I love "But Not Tonight" more than "A Question of Time."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 July 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
DEATH IS EVERYWHEEEEERRRRRE THERE ARE FLIES ON THE WINDSCREEN, FOR A START.
― Branwell with an N, Saturday, 26 July 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Kings of silly lyrics in portentous tones. Come on.
Branwell OTM
― Lewis - J'Agour (crüt), Saturday, 26 July 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
REMINDING UUUUUUUSSSS. WE COULD BE TORN APAAAAAAART.
― Branwell with an N, Saturday, 26 July 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
Nothing better than 80's goths telling you "we all die innit?" like this is some kind of SHOCK meaningful revelation!
― xelab, Saturday, 26 July 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
it's a rationale for boning.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 26 July 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
For me this is "Stripped" pretty easily
― Frontier Psychiatrist, Saturday, 26 July 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
lost my virginity to this record
― Jorge Wah Wah (anky), Saturday, 26 July 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
Cosign above comments - I just listened to this the other day at the request of my 11 yr old, and the lyrics are just... embarrassing now.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 27 July 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
terrible cover, but then even they admitted as much. weirdly i prefer *every* album from Some Great Reward to SOFAD over this one. the docu that accompanies the deluxe version is hillarious. went with Question Of Time although Phil Harding's mix is the mind-blower obvs.
― piscesx, Sunday, 27 July 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
What the hell is the cover supposed to be, anyway?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 27 July 2014 04:01 (nine years ago) link
Here is the House for me.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 27 July 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
The lyrics on side 2 (the boning side) are much better than those on side 1 ("New Dress" excepted).
I always liked the lyrics of "World Full of Nothing" -- a welcome break from MG's typical perviness.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 27 July 2014 14:09 (nine years ago) link
"Stripped" may be best overall, but I love how eerie "It Doesn't Matter Two" is, probably my favourite DM deep cut.
― Tim F, Sunday, 27 July 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
You can't change the world, but can change the factsand when you change the facts, you change points of viewif you change points of view, you may change a voteand when you change a vote, you may change the world
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Monday, 28 July 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
*you
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Monday, 28 July 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
is "here is the house" and "world full of nothing" the same scenario told from different perspectives? the former from mg's character's 1st person pov and the latter omniscient? "i" say "i'll confide everything" but step back a level and you see that "nothing is true, she doesn't trust him."
i dunno, but the tension on this album seems to come from shifting perspective and mediated intent. he knows the gloom and doom is bullshit but he likes it that way; it's just pillow talk. the world is death und horror so let's bonk to relieve the pain; this isn't love but isn't it more precious for being ephemeral and reifying the real thing. it's embarrassing isn't it, this need, these lies?
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 2 August 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
This is my favorite album of theirs, or maybe just a hair behind Violator. I think there's only one or two skips the whole record.
Voted fly on the windscreen.
― LimbsKing, Saturday, 2 August 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
i like "but not tonight" as a closer. it's separate from the album proper but a nice overview. there's the callbacks: reminding us/ reminding me, just for one day/ just for a day, and also a resolution. i wanted to see you stripped down to the bone but it's i who needed that. it's the only song without an us or we or him and her. it's just i. and the moon and stars and rain, (black celebration) tonight. check yerself before yada yada yada. don't pull anyone else into yer drama. get away from this constant debauchery that i totally instigated.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 2 August 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
like if you were djing a club you'd put this near the end of the set as a benediction: go out, into the night, and be ok with yerself as yerself. that's all you'll ever have, unless you scored, which is also cool. either way.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 2 August 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
and the wind in my hair! if forgot the wind in the elemental litany.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 2 August 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
aaaaaaaahhhhh oohhhhh, AAAAAAHHH OOOHHHHHHHH
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 2 August 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
that's the sound of the wind in my hair
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 2 August 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
uk version of the CD weirdly didn't have the 'extra tracks' listed on the artwork but they were on the actual CD itself, to wit
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=21426
― piscesx, Saturday, 2 August 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
But Not Tonight works great as a closer, glad I have that version. Was a big radio hit on Live 105 in the Bay Area in '86.
― LimbsKing, Sunday, 3 August 2014 12:30 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 8 August 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
"Black Celebration." why not?
― Bee OK, Friday, 8 August 2014 04:16 (nine years ago) link
man this album is incredible
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Friday, 8 August 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 9 August 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
terrible cover, but then even they admitted as much.
― piscesx, Sunday, July 27, 2014 3:28 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I can quite comfortably say that this is my least favourite '80s Depeche Mode album sleeve. It really pales in comparison compared to the likes of A Broken Frame, Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward, all of which boast fantastic sleeve artwork in my humble opinion.
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Sunday, 10 August 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, July 27, 2014 2:14 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just out of interest, which lyrics on this strike you as particularly embarrassing?
― ...and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and SAW! (Turrican), Sunday, 10 August 2014 22:27 (nine years ago) link
Glad to see the best three songs came out on top
― LimbsKing, Monday, 11 August 2014 04:48 (nine years ago) link
Interesting results -- I thought that "Stripped" would run away with this, and didn't expect "Here Is the House" to be so high. It got more votes than "A Question of Time" and "A Question of Lust" combined! And no votes for "World Full of Nothing" makes me sad.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 11 August 2014 11:33 (nine years ago) link
such a good album! listened to the whole thing for the first time this morning. the production holds up too. doesn't suffer from any dreaded 1986 production maladies.
what are the best remixes from this album? listening i kept thinking there could be some great freestyle mixes. i've HAD to have heard some of the 12-inches but i can't remember any at the moment.
(the last DM thing i bought new was the shake the disease 12-inch. which i played relentlessly. i don't know why i stopped with them. MTV did their best to keep me updated after that though.)
― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
Remixes, let's see. If we're talking at the time, definitely a couple of stellar "Stripped" ones -- the "Highland Mix" and "Breathing in Fumes," both of which were essentially done by Gareth Jones with the band's involvement.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
'Black Day', although that's more of a jam session than a remix.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
Turrican, I missed this back in 2014. I should've said, "The lyrics make *me* feel embarrassed". And that's not even the right word, "embarrassed", more like "I remember being a college freshman and finding this incredibly meaningful to my life at the time and you couldn't pay me enough to go back to that state".
It is a good album, ultimately, but you know how some records just connect to a part of you that you'd rather not revisit, or make you shake your head at your naivete? That's this record for me, in a way that Tears For Fears or The Smiths or XTC's work from the same time, which I similarly adored, doesn't make me feel.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
Oh, I completely understand... I can think of a few records that have the same kind of effect on me - I'm sure most of us, if not all of us on here has at least one record that has this effect.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
I want a cover of but not tonight, that somg but flipped over, insistent in the same way but a different voice, maybe slower, less structured. not sure who by
― let’s get real (alomar lines), Saturday, 2 June 2018 08:17 (five years ago) link
Best remix IMO, legendary 80s take-album-tracks-and-make-them-hits remixer Phil Harding made this absolute diamond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljM5u27no8s
― piscesx, Saturday, 2 June 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link