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Music for the Masses is the sixth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 28 September 1987 [4] by Mute Records.The album was supported by the Music for the Masses Tour, which launched their fame in the United States when they performed at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
In a less enthusiastic review, Robert Christgau said that Depeche Mode conceded to fickle teenage demographics on Violator. [19] Rolling Stone magazine's Chuck Eddy said that, despite the album's "ambient charm", Gahan sounds "slimy and self-involved", and in their attempt to make listeners dance, Depeche Mode "revert to morose pop psychology ...
Songs of Faith and Devotion was recorded over eight months in a rented villa in Madrid during 1992, as well as later sessions in Hamburg and London. [7] Following his work on U2's seventh studio album, Achtung Baby, producer Flood suggested the idea of building their own studio in a rented house where the band would live and work, the same process having yielded huge successes for U2.
Depeche Mode have had 54 songs in the UK Singles Chart, 17 Top 10 albums in the UK chart, and have sold more than 100 million records worldwide. [2] [3] Q included the band in its list of the "50 Bands That Changed the World!" [4] Depeche Mode also rank No. 98 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time."
Speak & Spell is the debut studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode.It was released on 5 October 1981, [6] or possibly 29 October 1981, [7] by Mute Records.It was the band's only album to feature Vince Clarke, and is much lighter in tone than their subsequent releases.
Depeche Mode fans already knew a new album, Memento Mori, was coming this spring, but the project finally has a confirmed release date (March 24 via Columbia) and a first single, “Ghosts Again ...
Catching Up with Depeche Mode is a compilation album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released solely in North America on 11 November 1985 by Sire Records. [ 1 ] October 1985 saw the international release of the album The Singles 81→85 , which collected the band's seven-inch singles to that date.
Robert Thomas Christgau (/ ˈ k r ɪ s t ɡ aʊ / KRIST-gow; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.Among the most well-known [1] and influential music critics, [2] he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became an early proponent of musical movements such as hip hop, riot grrrl, and the import of African ...