Why do so many people talk shit about Depeche Mode?

[LostInAnomie]

I'm not a huge fan by any means but I will say that they put out a few tough ass songs. Why do people talk shit about them?

[Floogeldy]

1. What people? Where? When?

What are you talking about?

[LostInAnomie]

2. I don't know

Some guy did I think

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Eh...I really liked 'Violator'.

Most of their other work, I can take or leave.

I really like Recoil, though...Alan Wilder's post-DM project. Much darker, more sinister, and more complex overall sound than DM (and last album had guest vox by Diamanda Galas, which is always a plus).

Edited to add link to a Recoil video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4yDYT-l70M

[RandomKoolzip]

4. I never liked ANY techno-pop.

Soft Cell, New Order, Depeche Mode, Book of Love, etc., Never liked any synth-pop bands. Just my opinion. I hate that bluesless, raunchless, bloodless Euro-sophisto anti-rock shit. I like to hear an actual living breathing rhythm section kicking out the jams and a singer who isn't some prancing dork.

I remember having a visceral hatred of the song "People are People" when I was little kid, and that feeling has stayed with me since. Again, that's just my opinion and NOT a judgement call on Depeche Commode's fans, who I'm sure are wonderful people. *I* just feel revulsion when I hear their music. (you need disclaimers like this in the Lounge when expressing a negative opinion of something these days)

[hfojvt]

5. now you're punching and you're kicking and you're shouting at me

I'm relying on your sense of decency
so far it hasn't surfaced
but I'm sure it exists
it just takes a while to travel from your
head to your fists
:hide:

[RandomKoolzip]

6. You said "fists."

No sex threads! I'm alerting. :evilgrin:

[RedStateShame]

11. I second that emotion, sir!!!

As I drummer, I imagine I am rather biased, for one. I have given so many of my friends crap for listening to DM, such as when I found one of the cassettes in a friend's car marked "Black Celebration," I commented upon listening to their music that Depeche Mode has never seen known anyone or anything black. And, on another occasion my friend who looks like Scott Thompson had sex with one woman who managed to bear his love child had this discussion with me about the great rift with the guy who later formed Erasure. I knew nothing about this, but apparently, it's pretty ugly. He said to me, "Oh, when ******(I really can't remember his name) was still in the band, they were still a gay band." Perplexed, I removed my face from my beer glass for a moment just to utter, "Waitaminnit....you mean to tell all those other albums are supposed to be straight?!" Oh, by the way, I was drunk, and I can be an ass when I'm drunk.

I mean, c'mon, one of their albums was called frickin' VIOLATOR!!!

[NMMNG]

7. I don't know. I like DM myself.

:shrug:

[RoyGBiv]

8. Their fans ...

I don't have any particular problem with them, but their fans when they were super-popular tried my patience.

Dress in black, think you're poetic
Sad truth is, you're just pathetic.

Brief anecdote:

1987, end of May.

It's one of the hottest days of the year so far and will end up being of the hottest days of the year, period. Over 100 degrees in downtown Dallas, high 90's out near Arlington. Depeche Mode is playing there that afternoon at an outdoor concert, show starting around 1pm, IIRC. I'm entering Six Flags with the group there for our senior trip. The Depeche Mode line is near us our line, and we hear their convsersations.

"It's SO HOT." "I'm thirsty." "Why isn't this indoors where there is A/C?"

Hot? No shit. It's almost 100 degrees, and you're wearing a black, wool sweater, ya moron.

And they made fun of us for looking stuid in our white, senior t-shirt and shorts. So NOT cool, they said. Actually, we were quite cool. Heard later that some of them had to be taken to the hosptial for heat exhaustion.

[hfojvt]

9. funniest line evah from "Josie and the Pussycats"

"Oh we landed the plane just fine."
"Unfortunately we landed in the parking lot at a Metallica concert."
"Well, their fans beat the crap out of us."

('us' being the fictional boy band 'Du Jour')

See I woulda been wearing black shorts and a black muscle shirt - cool, and cool. Well, it would be, if I didn't make Chachi look muscular by comparison.

[SKKY]

10. I love Depeche Mode, but one of the funniest episodes of...

...Beavis and Butthead was the one where they played the video for "I Feel You."

Beavis - "Hey Butthead what does Depeche Mode mean"

Butthead - "Depeche Mode is French for 'Were wusses.'"

I about pissed my pants.

[tigereye]

12. their music was fun to dance to

so I don't know.

Some synth pop was truly horrible, and I'm not sure they should be in that category....