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Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward Audio CD

A fair review of the Depeche Mode "Some Great Reward" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Depeche Mode reviews here, or go back to the Depeche Mode tabs.

Depeche Mode Band: Depeche Mode
Title: Some Great Reward
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Something to Do 2: Lie to Me 3: People Are People 4: It Doesn't Matter 5: Stories of Old 6: Somebody 7: Master and Servant 8: If You Want 9: Blasphemous Rumours

Beth Bessmer is an idiot
The lyrics get darker, sampling becomes a central part of the production, the music gets a bit more sophisticated, and Alan Wilder plays a larger role. The album's a mixed bag, a transition from the juvenile blips and bloops of their early days to the bestselling industrial chants of their middle period, and marks their break into American commercial success with People Are People. It has some forgettable tracks and a few standouts, Blasphemous Rumours being perhaps the best (and it's neither "nihilistic" nor an "eye-roller"). Overall, not quite a "great" album, but worth getting if you've already got and like the three albums following (Black Celebration, Music for the Masses, Violator), when they hit their peak.

My real reason for writing this, though, is to object to Beth Bessmer's inane review, which tells us nothing except that the author has no idea what she's talking about. DM have certainly been guilty of some crap songwriting on occasion, but Blasphemous Rumours is well-written and sharply ironic, and there's nothing "arbitrary" about them targeting religion, it's a recurring theme in their work. Which anyone who had done their homework or spent any real time listening to them would know.
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A Must Have in any Depeche Mode collection
I still have the lp vinyl, just wore out my 18 year old cd, and picked up the two disc cd/dvd version when I started to look for a replacement. This will be the fourth purchase of this ablum over a 20 year time frame. You can't get this single cd version in the store, and really wanted the one disc version. You'll learn all the words, and it is a good combination of young Depeche Mode and an introduction to older Depeche Mode. All though People Are People was the first song I heard on WLIR on the radio years 20 years ago and ran out to get the ablum, over the years, my favorites have changed to Stories of Old as my favorite song on the album, with Lie to Me, Blasphemous Rumors and Master and Servant as my next favorites. Get this one, you'll love it!

Something to Do-cute and catchy

Lie to Me-great song

People Are People-meaningful, first song I hear from them

It's Doesn't Matter-slow and realistic

Stories of Old-my favorite on the album

Somebody-slow and senual

Master and Servant-very sexy

If You Want -catchy

Blasphemous Rumors-very surprisingly sadistic and dark
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Better than the original
The songs are great for a variety of moods. When i first bought this LP in vinyl format a thousand years ago I thought is was great. This version of the album come with tracks that are remastered in 2006. Compare 9 tracks on vinyl to 17 in this release. Better then the original,classic mode better sound and more tracks. It's a buy. There are songs on this album I couldn't find elsewhere.


Dull, like Construction Time Again
I also enjoyed People are People, some songs on Broken Frame and much of Speak and Spell. I was a huge fan of DM albums like Music for the Masses, Black Celebration, and Violator. But, most of this record never did anything for me. It is rare for me to have had a tape in the 80s that I didn't really try to like from bands I liked. But, a few songs like Lie to Me are good as I recall, but People are People is a stronger "early Mode" post Speak and Spell choice. Stick with Music for the Masses, Violator, Black Celebration, People are People, and Speak and Spell.


Must have album!
Their other albums are also good but would only recommend for die hard fans. If you like Depeche Mode then buy these 4 albums:

Some Great Reward
Black Celebration
Music for the Masses
Violator

These albums were released between 1985-1990 in consecutive order & have all of their best songs. These 4 albums are their classic albums.


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