"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.
― rio (r1o natsume), Monday, 13 October 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
In retrospect, I think this is the last album they released that didn't have a lull.
― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm, I can see that. But I tend to like the lulls because they're usually so pretty.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Monday, 13 October 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Rio so OTFM here.
― Telephone thing, Monday, 13 October 2008 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Campaign to move el0n mu5k thread to ILM (Will M.), Saturday, 15 February 2020 01:46 (four years ago) link
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?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 15 February 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
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?)
― SlimAndSlam, Saturday, 15 February 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
^ I like this hypothesis
― uncrut gems (crüt), Saturday, 15 February 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
I mean, I was 9 years old but I'm pretty sure it was a UK Station, probably our local one
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Saturday, 15 February 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
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.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 15 February 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link