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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsXOcK9 ... annel_page

If any Mode fans still here. The song's a grower, helped by the video big time. Very dark and good to see something different.

Thanks for the link. Gonna watch them in a couple of months.

Great video- loived the ending! The song is a bit repetative though, sorry.

Top Video and I like the choon

Will save the treat for later. Not seen/heard. Not going to the O2 gig, either - though I'm sure I've read an interview where DM say they're going to come back for more UK dates sometime.

Badger song is more interesting. this is flat and mediocre, imho, but video, as video is good.

Much money, few ideas, boring video, boring song.

But they are usually good, sometimes very good, live so I'm gonna give them a chance anyway

love it ! I'm fan , and the new sound is really great ! waiting patiently for Sounds of the Universe...

Love Depeche Mode - heard this last week. I find it really amazing that after all these years (of consistently releasing albums) they still make great music - I've got pretty much all their stuff album wise (missing quite a few singles/remixes though) and while there are usually a song or two that miss on each album, I always find a LOT to like. Haha I'm even wearing a DM shirt in my avatar.

I've often heard DM referred to as the "gateway drug" for goth/industrial - and I have to say that was the case with me. I was listening to a lot of punk/indie, New Order and Joy Division - I started listening to them, then it was the Cure, then Bauhaus, Wax Trax industrial, and Siouxsie, then Sisters, Front 242 - and so on, getting farther and farther and deeper and deeper into it.

What I like about the song are most of the lyrics and Gahans singing, the melody is ok. But the music is bland (very weedy drums), which has been the case for their last couple of albums for me. They could have a fuller sound on the albums. But live it could be alot better with more balls.

I like the song, although I'll want to listen to it a few more times. I missed out on tickets for Tour Of The Universe, which I had intended to go to so hopefully they'll do more dates.

I saw them in London on the Touring The Angel expedition, which was a mind blowingly good gig!

Wow, that was panic attack-inducing - yikes.

listening to that it feels like the first time gahan has raised his voice above that dreary whisper in, ooooh, at least 10 years.

nice. and certainly better than the criminally mis-labelled exciter stuff or the patchy ...angel material.

a deeply unsettling video though

The video is really good, but still i can t find a reason to like the songs.
Almost everything after "songs of.." sounds passionless and made just out of habit.
Lack of motive+big bank accounts=boring music

I remember Alan Wilder (had to mention him eventually, I mean come on ) saying that Gore would be quite happy for his songs to go out as little more than demos. That's pretty much what happens now I reckon. He can write a tune but is very limited musically. Gahan's singing is the most passionate sounding thing about them, but the lyrics are still good. Obviously Fletch offers nothing musically.

Gahans solo stuff has a fuller sound to it.

Nicole wrote:I've often heard DM referred to as the "gateway drug" for goth/industrial

What, the stuff for people who can't deal with the hard stuff?

Sounds fair to me

I've always preferred Gore to Gahan.

Well ...Gahan is a great singer (I love his voice) , Martin is a very good songwritter and doing also a good job musically and I just can't explain why Fletcher has always been insignifiant for me.

Pete Tong played the remixed version by DJ Thin White Duke ( who is in reality Stuart Price who in turn is Madonna's keyboardist/ arranger and also a member of Les Rythmes Digitales..phew)

Cracking tune, back to basics and had that good ol' D.M plinky plonky feel to it from back in the day!

Shame Eldritch once described them, when the Sisters supported them, as Thunderbird Puppets, whilst on stage at Milton Keynes mu-hahahahaha

markfiend wrote:

Nicole wrote:I've often heard DM referred to as the "gateway drug" for goth/industrial

What, the stuff for people who can't deal with the hard stuff?

Sounds fair to me

Oh that is great

Must admit I've always thought the lyrics very sixth form...

Lyrics are really basic if not cheating.

Music isn't all that bad, bit pre Black Celebration.

Better then the previous stuff but then they really haven't impressed me since Wilder left.

Norman Hunter wrote:Will save the treat for later. Not seen/heard. Not going to the O2 gig, either - though I'm sure I've read an interview where DM say they're going to come back for more UK dates sometime.

03.24.2009

Depeche Mode - Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher, return to the UK and Ireland in December with their eagerly anticipated "Tour Of The Universe".

The new UK & Ireland dates are:

December
Thu 10th - DUBLIN, O2 The Point (on sale now)
Sat 12th - GLASGOW, SECC
Sun 13th - BIRMINGHAM, LG Arena
Tue 15th - LONDON, O2 Arena
Fri 18th - MANCHESTER, MEN Arena

Tickets go on sale 9am Friday 27th March
Tickets are priced at £35 & £45 subject to booking fee and are available from http://www.livenation.co.uk
The Dublin Show is on sale now
Tickets priced at £62 subject to booking fee and are available from www.ticketmaster.ie

Depeche Mode start their world "Tour of the Universe" May 10th in Israel and finish this European leg on July 12th in Spain. They play 36 dates, which features 26 massive stadium shows and includes a London show May 30th at the 02 Arena that sold out in less than an hour.

Their 23-date North American tour starts July 24th in Toronto before finishing in Florida September 5th. The band will then be returning to Europe for more dates, including these new UK shows.

Their eagerly anticipated new album "Sounds of the Universe" is released April 20th (UK) and includes their glorious new single "Wrong". The stark video for "Wrong" was directed by Patrick Daughters who previously worked with Liars, Kings of Leon and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Got me some Manchester tickets as a bit of a birthday surprise for the Mrs

Shhhhhh!