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

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)