This is no le-oofing matter

 rolland69 wrote: 
Hey - he who smelt it dealt it!

How about a segue into Dear God by XTC?

The happy sounding chorus is a decent contrast to the stark, depressing lure of the verses...yet I'm drawn to this a bit. Old tune, but kinda fun to hear it again. Now I'm done for this century!

 Blackdalhia wrote: 
I really couldn't relate to DM back then, but I appreciate their music now for some reason. It's a 5.

the album Some Great Rewards was the first great album, the arrangements and sound mixing are fantastic, thanks Mister Alan Wilder (by the way if you like this, his solo band Recoil just released a new album Selected !)

Happy to be a Buddhist.

brilliant chorus melody... without it the song would be a plodding bore.

This might seem like damming with faint praise, but one of the things I always loved about DM is their great sounds. Especially in the percussion section.

Always loved this song, I like the irony and thoughfulness in the lyrics and how it tells a story. It always makes me sad though, reminds me of feeling teenage angst, now it makes me think of my teen daughters.

I like this band, but they have much better songs than this.

This is so bad, bad, bad. I´m waiting for the votes from Germany!

 scraig wrote: And that's exactly why I loved it so much. 

So many here just love or hate this track, few lie in between.

I think it is a sign of good music - the wide range and disparity of comments from really good to really bad.  It is the humdrum and the mundane that so lulls everyone into a shameless level of lack of caring or passion. 

Keep on playing the music that generates such feelings.  Apart, of course, from the one's I don't like; they don't count in the above comment  :-)

I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours, but I think the guy next to me might have farted.

No wait, that lyic doesn't work... let's try it again.

Love the lyrics AND the band.  Overall rating 6.6???

Wow, RP is a tough crowd!!

This was the most depressing song I had ever heard in high school.

 ploba wrote: 
Perhaps because they've been releasing consistently good music for the last 3 decades?

I recently pulled this album out again after years of collecting dust and I was knocked out by how good it it is. This is industrial/pop at it's best; never has the clash of iron on steel, the thud of the stamper, the hiss of the compressor, and the growl of the grinder sounded so melodic.  

It's so nice now that there are so many other listening options when this drivel comes on RP.  pandora, last.fm, etc.

One of the worst tracks from an otherwise fabulous band.

I've never heard this track either.  Thanks!!

I hate this song and the band!

Cool Song that I've never heard before...

I just might have to listen to some more Depeche Mode in the future.  I don't think that I've ever heard any that I really liked before this...  And then you followed up w/ Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet.  Very cool seque into a similar vibe...  Well done.

Among the many things this song means to me, it reminds me of when I was a teenager and my father used to get angry with me for singing "laughing" the way that Dave Gahan does in the song. Not that I was singing about "God having a sick sense of humor," or the fact that the lyrics talk about attempted suicide, but that I pronouncing the word "laughing" incorrectly (though I was merely singing it the way it is in the song). 

holy high school flashback!

I've always enjoyed the "People are People" album, but this is very fine.

meh

maybe I'm too old for this one...

good to hear.   both songs.  thanks bill.