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Depeche Mode — Blasphemous Rumours
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More_Cowbell
(Northern IL)
Posted: Jul 27, 2011 - 06:39
 
This is no le-oofing matter

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: May 25, 2011 - 03:36
 
 rolland69 wrote:
I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours, but I think the guy next to me might have farted.
 
{#Roflol} Hey - he who smelt it dealt it! {#Mrgreen}

tallboy1968
(Singapore)
Posted: Mar 23, 2011 - 01:56
 
How about a segue into Dear God by XTC?

ziakut
(A place with air, water and chocolate.)
Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 08:53
 
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!

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Jul 12, 2010 - 20:40
 
 Blackdalhia wrote:
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 !)
 
I really couldn't relate to DM back then, but I appreciate their music now for some reason. It's a 5.


Blackdalhia
(Beijing)
Posted: Jun 11, 2010 - 00:08
 
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 !)

CamLwalk
(Albany NY)
Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 13:08
 
Happy to be a Buddhist.

Nuance
(Winnipeg)
Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 13:05
 
brilliant chorus melody... without it the song would be a plodding bore.

g-rod
(Church of the Acceptance of Mortality)
Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 13:05
 
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.

tkay73
(Near the majestic Colorado Rockies)
Posted: Apr 08, 2010 - 13:05
 
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.

mhodak
(Raleigh, NC)
Posted: Mar 07, 2010 - 22:11
 
I like this band, but they have much better songs than this.

nalle
(Malmo, Sweden)
Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 10:20
 
This is so bad, bad, bad. I´m waiting for the votes from Germany! {#Crashcomp}

Exene
(Boulder, CO)
Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 10:19
 
 scraig wrote:
This was the most depressing song I had ever heard in high school.
 And that's exactly why I loved it so much. 



DavidS_UK
(Central England, UK)
Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 10:18
 
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  :-)

rolland69
(Jax, Fl)
Posted: Feb 04, 2010 - 10:17
 
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.

chadlymn
(Apple Valley, MN)
Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 15:20
 

The original album this song is on (Some Great Reward) is one of my all time favorites.  Deals with reality baby!!



Pyro
Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 15:03
 
Love the lyrics AND the band.  Overall rating 6.6???

Wow, RP is a tough crowd!!


scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Dec 03, 2009 - 15:02
 
This was the most depressing song I had ever heard in high school.

hunthunthunt
(London)
Posted: Nov 02, 2009 - 06:01
 
 ploba wrote:
why does this band get so much airtime?
 
Perhaps because they've been releasing consistently good music for the last 3 decades?


peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Oct 01, 2009 - 16:11
 
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. {#Good-vibes} 


ksb
(Oakland, CA)
Posted: Oct 01, 2009 - 16:06
 
It's so nice now that there are so many other listening options when this drivel comes on RP.  pandora, last.fm, etc.


mirland
(Denmark)
Posted: Aug 31, 2009 - 04:14
 
One of the worst tracks from an otherwise fabulous band.

dynamaniak
(Ottawa Ontario Canada)
Posted: Jul 30, 2009 - 15:04
 
I've never heard this track either.  Thanks!!

shemp
(orange, california)
Posted: Jul 30, 2009 - 15:03
 
I hate this song and the band!

Gatlinburger
Posted: Apr 26, 2009 - 09:35
 
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.


newwavegurly
Posted: Apr 26, 2009 - 09:30
 
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). 

lophrequa
(the very edge of the land)
Posted: Jan 21, 2009 - 19:05
 
holy high school flashback!

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 19:05
 
I've always enjoyed the "People are People" album, but this is very fine.

sfearll
(Monrovia, CA)
Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 14:26
 
meh
{#Stupid}
maybe I'm too old for this one...

rachlan
(nyc)
Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 14:26
 
good to hear.   both songs.  thanks bill.

DavidS_UK
(Hemel Hempstead, UK)
Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 14:25
 
Saw them in the Moonlight Club, West Hampstead, 1978, a bit before their first single was released!  Liked them ever since.


alcedo
(Sweden)
Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 14:24
 
 PisukeSorame wrote:
Bill, don't stop doing this...

Pink floyd,... Massive attack... and then you hit me with this great song from Depeche Mode.

Thanks!!!

 
Couldn't agree more! {#Smile}

2noir
Posted: Nov 19, 2008 - 14:23
 
excellent... 


aquadonia
(Green Bay, WI)
Posted: Sep 18, 2008 - 14:04
 
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this already (and I'm too lazy to look), but Martin Gore wrote this song after his sister attempted suicide.  It's classic 'stages of grief' stuff.

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 10:34
 
shine on you crazy diamond
angel
blasphemous rumours
god suffled his feet

...is this the rick wright set?..


AlexDinamo
(Ensenada, Baja, Mexico)
Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 10:32
 
I hadn't heard thi before, and it is very good! I need to catch up with Depeche Mode.

And I agree: the mix this morning is going great! I want more!

Alex

Kristi
(Athens, GA)
Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 10:32
 
Love Depeche Mode! Love this song in particular. Thanks so much, Bill!!!
{#Hearteyes}   {#Hearteyes}   {#Hearteyes}

esweazey73
Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 10:31
 
Ok, guilty pleasure — I love Depeche Mode. I'm 35, and can remember sitting in my room when I was about 13 just listening to DM, Smiths, The Cure, etc. over and over again......... those were the days when boys still made girls mix tapes :)

PisukeSorame
(Terrassa, Spain)
Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 10:30
 
Bill, don't stop doing this...

Pink floyd,... Massive attack... and then you hit me with this great song from Depeche Mode.

Thanks!!!


UltraNurd
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 10:30
 
 ploba wrote:
why does this band get so much airtime?
 
They have a distinct and immediately recognizable sound that many people like.

ploba
(the other coast and hang a left)
Posted: Jul 16, 2008 - 05:32
 
why does this band get so much airtime?
Xeric
(Up on the Roof)
Posted: Jul 11, 2008 - 20:40
 
lwilkinson wrote:
Actually Atheism is the new religion. They preach (anti-God and intolerance for others), they file lawsuits to force their will on others when rational argument fails them, and they believe in ..... nothing. I personally find it quite comforting to believe that a Supreme Deity created mankind in his image instead of believing that we are an accident that was created in the messy dripping aftermath of dinosaur or monkey sex with no answers to the Big Four Questions; Who am I?
Where did I come from?
Why am I hear?
What happens to me when I die? Religions attempt to address the Big Four as best they can. Atheism doesn't address them at all, instead falling back on Freud's Ego concept in controlling/not-controlling base impulses.
You're kidding. Simple logic answers them.

1) Whomever you choose to be.
2) See Darwin, who makes no claims about "messy dripping . . . dinosaur or monkey sex."
3) Because you evolved ears.
4) You rot. If you're fortunate, or work for it, or both, your works or life might be worth remembering, and in that sense you'll live on.

More seriously, your line "I personally find it quite comforting . . ." perfectly explains the origin and existence of all religious belief.


Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Jun 14, 2008 - 16:54
 
Ooops! Nip Slip. Better call the morality police.
venus_df
(Chattanooga, TN)
Posted: Apr 12, 2008 - 18:02
 
ramette wrote:
this one sure brings back those teen angst memories.

oh boy, no kidding.
sirrus
(Fredneck, MD)
Posted: Mar 25, 2008 - 12:23
 
fredriley wrote:

My, who's a clever boy, then? As it happens, over this side of the Pond 'Chum' is a brand of dog food. Which seems pretty apposite in this present context...

Funny how every board, no matter how innocuous, attracts trolls? Shame there's no killfile on this one...


Interesting how the post is considered a troll when it answered your original question. Since you, along with lwilkinson felt it necessary to bring the discussion into a religious debate, I hardly think a mere definition counts as "trolling". Which BTW, on this side of the pond means to:

Hunt for small, odorous, mythical creatures that typically dwell in caves. Traditionally, the hunting party is made up of frail, pale, dweebish humans with the primary bait being large bowls of Chum(tm).


Incidentally, despite the extremely scary album cover, this song is among DM's best.
fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Mar 12, 2008 - 07:07
 
sirrus wrote:


Merriam-Websters: (that CRAZY english dialect)
Main Entry: chum
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): chummed; chum·ming
Date: 1857

transitive verb
: to attract with chum
intransitive verb
: to throw chum overboard to attract fish

IOW, lwilkinson succeeded.


My, who's a clever boy, then? As it happens, over this side of the Pond 'Chum' is a brand of dog food. Which seems pretty apposite in this present context...

Funny how every board, no matter how innocuous, attracts trolls? Shame there's no killfile on this one...
Ag3nt0rang3
Posted: Mar 12, 2008 - 06:36
 
Since the smart-asses didn't actually give a proper answer, "chum" as a noun in ths context is raw fish guts, parts, whatever, used as bait for other carnivorous fish, particularly sharks.

The troll's post below certainly qualifies as chum in this context.
sirrus
(Fredneck, MD)
Posted: Mar 12, 2008 - 06:32
 
fredriley wrote:

"To chum" - not a verb I've come across before. What dialect's that from then, Chum?


Merriam-Websters: (that CRAZY english dialect)
Main Entry: chum
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): chummed; chum·ming
Date: 1857

transitive verb
: to attract with chum
intransitive verb
: to throw chum overboard to attract fish

IOW, lwilkinson succeeded.
fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Mar 12, 2008 - 06:27
 
lwilkinson wrote:


I love it when I chum the waters


"To chum" - not a verb I've come across before. What dialect's that from then, Chum?

in a response to those who can't stay on topic (the music), who instead use a music forum to advance their politics


Whoah! Pot calling the kettle black, or what? You started the off-topic comments, Chum.


Can't wait for the next time this song comes into the play list so I can see what this batch of chum brings out.

Wind-up merchant, eh?


rickhoran
(Eastern PA)
Posted: Mar 12, 2008 - 06:26
 
KMFDM! now i understand after hearing this and seeing that photo above.