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The best Depeche Mode album charts
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3. Ultra
Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 4.18
Great tracks: Barrel Of A Gun, Home, It’s No Good, Useless, Sister Of Night, Insight
Weak tracks: Uselink, Jazz Thieves
‘Ultra’ is uncompromising, brute in sound and the darkest Depeche Mode album of all time. For me until today my personal favourite album of the band. But also the story behind the album is rather tragic. After Dave Gahan had had a near-death experience a year earlier due to a heroin/cocaine overdose, the future around Depeche Mode was uncertain. Everything seemed to break apart.
In a later interview with The Guardian, Dave Gahan says, “When I died, there was only darkness. In the two minutes my heart stopped, this humungous voice inside of me went: ‘This is wrong.’ Like I don’t get to choose when this is over. It scared the shit out of me.”
Depeche Mode - Spirit
2. Spirit
Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 4.33
Great tracks: Going Backwards, Where’s The Revolution, Scum, Poison Heart, So Much Love
Weak tracks: (None)
With the fourteenth album, ‘Spirit‘ Depeche Mode present themselves after a long time politically. And there is not only lyrical to hear out. Also tonally colours the uncomfortable political mood on the sound of the band. Dark and unpleasant, ‘Spirit’ by Depeche Mode does not deliver an easy listening pop album.
I celebrate this album every time I hear it. That’s exactly what I love the band for. To put yourself in danger again and again in which you try something new and renounced learned habits. After more than 35 years of success, the guys from England are still close to the times. Read the full review of the album now.
Depeche Mode - Violator
1. Violator
Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 4.5
Great tracks: World In My Eyes, Halo, Clean, Sweetest Perfection, Personal Jesus, Enjoy The Silence, Policy Of Truth
Weak tracks: (None)
The second result which surprised me very much. From the feeling, I would never have rated the album as high in the rating. On the album is also in principle a hit after another. And with a number of only 9 songs, the chance of a high rating is of course obvious. Even though the album ‘Violator’ is not one of my personal favourites, the individual songs are very good.