Depeche Mode C or D/S& D

The Mike Shinoda remix is great though, fuck the other remixes, I mean none of them answered the time honored question, "What if Depeche Mode was actually Linkin Park?"

Hahaha. That IS useless. Orgy's "Blue Monday" made more sense (ie, none at all).

"What if Depeche Mode was actually Linkin Park?"

The only difference anyway between the two bands are louder guitars and rapping, of a sort. Even the rhyme structures are similar! (Alternate example of said-mega-obvious style of rhyming: Placebo.)

Commparing EITHER song to Orgy's Blue Monday is pretty much worth a punch in the face, Ned.

behind the wheel/route 66 (megamix)
dream on - morel's pink noise club mix
master and servant (u.s. black & blue version)
nothing - justin strauss mix
people are people - special edition on-usound remix
little 15 (bogus brothers mix)
freelove - josh wink dub
personal jesus (kazan cathedral mix)
but not tonight - extended remix
but not tonight (margouleff dance mix)
freelove - powder productions remix
slowblow (mad professor mix)
rush - black sun mix

(That last one, I should note, is the semi-legendary never-exactly-released-as-such Coil mix -- Coil themselves offered it up on their site a while back very briefly so it's not rare per se, but it's nice to see it resurface again.)

I’m old enough to remember their first UK TOTP appearance, yet despite enjoying the odd single on the radio I always found them pretty lightweight, and am continually surprised how substantial their influence has been on so much electronic music - from the Horrorist to Black Strobe who drop 'World In My Eyes' in their ‘Essential Mix’.

And, for some reason, "Speak & Spell" has never been fully accepted the way, for instance "Dare", "Rio" and "Lexicon Of Love" have, although the former is also another good example of a brilliant lightweight early 80s pop album.

Would it be cruel to say that part of me misses Crazy Heroin Dave? He was such a great showman. The Happy Fun Dave of today is more reserved, is a better singer, and will survive each tour with certainty. Of course, those aren't criticisms.

The key moment, of course, is the instant when the live drums come crashing into "I Feel You". That's the DM equivalent of turning the volume knob from 10 up to the full 11.

my fave song is " nothng"

It's great!

The production's great, it's very much of a piece, also nice to feel some of the brooding goth romantisicm stuff that I like in Superpitcher/Koehncke/Alex Smoke echo back across the decades.

You don't get enough ROCK albums that sound like this.

What I like most about Violator is "Policy of Truth," though I couldn't tell you why..

That's for damn sure.

I used to worry that Alan Wilder's departure would cripple Depeche completely but as brilliant an arranger as he was, switching to a new model of working where each new producer becomes the key collaborator/arranger has resulted in Depeche becoming fresher by default, and based on "Precious" Ben Hillier is going to make it three for three here...

"I used to worry that Alan Wilder's departure would cripple Depeche completely"

I thought they were dead when he left. Their post-Alan output has been surprisingly decent, but they were still a better band with him in it.

Hillier was most well known to me for producing at least some of the Doves stuff, which given their own previous incarnation at Sub Sub is actually kinda promising as a resume item. He's part of the 140db mob, and here's his resume from that site, I think slightly in need of updating. Elbow, Blur, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, various earlier remix and engineering credits -- bit of a dog's breakfast of a career but if he doesn't seem to have a distinct sound as such he might be a useful foil in general.

I'm right that none of them are as good as "Precious" though, yeah?

am intrigued to know how they sound and how these mini-docus look. the photos inside the '...masses' one are gaaargeous.

A pity they haven't included videos in those bonus DVDs. In the Talking Heads remasters, the videos were almost half of the fun.

(Best/worst Depeche rhyme -- 'houses'/'trousers')

Clearly, that is the best. I really have nothing new or constructive to add here, but this band is still fucking great,

Did we ever do a GORE VOCALS c/d/s&d? And if not... er, does anyone have a list of the songs with gore on lead vocals?

Gore songs are always the best Depeche songs

Did we ever do a GORE VOCALS c/d/s&d?

I think we did, actually. I know Dan wrote up a list of same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gore#Depeche_Mode_songs_with_Martin_on_lead_vocals

SEARCH: ALL OF THOSE SONGS
DESTROY: NONE OF THOSE SONGS

Such a plaintive quality to his voice. Although the Counterfeit stuff was fairly underwhelming - I guess gore voice works best coupled with gore melodies.

You'd think searching for "martin gore" would find the thread. And you'd be right.

OPO Tracks sung by Martin Gore

SEARCH: ALL OF THOSE SONGS
DESTROY: NONE OF THOSE SONGS

Destroy: One Caress