the whole album is!

sono loro stessi lo stile anniottanta.....ne sono letteralmente l'essenza

Да, чувак ❤

I don't like their first album, but this song is perfect. So much inspired by Kraftwerk. Amazing.

This is one of my favourite songs ❤

@0SWALD117 one more same age, same response. F***g time flies fast.

I am 33 and I love depeche mode from my childhood

I'm 53, don't worry, the song becomes better each year ;-)

moi aussi et j' ai le même âge!

I'm 22 😂😂😂😂😂

You are not alone! I've never been a fan of early DM but this was "head and shoulders" above all on this album. Funnily enough, I'm just looking at my DM collection from 1980- to 1993; I only collected 12"s but counted 210 so far (marbeled, limited et.al.... .)

for me the best song on speak & spell is ice machine

First time, I played my cassette of "Speak And Spell", "Photographic", was the one that spoke to me the most. Still my favourite track from the album, today, 40 years on, since, the album was released. :)

You are definitely not alone! One of their best early song and Vince Clarke was at the right place, in the right band, who is my favorite musician since I heard his synthesizer music 40! years ago!

Mysterious yes, and Puppets along with it as the 2 songs I listen to most from the album to coincide with the horror/thriller films I watch

I felt the same way when I was exactly your age. Never lived in the 80s, but always had a strong attachment to it, as if I was meant to live in that era. Now I'm 30, and still feel the same way. By the way- the music you listen to when youre 14-15 will be the music you will listen to forever. Cheers to good music taste 👍

I’m 48, this music was around since I was 5. You are looking at true pioneers of electronic music. 😊

It doesn't matter when the song was released it only matters the time when you listened to it. I was a teenager in the 1990s and I mostly listened to music like this, and it was considered out of date back then.

I agree. This is the best DM song. The only one I really like from them

They were great. I saw them when Nitzer Ebb was their opening act. I wish I could go back and see it again. 😊

Ir aš 🖐️

I saw them twice and they sound perfect live.

Agree

Yup

Yep

Got me thinking, Dave could hardly contain himself for it.

​@@chaoswitch1974 agreed!

You have a point

so true. miss this so much. the beauty of simplicity lost in a world of clatter.

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Today, do you love them still? ;) :)

In Your Room is amazing, an instant classic. My favorite on SOFAD is Rush.

Depeche Mode is timeless. In Your Room is an amazing and tortured piece of art.

@@danieklerr 1) In Your Room 2) Rush Two Masterpiece

@@demisemedia "In Your Room " ....Masterpiece!

@@demisemedia I got tattoed "In Your Room "....!!!

You must have awesome parents!

I am still 21 in my head lol

And I turn 21 in 1 week lol

That’s awesome that as a younger person DM is your favorite band. 👍

Mine, too, and I’m 40!

Kratwerk were, Earlier!

Hmmm, were you even around in the 80's?.. Vince Clark was only inspired to get into electronic music after hearing OMD.. I only just discovered that and it makes perfect sense as I couldn't help but notice the similarity between the "Bright light/Dark room" in this and OMD's 'Red Frame/White Light'.. The early 80's was full of synth hits and DM were only a part of that - New Order's anthem 'Blue Monday' was the biggest synth hit of the day by far..

Depeche Mode went far with synths, and while everybody has different tastes, it was only Vince Clark, even from this early album, who created almost every sound from scratch using analog synthesis. All patches, wires and cables. Which he still uses with Erasure. He is highly respected in the recording industry (in general), and he technically might actually be The King Synthesizers. (Maybe D-Mode takes second!).

Depeche Mode were actually more into samplers, and less into synths, they sampled sounds from anything and everything, and played them on the keyboard. They used a sampler called "Emulator Emax" and others. The sampling of natural sounds is called "Musique Concrete". This is really what made the DM sound so distinctive from other New Wave bands. The synths came later, but samplers were really their sound source.

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An amazing song, I agree 😊

Agree with all of the above.

I love almost all from DM, but NOT Just can*t get enough 😂

Мне 39 слушаю. Раньше музыка была так музыка.

мне 12, я с 3 лет очень люблю, папа подсадил

Мне 3 года, слушаю вместо Синего трактора

Некоторые думают, что это риэлторская песня: яркий свет, тëмная комната😂

peter westlake same age same love of it :-)

me too!

Me too :)

Shit, 52nd birthday slightly appears....Cold comfort: Similar situation for DM;-)

i was 61

+terry2315 yes Vince formed Erasure & Yaz one of the rare cases when the person leaving & the band he left both got better afterwards(Genesis another example)

+terry2315 Martin actually wrote two songs, "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "Big Muff", but Vince did write the rest and all of the hits back then. I don't blame the magazines for assuming that DM were doomed because aside from Dave singing (but not writing) the songs, the rest of the band didn't do much creative work--it was (almost) all Vince and Dave at the time. These two were also the promoters who sought deals with record labels and such--Martin and Fletch didn't take the band 100% seriously early on since they both had decent day jobs. One possible reason that Vince left was that Martin, whom Vince really wanted in the band, was always "shy" about writing songs and even shier about collaborating on them. Since Vince did most of the work anyway, he thought he might as well work with a variety of singers anyway, and as a "power" producer he wouldn't have to go on tour and things like that (didn't enjoy that or performing live). He still planned to write songs for DM, too, if they'd have this, but his leaving and all of the negative press about DM's future lit a fire under the band, especially Martin who obviously decided to start cranking out songs. He's still shy about collaborating, though--he has never collaborated on songs within DM (he writes alone and Dave collaborates with others), and only in the last few years has he started to collaborate with Vince (of all people) as VCMG. Vince, on the other hand, prefers to collaborate, so for this and other reasons he wasn't a good fit for DM. He also left Yazoo since they wrote separately and couldn't stand each other personally, but has stuck with Erasure for decades because he and Andy Bell collaborate closely and get along well.

+orgonko the wildly untamed There was just so much talent to start with and they were just getting started, which is why things turned out this way, and yes it is rare, especially since talent unfortunately doesn't always translate into success (if we're counting the latter at all). Additionally, I think that Vince leaving DM really gave Martin the motivation and ironically the confidence that he had been lacking previously.

You seem to know a lot about this, Wow.

Exactly terry2315, Martin Gore is a great songwriter after Vince Clark ;)

Thats a good tune to lol :)

Me too!!! 🙌🙌💯

такая-же фигня......

тоже самое

Демократия в вашей стране тоже опоздала на 40 лет

Да ...понял

оО I AM SHOCKED)))

Marc did you wear the black skivy and black tight jeans and blazer then . I did only listening to dm in my black bmw sun roof living abroad thatcwas my dm look

Hey, i'm 19 years old and sooo sad i'm living now. Because this music is really something else. I wish i could have gone to their concerts or just living in this time. You are soooo lucky!!!

Where are you from?

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It's all over them

💗

Wow, dark room..

1984,fucking great Time❤️

So naive

You're right, DM are amazing since the very beginning : all songs are simply perfect. Just ... the quality of the albums decreased Violently, after Violator .. Finally, we still got a ton of good song from DM, a fantastic band (Check also : The Cure, another english jewel from this period)

Monica Vicious Absolutely right ! And those lyrics are pure Wonder, though pretty menacing.

alexandra binkowski Yes, very. I sing to this every mother fucking day.. It's a amazing song from 1980/1981, later on, song's are getting better, my most favorite song from DM is Shake the Disease/Enjoy the Silence/Strangelove. Such beautiful melody's.

Mario Fan 69 Strangelove's official video is a masterpiece , and crossing DM fans' way is always great.

+Monica Vicious So true. I couldn't find an extended version of this, so I attempted to make my own.

+Monica Vicious Indeed! Depeche Mode made music that is timeless and luckıly they continue with it!

So true

Chely Lopez I’m 39, first heard them when I was 10 or so, when Violator came out

yes

Of course 😊😊😊😊

Forever and ever

DM ever and forewer ☝️ Maurizio

Как много комментариев из России, не спроста это.

А я с 1987 года

Песня 1981 год !!!!!!!

Legendary like your sick president.

Berat Erdoğan....thanks over there!! greetings from California to turkey!!!

Also greets from Hamburg, Germany! DM for ever!!!

Mr White. RIGHT BACK AT YA FROM WASHINGTON DC. CHEERS FROM ALL OF DC DP FANS. EXCEPT DONALD TRUMP I DON'T THINK HE LISTENS TO DP. 😎✌🌷

U MUST CHANGE COUNTRY BECAUSE OF ERDOGUNT'S DICTATORSHIP

Stuck Boy live there u mean

+Colshy TheComedian I was born in 1999 but I love Depeche Mode

Same please

Moi aussi.

I will join u.

Ez így van ! Meg a Yazoo :)

Egyazeruen imádom őket mást nem is hallgatok 😉😀

Послушай : Звук и темнота - дурной вкус

Согласен. Песня старше меня на 12 лет,но звучит очень годно

И мну))) Они тут такие дети))))

Они были детьми и мы тоже💖

И эти дети делали шедевры . А сейчас полное говно .

да не говно-просто мы состарились

по мне так это не музыка а какая-то долбёжка туц туц туц туц

это синти поп в своей красе

ЧЕГО ВЫ ШТРИБАНА ЗДЕСЬ РОЗСУЖДАЕТЕ ,ЭТО ЧАСТЬ НАШЕЙ МОЛОДОСТИ, И НЕКУДА Е ЙО НЕДЕТЬ.КТО СЛЕЙД СЛУШАЛ ,И АКЦЕПТ, Я СЛУШАЛ ПО НАСТРОЕНИЮ,И ЭТИ ПАЦАНЫ ДЕЛАЛИ ВЕЩИ...СУ. 1966. ВСЕМ ДОБРА РЕБЯТА, НЕРУГАЙТЕСЬ...

Sorry late to the party!! KROQ was king in the 80’s!!

Pepe Gomez It's a matter of taste, for me this pure electronic era of DM is the best.

AORCrazy Pepe Gomez Well, guess what, I agree with you two. However this song is genuinelly naïf, just like early techno used to be. For more complex, ellaborated and professional DM techno you need to start at Violator. And yes, Walking in my shoes is just a master piece, as this one is (+ice machine in this same album and many others)

Santiago i respect your opinion but i must disagree, for me it's not naive and i don't believe that music just because it's made with more complex machinery and newer is better, i like that older sound, 'techno' i don't even want to comment, it's enough you call Violator which is pure electro/synth album a 'techno' music.

AOR, I read many things about tags and definitions, etc. I decided they were all a bit arbitrary when I read Prodigy was breakbeat and Björk lolly pop. (I promise I read that, I am not inventing it!) Now, this said, yes, Violator is electro/synth, I think so too. But I have two doubts: who decides these terms and definitions and whether it is ok to use them on a wide audience (say a group of god knows who that comment a video). Anyway, to the point: it is all a matter of opinions, but this song could be played with a limited number of basic instruments and uses a very limited number of musical notes. Evolution is also there for music and if I think this is naive is because of its simplicity and how far it is from, say, "Wrong" (from DM too). This song is simply early techno. No evolution. A bit uneducated. Simple and naive. It is to me and I respect if it is not so to you, no probs.

AORCrazy this is by FAR the best album in my opinion - and this track, the best track. Best lyrics anyhow by far IMO. i'm confused about something though- I looked up the lyrics for this song and the song was written by someone named Melanie and Sapka or something (?) Anyone know who that is?

Trance.. degenerative

it's origin was 5 or 6 years before that...

The Assembly tambien

Later they were still but their style changed and music style too

А мне дорог и близок каждый этап творчества DM - от начала их пути до настоящего времени.👍👑

Калининград-Кёнигсберг !!!