyes9. A Question of Lust10. A Question of Time11. Fly on the Windscreen (Final)12. Something to Do13. One Caress14. Everything Counts15. Behind the Wheel16. Master and Servant17. Useless (Kruder & Dorfmeister Session)18. Rush (Spiritual Guidance Mix)19. Waiting for the Night20. Precious
Disappointed not to see my favourite SGW track, Something to Do: smalltown blues by way of boshing EBM. Also surprised by absence of Nothing, which would have been my #21 on a
Listening to Construction Time Again as I type this - fantastically inventive sounds and arrangements but boy those lyrics are even worse than I remembered. So odd, DM's political awareness - lasted for just one year. It didn't suit them.
― Get wolves (DL), Sunday, 6 May 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
"New Dress" is political, also somewhat gauche.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Sunday, 6 May 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
ps thx crut!
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Sunday, 6 May 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
thanks EVERYONE!!
― crüt, Sunday, 6 May 2012 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
good poll crüt; y'all
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Monday, 7 May 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
Among the best of boy bands; only One Direction beats them in the number of good songs per album.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 December 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
It turns out my wife had never seen "101," so we watched it tonight. I actually watch it every few years, and each time I'm elated by the end. Just a wonderful snapshot. So many great songs and performances. Love that it even gives a glimpse of mundane behind the scenes money stuff, something these movies rarely delve into.
It's odd, I've never considered myself a particularly big fan, but there is more stuff from this band that I love than there is from bands I love more. In fact, some of my happiest moments as a consumer (as gauche as that scans) were when those reissues came out, each sounding impeccable and each packaged with those absolutely illuminating documentaries. Helped me appreciate the band even more.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 November 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
I hadn't heard all of Songs of Faith and Devotion til this year. The arrangement of the non-ballads slowly add and remove instrumental parts that are often so noisy they don't function as hooks when first heard. It doesn't cohere until the last minute or so of each song, when suddenly all of these noises and sounds are combined for a big finish, at which point the song lurches about like a beast composed from diverse monstrous parts, demanding astonishment!Obviously a lot of this structure came about because they were trying to combine current electronics and the popular guitar sounds of the era.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 21:30 (seven months ago) link
I overlooked this album for a long time because I wanted more of it to be like "Walking in My Shoes" and "In Your Room", but pretty much every song on it is very good. "In Your Room" matches your description, I don't think it fully clicked with me until I'd heard the song a couple times and knew where it was going
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 23:15 (seven months ago) link
I don’t hate it but I feel it’s indirectly responsible for a lot of music I do hate (eg: nu metal with the on the red mastering, clipped beats, turntable scratches, distorted synth, ugly big guitars)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 23:27 (seven months ago) link