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mattw.

who cares what steve says. like 'em or don't like 'em for your own reason.



i say violator is definitely not crap. then they've got some spotty other stuff, but it's mostly crap.

slowriot wrote:mattw.

who cares what steve says. like 'em or don't like 'em for your own reason.



i say violator is definitely not crap. then they've got some spotty other stuff, but it's mostly crap.

Ha!

I was trying to find this quote- in particular, the 'young homosexuals' line was funny. I thought I'd share it w/ the fine folks of this forum. Sorry.

HA! once again my bad taste surfaces. not crap. my first "big" concert. depeche mode/nitzer ebb. (nitzer ebb=crap) well, unless you count the monsters of rock show which technically i did see, but i was like 6 and i kinda got there by accident, not cuz i wanted to see the show - but i did see ozzy and accept and i think maiden....

anyway - listen to "fly on the windscreen." awesome song.

certainly many things to argue crap about - undoubtedly, but my heart - she tells me not crap even though the mind says crap.

To sum up:

Violator - one of the coolest albums ever
Music For The Masses - also a solid effort
101 - amazing live record and an even cooler movie

hell, i even liked ULTRA.

Martin Gore is one of the most interesting songwriters to come out of his era.



cheers

not a problem, mattw. it just seemed as if you were quoting him and making that like, "the final word" on whether or not they were crap.

slowriot wrote:not a problem, mattw. it just seemed as if you were quoting him and making that like, "the final word" on whether or not they were crap.

No, I'm not one of 'those people' This is an equal opportunity board, right?

Jeeze... This is stuff I liked in 6th grade. I not only dislike Depeche Mode, but I'm not a fan of their fans. I went to the Subway one day, near the venue that DM were playing at, but I didn't know. I was just wondering why there were tons of snooty alterna-"hipsters" that looked like they haven't taken a dump in 10 years at the Subway.

I remember this guy in college who was this alterna-hipster type, and he always talked about how much better he was than "the masses". His favorite band was DM -- music for the masses? Or music for snooty jerks that think they're better than everyone and use way too much hair spray?

The funniest thing is that years after grunge became lame, their singer got all into bands like Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. Jeeze. I mean YEARS after these bands really sucked (I would almost have to say these bands always did kind of suck, although early SG is OK with me). I guess DM incorporated the grunge sound into their music, YEARS after grunge became stale co-opted crap.

Crap. Poop. Feces. Any way you slice it!

That Dead Milkmen song that bags on them is great. I also like that "Smell Me" song. That continues to have me laughing, even after 20 years or so!!! And yeah, South Philly does smell like garbage.

sorry but DM are far from being crap. you are crap.

I've never seen them live nor have purchased their albums, but I do have a lot of their 12" singles, and I know I will get the albums one day.. They've got quite a solid career behind them... and I've always respected them.. even when they were a boy band for Vince Clarke's songwriting a la Speak And Spell (I'm also a Yazoo fan, and can deal with Erasure to a small degree, mainly a handful of their singles, but nothing beyond that.)

It kinda pisses me off whenever the whole "brit" "fag" thing is brought up in their mention.. which is not only homophobic but rather narrowly homophobic.. like there aren't other 80s/90s/00s synth pop bands that homophobes can't direct their ire towards? This is the giggly silver lining to a lot of Depeche hatred I hear... (never mind Freddie Mercury or Rob Halford, who were "real rocker's fags!")

Granted, I can understand people not liking them purely for aesthetic issues... Gahan's very low, very "British" timbre.. the vocals being too teen-pop -- which is true. Gahan's voice can get pretty cartooney after a while, but over the past 25 years, it's quite admirable how they've evolved as songwriters.. well, Martin Gore at least. (He's written about 98% of their songs at this point...)

I thought they broke a lot of ground and had a lot of great songs, and great sounding as well. If it weren't for Depeche Mode, I wouldn't have gotten into Einsturzende Neubauten, DAF, or On-U Sound related stuff, as they flaunted those influences between 1984 and 1986.

I fell off after Violator, which is probably their best album. And for people into junkie olympics, apparently when Primal Scream toured with Depeche circa Songs Of Faith And Devotion, Gahan's coke excess apparently scared Primal Scream out of doing drugs! Without much surprise, Alan Wilder -- the band's overlooked secret force -- left the band after that.

Say what you want about Guitar Center types, but I'm really happy that whenever I have to walk into GC to get accessories, I now hear Depeche Mode instead of Limp Bizkit, Guns 'N' Roses, or Nirvana (the latter of which I still don't mind, even though I've memorized their three albums already, k thanks GC, bye). In a way, it reinforces what the current canon of popular rock is -- which would surely make many of you happy and/or disgusted.

I'm in the minority here, admittedly. Sorry guys. N/C 0.6

Photographic is a good song. I don't like techno, but this song is good.