Hearts can never be POLLed -- ILM Artist Poll # 18 -- Depeche Mode RESULTS THREAD

Would have voted:

Fly On The Windscreen
I Want You Now
Here Is The House
In Your Room
Halo
To Have And To Hold
Stripped
Black Celebration
Behind The Wheel
It Doesn't Matter Two
A Question Of Lust
Policy Of Truth
Somebody
Happiest Girl
The Things You Said
World In My Eyes
Little 15
Condemnation
Blasphemous Rumours
Everything Counts

Wouldn't have made any difference, I suspect.

Although I seem to recall Counterfit (and Counterfit ^2?) votes were allowed which would have changed that as well.

Just for yucks here's the ballot breakdown by album. RIP Blue Dress ;_;

(Dreaming of Me)

New Life
I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
Puppets
Boys Say Go
Nodisco
What's Your Name?
Photographic
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Big Muff
Any Second Now (Voices)
Just Can't Get Enough

Leave in Silence
My Secret Garden
Monument
Nothing to Fear
See You
Satellite
The Meaning of Love
A Photograph of You
Shouldn't Have Done That
The Sun & the Rainfall

(Get the Balance Right!)

Love, in Itself
More Than a Party
Pipeline
Everything Counts
Two Minute Warning
Shame
The Landscape Is Changing
Told You So
And Then...

Something to Do
Lie to Me
People Are People
It Doesn't Matter
Stories of Old
Somebody
Master and Servant
If You Want
Blasphemous Rumours

(Shake the Disease)

Black Celebration
Fly on the Windscreen - Final
A Question of Lust
Sometimes
It Doesn't Matter Two
A Question of Time
Stripped
Here Is the House
World Full of Nothing
Dressed in Black
New Dress
Breathing in Fumes
But Not Tonight (Extended Remix)
Black Day

Never Let Me Down Again
The Things You Said
Strangelove
Sacred
Little 15
Behind the Wheel
I Want You Now
To Have and to Hold
Nothing
Pimpf

World in My Eyes
Sweetest Perfection
Personal Jesus
Halo
Waiting for the Night
Enjoy the Silence
Policy of Truth
Blue Dress
Clean

(Sea of Sin)

I Feel You
Walking in My Shoes
Condemnation
Mercy in You
Judas
In Your Room
Get Right with Me
Rush
One Caress
Higher Love

Barrel of a Gun
The Love Thieves
Home
It's No Good
Uselink
Useless
Sister of Night
Jazz Thieves
Freestate
The Bottom Line
Insight

(Exciter - nada)

A Pain That I'm Used To
John the Revelator
Suffer Well
The Sinner in Me
Precious
Macro
I Want It All
Nothing's Impossible
Introspectre
Damaged People
Lilian
The Darkest Star

(Sounds of the Universe - nada)

Rush & In Your Room >>>>>> It's No Good & Useless.

wow, ALL of my songs made it except for one that i knew wasn't going to anyway. very nice poll.

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 Silence
Policy of Truth
Just Can't Get Enough
Insight
Martyr
Everything Counts
But Not Tonight
I Feel You
Strangelove
In Chains
Suffer Well
Never Let Me Down Again
Walking In My Shoes
New Life
Blue Dress
Useless
Lie To Me
I Want You Now
Blasphemous Rumours
Photographic

my ballot

1. To Have and to Hold
2. Sweetest Perfection
3. Never Let Me Down Again
4. Stripped
5. Barrel of a Gun
6. Master and Servant
7. Shake the Disease
8. World in My Eyes
9. Personal Jesus
10. Enjoy the Silence
11. Sea of Sin
12. Get the Balance Right
13. A Question of Time
14. Black Celebration
15. Happiest Girl
16. Behind the Wheel
17. Home
18. I Feel Loved
19. Rush
20. Pimpf

honestly thought To Have and To Hold was more liked, such an amazing song

can I just say, NB&S your ballot is amazing

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.

silverfish your ballot is also amazing

Me:

01. Photographic
02. Never Let Me Down Again
03. Black Celebration
04. Everything Counts
05. Behind The Wheel
06. Strangelove
07. New Life
08. Dreaming of Me
09. Boys Say Go!
10. Just Can't Get Enough
11. Puppets
12. Stripped
13. Fly On The Windscreen
14. Get The Balance Right!
15. The Things You Said
16. Blasphemous Rumours
17. Master and Servant
18. Something to Do
19. Shake The Disease
20. Enjoy The Silence

01. Speak & Spell 02. Music For The Masses 03. Black Celebration

Thanks for your efforts, crüt!

This was mine:

1 But Not Tonight
2 Just Can't Get Enough
3 Everything Counts
4 Never Let Me Down Again
5 Enjoy the Silence
6 Policy of Truth
7 Blasphemous Rumors
8 Question of Time
9 World in My Eyes
10 People are People
11 Strangelove
12 See You
13 Personal Jesus
14 Shake the Disease
15 Dreaming of Me
16 The Meaning of Love
17 Somebody
18 New Life
19 Love, in Itself
20 Master and Servant

can I just say, NB&S your ballot is amazing

In a good way, I hope

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, Saturday, May 5, 2012 7:42 PM

It was my #1 vote!

I don't know enough about DM to have voted, but just wanted to say thanks for running this poll, Crüt.

^^^^ yes

thanks from me too. This list will give me a good starting point to delve into DM.

Thanks, Curt1s. My ballot, more or less (i.e. from memory):

1. Love, In Itself
2. See You (Extended Version)
3. Big Muff
4. Now, This Is Fun (Extended Version)
5. New Life
6. I Feel You
7. Personal Jesus
8. Everything Counts
9. Wrong
10. Just Can't Get Enough

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.

One Caress should've been there I reckon

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.

'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.

ok this is crazy

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.

Thanks crüt

My ballot:

1. Walking in My Shoes
2. Enjoy the Silence
3. Stripped
4. Photographic (Some Bizzare Version)
5. Halo
6. But Not Tonight
7. Never Let Me Down Again (Split Mix)
8. World in My Eyes
9. A Question of Lust
10. A Question of Time
11. Fly on the Windscreen (Final)
12. Something to Do
13. One Caress
14. Everything Counts
15. Behind the Wheel
16. Master and Servant
17. Useless (Kruder & Dorfmeister Session)
18. Rush (Spiritual Guidance Mix)
19. Waiting for the Night
20. 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.

"New Dress" is political, also somewhat gauche.

ps thx crut!

thanks EVERYONE!!

good poll crüt; y'all

Among the best of boy bands; only One Direction beats them in the number of good songs per album.

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.

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.

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

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)