Depeche Mode

Music for the Masses….

So many but this is a sentimental favorite: Behind The Wheel/Route 66 mashup

Blue Dress

Exciter.

Album - Black Celebration

Song - difficult to choose just one, but lately it's Halo

I have Black Celebration in vinyl…..

My favorite song would probably be Personal Jesus

Flies on the Windscreen, for a start

R7 Ditto. Personal Jesus.

Because I love the video and the sexiness of the song I want to say "I Feel You", but really it's the Martin Gore led "Home" from "Ultra".

OP This thread makes my day.

This remix of 'A Pain That I'm Used To' - but all the early period Depeche Mode singles hold special places in my heart as they shaped my early teenage years. The video to 'See You' takes me back to shopping for 45s in 'Woolies' on a Saturday morning, furtively checking out cute guys.

Excellent choice, R3. I love that song!

A sentimental favorite for me is Never Let Me Down Again. I had just got to Paris in 1987 for a year abroad in undergrad. This song was popular in France that fall. It always makes me think of Paris.

R11 - Home would be my choice too.

Been a fan since I heard New Life in 1981 and I've bought every single the day it came out since Get The Balance Right way back in 1983. Most of the albums since Ultra have been mediocre at best, although Spirit had some good stuff.

Sorry, meant R10

Strangelove is my favorite song.

Violator was the soundtrack of my life for a year or two in the early 90s. Personal Jesus is great but Enjoy The Silence was my favorite

The one about “Princess Di is wearing a new dress.”

Depeche Commode

Never let me down again is my favorite song and I loved the video set in Denmark. The rose bowl performance was amazing.

The trifecta of black celebrations, music for the masses and violator was their peak.

It's really hard to pick between Black Celebration and Music for the Masses. But, if pressed it would be Black Celebration, with Ultra as a third.

Personal Jesus era video Dave Gahan can fuck until I can’t walk straight ever again.

R19

hater slime alert

Just Can't Get Enough, by Vince Clarke. It's probably my favourite song ever!

"...and Princess Di's wearing a new dress."

Album: Black Celebration Song: But Not Tonight

Not a fan of much of the stuff post Alan Wilder.

They all say it's their least favorite song, but I love "What's Your Name" because I can't believe a group of straight guys could sing anything so gay, Oh but wait - they're English.

R24 me too, total ear worm! But in a good way.

Just Can’t Get Enough sounds like a song left over for Alison, they even sing it Alisonesque.

Shake the Disease and Policy of Truth

Music For the Masses/Behind the Wheel

R20

You don't count Songs of Faith and Devotion?

That's my favotite, and In your room is favotite song. But i love all their albums they did with Alan Wilder. Such a great group. Saw them live in Mad Cool Madrid and Dave Gahan was pinging as crazy.

DL fave Jimmy Somerville sings But Not Tonight

Happy Pride!!

Dream On

Album would be Black Celebration, but for song I'm torn between "A Pain That I'm Used To" and the aforementioned "But Not Tonight."

Even my beloved Scott Weiland was a fan . . .

I'm with you, R32, I would include Songs of Faith and Devotion in their peak period, after which they began to lose me.

In high school, I had forgotten to write a book report. I made up a book "Blasphemous Rumors" by Martin Gore, and wrote in study hall. Plot was the song. Got a B.

R37 Marry me!

Halo - Goldfrapp Remix

At times, I definitely feel that I wear guilt, like shackles on my feet, like a halo in reverse.

Random DM thoughts. I always thought Martin and Fletch were a couple. Dave also seemed very gay-I suspect he is pansexual. Alan always seemed straight. A lot of people don’t know Martin is part AfricanAmerican. He doesn’t talk about it much. When Alan was in the band in their peak and before they added the guitar, the set-up of three keyboard players on Emulator 2 samplers was an awesome sight. It was such a rejection of typical rock.

I’ve always been a big DM fan. At our wedding, we had a quartet play Strangelove as we signed our vows.

World In My Eyes

Album - A Broken Frame

Song - Domino Dancing

I like ‘behind the wheel’ I remember hearing the album being blasted out from a venue in Chicago near millennium Park one warm summer’s day a few years ago. It left an impression on me.

Fantastic thread OP. Depeche Mode were the soundtrack of my early life with (gasp!) Madonna since I discovered as a gayling I Just Can’t get enough and the very daring Master and Servant. I then dutifully followed them, buying every album until they lost me with Ultra which was a bit too noisy for me. I jumped back on the bandwagon with Playing the Angel and looked at the back catalogue I had missed, including the masterpiece Exciter. I went to see them at the London O2 for Touring the Angel and have to say I felt my age. Everybody was in their late 30’s, early 40’s! Lol.

Since then their albums have been unequal, with a few real gems, and a lot of fillers. If you like Depeche Mode and Goldfrapp, I recommend Golfrapp’s Ocean featuring Dave Gahan. A fabulous song.

R43 - I don't remember DM doing a cover of the Pet Shop Boys' "Domino Dancing."

My favorite has always been “Enjoy the Silence”.

“Words like violence break the silence” definitely ranks up there in the top ten lyrics phrases of all times.

I love "Everything Counts". Perfect 80's song with a message.

Some of their solo work is pretty great too.

I loved their song ‘Precious’

Album - Music for the Masses

My favourite songs include "Enjoy the Silence", "Somebody" and "People are People".

Happy Belated Birthday to Andy Fletcher!

Another vote for Shake the Disease, but I also love Question of Lust.

One of my first concerts was Depeche Mode, and I loved how Personal Jesus plays in real life. I still remember how it reverberated throughout the dark arena. It was powerful.

Everybody Hurts

I'm a huge fan. I grew up listening to strange love, enjoy the silence etc...I know all the words...still. I never saw them in concert until a few years ago, Dave Gahan is so good live!

If you look at the music videos when they were young, Dave is so gay! But he's from Europe...kind of hard to tell.

They all looked kind of gay back then especially when Martin was wearing a dress.

Queerbaiting in the 1980's

^^ was queerbaiting even a thing in the early '80s? ^^

A lot of British musicians tried to look sexually ambiguous in the 1980's.

yes, nick rodes pinged to me

R59 Queerbaiting was done in the 1980's to drive teen girls wild in order to increase sales. It had certainly helped David Bowie's career.

Favorite song: the album version of In Your Room Favorite album: Violator (basic I know)

Absolutely tremendous band.

But Not Tonight is my favorite song but Violator is my fave album.

So, if the question was albums, the winners seem to be Construction Time Again and A Broken Frame?

R62, I don't know if Bowie would have been considered a queer baiter since he wasn't straight in the first place.

Personal Jesus.

yes, so many great songs.

I love the live in berlin album

Shiny Happy People

R60 - I want to see a clip of Duran Duran behaving like the guys in DM in that clip @ R58. Looking sexually ambiguous and acting that way are two different things.

Why are some people (R55 & R69) blurting out REM titles?

R70 part two- because they’re running Out of Time?

To chose one of their albums over others is an impossible task considering how much their music evolved over the years.

Of their early albums I’d chose “A broken frame”. Absolute masterpiece and already a 180 degrees turn compared to their previous one, the poppy “Speak and Spell”. I’d also pick the album that made them global superstars, “Music for the masses”. I was a teenager at that time and played this album on repeat for maybe a year or two. I think it was the second CD I ever bought (True Blue being the first!). “Violator” of course was the transition towards an edgier, heavier sound, while retaining some synth pop elements (“Enjoy the Silence”). “Exciter” saw them going back to that sound after 2 albums I have very little time for. Of the later production, “Sounds of the Universe” and “Delta Machine” contain real gems, but a lot of fillers too. I think they’ve kind of exhausted their inspiration now, but what a career and what a legacy!

It’s a Question of Lust.

What's my favorite? I don't know, something from 40 years ago. Who cares?

Stand

R74 if you don’t care then fuck off this thread. Simple!

R76 = Dave Gahan

What is the best boxset?

Besides Dave’s heroin addiction, they stay largely out of the tabloids.

I also like "A Broken Frame".