Best Depeche Mode Album

Originally posted by ERIC BERTON violaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaator !

i love your icon. obviously quite fitting for this thread. :)

Errr, Violator ripping off NO? Ive never heard anything so stupid. How? If its a New Order rip off then almost any group which uses analog synths are.

I get annoyed by people who think that their favourite group are infalible and that everyone copies them. Its ignorant and elitist.

I am a big DM fan, and im a big NO fan, but they are very different groups.

I voted for SOFAD, my fave 3 are that one Violator and Black Celebration. I enjoy all their material from 84-98, but I think Exciter is rubbish.

I do think they are highly influential and innovative, just like the Order.

Cheers ALEX

Good one Alex, I agree entirely. Their sound is completely different and one could never be mistaken for the other. In the end I had to go with "Black Celebration", because as a whole album it has the most effective atmosphere and flow. I thought that Ultra had a very similar feel, ie that it captured where the band was at when they recorded it. I was very disappointed in Exciter and it lies almost forgotten on my CD rack - I don't think that Martin's heart was in it when he wrote the songs. Lyrically he explored the same themes and how many times can one person's "soul" still be "on fire" before it burns out?

Is there really any contest here... Violator.

"Enjoy the Silence"... or the music as the case may be.

I Love Music for the Masses. It gives me goose-pimples

I voted for Violator but it's really a tie between that and Exciter for me (shame I couldn't vote for both!).

I voted for Music for the Masses but my vote could have easily gone to Some Great Reward.

Originally posted by White Man In Hammersmith Palais I voted for Music for the Masses but my vote could have easily gone to Some Great Reward.

those are fabulous albums.

in some ways, i think the Music For The Masses was their first album that was excellent and consistent. Black Celebration had some absolutely marvelous songs, but also some rather shabby ones. MFTM is of consistent - and high - quality.

Voted for "Music For The Masses", but I love Black Celebration and Violator too.

DM...great band.

Originally posted by White Man In Hammersmith Palais I voted for Music for the Masses but my vote could have easily gone to Some Great Reward.

i really wish that at least one person would vote for Some Great Reward. it's such a great album! how could it not be, what with People Are People, Master and Servant, Somebody, Blasphemous Rumours, and Lie To Me?

ultra is my favorite recent album and might make it as one of my all-time favorites, but i voted for violator cause of the bsides. happiest girl, sea of sin, and dangerous should have been on violator. i copied violator and the bsides onto one disc, and its fucking amazing. 12 great songs.

I'm kinda surprised no one has voted for Some Great Reward (EDIT: surprised if hasn't recieved more votes). I wish I could vote twice, would have made things alot easier.

Some Great Reward is a great album, arguabley one of DM's best. Gotta love the Wilder penned "If You want". Great song.

On a DM related tip, what are your thoughts on Alan Wilder's "Recoil" project? I haven't really listenned to any of that stuff.

Originally posted by White Man In Hammersmith Palais I'm kinda surprised no one has voted for Some Great Reward (EDIT: surprised if hasn't recieved more votes). I wish I could vote twice, would have made things alot easier.Some Great Reward is a great album, arguabley one of DM's best. Gotta love the Wilder penned "If You want". Great song.On a DM related tip, what are your thoughts on Alan Wilder's "Recoil" project? I haven't really listenned to any of that stuff.

Recoil's very interesting. i love some of it, but the album i heard seemed formulaic to me. the atmosphere is excellent - it definitely shows the extent to which he was responsible for the ambience on SOFAD and particularly Violator.

Originally posted by April Favorite song is Nothing

"OOOOOOOOOH! OOOOOOOOOH!"

:)

Tough call. Went for Masses by a whisker over Violator, because of 'Never Let Me Down Again' :D

Went for Violator, only just. Music For The Masses is class also, and I really like the live version of SOFAD.

Have to agree with Film586 about Some Great Reward. Some great tunes!! As it happens, Blasphemous Rumours was the one that got me started on DM.... way back in '85, just a couple of years before NO.

l love the downbeats on ultra - very groovy album and never thought they will do something good without alan!

every album is a special one! every one means a decade in my life! but i really love to listen to ultra - this only since 2 or 3 years - i hate it, when it came out...

Never Let Me Down Again has been mentioned a few times...

Anyone remember DM's performance at the MTV awards a couple of years ago (2001 I think, the one hosted by Ali G). I assumed they'd play Freelove as that was their current/most recent single at the time, but they went with NLMDA. I remember thinking what a performance and a song over a decade old that took a dump from a great height over anything else on the show that night, or in the charts for that matter.

Gone a little off the subject here, sorry!

well lets see............hmmmm.................i guess i would have to say.....ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!! THAT HAS TO BE THE STUP...What? oh sorry gotta pick one ok VIOLATOR! Thanks Larry

I see dead people pooping!

Originally posted by Element115 Never Let Me Down Again has been mentioned a few times...Anyone remember DM's performance at the MTV awards a couple of years ago (2001 I think, the one hosted by Ali G). I assumed they'd play Freelove as that was their current/most recent single at the time, but they went with NLMDA. I remember thinking what a performance and a song over a decade old that took a dump from a great height over anything else on the show that night, or in the charts for that matter.Gone a little off the subject here, sorry!

I remember that, absolutely amazing performance of the classic DM anthem. Apparantly everyone backstage was amazed by it, but Alanis Morissette said she hated it and wanted DM to retire. I'd boycott her records but...:p

Originally posted by Ben Aspinall > Originally posted by Element115 Never Let Me Down Again has been mentioned a few times...Anyone remember DM's performance at the MTV awards a couple of years ago (2001 I think, the one hosted by Ali G). I assumed they'd play Freelove as that was their current/most recent single at the time, but they went with NLMDA. I remember thinking what a performance and a song over a decade old that took a dump from a great height over anything else on the show that night, or in the charts for that matter.Gone a little off the subject here, sorry!

I remember that, absolutely amazing performance of the classic DM anthem. Apparantly everyone backstage was amazed by it, but Alanis Morissette said she hated it and wanted DM to retire. I'd boycott her records but...:p the encore performance of NLMDA at many of the Exciter tour shows was absolutely incredible when i saw it in Denver.

"Black Celebration" for "A Question Of Time", "A Question Of Lust" and "New Dress".

I love violator, but the songs on Construction Time Again are classic for me; I can listen to them repeatedly for months and never ger sick of them, but my favorite song, Question of Time, is on Black Celebration

Violator all the way. But Some Great Reward and Black Celebration come close too.

Depeche Mode only got good from Black celebration onwards. Their early stuff was acutely embarrassing to listen to. "Everything counts in large amounts"? "Taking from the greedy giving to the needy"? "Straight down the middle until next Thursday"?? "People are people so why should it be / you and I should get along so awfully"??? I mean, come on! :p

All of them kick an unsurmountable amount of ass, but SOAFD literally rapes every other album period!!! One caress and Higher LOve are probably my two favorite songs from any band of all time!

Originally posted by White Man In Hammersmith Palais I voted for...

Hey are you the same White Man In Hammersmith Palais from Gaming Age?

Originally posted by Chris&nbspCampbell Depeche Mode only got good from Black celebration onwards. Their early stuff was acutely embarrassing to listen to. "Everything counts in large amounts"? "Taking from the greedy giving to the needy"? "Straight down the middle until next Thursday"?? "People are people so why should it be / you and I should get along so awfully"??? I mean, come on! :p

hey what's wrong with things counting in large amounts, everybody likes a lot of things

Isamu,

I'm not the same person.

I have to agree that pre-BC was just a bit dodgy. Good thing Martin L Gore got depressed.

Why doesn't anyone love Construction Time Again; it's as good as or just a slightly worse than BC and Violator.