Depeche Mode - Black Celebration

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.

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, 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?

Glad to see the best three songs came out on top

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.

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.)

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.

'Black Day', although that's more of a jam session than a remix.

Just out of interest, which lyrics on this strike you as particularly embarrassing?

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.

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.

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

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