Talk:Depeche Mode

Prime-daedalus (talk) 02:18, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

We should add 'Industrial' as a genre

There's no doubt some of DM's material, especially the pre-1993 stuff, would qualify as Industrial music, as it influenced bands like Nine Inch Nails and has a minimalistic feel that can only be described as Industrial.

Abootmoose (talk) 23:54, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

"Enjoy The Silence" and "See You" sound samples disappeared?

I noticed that the links for the sound samples for "See You" and "Enjoy The Silence" have stopped working. Tried to search the files from Wikipedia, but coouldn't find them. These are .ogg files and I checked that similar .ogg samples at The Beatles page are working, so they had to be deleted. Anybody know what happened? --Sk4170 (talk) 11:49, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Did some research. It appears that majority of music samples on Depeche Mode related wiki articles have been deleted due to lack of fair use rationale. It seems that only the uploader is allowed to add it. There is a number of DM music samples left which imo are in danger of being deleted as well, for the same reason. Mystery solved. Instructions and rules on preparing and uploading fair use ogg files here ;) --Sk4170 (talk) 10:03, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

'Rock' /Synth 'Rock'/Alternative 'Rock' / Industrial 'Rock': Why the genre 'Rock' is incorrect:

Daniel Miller Quote (p 333, in the book ‘Stripped’ By Jonathan Miller): “The thing is, they’re not a rock band... because it’s not pure [rock ‘n roll]. There’s a horrible kind of authenticity about rock music, and they’re definitely not authentic in that sense” </ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=gIrZbmss3kEC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=martin+gore+depeche+mode+%22not+a+rock+band%22&source=web&ots=67M7nujLj1&sig=Z4Iq30etb0pSfB-mvB_ceTps3Ns&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result.</ref>Kalied04 (talk) 14:57, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Alan Wilder himself mentioned on his Recoil website </ref>http://www.recoil.co.uk/</ref>, Q&A Section, Songs of Faith and Devotion ... "Well, SOFAD is far from a rock album but that's another issue" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kalied04 (talk • contribs) 16:48, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Mister..listen rush( SOFAD ) electronic rock, not rock band yes..electronic rock yes, yes...electronic rock ( rush ) policy of true( alternative song...alternative dance=sound electronic and synth aletrnative ( rock )..black celebration is alternative music, not pop music...mister listen..you know listen?....pop music not...electronic-rock yes , listen..:)))) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.25.8.71 (talk) 21:11, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Band can also be classified as euro disco. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prenigmamann (talk • contribs) 14:02, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Composition of Sound, unreleased songs, demo's,early tour & bootleg info

Hey, can anybody start a section about this topic of their unreleased songs, demo's, their 1rst gigs between 1980 & 1982. Their most famous bootleg lp's like Crocs, Bridgehouse could be talked about. All their beginnings, much more deeper as most interview cd's, dvd's and biographies have gone. All the news about their name. On - what gig or what day, month in 1980 - they official started as "Composition of sound" and on what gig they officialy started under the name Depeche Mode. Sometimes I'm under the impression they started their tour in end May 1980 as Depeche Mode (according to the official site), but weren't they still be called Composition of Sound? If anybody got some ideas to put this up here? I have Jonathan Miller DM biography and read info on their beginnings on the net, the officîal DM site,... but I sometimes still get confused.

Let me know ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oregi (talk • contribs) 10:54, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi Oregi, I'm definitely not a regular contributor to this page, but I figure your idea has potential of being relevant to the page. I was wondering if you would be willing to share a few specific ideas that you were thinking of adding in and discussing possibly where they would go.

After sharing, perhaps we can build consensus for the edits. Thanks! U21980 (talk) 01:30, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

End of EMI period

Depeche Mode has recorded for Mute since the very beginning. They didn't have a record deal with EMI until the 2000s when Mute signed up with EMI, but became independent again last fall. There is a longstanding working relationship with EMI, but the actual record deal was with Mute for the most part of the band's career. [1] [2] --Sk4170 (talk) 22:06, 11 June 2011 (UTC)