02.26.2009, 12:48 PM | #21 | |
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^^^ I <3 Nitzer Ebb (coincidentally enough, I saw them open for Depeche Mode...back in the day)
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02.26.2009, 02:55 PM | #22 |
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great video & a pretty good tune as well. my favourite album is speak & spell. the only album of theirs that didn't realy grab me was exciter and i haven't heard playing the angel.
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I don't mind them, but I don't want to listen to them, if it makes sense. They seem to have some of the nicest fans.
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Goths or ex-goths are some of the nicest people.
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02.26.2009, 03:20 PM | #25 |
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I was a huge DM fan in my youth. Still enjoy some of the 80s stuff. I can still appreciate Violator, although at times it is bit too emotionally overwrought.
Revisiting the 80s stuff now, and discounting A Broken Frame as an album too trifling (aside from its beautiful cover art), it seems that Black Celebration has not aged as well as I thought it would. The title track, "Stripped", and "Fly on the Windscreen" still sound good to me, but much of the rest is just embarrassing. I used to think that was the best DM album. Now I'm of the mind that Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward, and Music for the Masses are the essentials. Everything from Ultra and thereafter was just rubbish...sorry! I'll give this new one a listen-to, though. Also, as a record, 101 is terrible. As a movie, it's pretty fun. And I was actually there at the Rose Bowl show! I was about 100 rows back surrounded by screaming girls. My older cousins took me along, figuring I'd be so stoked. But just a few weeks before, I had seen my very first live show....a backyard pool-party event with Savage Republic which was so sublime and incredible. I was really excited that Wire opened the Rose Bowl show, but no one seemed to care. It didn't matter that Wire were only playing songs from their last two (pretty bad) albums and nothing from the great first three albums...I was still bummed that no one seemed to show any respect. This may have contributed as much as anything to my Northern California supremacist attitude about Angelenos.
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It seems that I'm the only one who really likes Ultra.
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love em up to about 1990.. black celebration and violatot are fantastic albums and 101 has to be in the top 3 live albums of all time.
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at times i like them and at times i hate them. i think when they get overplayed on someone's ipod at work then that's when i hate them (the same damn three songs too). i remember really liking "black celebration" at one point in my life.
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ultra's first side is GREAT
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Haven't heard Ultra but the last one Playing The Angel was good. John The Revelator's really noisy, turn it up loud and RAWK. Not sure how I feel about "Wrong" but I heard another song from the album that was really good.
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All I have to say about this topic is...
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02.27.2009, 05:14 AM | #37 |
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I think I'm about to dust off my old Depeche Mode CDs and give them all a listen tonight.
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sing with me: "Put it on And don't say a word Put it on The one that I prefer Put it on And stand before my eyes Put it on Please don't question why Can you believe Something so simple Something so trivial Makes me a happy man Can't you understand Say you believe Just how easy It is to please me Because when you learn You'll know what makes the world turn Put it on I can feel so much Put it on I don't need to touch Put it on Here before my eyes Put it on Because you realise And you believe Something so worthless Serves a purpose It makes me a happy man Can't you understand Say you believe Just how easy It is to please me Because when you learn You'll know what makes the world turn |
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