I'm glad that you digged Ultra!! But I would absolutely recommend the Songs of Faith and Devotion album. Arguably the most chaotic yet incredible album they ever released, and was also the precursor to Ultra. Faith and Devotion also has some of their greatest works - Walking In My Shoes, Condemnation, Mercy In You, Judas, In Your Room, I Feel You.... I can't wait to hear you get round to it :) The Devotional / Exotic tour they did in promotion with this album, is also dubbed the most debauched rock tour in history, but the live set is just absolutely incredible.... possibly peak Depeche!

the solo in "home" is one of the most beautiful things ever

Depeche Mode is great. Don't sleep on some of their classic albums. Some Great Reward, Music for the Masses, Black Celebration and Violator are all good ones that I think you'd get into as well.

I love that you just liked an old comment of mine that suggested checking out Depeche Mode, pretty clever- giving this video a like immediately. FYI - Violator and Songs of Faith are two of their biggest albums and equally inspired the vibes on Chino's first Crosses project ❤

Its a really underrated album imo. Thematically dark and vast.

When I first listened to "It's No Good" when Ultra was released my overwhelming impression was that it sounded like it should be a Bond Movie theme

I love Depeche Mode! I have been listening to this band for a long time. From Violator, to Speak and Spell, to Exciter, to their recent album Memento Mori, and to my Personal Favorite Some great reward. You will enjoy Depeche Mode!

This album was my introduction to their catalog. Love it with all of my being!

Definitely should do all the other Depeche Mode albums! Do Black Celebration!

Oh cool, I love Depeche Mode! 🥰 will you do some more of their albums? I'd recommend "Songs of Faith and Devotion", "Violator" and "Music for the masses" the most. They just were at their absolute best in the 80s and 90s.

This is my personal favorite record from Depeche Mode. I love how dark and sorrowful this album can get.

I loved your reaction! I have been a fan of Depeche Mode for as long as I can remember, Ultra is my 3rd favorite album of theirs. This album was the most complicated for the band to record, since Dave Gahan (the lead vocalist) was in rehabilitation for the whole addiction issue, causing him to lose part of his ability to sing at the time. That is why several songs on this album are instrumental, since Martin Gore and Andy were responsible for composing and producing much of the entire album. If you liked it, I highly recommend listening to Songs Of Faith And Devotion (for me, that's their best album). Thanks for everything, Molly

Yes, do more depeche mode albums or their whole discography.😊

Black Celebration, Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion are my Depeche Mode suggestions to Molly.

This album came out right near the end of the first wave of Grunge. A lot of bands were doing dark and broody, Manson was on his way to becoming a mega hit, and bands like Type O Negative were at their peak. Ultra was DMs way of saying "Not so fast, this is how you do dark" (well that and Dave almost died, and the band had lost Alan). Not many bands have a 3 album run like Violator, Songs of Faith and Devotion and Ultra.

This was my first Depeche Mode album too. It's a strange way to start with the band as many probably don't put it in their top 5 album of theirs. A very nostalgic album for me though, no doubt, so it was a treat seeing your reaction :)

My favorite album by them! I’ve listen to them from the start, 40 years ago

Great review/reaction as always! Very eager for more on this group!

If you liked the ''Ultra'' album, I am sure that the rest of Depeche Mode's discography will surprise you even more. This band is a mine of great songs and albums. For a good start, I recommend Saint Four - ''Black Celebration'' ''Music For The Masses'' ''Violator'' ''Songs of Faith and Devotion''

Excellent reaction Molly! As a huge fan of DM since the late 80's, personally ULTRA is my favorite overall album. Truly epic, cinematic, gorgeous.

Very nice. Another fantastic band. This is a great album.

This is my favorite Depeche Mode album. I've always been fascinated by 90's music, especially the late 90's. This album perfectly represents the dark, gloomy, electronic sound and mood of those times. And my all-time favorite DM song "Only When I Lose Myself" is also from that period of time. It was released a year later on "The Singles 86-98" compilation, but it really sucks that the song didn't make it onto Ultra, as it perfectly captured and developed the sound of the album.

You really have to listen to dM albums chronologically to appreciate their rise to greatness and how far they’ve come. Their growth was completely organic, experimental and fused by grinding the club scenes. They didn’t chase hits, they didn’t fit a mold. They were given the leeway by a terrific, independent record label to discover their style, and it ultimately translated into something completely unique and lasting. Start from the beginning and take the journey of a band who just did it the right way.

Hey, look who finally got around to checking out DM from a suggestion of mine. Shame you just missed them in concert around October and November. I paid big money to see them for the first and maybe only time to be pretty damn close to the stage. I wish Crosses came to Cleveland again on their tour, but Detroit was their nearest stop and I couldn't make it. Missed your videos for a while. Awesome that you know Massive Attack as well. I've sort of recently got into them myself.

Nice listen. Glad to see you branching out!

Keep the good content, love your thoughts on this classic albums

Great to see you do a Depeche Mode reaction. A legendary band! As already said, lots of great albums to check out. Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion are my faves.

My favourite album of all time. Thanks for the review.

Thank you for very intelligent and well formulated reactions in words. 👍

Depeche Mode! You really do have great taste! Being that my mom was a teenager in the 80s, I heard a lot their 80s synth-pop stuff growing up. I'm not quite as familiar with the later stuff but this album is super cool. Definitely check out more of their discography. There's a lot of variety in it.

17:15. In the Bottom Line the difference is that is another member singing. It's not Dave Gahan but Martin Gore (he also sings Home)

Love that you're diving into my favorite band of all time! On the cassette version of this album, which is the first format I owned, the album ended with 'Insight.' 'Jr. Painkiller' was a hidden bonus track after that dead air but was not on the album track list. Great reaction and insights (no pun intended)! Hope you continue to explore the Mode!

This, Violator (their masterpiece) and Music for the Masses are my top 3 DM albums. At least here in England because i think they released some albums in the US that were not released here, such as their DM so far album (or whatever it was called?) which was like an album of the music they'd previously released in England and Europe when they started taking off stateside as a way of bringing American fans up to date with the work they'd done previously in England/Europe. But I'm not too clued up with much of their post 2006 material as at my age I'm too attached to their earlier work.

What a great description of the songs!

Hi Molly, I really like Depeche Mode. Their songs brings back memories! Me and my best friend enjoyed watching your reaction. We have fond memories listening to their songs!

Great reaction. Greets from germany...my favourite band since 1983 ❤

Ufff these guys are legends i know almost all the lyrics of this album by heart ( ❤)

Please check out "Black Celebration" (their 1986 LP - my 2nd favourite DM album) and "Violator" (this was the fourth studio album I heard from them; it still holds a special place in my heart, and it's my mom's favourite album)

Thanks Molly for another good video

One of my favorite bands. Ultra is a weird album to start with. Violator is a perfect album. Is Morning View by Incubus on the way?

Cool reaction). Thanks!

Can't wait for the Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion reactions

Ultra... it could honestly be my favorite Depeche Mode album with Home being my favorite song of theirs. Know what, I'm going to commit and say it indeed is my favorite Depeche Mode album. To me Home (and other parts of the album) feels like it could be a soundtrack to a Batman movie. Like Gotham City with it raining and storming urban type of feeling. Always loved how the latter 90's electronica rock music like Ultra has a darkness to it, but not in a negative sense... if that makes sense. And that's why I'm going to name Ultra my favorite Depeche Mode album. The others are excellent too! Fun times.

Home is probably my favorite song from Depeche Mode

thats awesome!! you should react to all type o negative albums. it would be so great!!

20:50 There's a 7+ minute version called Painkiller it's on the deluxe edition. Same but a little longer

Yes! Ultra was a breaking point for how much of music excitement was coming from depeche mode. And thats why I was litteraly exited to listen next album - EXCITER... So they always was a little bit forward in time about what we expected from them.. And Exciter was this thing - a peak of electronic perfectionism and at the same time it feals like mainstream! Try to react to Exciter next. Album are realy good too. A lot of reaktor software sounds

Listen to Violator, Music of the Masses, A Broken Flame, Black Celebration, etc. So many good ones.

One of their best and sadly the last great. But they had a fine line of work from "Some Great Reward" (1984) to "Ultra" (1997) to offer. If you really want to take a deep dive, i'd recommend to go from this album back the timeline and then back to the future to their work after "Ultra". And if you do, have fun!

❤️🖤🖤🖤Ultra🖤🖤🖤❤️ My first and favorite DM album. It's not their best but I still love it for the memories, vibe, etc.

Thank you, Molly!

Useless is my favorite Depeche Mode song. So underrated. The atmosphere is incredible.

Awesome pick, I listened that album when I was 13th maybe, and I really hope you listen to Odelay by Beck! Great to have another video reaction!

Ultra is a very unique experience when you put it alongside their other bodies of work. Very captivating, very atmospheric. Loved your initial take on it. Would love to see you tackle, Songs of Faith and Devotion by DM. One of their best and often overlooked albums.

This is a survival mode album. The singer almost died of an overdose before the recording of this record. My personal fav from them and even i am more of a metal fan, DM are constantly in my earphones, specially this album. NIN, Manson, Rammstein all influenced by Depeche Mode.

A perfect and last classic Depeche Mode album, bringing redemption in their career, proving their class, the singles are small gems (especially Home), the whole thing can be called a light in the dark as you said in the subcase of the song Home :)

Definitely one of the Top 10 albums of the 90's and my favorite DM album (tied with Black Celebration).

Love that youre getting into my favourite band. Ultra for sure is an underrated album in a brilliant discography. ❤ PS. The reason for the 1.5 min dead air on Insight is cause the last (12th) song was a hidden track on the CD that starts playing if you just let Insight play on.

I’m really glad I’ve discovered this reaction channel! Ultra is the album that brought me into phenomenon that is Depeche Mode and it’s one of the albums I connected with the most in my youth (42 years old here). It’s also in many ways, their most important album because it was created at a time when the band by all rights shouldn’t have even existed anymore, but it somehow brought them back from the brink. “It’s No Good” is the kind of track that so many pop groups wish they had come up with first because of its unmistakable hook. And “Home” is a track that Madonna would’ve killed to have on her Ray of Light album. Definitely check out Memento Mori, their most recent album; and follow up with Some Great Reward (1984). That’s when they started to truly become “The Mode”.

Glad to hear you're optimistic about "Ultra." Depeche Mode are among the greats. Can't wait to hear what you think about their other albums...."Songs of Faith and Devotion" if I'm being selfish.

Hi molly. Love your videos. Especially the Pearl jam and Alice in chains ones. I would love to recommend the Sundays - Blind album. It’s brilliant. I only recently discovered it myself and I’m hooked. Reckon it will be right up your street! Keep the reactions coming! Love from the UK ❤

Well, whoever suggested this album as the starting point for your Depeche Mode listening was pretty smart, and it is definitely not hard to see how this could have been a big influence on Chino in his +++ project. Good video as always, Molly! ❤

Gotta say one thing I really appreciate about your channel is the diversity of genres. Lots of reaction channels just jump for the newest releases by the most popular acts because they generates more views/attention. Have you ever heard of Infectious Grooves? They're Mike Muir's (Suicidal Tendencies) side project. Seeing how you've reacted to Mr. Bungle, I think you'd enjoy their music too. P.S. What song is that riff in your intros from?

By the way, "Home" & "The Bottom Line" are sung by Martin Lee Gore. The rest of the album, except for instrumentals, is sung by Dave Gahan

"I just heard some sort of sound, I don't even know what it was though." 😂 Perfect Molly. 👍💯

That crying guitar on 'Home' always get me. I remember studying to this music freshman year of collage. Love this album. Thought about checking out anything by Skinny Puppy?

Awesome i love this album. Still have my ticket stub from 98 when i saw them on this tour. Next up i totally recommend the album Violator, it's one of the greats

As so many before me have, I too have to give my voice for their album Songs of Faith and Devotion! Its an absolute masterpiece.

Definitely check out the album “violator”, probably their most acclaimed album.

Amazing album

"It reminds me of a flower blooming" - superb characterisation of 'Home', which I personally feel is like a death, but we often surround the dead with blooming flowers. Great reaction. Black Celebration next.

This is how it begins.

If you like Depeche Mode then I definitely recomened checking out Joy Division and New Order, and yes the 2 bands are connected Long story short the lead singer of Joy Division (Ian Curtis) unalived himself in May of 1980 (he was only 23 so very tragic and sad), but shortly after the surviving members formed New Order, but I really think you'll enjoy the music of both bands. Best album Joy Division album to start with would be their 1979 album "Unknown Pleasures", best New Order album to start with would be their 1987 album :"Substance"

Hey Molly!!! ☺️☺️

Love that you are getting into Depeche Mode. They are one of the best things to come out of the 80s. Are you ever going to check out some older bands? I would love to see you listen to Pink Floyd.

My top 3 Depeche Mode albums are Black Celebration, Songs of Faith and Devotion, and Violator.

Great album they have so much good material

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i realise what a gift it was to grow up with bands like this. i also had this epiphany with tool. you get used to clever and creative songwriting as a kid and dont even know how extraordinary this music is.

My god, you've not listened to much Depeche Mode? You're in for a treat. Black Celebration, Violator, Songs of Faith and Devotion, Music for the Masses, and Some Great Reward are all fantastic albums to do next.

My recommendations: The Stone Roses - Turns Into Stone Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs

A couple of other bands that you might enjoy are The Afghan Whigs, The Charlatans UK, and Morphine

Love this album

Jeez, i dig all of their albums

Hey Molly. This album was made just after the departure of bandmember Alan Wilder. Also, Dave Gahan (front singer) was addicted to drugs and barely came to the studio sessions. For example, sister of night was made over seperate weeks because Dave was not able to sing all lyrics. If you know this and listen to this track again you really feel the pain and suffering that Dave was in at that time. Great track!!!!

You gotta do Songs of Faith and Devotion!!

I don't know if you've ever listened to Trivium, but I highly recommend them! They're one of the most consistent bands. Ever since the begining of the bad they get better and better, considering that they've started really really strong! Evrn tho it's not my favourite album by them I recommend Ascendancy. It's probably their most impactful album and an album you can never go wrong with. It's ine of the best melodic metalcore albums that's recorded during the band's teenage years.

Idk how no one has recommended Primus for you to listen to. My personal favorite album of theirs is there first “Frizzle Fry.” One of my favorites albums of all time.

"It's No Good" is my fav track here.

Marilyn Manson according to Eddie trunk has finished an album so it'd be a perfect time to start checking out his catalog obviously starting with the first one.

You can clearly see the influence Depeche Mode had on Nine Inch Nails (and vice versa) with this album: the first track alone sounds like Closer or Head Like A Hole. Trent Reznor and Dave Gahan had this creative feedback loop for a few years. Depeche mode use some of the most interesting melodic and harmonic combinations in modern music. Gahan makes use of a lot of different (non-standard) chord progressions, keys, and modes, and _loves_ contrast, dissonance, and juxtaposition. Seriously interesting music for their entire catalogue. There's a Canadian band, The Tea Party, that is, in a lot of ways, like DM, but also completely unlike them. Highly recommend giving them a listen. Transmission is great, The Tea Party is an amazing debut album, Splendor Solis is a fantastic sophomore album, and Edges of Twilight is a masterpiece.

Violator and Songs of faith and devotion are next. That concludes 90s era of Depeche Mode.

Loved it. So fun. I'm here for the C cuppers 😎. Bopilina, you are super fine 😍💗😘

I always thought "Barrel of a Gun" should be a theme to a Grand Theft Auto game. Suggestion; listen to the compilation album, "86-98" make notes of what songs appeal to you, then visit the albums those songs were taken from. That's what I did... Have fun...

Also If you want to make a YT Short, there is a non-album single called Martyr which I 100% recommend

Very nice reaction to this album. I recommend to react to the previous album, Songs of Faith and Devotion, from 1993, which is a classic of the 1990‘s and sounds completely different. It will give you an idea of how diverse DM‘s albums are and how courageously the band experimented in their prime despite risking their commercial success. Real masters of sound.

Damn - coming from Godflesh into this - Good move, not sure... maybe there was something, Depeche Mode - I really respect their career trajectory, they definitely worked their sound and very much became their own identity. @Molly, it's definitely worth checking their Official videos (Anton Corbin? Radiohead, Bjork videos). I think the remaining duo (RIP Andy). Gahan's been a super-naughty boy historically but, cleaned up + done some cool solo stuff. Home's a beautiful song on this + It's No Good, the first half of the album's certainly 8-9/10. Certainly some cross-pollination with NIN + both = great. Be well/bestness :)

There is SO much depeche more that's absolutely fantastic. I would also highly recommend songs of faith and devotion.

Been a DM fan since 83...my.fave album is sofad (songs of faith and devotion) ...the guy who produced Ultra Tim Simenon was a huge Alan Wilder fan and I think he did a great job on Ultra...PS you remind me of Eva Green

More Depeche Mode, please! Thanks for this wonderful reaction. You really need to listen to their entire catalog, but you should go next to Violator, their perfect album from 1990 (and probably the best album released that year by anyone). By the time they recorded Ultra, none of those sounds they use were experimental, as they've been playing with different sounds since the early 1980s. They're definitely one of the most sonically interesting bands of the 20th century.