#ALL DEPECHE MODE SONGS PLUS#

Dreaming of Me вЂ“ 8 вЂ“ DMвЂ™s debut single.ItвЂ™s a great bouncy anthem for moody teens. ItвЂ™s now 35 years old and you still hear it in pop culture regularly. Just CanвЂ™t Get Enough вЂ“ 10 вЂ“ This is the song that put them on the (U.S.) map.Any Second Now (Voices) вЂ“ 6 вЂ“ Precursor of many future Gore ballads.It sounds like the soundtrack from a bad 70вЂ™s disco/Sci-fi movie. Big Muff вЂ“ 5 вЂ“ DM loves their instrumentals and for the most part I do too but one is a song very much of its time.Tora! Tora! Tora! вЂ“ 6 вЂ“ Slightly different as the song above but not by much.Photographic вЂ“ 6 вЂ“ By now some of these songs are starting to sound the same.Gahan and Gore hate this song but for me it falls into that вЂњItвЂ™s-so-bad-itвЂ™s-goodвЂќ category.

This is the song that made me both a gaybo and a DM fan for life.

WhatвЂ™s Your Name? вЂ“ 9- The second gay anthem.

Nodisco! вЂ“ 5 вЂ“ This is too much of a New Life retread for me.

Boys Say Go! вЂ“ 8 вЂ“ 1 of 2 (un)intentionally (?) gay anthems on this album.

Puppets вЂ“ 5 вЂ“ Nothing exciting here, move along.

I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead вЂ“ 8 вЂ“ An underrated gem.

This is where it all begins now you know what youвЂ™re in for.

He then left to form Yazoo (then Erasure). Clark was a founding member and wrote most of these songs. There are some solid standouts on this album as well as some forgettable ones. ItвЂ™s a tad all over the place and a little repetitive but no one had heard anything like it before. DM is finding their way here with dance, angst layered, pop tunes. Speak & Spell is as awkward and energetic as the teenagers that created it. The sound is like Kraftwerk through the eyes of myopic adolescents who are inventing a stylistic future sound. Despite the name they are tackling some adult themes here. Gore loved to give double meanings to album names and titled this after a childвЂ™s toy after the label said it sounded too amateur. But this is the album that helped define a genre (New Wave). Speak & Spell(1981) вЂ“ The debut album suffers from a little bit of an identity crisis: lots of synths, electronic drums, and bleep-y beats. DM loves to put out multiple remixes of songs (Enjoy the Silence has 15 remixes) and they have over 1100 versions and remixes of songs.ДЄ: Every album and song rated here is directly from Spotify and available to you today! I only included every song that was on a studio album and/or on a B-Side or bonus track. Q: Did I include every song and every version?ДЄ: No. I listed the ones I left off (compilations, live tours) at the end.

#ALL DEPECHE MODE SONGS PLUS#

Some of the bonus tracks are pretty awesome so definitely listen to those if you can.ДЄ: Every studio album plus one Live album. For each album I noted where the original album ended and where the bonus tracks start.

I graded each song on a scale from 1-10 and then took the average grade from the original studio album and made the definitive ranking at the end.

That way I could get an eye toward their evolution. I also listened to the next album once before I reviewed the previous. Some albums I listened to 10 times but none less than 4 times. Q: What was my listen and review process?ДЄ: I listened to each album multiple times in a row over the span of a month. It makes you want to go out and either fuck someone or punch them.ДЄ: Members: Vince Clark (1980-81), Dave Gahan (1980-Present), Martin Gore (1980-Present), Andrew Fletcher (1980-Present), Alan Wilder (1982-1995) Their music is gorgeous, and sad, and fun, and angry, and sexy, and progressive. Putting on headphones and just melting into the music changes me alters my moods like no other band does. I have named 2 plays and 13 issues of a graphic novel after their songs. No matter how creatively drained I am songs like вЂњAloneвЂќ and вЂњMemphistoвЂќ and вЂњRushвЂќ really get me going. They are the band I put on when I need inspiration to write. They have kept me driving around late at night when I couldnвЂ™t fathom turning off the tape deck вЂ“ curfew be damned! They still make me late for work when I donвЂ™t want to turn off my iPod. I have so many memories attached to their songs. They were my first concert (Violator tour), the first albums I ever bought, and my first rockstar crushes. In fact they shaped who I was and am more than anything else in high school or college. Electronic pioneers that have influenced bands like Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, Muse, Marilyn Manson and The Deftones among many others.

All depeche mode songs