Got into the Mode (good old Essex boys!) thanks to my first girlfriend. We went to see them in London during the SINGLES 86>98 tour in 1998, which was the first band-specific rock concert I ever went to (I'd been to the V Festival before then though).
ULTRA and VIOLATOR are great albums but I've never gotten around to getting SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION. EXCITER was a bit crap. PLAYING THE ANGEL was pretty decent but I didn't like 'Wrong' so never picked up SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE. I got the earlier compilation albums (SINGLES 81>85, which is often hilarious, and 86>98 which is awesome). I never got the earlier albums as my girlfriend at the time had them all.
For added awesome, always mix Depeche Mode with Tron:
I really like Playing the Angel, though I've only really started listening to it for the past weeks. Sounds of the Universe is weaker, but not by much. I really like it. I started off the same as you, thinking "Wrong" was crap, but then I saw it with it's superb Promo Video and sort of "got" it and now I really like it. It's a grower.
Of their early stuff, A Broken Frame isn't great (apart from the instrumental "Nothing to Fear"), something the band acknowledge, and I haven't really listened to "Speak and Spell", but everything else is just fantastic.
The only problem is that they put a short ad (mostly for their own service) in front of each track, but I didn't find them too distracting and listened to the album a lot there before I bought it.
All DM's albums are there to listen to. And plenty of other great bands too.
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ULTRA and VIOLATOR are great albums but I've never gotten around to getting SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION. EXCITER was a bit crap. PLAYING THE ANGEL was pretty decent but I didn't like 'Wrong' so never picked up SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE. I got the earlier compilation albums (SINGLES 81>85, which is often hilarious, and 86>98 which is awesome). I never got the earlier albums as my girlfriend at the time had them all.
For added awesome, always mix Depeche Mode with Tron:
http://www.spike.com/video/tron-vs-depeche-mode/2689069
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Sounds of the Universe is weaker, but not by much. I really like it. I started off the same as you, thinking "Wrong" was crap, but then I saw it with it's superb Promo Video and sort of "got" it and now I really like it. It's a grower.
Of their early stuff, A Broken Frame isn't great (apart from the instrumental "Nothing to Fear"), something the band acknowledge, and I haven't really listened to "Speak and Spell", but everything else is just fantastic.
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The only problem is that they put a short ad (mostly for their own service) in front of each track, but I didn't find them too distracting and listened to the album a lot there before I bought it.
All DM's albums are there to listen to.
And plenty of other great bands too.
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