C/D: The "ENJOY THE SILENCE!!!!!!" at the end of "Enjoy the Silence"

Influences Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Meshell Ndegeocello, Michael Jackson, Sade, Prince, Mr.Fingers, love, longing...

^^^ fuck yeah

NO WHEY. That grainy sepia tone shit took all the POP out of "Strangelove" and others

Hahahaha. We'd make the most useless buddy cop film, Ethan. (Or maybe the best, I dunno.)

o, how my 15-year-old self would boggle. several hundred listens and suddenly i like the fucking ping.

Ah, to have these reissues...soon, soon.

"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.

In retrospect, I think this is the last album they released that didn't have a lull.

Hmm, I can see that. But I tend to like the lulls because they're usually so pretty.

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).

Rio so OTFM here.

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

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?

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?)

^ I like this hypothesis

I mean, I was 9 years old but I'm pretty sure it was a UK Station, probably our local one

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.