So Depeche Mode released their famous concert film, "101" today. If anyone out there is a DM fan or a D.A. Pennebaker fan, I highly reccomend you pick up this movie. If anyone is a Road Rules or any other reality show fan, I also reccomend you pick this up, since this was almost like the forerunner for all of these shows...
So who is a DM fan here? Any comments on this film, or DM in general?
MEEEEEEEEEEEEE i'm fan of Depeche, my brother was the person who introduced them to me,he was a HUGE fan! i hope 101 come to Peru soon
they are a great band i have The Videos 1986-1998 DVD, i'd love to have the 101
and what's your favorite DM album Nick??
and song?
mine is Songs of Faith and Devotion but for personal reasons, anyway i love Black celebration, Violator, Ultra and Exciter too...
and maybe their most powerful song is Personal Jesus, but if i'd have to choose just one mmmm... there are a lot of good songs but maybe i'd pick out One Caress
peole are people.... so why.... should it be..that you.... and i.... get.... along so... awfully.......
help me understand.....
Been a fan since the early years when I borrowed my brother's copy of "People Are People". Saw them in concert at Dodger Stadium for the "Violator" tour, and still have my concert t-shirt.
Fave album is "Music For The Masses". Love every song on that album.
Fave song: I have to pick one? I'll pick some from other albums. "Fly On The Windscreen," "Home," "Everything Counts," "Walking In My Shoes," "But Not Tonight" and "Useless."
I love DM. Freelove my favourite lately. They are so gloomy that after listening them for awhile you start to think gloomy is the only normal and perfectly OK.
I've been a longtime fan (since 1995), and have known of them long before that... i'd say my favorite album is either Violator or Songs of Faith of Devotion... its irony that a great album with such a name would lead them to a path of non-faith and no more devotion to the band... at least for a while...
My favorite song is Walking in My Shoes, with Everything Counts not far behind... then One Carress is third, I think...
I love that frickin band...
Quote from: MacGuffinBeen a fan since the early years when I borrowed my brother's copy of "People Are People"
is nice when you have brothers with good taste...
Quote from: TheVoiceOfNickMy favorite song is Walking in My Shoes, with Everything Counts not far behind... then One Carress is third, I think...
talking about brothers, my brother used to say: "The name of this song is One Caress and in fact this song is one caress", i think he was right
I agree with MacG about Music for the Masses being the strongest album... and then Violator is very strong, too. I think the albums get progressively weaker after that...
DM is such a nostalgia trip for me. I had the videocassette of 101 as a teen. They were my first adolescent heroes, definitely. I'm not such a huge fan anymore, really, but I have seen them three times in concert overall: The Faith and Devotion tour, the singles-comp tour, and the Exciter tour.
Quote from: godardianbut I have seen them three times in concert overall: The Faith and Devotion tour, the singles-comp tour, and the Exciter tour.
I'm still a giant fan... for many reasons... I saw them three times only on the Exciter tour...
Exciter was one of my favorite albums for a while after it came out... but then upon re-listening to the others, I realized something... since Alan left, DM albums have had no real melody... Martin goes more for a techno-y feel, rather than a rock-oriented electronic feel... its almost like techno meets rap on Ultra and Exciter, rather than rock meets electronica on Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion.
I'm a big fan of DM. I've seen them live in concert three times, Sheffield 93, Wembley 98 and Birmingham 2001. My favourite song is Condemnation. I got the 101 DVD for Christmas, so when I get some time I shall sit and watch it.
They have a stronger fan base that I thought! My friend is obsessed with them (as well as Bowie and George Micheal) and it isn't some sort of 80's revival thing for him. He's been rocking this shit since the 6th grade, which is when I met him. So most likely, even before that.
I really admire him because he puts up with so much shit because people make fun of his taste.
I'll have to say my favorite song by them is Blasphemous Rumors.
The Depeche Mode live concert film filmed during the 1993 European Devotional Tour in Barcelona and Frankfurt and to be released as a double DVD-set on September 21st (30th according to Mute), will include the complete concert plus extra tracks that were ommitted for the US videoreleases.
The 16 track foottage (with the 17th track "Death's Door" playing during the credits) is completed with the following bonus tracks: "Halo" and "Policy Of Truth".
The audio will be available both in 5.1 and PCM Stereo.
The second disc holds the Devotional live projections for the following 8 tracks: "Walking In My Shoes", "Stripped", "Condemnation", "Judas", "I Feel You", "Never Let Me Down Again", "In Your Room" and "Enjoy The Silence". Next are the promotional videos for "I Feel You", "Walking In My Shoes", "Condemnation (Paris Mix)", "In Your Room", "One Caress (US Video directed by Kevin Kerslake)" and "Condemnation (Live)".
Also included on the 2nd disc are the MTV Documentary "Depeche Mode Rockumentary" (over 22 minutes and directed by Nicholas Wickham), an 8 minute monologue by Anton Corbijn and what is described as Devotional Tour Programmes.
With a total running time of approximately 3 hours 26 min it will hold subtitles in the following languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Am I the only one who likes Exciter the best? Freelove, I Feel Loved, and Breathe are incredible songs.
DEPECHE MODE have set to work on a new album, their first in four years.
The band are holed up in a Santa Barbara studio working on the follow-up to 2001's 'Exciter'. It follows the success of last year's compilation 'Remixes 81-04', which sent their classic 'Enjoy The Silence' back up the charts after being remixed by Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda.
The electro pioneers are working with Ben Hillier, who recently worked on Elbow's 'Cast Of Thousands' and Doves' 'Some Cities'.
Singer Dave Gahan said: "It's a great feeling to be back together in the studio again and we are very excited about the new material. We are all feeling incredibly positive about the album. Ben Hillier has brought a whole new dynamic to the group which is quite inspiring."
My favorite album is tied between Black Celebration and Construction Time Again. But, I agree with Walrus (from a year ago) that "Blasphemous Rumors" is probably their best song, even though it isn't on either one of those two albums.
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Playing the Angel is awesome, their best in a very long time IMO.
I've been listening to it for a couple days now and it keeps getting better and better; It very dark and very electronic, just so you know
The first track really gets this album going and its funny because lately it seems that the first track of recent favs of mine are probably the best of that particular album (Twin Cinema, and Beast and Dragon Adored).
This is a really outstanding album and a huge fucking leap over Exciter.
saw them live in copenhagen last night and they were amazing. i think martin's voice and david's has improved over the years.
the setlist was:
Intro
A Pain That I'm Used To
John The Revelator
A Question Of Time
Policy Of Truth
Precious
Walking In My Shoes
Suffer Well
Damaged People
Home
I Want It All
The Sinner In Me
I Feel You
Behind The Wheel
World In My Eyes
Personal Jesus
Enjoy The Silence
encore
Shake The Disease
Just Can't Get Enough
Everything Counts
encore #2
Never Let Me Down Again
Goodnight Lovers
Depeche Mode finishes new album, reveals new songs
Source: Los Angeles Times
Depeche Mode has finished recording work on the band's forthcoming studio album, its first since 2005's "Playing the Angel."
"We've completed the record," the band's frontman, Dave Gahan, told Pop & Hiss on Thursday via phone from New York. "There might be a couple of bits and pieces we've got to clean up, but I feel really good about the fact that we're finished," he continued. "I think we've made a great record."
Gahan said the as-yet-untitled album, slated for release this coming spring, will have about 12 tracks.
"We've been spoiled for choice with this one because we recorded more songs for this record than we ever had for any [other] record," he said. "Maybe I'm old school or whatever but once you start going over 12 songs, I think it becomes a little weird."
Gahan confirmed the 2009 disc, which will be the first for EMI in the U.S. (the band has been releasing albums for Warner Music Group in North America for much of its career), will contain the tracks "Wrong" and "Peace," snippets of which have been circulating the Web. Gahan, however, clarified that the actual title of "Peace" is "Peace Will Come to Me."
Additionally, he unveiled the titles of three more new tracks -- "Hole to Feed," "Comeback" and "In Chains," all co-written by Gahan -- that are likely set for inclusion on the album. Gahan added that the recording sessions, which took place over the last several months in New York and Santa Barbara, were productive and that he and the act's principal songwriter, Martin Gore, are working well together.
"We have about 18 songs," he said, even hinting that the band will release a special EP or online-only add-on with the extra material next year.
But Gahan stressed that the EMI release will be just that — a proper record that doesn't run too long.
Said Gahan: "I've been listening to the current play list, and I'm always still thinking of an album like Side 1, and Side 2. It's like when you see a movie or something, and it goes over two hours and you're like 'OK, I get it.' "
So what will the new material sound like? Rolling Stone last month ran an "In the Studio" featuring the band, on which Gore was quoted saying the set has a "spiritual" feel.
"I know what [Martin] means by that, but if anyone's thinking that the record will have a Gospel feel, it couldn't be further from that," Gahan said. "I feel like [the record] is [about] looking outside and a yearning for somehow coming together. The world is changing. Watching Obama getting elected was great. We watched it on TV in Santa Barbara and I get goosebumps thinking about that still. It's going to take a long time, but I think some of that same feeling, that sentiment [of hope] is in the work."
And though the band is increasingly fond of using guitars, the new disc may see a return to the Depeche Mode's original analog synth roots -- at least on a few tracks.
"Martin's got this new fetish which is basically buying gear on EBay," Gahan said. "He must have bought up half of the analog equipment around the world. We've got all these old drum machines from the 1970s, and even some of the stuff that we used in the '80s as well, like old Moogs and Arps."
As an example, Gahan noted that one of the new album's stars is a piece of gear dubbed "The Colonel" - a vintage 1970s-era Steiner Parker synthesizer. It's an instrument, said Gahan, "that makes crazy noises. We found it really inspiring and used it in a lot of things [on the new record]."
Depeche Mode announced portions of its 2009 "Tour of the Universe" earlier this year and is set to reveal U.S. dates in the coming weeks. Depeche Mode has maintained a strong fan base in the L.A.-area, thanks to such famed concerts as the 1988 Rose Bowl sellout captured in the film "Depeche Mode 101." The band last played Southern California in 2006 at the Coachella music & arts festival.
"We had a great time on stage that night," Gahan gushed. "It was one of those gigs where you just feel like you're floating on air. I was singing great, the atmosphere was great, everything was right. It was very special."
While Depeche Mode's famously devoted fans await new music and tour dates, they have been busy bemoaning the fact that the band's music has turned up in a Hilary Duff song. Her "Reach Out" heavily samples the band's "Personal Jesus."
"I don't know what I think about it.... It's a little weird," laughed Gahan. "I think it was something that Martin didn't really have any choice over, they kind of did it anyway. But, you know, it is what it is. Look, my daughter loves it. You know what she said to me? 'But it's not the same, Dad.' "