Depeche Mode 101
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- mg33
I have to ask - anyone have the live 101 album?
Have you listened to it in a while?
I gave it a listen today after we talked about a potential cover song at band practice last night. I was super into them when I was younger and totally loved this album.
But the crowd noise, the absurd crowd noise at certain moments of songs and introductions of new synth tones or vocals is outrageous. Granted it was recorded live at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in the 80s, but whenever I listen to it I'm struck with the thought that people must have not been exposed to a spectacle like that back then and were just out-of-coutrol, freaking out, losing their minds at every (in)significant moment in the songs. That, or the band had crowd noise put way up in the mix for matters of self-glorification. There are moments in songs where I wonder just what's going on because nothing different happens in the music, but the crowd goes insane: Gahan walking across the stage? Lights shining on someone?
Besides the crowd noise, gotta say as cool as they were, their music sounds very dated and raw and almost bad whenever I listen to them.
- utopian0
Hopefully 101 is done well, I have loved their work for decades.
- e-pill0
i been listening to DM at werk for last 4 days straight, everyone at my job is telling me to end it, but i have the office and they are just werker bees... DM it is!!!
:)
- mg330
You've never heard it? It's a double disc set, been around for years.
- sikma0
puts on eyeliner
pours a glass of wine. sits in front of a fireplace. and starts crying.
- horton0
enjoy the silence...
- CyBrain0
I still love Songs of Love and Devotion.
- ukit0
Wait...are you saying I can't take these guys seriously?
- spendogg0
DM Rules!
- woodyBatts0
I listen to 101 on almost a daily basis, there's something about the intros of the songs...like an energy...you don't get on the album...
- mg330
I have seen a photo of DM in the magazine Q that was from way early in their career, they looked like nerdy kids in second-hand Sunday clothes!
I'll see if I have it at home, probably do, and this is exactly why I don't throw away magazines: someday, at some point, I will need to reference something like this and scan the photo. :D
- ukit0
Here's one of them from the early days:
