Do u like The Smiths? The Cure? Depeche Mode?

[HeyManThatsCool]

If so----- fav songs by any of the above.

[ropi]

1. fast fashion (depeche mode) POLICY OF TRUTH

You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn’t you
Now you’re not satisfied
With what you’re being put through

It’s just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth

Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilised
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you’d only lied

It’s too late to change events
It’s time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth

Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before

Now you’re standing there tongue tied
You’d better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell

You’ll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth

Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before

[HeyManThatsCool]

2. Enjoy the Silence by DM

There is a Light That Never Goes Out- The Smiths


A Night Like This- The Smiths

[susanna]

11. I LOVE

There is a Light That Never Goes Out. Great song!

I still love the angst-ridden How Soon is Now, though. I can't help it, it hooks me in every single time...

[bobthedrummer]

24. That's my favorite Depeche Mode tune too!

:hi:
:smoke:

[Bok_Tukalo]

3. Cheezy romanticism but in my weaker moments, I succomb

Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you"

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream

Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven

[HeyManThatsCool]

4. For Cheesy Romanticism

try Depeche's SOMEBODY


I want somebody to share
Share the rest of my life
Share my innermost thoughts
Know my intimate details
Someone who’ll stand by my side
And give me support
And in return
She’ll get my support
She will listen to me
When I want to speak
About the world we live in
And life in general
Though my views may be wrong
They may even be perverted
She’ll hear me out
And won’t easily be converted
To my way of thinking
In fact she’ll often disagree
But at the end of it all
She will understand me
Aaaahhhhh....

I want somebody who cares
For me passionately
With every thought and
With every breath
Someone who’ll help me see things
In a different light
All the things I detest
I will almost like
I don’t want to be tied
To anyone’s strings
I’m carefully trying to steer clear of
Those things
But when I’m asleep
I want somebody
Who will put their arms around me
And kiss me tenderly
Though things like this
Make me sick
In a case like this
I’ll get away with it
Aaaahhhhh....

[HeyManThatsCool]

6. or this one

The Cure Lovesong lyrics
whenever i'm alone with you
you make me feel like i am home again
whenever i'm alone with you
you make me feel like i am whole again

whenever i'm alone with you
you make me feel like i am young again
whenever i'm alone with you
you make me feel like i am fun again

however far away
i will always love you
however long i stay
i will always love you
whatever words i say
i will always love you
i will always love you

whenever i'm alone with you
you make me feel like i am free again
whenever i'm alone with you
you make me feel like i am clean again

however far away
i will always love you
however long i stay
i will always love you
whatever words i say
i will always love you
i will always love you

[ropi]

8. love song!

:swoon:

[susanna]

13. Fabulous, vintage Cure.

I love (?!) "Love Song."

I also have a strange affinity for "In Between Days."

[Bok_Tukalo]

20. Vintage? Ugh!

My youth, and the easily evoked emotions associated with that song, are vintage.

[susanna]

29. As are mine!

I'm no spring chicken LOL. :-)

[koneko]

34. I love all three of the bands

but Just Like Heaven got me together with my college sweetie in the 2nd semester of our Freshman year (Spring, 1989). He used to call my dorm-mates when he'd do his radio show and tell them to make sure I was in listening distance when he'd dedicate it to me. Every week, he'd do a "double shot" & dedicate Just Like Heaven & Why Can't I Be You to me.

He also had a girl that was in my sorority that he'd gone to high school with talk him up.

It wasn't that hard. He was HOT, at least in my book. The best celebrity equivalent I can come up with is Ryan Phillipe. Once I "gave in", we'd listen to the Cure (esp. Disintegration), DM and The Smiths, among others.

It reminds me of everything great about my youth.

[Bok_Tukalo]

48. "It reminds me of everything great about my youth." Me too

The song evokes something specific for me.

[NewJeffCT]

5. hmm

'How Soon is Now' by the Smiths is one of my all time faves from any band.

'Why Can't I Be You?' is probably my favorite Cure song. very catchy and bouncy

'Everything Counts' by Depeche Mode

[HeyManThatsCool]

7. I am the son & the heir...

Great song

[susanna]

14. ...of nothing in particular

n/t

[sistersofmercy]

16. Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar...

[susanna]

17. OK, another favorite band of mine...

...your nick. LOVE Sisters of Mercy. :-)

[sistersofmercy]

21. Thanks...

Mine too! Loved the anti Papa Bush stuff, "One blinding flash of sense just like the president's." :)

[jonnyblitz]

26. sisters of mercy is great in concert also

i saw them in the late 90's or 2000 (i forget exactly when) in Boston!! :thumbsup:

[Rick Myers]

9. What about Ultravox???

Japan?

:shrug:

[susanna]

15. Oh, Ultravox is one of my favorites.

"Vienna" is my be-all end all song from the era. :-)

[livinginphotographs]

65. I second that.

[mitchum]

33. Really liked the earlier John Foxx led Ultravox...

"Satday Night in the City of the Dead", "My Sex", "The Wild, The Beautiful and The Damned"...

[susanna]

39. Great stuff, huh?

"In my day, our music SAID something!" I feel like a granny LOL.

[KitchenWitch]

10. The Cure - Close to Me

[sistersofmercy]

12. All of the above

The Smiths are my favorite though. In no special order, Big Mouth, How Soon Is Now, Panic, Ask Me etc. Love The Smiths!
I also love Morrisey's solo stuff, from Break Up The Family I used as a sig line for a while and it was my personal little tribute to Georgie boy, "The strange logic in your clumsiest line, it stay emblazoned on my mind." I stopped using b/c I got the feeling some DUers thought it was some sort of snide comment. I probably should have explained in my sig line the reason for the use.

[HeyManThatsCool]

27. Well they DO need all the love they can get...

U cant confuse them with sigs!

[grace0418]

18. LOVE THEM ALL!

They were my three favorite bands for years! I'm not as into DM post-Violator and the Cure post-Disintegration. I love every single Smiths album and still listen to them.

Favorite Smiths songs: How Soon is Now?, William it Was Really Nothing, Back to the Old House (Hatful of Hollow version), Cemetery Gates, This Charming Man, The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, Bigmouth Strikes Again, There is a Light, Ask, Vicar in a Tutu, Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, Stop Me if You've Heard this One Before, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now...

Okay, sorry, I'm pretty much naming all their songs. I really love the Smiths.

Favorite DM: Fly on the Windscreen, Shake the Disease, Everything Counts, Love in Itself, Monument

Favorite Cure: Charlotte Sometimes, Lovecats, In Between Days, Boys Don't Cry, Let's Go to Bed, The Caterpillar, A Night Like this, Kyoto Song

[susanna]

32. Name all their songs if you want to...

I'm having wonderful flashbacks. Please, keep going! :-)

[HeyManThatsCool]

35. We have similar taste

My favs are:

The Cure: Charlotte Sometimes, Hot! Hot! Hot!, Lovecats, 10:15 on a Saturday Night, Let's Go to Bed, The Kyoto Song, A night Like This


Depeche Mode: Shake the Disease, A Question of Lust, But Not Tonight, World in My Eyes, Enjoy the Silence, Stories of Old, Just cant Get Enough, Policy of Truth


The Smiths: Ask, How Soon Is Now?, Sweet & Tender Hooligan, Is it Really so strange?, Golden Lights, Unhappy Birthday, Bigmouth Strikes Again, You Just Haven't Earned it yet baby, There is a Light, Girlfriend in a Coma

[Dukkha]

19. Pictures of You

From one of the greatest albums ever Disintegration

such a shame it was used in an HP commercial

[Amaya]

23. "Pictures of You"

i've been looking so long at these pictures of
you that i almost belive that they're real i've
been living so long with my pictures of you that
i almost believe that the pictures are all i can
feel

remembering you standing quiet in the rain as
i ran to your heart to be near and we kissed as
the sky fell in holding you close how i always
held close in your fear remembering you
running soft through the night you were bigger
and brighter than the snow and
screamed at the make-believe screamed at the
sky and you finally found all your courage to
let it all go

remembering you fallen into my arms crying
for the death of your heart you were stone
white so delicate lost in the cold you were
always so lost in the dark remembering you
how you used to be slow drowned you were
angels so much more than everything oh hold
for the last time then slip away quietly open
my eyes but i never see anything

if only i had thought of the right words i could
have hold on to your heart if only i'd thought of
the right words i wouldn't be breaking apart all
my pictures of you

Looking So long at these pictures of you but i
never hold on to your heart looking so long for
the words to be true but always just breaking
apart my pictures of you

there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to never feel the breaking
apart all my pictures of you

[webjamn]

22. Remember Echo and the Bunnymen?

I liked all of the above bands in high school but my favorite was Echo and the Bunnymen. They put on a great show. 'The Cutter" and 'Never Stop' were some of my favorites.

[HeyManThatsCool]

25. Bring ON the dancing horses n/t

[susanna]

36. Oh, LOVE E&TB.

"Silver" and "Seven Seas," were my favorites, but I loved "The Cutter" and "Never Stop" too.

[mitchum]

37. You have good taste because the Bunnymen were the best of all

McCulloch was one of the greatest frontmen ever. The man was arrogant, but he could back it up.

[driver8]

53. I agree -- Echo and the Bunnymen one of my favorites!

I didn't realize that Ian McCulloch was arrogant. He is an excellent frontman. I saw Echo with New Order back in 1987 and they were incredible. So many good songs; The Cutter, Puppet, Rescue, Seven Seas...the list goes on!

[NewJeffCT]

The Killing Moon

One of my all time favorites... Ocean Rain is one of my favorite albums of all time.

[NewJeffCT]

59. The Killing Moon

One of my all time favorites... Ocean Rain is one of my favorite albums of all time.

[tjdee]

28. Uh, YEAH-- Moz is one of the best lyricists ever.

He has such a sense of humor.

I love Death of a Disco Dancer, To Wish Impossible Things, and Personal Jesus....but I really like all three groups.

Want to be freaked out? Catch an early performance by DM...the lead singer (OMG I forgot his name!) is dancing around like any pop singer.
:scared:

[HeyManThatsCool]

38. I've Seen DM about 15 times

Dave dances like a freak.
Alot of twirling

[tjdee]

40. Ah, that's it. I've blocked that name out of my vocabulary.

Not happy with Daves, LOL.

[driver8]

30. I just got the box set called "Left of the Dial"...

It is an awesome collection -- so many great songs that I had forgotten about. Includes Echo and the Bunnymen, Depeche Mode, Smiths, Psychadelic Furs, Joy Division, New Order, Siouxie and the Banshees...

Each CD (there are 4) represents a certain part of the eighties.

[susanna]

41. Note to self:

buy the box set "Left of the Dial." Thanks for the info!

[HeyManThatsCool]

42. Oh SNAP!

That sounds kick ass

Did u get it from a best buy or circuit city or???
Sounds RIGHT up my alley

[driver8]

51. I bought it at an "independent record store"...

I had seen this box set a couple of months ago and said to myself that I was definitely going to buy it. Well, I won some money in a football pool this past weekend and took my winnings on down to the "record shop" and bought it. Some other bands include:

Replacements
Pixies
New Order
XTC
Sonic Youth
The Lyres
the dB's
REM
Wall of Voodoo
Jane's Addiction
PIL
Bad Brains
Dream Syndicate
Lone Justice
X

You will not be disappointed!

[susanna]

43. OK, have to say...

the Psychedelic Furs weren't mentioned until driver8's post. Now, they were one of my all-time-forever-snuck-out-of-my-house-and-got-totally-way-serious-punished-to-go-see bands. ADORE the Furs. Have everything they've ever done. Still see them when they come to my town - couldn't keep me away!

I can't name a favorite Furs song. They're all favorites...

[HeyManThatsCool]

44. I should have named the thread

Alternative 80's Music Lovers Unite!!
(and take over)

[susanna]

45. Sorry...

LOL but so many great bands/songs are popping up here! Great thread, BTW...I've had a lot of fun here!

[HeyManThatsCool]

46. Don't Be Sorry! It's great!!!!

Did anyone mention Siouxsie & The Banshees or The Church?
How about Love & Rockets or OMD

[susanna]

52. Yeah! Siouxie! The Church! L&R, OMD...

Oh man you're killin' me. As a matter of fact, when I got sooooo busted for sneaking out to see the Psych Furs, guess who opened? OMD! WOW. Great band, loved Enola Gay (and Joan of Arc)... :-)

on edit, added another song title

[no name no slogan]

68. Fellow Furs Fan

They're one of my guilty pleasures. I saw them a few years ago on the first "reunion" tour, with Richard Fortis playing 2nd guitar and guitar synth. Un-freaking-believable, even at their age.

[azoth]

55. Thanks for the heads-up and, btw, nice username.

eta: here's a link to the mentioned collection that has a playlist http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=76490

[cedahlia]

31. Condemnation, Blasphemous Rumors...

...Never Let Me Down, and Enjoy the Silence are my favorite Depeche Mode songs.

Just Like Heaven is my favorite Cure song.

And I don't really have a favorite Smiths song, but my favorite solo Morrissey songs would probably be Suedehead and Every Day is Like Sunday.

[HeyManThatsCool]

47. I see you like Tori

Not 80's (unless your listening to Y Kant Tori Read) but I love love love her

[HeyManThatsCool]

49. Everyday is like Sunday

Is a GREAT song

[cedahlia]

56. listening to her right now, in fact

You know, I own pretty much everything the woman's ever done (even several of the CD singles) but I have never actually heard Y Kant Tori Read...maybe that's a good thing though? :-)

It is good to meet another fan! :hi:

[HeyManThatsCool]

50. Ask me I wont Say No- How Could I?

Seriously- bring the good music back!!!!!!
ASAP!

I miss the days when this was the music you would hear

[Floogeldy]

54. Not that much. But I really like Devo

[madinmaryland]

57. depeche mode!

Unfortunately, I can't remember any of their songs. Too stoned i guess.

[Dastard Stepchild]

58. The Smiths... all-time favorite band....

Favorite song? Well, I am tired so these are in no particular order tonight:

Half A Person
This Night Has Opened My Eyes
This Charming Man
These Things Take Time
Suffer Little Children
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
Paint A Vulgar Picture
Frankly Mr. Shankly
Bigmouth Strikes Again
The Boy With the Thorn in His Side
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
Ask
Stretch Out and Wait
London
Sweet and Tender Hooligan

[Maestro]

60. Like them all

and I am a metal head at heart!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

61. Hand in Glove, Killing an Arab, Enjoy the Silence

And no, the middle one isn't racist -- on the contrary, it depicts the sorrow of a man in a war that has just killed for the first time.

[thom1102]

62. Smiths: How Soon is Now, DM: Blasphm. Rumors...

I know, I know... HSIN has totally been corrupted by "Charmed," but that is the Love Spit Love version, which I don't hate. I just think that song is dark and ominous and foreboding, and I love it. And I like "Charmed," too.

DM has so much good stuff to choose from, but I just love Blasphemous Rumors. That and Strangelove. And Enjoy the Silence... and People are People... I love it all!

[vi5]

63. I love all three....

Favorite song every by any artist is "Just Like Heaven" by The Cure.

My favorite Smiths song is either Bigmouth Strikes Again or The Queen Is Dead

Favorite Depeche Mode song is probably Never Let Me Down Again or possibly World In My Eyes.

[livinginphotographs]

64. All three.

The Smiths - The Boy With a Thorn in his Side

The Cure - Disintegration

Depeche Mode - In Your Room

[TyeDye75]

66. There is a light and it never goes out

Well I wonder
What she said
What dofference does it make
Bigmouth strikes again

[queenjane]

67. Echo and the Bunnymen's "Read it in Books"

"You said you couldn`t find anyone
To love you
I said there`s more to life than a broken heart
Did it console you?
I`ve seen in your eyes
I`ve read it in books
Who wants love
Without the looks

You know the words
Please do say it from your knees
Show some respect
Hey baby, genuflect
Once I like crying
Twice I like laughter
Come on tell me what I`m after

I said you`ve gotta stop chasing rainbows
You said I`m just staying up
And anyway
I like it when the rain goes
I`ve seen in your eyes
I`ve read it in books
Who want`s love
Without the looks
Once I like crying
Twice I like laughter
Come on tell me what I`m after

There`s not that much to us
I hide the little with a lot
You still expect a lovely fuss
After showing all you`ve got
I`ve seen in your eyes
I`ve read it in books
Who wants love
Without the looks
That`s all"

[tk2kewl]

69. Sort of, Not really, No

[no name no slogan]

70. The Cure-- 17 Seconds

Greatest Cure album EVER. Just enough gloom, poppiness and atmosphere. The rest just seem like empty bombast compared to this one.

[sundog]

71. Half a Person, Close to Me, Never Let Me Down

[vikegirl]

72. Depeche Mode!

An element of my favorite triumvirate, the others being Nitzer Ebb and New Order.

Cure and Smiths are excellent, too.

[dean_dem]

73. All three here:

This list is subject to change however:

The Cure: Push, Strange Day
The Smiths: Paint a Vulgar Picture
Depeche Mode: Everything Counts, Enjoy the Silence