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| The Best of Depeche Mode, Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Depeche Mode
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 1802
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 44256
UPC: 936244256258
EAN: 0093624425625
ASIN: B000IFQLLY
Release Date: November 14, 2006
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 'Martyr' ... WOW ... Depeche at its very best ! January 28, 2007
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
Any DM fan is already saturated with the songs included in this compilation. If you are new to DM, this is the wrong place to start, go buy Violator, Songs of Faith and Devotion, Ultra, etc ...
What is really worth here is the new amazing DM track called 'Martyr' ... it reminded of 'ol times when they were perhaps more dark, subtle and powerful. A 5 star just for that one song!
 Bad disc quality - Do Not Order This CD August 9, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love Depeche Mode, so ordering this CD was a joy for me. That all ended when the disc arrived at my house. It skipped on almost every track. So I sent it back to Amazon and they sent a new one. The new disc skipped even worst. It's sad when a large company like MCA Records can't even burn a CD correctly these days. Now the disc sits in the truck of my car. Sending it back again just wasn't worth the hassel.
Must for fans, must for non November 15, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Definitively, not the product that a DM fan can expect for their money, but, they will buy one for shure. Every one of those songs are memories, past glories, influences, icons. Unfortunatelly there are not black celebration songs in it, but this is just the vol. 1.
DM has reached the top of their influential powers many years ago, but the media and the critics are opening their eyes for the first time since the Touring the angel global success, recongnizing DM as a legend in the music business, sharing their status with U2, Pink Floyd, The Stones, etc.
This collection is a must for you that want to meet those guys from Basildon, then you can build a basement to get the entire picture, and go for the next album (violator could be the next). And the bonus DVD is worth, all those oldies for the first time on DVD. Oh, and the new song is good, maybe not a classic, but is catchy and danceable.
This "Best of" is more like a marketing tool than a real "Best Of" (at least for the fans), but is fine to get all those significant songs in a new CD with new Anton's artwork.
For you, the fans, c'mon go and get it, you and me know it, earlier or later we will.
Guaoo! May 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Voy a ser sincero,yo no era fanatico de esta banda,los recuerdos que tenia de ellos es de su musica ochentosa plagada de sintetizadores,completamente electronica y en esa epoca era heavymetalero radical,pero definitivamente el crecimiento se acompana la madurez y en este caso se abren nuevas tendencias musicales;esta gente es excelente!no estoy seguro si este The Best Of Vol.1 esta lo mas representativo de este grupo,pero una cosa si es cierta,estoy enganchado al mismo!no conocia su etapa noventosa y me atreveria a decir (con permiso de sus conocedores mas acerrimos)que es la mejor etapa del grupo!de mi cabeza no salen la exitante Personal Jesus,el ritmo pegajoso de It's no Good,la desgarradora y poderosa I Feel,la ritmica y nostalgica Enjoy the Silence...tambien se puede disfrutar de sus exitos de los ochenta como Just Can't get Enough,Master and Servant...y lo mas reciente Precious,la instrospectiva Dream On,Suffer Well...que mas puedo decir?Material de primera!yo por mi parte voy a comprarme todos los CD's para saber que mas me estoy perdiendo,pero este para comenzar es un palo a la cabeza!Nota:la informacion de los anos de las canciones la busque previamente a la escritura de esta revision,yo no sabia nada de esta gente...
A Good Starting Point September 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
DM have gone through many distinct phases since their inception at the beginning of the 1980's. This compilation CD, while not "perfect" by the standards of serious fanatics--how could it be?--is a good place to start when you're just trying to get a feel for the band's sound.
Unlike the two singles compilations released in 1998, the tracks here are sequenced to showcase the band's diverse history rather than a chronological progression. "Personal Jesus" was not DM's first single, but it did become their most recognizable hit of all time. It also grandfathered a series of songs that pay homage to it later in the band's career. Try listening to the bluesy guitar riff in "Jesus" and then "I Feel You," "Dream On," "Suffer Well," and "Martyr." The lineage should be clear even to casual listeners.
But there are of course other strains of Depeche Mode, and that's why "Just Can't Get Enough" is such a shock when sequenced back to back with "Personal Jesus." Who knew that the same band was capable of bouncy bubble gum pop on the one hand, and a monument to God, Elvis, and Kraftwerk on the other? That's the trick to Depeche Mode: it lies somewhere between Johnny Cash and A-ha, biblical allusion and trendy disposability, tortured guitars and Moog synthesizers. No wonder many people don't really know what to think about this band. There are identifiable waypoints along this tangled path: try sequencing the sincerity of "See You" and the menace of "Never Let Me Down Again" between those polar opposites, and maybe you get something close to a straight line from point A to B.
For a while DM was about pushing the buttons of the BBC. Nowadays, when a song about being bi-curious hits number one on the charts, "Master and Servant" might seem quite acceptably deviant. But in 1984 it was a kind of firebomb tossed on pop music, and when you consider other politically- and culturally-charged salvos of the time such as "Everything Counts," "People Are People," and "Strangelove," you can see why Depeche Mode has sometimes been synonymous with subversion.
But when all is said and done, what might be best about Depeche Mode is its pensiveness, its navel-gazing, its proclivity for being romantic and emotionally distant at the same time. Hence "Enjoy the Silence" and "Shake the Disease." "I'm not going down on my knees," Martin Gore writes, "begging you to adore me." And he still manages to come off as hopelessly in love and terrified of being hopelessly out of love all over again. Which leads quite naturally to the pained confessions of weakness and defeat in "Walking in My Shoes" and "Precious." It's never cut and dried, never direct and easy for this band when it comes to attachments, and that's a big part of its lasting appeal.
There aren't many acts in music that can display such longevity and varied success in its catalogue, but Depeche Mode is one of them. And that's the story this disc tells as effectively as it realistically could in less than eighty minutes.
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