"Never Let Me Down Again" is, like, one of the gayest pop songs ever. an old flame of mine used to do it to the fuckin track, ffs. DM are a bunch of closet cases.
not that this changes the fact that they rule, and i love them more than almost any other musical group of the past 30 years.
― hot weiners is the best and i want a hot weiner (the table is the table), Monday, 29 November 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
me personally: halo > world in my eyes > waiting for the night > policy of truth > enjoy the silence > clean > personal jesus > blue dress > sweetest perfection
this plus de la soul is dead plus goo = the music i learned to drive to
― balls, Monday, 29 November 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
halo + waiting for the night for methen the singlesthen everything else
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Monday, 29 November 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
straight ppl do drugs also, not sure what's gay about 'never let me down again'
― balls, Monday, 29 November 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Hoping your best friend doesn't let you down again, which is such an odd sentiment (I'll ignore chatter that the "best friend" is a drug metaphor). I've always thought it was a sound in search of a song.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 November 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
it's awkward and ungainly, despite the awesome mix and arrangement. The lyrics don't sound finished.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 November 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
and i guess that i just don't know
― balls, Monday, 29 November 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
AS LONG AS I REMEMBER WHO'S WEARING THE TROUSERS.
i dunno, it seems pretty explicit to me. maybe i'm just biased cuz i used to have great sex to that song all the time.
― hot weiners is the best and i want a hot weiner (the table is the table), Monday, 29 November 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
always thought that song was homoerotic
'I'm taking a ride with my best friend' ffs
― iatee, Monday, 29 November 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
The swagger of the arrangement is definitely two bros in a car.
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 November 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I finished my run today with Halo coming on random. Great track and probably my favorite off Violator. Is there a better sounding live recording of that tour than the SF show?
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 29 November 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Halo was robbed here. ROBBED.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
i love this remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8onMJT7Os6g
― spacemindy, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 08:28 (twelve years ago) link
As another Halo stan I'm looking forward to the Depeche Mode tracks poll in a few weeks
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
"Halo" is ace, no doubt about that.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 10:40 (twelve years ago) link
I always found it a bit of an also-ran compared to the rest of the album. I just wasn't convinced by the lyrical imagery: "a halo in reverse", "a discomfort in your seat" (time to buy a new armchair?), and those terrible "lips of tragedy". I seem to have warmed to it over the years though and I can't criticise it musically - Alfred is certainly otm about that awesome moment when the string swoop right before doubletracked Gahan sings "It will be worth it".
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
halo is awesome, the end.
― ilxor, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
the strings!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
"halo", along with the rest of this album, has incredible bass parts.
― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
Happy 25th to "Personal Jesus" in particular.
http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/96459898922/as-i-mentioned-in-a-comment-on-facebook-last
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
I've been "Enjoying" the "Silence" of this band*!
*they're broken up
― famous instagram God (waterface), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
lol
― am0n, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
How is "Blue Dress" not way, way higher?
― vmajestic, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 23:08 (nine years ago) link
add another vote to "Halo." have been listening a lot to this album lately.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 8 January 2015 02:39 (nine years ago) link
Probably would've gone 'World In My Eyes'. Nothing approaching a dud on this album though.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 8 January 2015 11:11 (nine years ago) link
Video of their LA concert, 25 years ago today:
http://archives.depechemode.com/video/archives_concert_series/900804_losangeles.html
Unfortunately there are no complete songs, just two minute clips, but still!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 09:29 (eight years ago) link
i was watching the 'closed circuit feed' clips from Pasadena 88 from the archive site this week. funny seeing the raw footage of that night. Alan Wilder looking a combination of bemused, terrified and thrilled all at once. they look so young too, just like kids almost. no wonder it sent them doolally.
https://vimeo.com/album/2186716/page:2/sort:preset/format:thumbnail
― piscesx, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 11:10 (eight years ago) link
Wonder if the same person recorded Electronic's set from that LA show.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
One of the best albums of all time, IMO.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
I was at that Los Angeles show. Depeche mode were great, Electronic not so much.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
prob the most popular 'modern rock' album for scoring gay pr0n in the '90s
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
this is my go to for "this thing is so and so many years old but so and so many years before that thomas edison invented the tampon." enjoy the silence my ass. the void is screaming back at you. time is fucked up seriously. there were at least full three cultural cycles in the 1980s by my count but this was barely one and a half cultural cycles ago? the beatles barely got off the plane yet two violators ago. three violators ago people were buying war bonds. this shit was just yesterday.
― slugbuggy, Saturday, 8 August 2015 06:24 (eight years ago) link
I've been spending so much time with Spirit this year that I've realised I haven't returned to Violator in a while. Listening to this with that in mind, I'm struck by how different both Gahan's and Gore's voices are now - and not neccessarily for the better either.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
Like, Gahan's vocals on Violator are definitely untutored, but the overall sound of his voice is far easier on the ear, I think.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah, and I'll always love the way 'Blue Dress' segues into 'Clean' via 'Interlude Nr. 3' ... this is one of those albums where side one is awesome and side two still manages to blow it out of the water.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
yeah Gahan's singing is obviously more skilled now but I defintely prefer his old hoarse drone
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
good god i love "policy of truth"
― brimstead, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
Yeah, it's probably my favourite track on the album, although it's a tough choice!
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link
This thread inspired me to listen to the whole album end to end for the first time in god knows how long, and Jesus Christ it’s all killer isn’t it? The sound design is so much more detailed than I remember it, a weird collage of familiar 90s presets with textbook Fairlight sampling. And correct me if I’m wrong; but there weren’t many electronic bands at that point embracing 6/8 the way DM did?Side note: me and a friend covered Policy of Truth for an 8-bit compilation a couple of years back: https://8bitoperators.bandcamp.com/track/policy-of-truth
― bamboohouses, Thursday, 23 November 2017 00:32 (six years ago) link
it really does sound incredible... flood is an iron chef here. i was thinking about that cascading feedback/e-bowing that closes "policy of truth".. it's an amazing sound and it's mixed so well.
― understood by moron level and above (brimstead), Thursday, 23 November 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
Francois Kervorkian mixed the album and apparently he was really anal about it - there's stories about the band listening in to him mixing and all they can hear is a hi-hat or something and they're thinking "what is he doing!?"
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 23 November 2017 07:13 (six years ago) link
*Kevorkian, sorry.
He also mixed Kraftwerk's Electric Cafe.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 23 November 2017 07:15 (six years ago) link
Violator is the last good Depeche Mode album
― crüt, Thursday, 23 November 2017 07:16 (six years ago) link
"Kervorkian" is the misspelling they used in the Violator liner notes iirc
― crüt, Thursday, 23 November 2017 07:17 (six years ago) link
ut i stand by "enjoy the silence" because i could write thesis about it
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Why because it footnote interstin
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― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 November 2017 07:29 (six years ago) link
i sang Policy of Truth at karaoke tonight....the song is just fuckin infectious
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 November 2017 07:31 (six years ago) link
xxpost:
Yeah, it's understandable to think that. Violator represents a peak of sorts - the one it was all leading up to, and the one that everything after was in the shadow of. I still think Songs of Faith and Devotion and Ultra are great records, though - and generally see 1984-1998 as one long extended period of greatness. After that, it gets spotty.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Thursday, 23 November 2017 07:34 (six years ago) link
As of last week, "Personal Jesus" is now thirty years old.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 September 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
Your ownMiddle-agedJesus
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 6 September 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
I have a good friend, a bit older than me, who used to be at least a casual fan of Depeche Mode throughout the '80s... until Violator! I can't really conceive of that album being the jump-ship point. He reserves a huge hunk of animus for "Personal Jesus," specifically.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 September 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link