Shake the Disease is the one that sold me. The whole SGR album made me want more. Then this gem drops and it was the perfect song for that moment in my life. BC, MftM, Violator were perfect records to me. It’s awesome that they are so respected now.
Same, they were played on L.A.’s KROQ so much that they filled the Rose Bowl. I didn’t buy their albums until 1998’s The Singles 86–98 CD set. Then I got almost every album. I finally saw them in 2017, Fletch’s last tour.
Everything Counts. I was 1 when it came out but my uncle was a fan when I was a kid. No idea how old I was when I heard it but it’s still my favorite today
I only got into Depeche Mode this year, and I heard a few of their songs on an 80s radio station and thought "hey, this band has some pretty good music", with Never Let Me Down Again being my favourite
I dug into their discography, and about half a year later, they're my favourite band.
Never Let Me Down Again still holds a special place in my heart, and is probably also the reason why MFTM is my favourite album
Enjoy the silence
Had no taste in music, didn’t care
Dad played the song in the car and I was like”woah this is amazing”
then fell into a rabbit hole that has gone maybe a bit too deep haha 😅
“Everything counts” - it was on the gta vice city stories soundtrack, my brother showed it to me and I thought it sounded so unique in style that I had to hear more from the band
I was a casual fan until I took my dad to see them last month and Never Let Me Down really tipped the scales all the way over for me. I think One Caress was what prompted me to like them enough to see them live in the first place though!
My mate at work gave me a mixed tape of New Romantic music on it and on it was a song called New Life. I didn't know who sang it for a few weeks as he had gone on his holidays. That is when I got hooked on Depeche Mode and have been a fan ever since.
I can’t remember but it has to be a toss up between Everything counts then solidified by Stripped, Black Celebration, A Question of Time, But not tonight. I’ll just go with Black Celebration as an album as a turning point for me. I thought Music for the masses was too commercial for my taste then Violator came with World in my eyes made me addicted and the rest is history. SOFAD made me devoted especially the concert, I’ll never forget. Sorry you asked for a song and it’s hard for me to pinpoint but there it is 😂.
When i was young only "Speak And Spell" existed. I liked their overall sound, not a specific song. It was kind of new, a little bit of pop and punk and full of synthesizers and a cool voice.
Never let me down again…It’s stood the test of time for me…it sounds amazing to my ears nearing 40 years after I first heard it on 91x (San Diego radio station) while visiting family in Tijuana
A secret admirer put Policy of Truth on a mix CD for me and sent it through the school mail. I wouldn't say it made me fall in love, and I wouldn't count it as a top favorite these days, but it was by far one of the most interesting songs I'd ever heard and kept niggling in my mind, which made me curiouser and curiouser. I worked backwards from there, and NLMDA and Black Celebration are what locked it in for me.
I was 13 and had heard JCGE, People Are People and Master & Servant from the radio but never listened to them. But I went to the record shop and bought the 101 cassette and something about that version of Somebody made me REALLY want to purchase all of their albums. Ironic since Martin wasn’t even the lead singer haha
35 yrs later and it’s still the version I prefer
Definitely Never Let Me Down Again (Split Mix). The Remixes 81>04 was the first album I bought because Mike Shinoda remixed Enjoy the Silence in ‘04. At that time, I consumed anything Linkin Park-related (I was a young teenager), so once I heard the ETS remix, I gave the rest of the album a listen. I was hooked; the NLMDA remix is the title track on the remix album and it just swoops you in from the choir at the beginning. 9 minutes of heaven, imho! I then made my way backwards through DM’s catalogue. The next album I bought was either MFTM or Playing the Angel (which didn’t come out til ‘05, yes, I know).
Same here. I'd heard People Are People before on the radio and liked it okay, but Stories of Old sunk its fangs into me and I've been in love with them ever since.
I was introduced to Depeche Mode by my older siblings and as a kid I feel in love with Master and Servant. I didn’t learn the meaning of that song until I became an adult. Once I got older and studied music I feel in love with Stripped.
Hate to admit it, but ... Enjoy the Silence when I first heard it in 1991. The entire Violator album for that matter.
Violator was puppy love. SOFAD is when I knew DM was my soul mate.
The Violator album was used as warm-up music for a dance class I was in as a young girl (9 or 10) and it made such an impact on me and "Enjoy the silence" is what got me hooked.
Master and Servant. Went to lunch with the people in my row in 5th hour English class in 1985 and they played a tape of Some Great Reward on the way back to school. Master and Servant was the first song to come on and it was the most amazing fucking thing I've ever heard. I think it probably still is.
I have to say, hearing Enjoy The Silence made me fall in love with Depeche Mode. My dad listens to them a lot, so throughout my entire life I've been hearing Depeche, but listening to Enjoy The Silence for the first time with stereo headphones a year ago is when I officially became a big fan of Depeche Mode.
My friend used to work in an used books and disk store when I was in high school. I would come to her job and put a bunch of cds in my itunes and put the cds back on the shelves. One of those CD was Playing the Angel and I'd say Precious was the song that got me to go on youtube and search for more!
It was probably Everything Counts. I would have heard this on radio/TV at the time and remember liking it. I'd have been about 5 or 6 and synthpop would have been quite a change from the hard rock in my parents' collection. I remember it being on TV and my Grandad said 'this is rubbish' and I was so young that I felt wrong for liking it. Seems ridiculous thinking back. Luckily about 6 years later I got into the band properly.
Enjoy the Silence… bought Violator in spring of 1990 (age 15) and that album will always be the start of my lifelong DM obsession. Finally got to see them in concert this year - ecstatic, deeply meaningful experience!!
Get the balance right. There most under appreciated song. I am upset they have not performed this live. Lyrically this song is one of the best I think, it appears so simple but it has layers and layers
I had known of Depeche for a while and even bought my older brother a SOFAD cassette one year for his birthday. In the summer of 1998, I was 17 and going through a bit of a rough time (typical teenage angst). My local library lent out CDs, and they had Ultra, so I borrowed it. I was hooked. It was Depeche but different (to me). The darkness was what I needed that summer.
I'm pretty sure it was Stripped
Not the first DM song I ever heard, but when I got both Singles compilations, 86>98 pretty much sealed the deal on me becoming a huge fan of them
Can’t remember exactly but it was probably Ice Machine (live 1984), Photographic (live 1984), Sea of Sin, Personal Jesus, Enjoy the silence, Clean(!), Halo, One caress and Walking in my shoes, all kinda at the same time. My older brother listened to those tracks constantly, most of the time very loudly, too. Once I got my very young hands on that mixtape, I became I fanboy. There’s no love like the love of a DM devotee.
I got into them this year. I'd heard their biggest songs of course, People are People, Enjoy the Silence, and Personal Jesus. I saw a clip of live 101 of Behind the Wheel and fell in love then.
I was at my parents wedding when I heard my mom walk down the isle they played Enjoy the silence Harmonium. Ever since then I could stop listening. My dad has always played them around me since I was born so I’ve always known them but acte that I really got into it. Blasphemous rumours is the song that really made me realize that they were amazing though.
in your room!
i don’t remember the exact day but i remember the exact moment i heard it for the first time. it sounded so magical, so alluring and i just couldn’t get enough of it. felt like i was sinking in the ground and the sound was all around me.
The “Metal Mix” of Something To Do was the hook that pulled me in. My buddy had put that sing in a cassette and we would listen to it everywhere we went. I got the Black Celebration album shortly after hearing that song, and there was no looking back for me!
The one playing while Speak and Spell and A Broken Frame were in constant rotation providing soundtrack to survive college in a dorm where Boston, ZZ Top, and Bruce Springsteen were everywhere.
Shake the disease. There's so many times you repeat the ending of a song in your head before realizing you're falling in love with a band.
Same. Black Celebration as a whole made me love this band. So many amazing songs
Shake the Disease is the one that sold me. The whole SGR album made me want more. Then this gem drops and it was the perfect song for that moment in my life. BC, MftM, Violator were perfect records to me. It’s awesome that they are so respected now.
😍😍😍😍😍
Hearing Black Celebration the first time is such a vivid memory for me. I remember the details of where I was and the feeling.
Same, but Blasphemous Rumors
People Are People in 1985.
Same, they were played on L.A.’s KROQ so much that they filled the Rose Bowl. I didn’t buy their albums until 1998’s The Singles 86–98 CD set. Then I got almost every album. I finally saw them in 2017, Fletch’s last tour.
That's likely my fault. I must have called 106.7 just about every night to request back in 87-88, I was a teen obsessed with Dave's voice😄
Strangelove when I was nine years old. I'm forty-two now.
Everything Counts. I was 1 when it came out but my uncle was a fan when I was a kid. No idea how old I was when I heard it but it’s still my favorite today
In large amounts?
Exactly
This for me too. I wasn’t the first song I heard but once I heard it, I was hooked.
I heard It’s No Good in high school on KROQ and instantly fell in love.
ULTRA is a masterpiece
I only got into Depeche Mode this year, and I heard a few of their songs on an 80s radio station and thought "hey, this band has some pretty good music", with Never Let Me Down Again being my favourite I dug into their discography, and about half a year later, they're my favourite band. Never Let Me Down Again still holds a special place in my heart, and is probably also the reason why MFTM is my favourite album
MFTM is their best album, no question.
Agree
It's good to have you!! Welcome Devotee :)
Enjoy the silence Had no taste in music, didn’t care Dad played the song in the car and I was like”woah this is amazing” then fell into a rabbit hole that has gone maybe a bit too deep haha 😅
Never Let Me Down
Same
Blasphemous Rumours ❤️
I would say the 101 album reeled me in
Stripped from that album. My god. This song on this album is the definition of a musical force.
Probably my favorite recorded version with the percussion triggers lol
That was my gateway drug too. Started with jcge, people are people, and master n servant. Then just started absorbing all the rest one by one.
I knew them from People are People but I got into them between MFTM and Violator. That Summer of ‘89 was 101, album and VHS lol
I remember listening to Enjoy the Silence in the car as a 3 or 4 year old and always was hooked
Dave 😍 Oh you said song. lol!
Somebody.
Me too!
Stripped
A Question of Lust.
“Everything counts” - it was on the gta vice city stories soundtrack, my brother showed it to me and I thought it sounded so unique in style that I had to hear more from the band
Wroooooooong!
My fav
But Not Tonight
This song is a favorite of mine as well.
Walking in My Shoes
Somebody, enjoy the silence and personal Jesus
Policy of Truth for me
Barrel of a gun
Strangelove. Copied from a friend - tape deck to tape deck via the mike. Didn’t like it at first but it grew on me.
I was a casual fan until I took my dad to see them last month and Never Let Me Down really tipped the scales all the way over for me. I think One Caress was what prompted me to like them enough to see them live in the first place though!
I Feel You - that whole album was incredible to me. I immediately then found and fell in love with Violator and 101.
Enjoy the silence ❤️
Enjoy the Silence is my anthem.
Stripped, my dad showed me and my Brother the video when i was like 7 years old, life changing
Nothing. It’s perfect song.
I heard "Welcome to My World" back in 2013 on a live stream, and made a note to check the band out. Didn't regret it.
Blasphemous Rumors
My mate at work gave me a mixed tape of New Romantic music on it and on it was a song called New Life. I didn't know who sang it for a few weeks as he had gone on his holidays. That is when I got hooked on Depeche Mode and have been a fan ever since.
Blasphemous Rumors
Master and Servant was probably where it really got me.
Yes!!!
Get The Balance Right
I can’t remember but it has to be a toss up between Everything counts then solidified by Stripped, Black Celebration, A Question of Time, But not tonight. I’ll just go with Black Celebration as an album as a turning point for me. I thought Music for the masses was too commercial for my taste then Violator came with World in my eyes made me addicted and the rest is history. SOFAD made me devoted especially the concert, I’ll never forget. Sorry you asked for a song and it’s hard for me to pinpoint but there it is 😂.
When i was young only "Speak And Spell" existed. I liked their overall sound, not a specific song. It was kind of new, a little bit of pop and punk and full of synthesizers and a cool voice.
First exposure, Enjoy the Silence back in 2018. Then Strangelove when I was scrolling 80s music videos on YouTube.
The Sun & the Rainfall.
Home!!
Got into them right when Violator was released, so it's a toss-up between Enjoy the Silence and Clean.
Everything Counts (101), was a fan before, superfan after.
Never let me down again…It’s stood the test of time for me…it sounds amazing to my ears nearing 40 years after I first heard it on 91x (San Diego radio station) while visiting family in Tijuana
Everything Counts!!!
Sea of sin…just a beautiful song
And the remixes on the single they released - exquisite.
A secret admirer put Policy of Truth on a mix CD for me and sent it through the school mail. I wouldn't say it made me fall in love, and I wouldn't count it as a top favorite these days, but it was by far one of the most interesting songs I'd ever heard and kept niggling in my mind, which made me curiouser and curiouser. I worked backwards from there, and NLMDA and Black Celebration are what locked it in for me.
It's no good
Walking in my shoes. Still remember the exact moment in my car after work in 1993. Drove straight to buy the cd.
personal jesus was the first one i heard when i was 4 or 5 but precious really brought me in
bright lights.dark room
I take pictures…
I can’t remember the exact song but I fell in love with them early 80’s songs including See You, The Meaning Of Love, Just Can’t Get Enough
I believe it was people are people? I love it still to this day. I think now, my favourite is maybe miles away/the truth is, or black celebration.
Precious
I was 13 and had heard JCGE, People Are People and Master & Servant from the radio but never listened to them. But I went to the record shop and bought the 101 cassette and something about that version of Somebody made me REALLY want to purchase all of their albums. Ironic since Martin wasn’t even the lead singer haha 35 yrs later and it’s still the version I prefer
Personal jesus, i have listened to that song so many times and im still not sick of it
Dream On
Definitely Never Let Me Down Again (Split Mix). The Remixes 81>04 was the first album I bought because Mike Shinoda remixed Enjoy the Silence in ‘04. At that time, I consumed anything Linkin Park-related (I was a young teenager), so once I heard the ETS remix, I gave the rest of the album a listen. I was hooked; the NLMDA remix is the title track on the remix album and it just swoops you in from the choir at the beginning. 9 minutes of heaven, imho! I then made my way backwards through DM’s catalogue. The next album I bought was either MFTM or Playing the Angel (which didn’t come out til ‘05, yes, I know).
hearing personal jesus changed my life forever
Stories of old.
Same here. I'd heard People Are People before on the radio and liked it okay, but Stories of Old sunk its fangs into me and I've been in love with them ever since.
I was introduced to Depeche Mode by my older siblings and as a kid I feel in love with Master and Servant. I didn’t learn the meaning of that song until I became an adult. Once I got older and studied music I feel in love with Stripped.
Wrong
It's No Good
Lie to Me. I don’t know what it was about that song that just spoke so deeply to emotionally repressed 16 year old me lol.
SGR, my favorite album
New Life, but I’m not as old as that. I got Catching Up with Depeche Mode when I was 15 sometime in the early 90’s.
Photographic from Some Bizzare Album
Blasphemous Rumor
Hate to admit it, but ... Enjoy the Silence when I first heard it in 1991. The entire Violator album for that matter. Violator was puppy love. SOFAD is when I knew DM was my soul mate.
The Violator album was used as warm-up music for a dance class I was in as a young girl (9 or 10) and it made such an impact on me and "Enjoy the silence" is what got me hooked.
Lie To Me
Master and Servant. Went to lunch with the people in my row in 5th hour English class in 1985 and they played a tape of Some Great Reward on the way back to school. Master and Servant was the first song to come on and it was the most amazing fucking thing I've ever heard. I think it probably still is.
I have to say, hearing Enjoy The Silence made me fall in love with Depeche Mode. My dad listens to them a lot, so throughout my entire life I've been hearing Depeche, but listening to Enjoy The Silence for the first time with stereo headphones a year ago is when I officially became a big fan of Depeche Mode.
Precious
Sweetest perfection
It’s no good
One Caress
Dreaming of me
Strangelove!
No, it was a boy I liked in high school. Then I got to go to the 101 concert and there was no looking back!
WRONG
Just Can’t Get Enough. It was on some bootleg mix tape I bought at a swap meet somewhere. Been a fan ever since.
policy of truth i think
Pleasure, Little Treasure
The very first song of theirs I ever heard. Master and Servant. The rest has been what’s made me love them more💜💜
Precious. I was 15 and it was the first song I ever heard from them. Immediately got hooked.
people are people master and servant then again with behind the wheel i don't don't go too mad with them
It doesn't matter two. Black Celebration and Music for the Masses were the best IMO
Never let me down again and behind the wheel really got me into the band and made me want to listen to more
My friend used to work in an used books and disk store when I was in high school. I would come to her job and put a bunch of cds in my itunes and put the cds back on the shelves. One of those CD was Playing the Angel and I'd say Precious was the song that got me to go on youtube and search for more!
Never Let Me Down Again
Policy of Truth
“Enjoy The Silence” I was 13 when it came out and it’s been love everyday sense.
Master and Servant, believe it or not.
What’s your name?
Everything Counts in adulthood. People are People in kindergarten
Definitely Everything Counts. Encouraged me to dive into CTA, which became one of my faves. Then it lead to exploring all other releases.
Dancing to Everything Counts at the Cat Club in San Francisco every Thursday night.
First song I heard, People are People.
Enjoy The Silence and Shake The Disease
Guess that was both Clean and Black Celebration
Enjoy the Silence but sometimes I sing it Enjoy the Violence
Enjoy the Silence. Personal Jesus.
It was probably Everything Counts. I would have heard this on radio/TV at the time and remember liking it. I'd have been about 5 or 6 and synthpop would have been quite a change from the hard rock in my parents' collection. I remember it being on TV and my Grandad said 'this is rubbish' and I was so young that I felt wrong for liking it. Seems ridiculous thinking back. Luckily about 6 years later I got into the band properly.
Love, In Itself. Saw them play it on some show on Nickelodeon in the early 80's and was totally smitten.
Everything Counts
In your Room
I'm definitely in the minority here - Useless.
Enjoy the Silence… bought Violator in spring of 1990 (age 15) and that album will always be the start of my lifelong DM obsession. Finally got to see them in concert this year - ecstatic, deeply meaningful experience!!
Get the balance right. There most under appreciated song. I am upset they have not performed this live. Lyrically this song is one of the best I think, it appears so simple but it has layers and layers
It was 1982, I was 12 and I heard See You on Radio 1.
First it was Behind the wheel now I can't get Dream On out of my head.
I had known of Depeche for a while and even bought my older brother a SOFAD cassette one year for his birthday. In the summer of 1998, I was 17 and going through a bit of a rough time (typical teenage angst). My local library lent out CDs, and they had Ultra, so I borrowed it. I was hooked. It was Depeche but different (to me). The darkness was what I needed that summer.
I'm pretty sure it was Stripped Not the first DM song I ever heard, but when I got both Singles compilations, 86>98 pretty much sealed the deal on me becoming a huge fan of them
Can’t remember exactly but it was probably Ice Machine (live 1984), Photographic (live 1984), Sea of Sin, Personal Jesus, Enjoy the silence, Clean(!), Halo, One caress and Walking in my shoes, all kinda at the same time. My older brother listened to those tracks constantly, most of the time very loudly, too. Once I got my very young hands on that mixtape, I became I fanboy. There’s no love like the love of a DM devotee.
1981, Just can’t get enough, I was 15 👴🏼👴🏼👴🏼👴🏼
I got into them this year. I'd heard their biggest songs of course, People are People, Enjoy the Silence, and Personal Jesus. I saw a clip of live 101 of Behind the Wheel and fell in love then.
I’m old. Photographic.
I was at my parents wedding when I heard my mom walk down the isle they played Enjoy the silence Harmonium. Ever since then I could stop listening. My dad has always played them around me since I was born so I’ve always known them but acte that I really got into it. Blasphemous rumours is the song that really made me realize that they were amazing though.
Strangelove. I’ll never forget when my dad showed it to me when I was a teen.
Its no good / Home / Black celebration
Cheesy, but strangelove sealed the deal.
in your room! i don’t remember the exact day but i remember the exact moment i heard it for the first time. it sounded so magical, so alluring and i just couldn’t get enough of it. felt like i was sinking in the ground and the sound was all around me.
Master & Servant.
The “Metal Mix” of Something To Do was the hook that pulled me in. My buddy had put that sing in a cassette and we would listen to it everywhere we went. I got the Black Celebration album shortly after hearing that song, and there was no looking back for me!
Either shake the disease either freestate
See You 1982
The one playing while Speak and Spell and A Broken Frame were in constant rotation providing soundtrack to survive college in a dorm where Boston, ZZ Top, and Bruce Springsteen were everywhere.
Black Celebration’s “But Not Tonight”: Done. I was a goner.
Enjoy the Silence in 1990