The Friday Canon: DEPECHE MODE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

MODEFAX:

Dave joined the band after hearing them rehearse in a scout-hut!

They used 'People Are People' as the theme tune for agreeable children's telly programme It'll Never Work!

Dave technically died for 2 minutes in 1996!

You get THIRTEEN ticks across all these UK Top 40 hits. Blimey!

[Poll #982839]
Rod Stewart: (link)
1. Maggie May
2. I Don't Want To Talk About It / First Cut Is The Deepest
3. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
=4. Young Turks
=4. You Wear It Well
6. Stay With Me [w/ The Faces]
7. Downtown Train
8. Reason To Believe
=9. Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
=9. You're In My Heart

Comments

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I really hate these polls where I think, "Why don't I recognize anything after [year in early 90s]?"

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Depeche Mode got so good in the late 90s! We're currently the only two to have voted so it'll be a wait to see if anyone agrees with me on that, but I enjoyed Ultra at the time and think it stands up pretty well now...

HAHAHAHAHA

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Precious", "A Pain That I'm Used To", "Suffer Well", "Martyr" - YES WE GET IT DAVE!

(Actually is it still not Dave writing the lyrix?)

I had no trouble getting to 13 ticks, and ticked nothing whatsoever post Violator.

Re: HAHAHAHAHA

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In fact this is the first canon for a few weeks where I've had excess tickage - sorry to let "Behind The Wheel" and "Leave In Silence" go, and "Personal Jesus" is worth the tick I didn't give it but I witheld one because i) beginning of the end innit, ii) didn't want it to win.

Re: HAHAHAHAHA

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Out of all the ones I know, 'Barrel Of A Gun' is the only one that is actively poor.

Re: HAHAHAHAHA

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That was well into his Basildon Lizard King phase no? I think "I Feel You" is my least favourite.

John The Revelator

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Still not heard the original, but the Tiefschwarz dub was no 12 or something in my top singles of last year. SO AWESOME.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

The fact is I should know Ultra but just don't remember any of it. (That alone is reason enough for no ticky.)

(I remember "I Feel Love" but that wasn't enough.)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I barely know any of these!

Re: HAHAHAHAHA

[ms-bracken.livejournal.com]

Yes, the one that was seamlessly integrated with his "I'VE DONE A BUNCH OF SUICIDE ATTEMPTS GUYS" phase.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Home is a beautiful song, and seriously deserves more tickage here. It's also one of the few with Martin Gore singing (Question of Lust & Somebody being the other two - he obviously only likes doing ballads)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

[year in early 80s] in my case....

(Apart from PJ and EtheS)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I am at an advantage as I have the Best Of Depeche Mode on my desk and have jogged my memory accordingly!

Re: HAHAHAHAHA

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I ticked 25 on the first pass. Real struggle getting it down.

Suffer Well was written by Dave, the others all by Martin.

Words are very, unnecessary

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Worst rhyme ever! Good song though. I had no idea it was called 'Enjoy The Silence' though, I thought that was a late 90s Ibiza trance record...

Argh that's if I can even remember the words properly.

"Understand me...understand me"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Depeche are weirdly fascinating - at least in the 80s. I can't offhand think of a more rawly, embarassingly, compellingly teenage British band. The incredibly earnestly rotten lyrics, the excited discovery of kinky sex (ALLIED to said lyrics!) (though very much discovery IN A MAG), the descent into moodiness and portent ("Never Let Me Down Again" is, like, the HEAVIEST-HANDED record EVER!), all always redeemed by an ear for a hook and a real feeling and intensity. And then suddenly around 1990, after they got huge in America, it's like some kind of dam bursts and all the bottled-up intensity becomes boring rock pose "intensity" and the gaucheness (tho not the naffness) vanishes and basically they get laid and go rubbish.

Re: HAHAHAHAHA

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Martyr is really good! I am tempted to buy the last album actually if it is as good as that and JTR.

Re: Words are very, unnecessary

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

on the album version, there's a wee extension to the single mix where the words "enjoy the silence" are uttered. doesn't clear up what it means, but at least the words are in the song.

Re: "Understand me...understand me"

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

There may be some correlation with the exit of Mr Wilder.

Re: "Understand me...understand me"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

He left mid-90s, didn't he? I think it had already happened by then.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

'Everything Counts' is awesome awesome awesome and the way the crowd sings along at the end of the '101' version causes throat lump (lol i am lame)

Re: "Understand me...understand me"

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

His last album was SOFAD, so it might be argued that his involvement with Depeche Mode ended in 1993 on that album's release. I'm not sure you could call Violator - Personal Jesus aside maybe - full of boring rock pose intensity, and whilst SOFAD hinted large at the future to come, it still wasn't as bombast and INXS as ULTRA turned out to be.

Re: HAHAHAHAHA

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

good Underworld remixes tho

Re: "Understand me...understand me"

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

my favourite track on SOFAD is 'Rush' because it's the one most like their 'Violator' work.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

"Home" is my absolute favourite DM single, hands down. Seriously, it brings tears to my eyes, it's that good. Also, I do a wicked shower rendition of it.