YES, this is one of my fave Depeche Mode tracks. 🤓 The Filter comparison is definitely apt, I love that it dips a toe in the alt-rock pool. I saw DM live in concert last year for the first time, and it was on the setlist. (You're right, though, it's hard to compare anything to "Enjoy the Silence." No one prepared me for what a transcendental experience it is, hearing that in person.)
Oddly, my fave DM song is a single from 'Delta Machine,' which gets very little love from fans: "Should Be Higher." 🙌🏼
I missed out on DM when they were nearby last year. I should have, if only for the live “Enjoy The Silence” experience. That must have been amazing!
Never heard “Should Be Higher” until you mentioned it. I gave it a listen and it's pretty good! I'll admit I stopped following their new stuff in the mid aughts, so I'm probably missing hidden gems like this.
It was one of my favorite live music experiences to date, for sure. Yeah, a lot of their post-2000 albums don't have the same dark bite I really love about them as a band. I do think that Memento Mori, the most recent album (post-Andrew Fletcher's passing), regains a bit of it. Some wicked, atmospheric tracks there.
I don't remember this song at all! It is pretty different from most of what they were doing at the time. I might have been listening a bit too heavily to the other big tracks that week by Lenny Kravitz, Sting, and Duran Duran!
I only knew it retroactively from the Placebo track. Got me into listening to DM for a short time, and this one was one of my non-Violator favorites. I wish I had any recall if hearing it when it was topping the charts, but my musical scope was pretty narrow at the time.
YES, this is one of my fave Depeche Mode tracks. 🤓 The Filter comparison is definitely apt, I love that it dips a toe in the alt-rock pool. I saw DM live in concert last year for the first time, and it was on the setlist. (You're right, though, it's hard to compare anything to "Enjoy the Silence." No one prepared me for what a transcendental experience it is, hearing that in person.)
Oddly, my fave DM song is a single from 'Delta Machine,' which gets very little love from fans: "Should Be Higher." 🙌🏼
I missed out on DM when they were nearby last year. I should have, if only for the live “Enjoy The Silence” experience. That must have been amazing!
Never heard “Should Be Higher” until you mentioned it. I gave it a listen and it's pretty good! I'll admit I stopped following their new stuff in the mid aughts, so I'm probably missing hidden gems like this.
It was one of my favorite live music experiences to date, for sure. Yeah, a lot of their post-2000 albums don't have the same dark bite I really love about them as a band. I do think that Memento Mori, the most recent album (post-Andrew Fletcher's passing), regains a bit of it. Some wicked, atmospheric tracks there.
I don't remember this song at all! It is pretty different from most of what they were doing at the time. I might have been listening a bit too heavily to the other big tracks that week by Lenny Kravitz, Sting, and Duran Duran!
I only knew it retroactively from the Placebo track. Got me into listening to DM for a short time, and this one was one of my non-Violator favorites. I wish I had any recall if hearing it when it was topping the charts, but my musical scope was pretty narrow at the time.