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I remember seeing them in the 80s at friars, didn't really get why they made it as big as they did... Huuuge.... Don't know too many of their tunes but would go for personal jesus as it suited dave gahans voice really well. |
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By *rPunxMan 30 weeks ago
Hull |
Although the connotation behind the song. Little 15 is a fucking masterpiece. The sense of hope inside the tragedy of the lyrics. Most people think its about some pervy old guy chasing a young girl when in fact it's the other way round. And was written about an older woman tyring to seduce and re-live her life through a 15 year old boy and was written about a boy they knew at school |
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"Just too many..
New life,just can't get enough.
Shame writer vince Clark left so early."
Why? If he’d have stayed around they’d never have become such a global phenomenon; one chord synth pop lasted a couple of years at best.
As much as I’d pay cash to watch Yazoo play a small venue again and as good as Erasure became, neither are anything close to Gore’s influence post Clarke (with an e).
Mode in their prime were one of the very best bands to ever grace a stage.
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"Although the connotation behind the song. Little 15 is a fucking masterpiece. The sense of hope inside the tragedy of the lyrics. Most people think its about some pervy old guy chasing a young girl when in fact it's the other way round. And was written about an older woman tyring to seduce and re-live her life through a 15 year old boy and was written about a boy they knew at school "
Such an underrated song.
Great shout sir  |
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By *rPunxMan 30 weeks ago
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"Although the connotation behind the song. Little 15 is a fucking masterpiece. The sense of hope inside the tragedy of the lyrics. Most people think its about some pervy old guy chasing a young girl when in fact it's the other way round. And was written about an older woman tyring to seduce and re-live her life through a 15 year old boy and was written about a boy they knew at school
Such an underrated song.
Great shout sir "
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Pretty much everything until Alan Wilder left. Though I was not enamoured with SOFAD as the sound changed quite dramatically into some cheesy bluesy/wailing rock.
Enjoy the Silence is probably my favourite track (and that was hard choice!). Strangelove a close second. |
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"Just too many..
New life,just can't get enough.
Shame writer vince Clark left so early.
Why? If he’d have stayed around they’d never have become such a global phenomenon; one chord synth pop lasted a couple of years at best.
As much as I’d pay cash to watch Yazoo play a small venue again and as good as Erasure became, neither are anything close to Gore’s influence post Clarke (with an e).
Mode in their prime were one of the very best bands to ever grace a stage."
Agreed and nor would he have formed Yazoo, with the wonderful Alison Moyet. |
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By *vcarolTV/TS 30 weeks ago
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Missed out on seeing them in Tiffany’s ( holds 120/140) in Glasgow the first ever visit, as went to see another band . Doh!
Made up for it as seen them all over Europe/ uk.
Have all the 12” singles, too.
Dreaming of me - for its period simplicity.
Home - very underrated track. |
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"Pretty much everything until Alan Wilder."
Wilder is classically trained and arguably the only true “musician” in the band, Mode definitely lost a key element once he left.
Mode have never quite been the same once Wilders’ influence/presence/arrangement differences with Gore was gone.
That said, elements of Ultra, Exciter, Angel are superb, Mode have never released a ‘complete’ album since Violator or Devotion.
Don’t get me started on Delta or Spirit  |
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"Wilder is classically trained and arguably the only true “musician” in the band, Mode definitely lost a key element once he left.
Mode have never quite been the same once Wilders’ influence/presence/arrangement differences with Gore was gone.
That said, elements of Ultra, Exciter, Angel are superb, Mode have never released a ‘complete’ album since Violator or Devotion.
Don’t get me started on Delta or Spirit "
I couldn't agree more. Wilder was the only one in the studio at 3am in the morning, shaping and getting the timbre right on a key element whilst others were absent. That's soul-destroying and I've been in that position myself. Especially when I've spent several hours listening to the singer try to nail a take until we get it, and then come my turn with a bassline everyone's pissed off down the pub and are not interested.
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Impossible to say. I grew up as a Mode fan so I cannot pick just the one.
However, I will surprise you by saying I cannot stand "Just Can't Get Enough".
Ive the single, as every other one and album. This track always gets skipped  |
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What? How ami supposed to….Grrrrr!
Somebody (101 live piano version)
John the revelator
Condemnation
Wrong
A pain that I’m used to
Meh! Too many choices!!! Basically, the darker stuff over the earlier synth pop era….mostly  |
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By *hortieWoman 12 weeks ago
Northampton |
"What? How ami supposed to….Grrrrr!
Somebody (101 live piano version)
John the revelator
Condemnation
Wrong
A pain that I’m used to
Meh! Too many choices!!! Basically, the darker stuff over the earlier synth pop era….mostly "
A pain that I'm used to (Jacques lu cont remix) I'm addicted to. Fuck me hard to that, and I'm all yours. |
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... Have been known to do an acapella version of 'Somebody' at open mic nights.
Usually gets a mixed response, depending on whether anybody there has even heard of it! 🤣
(My encore is 'Desperado' by the Eagles) 🙃 |
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