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

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)