Music for the Masses

dull, thin, and very mannered.

Fuck Depeche mode

Didn't like it then, still don't. Something about the harsh keyboard sounds of the late 80s.

Doesn’t do it for me, strangelove is alright, but as an album pretty weak. Voice is a bit annoying

Lame

Depeche Nope

hated it

Meh

Never liked Depeche Mode and this did nothing to change my mind. Moody, brooding, pre-emo junk.

Pants. Just don’t get it.

Couldn't digest the band then, can't do it now. 3/10

This music is simple/simplistic; the lyrics are also simple/simplistic & often forced. The delivery is very consistent — disaffected, can’t be bothered; nihilistic. I’m glad there’s music for every crowd. But it’s not my kind of music. I’d prefer not to hear this album or almost any of the individual songs again. It’s a 1.

Listened to the first 4 songs. I can’t do it.

Not my fave. At all

This is not fun.

Not my jam

I couldn’t do it. I don’t like Depeche Mode.

If there's one thing worse than a bad album, it's a boring one. Never Let Me Down Again is a good opener, but then after that my interest levels dipped gradually, then sharply once I realised help wasn't forthcoming. Such a waste, but then wasted is how you could easily describe Depeche Mode for most of the 1980s. I'm severely tempted to give this a 1, a rating I usually reserve for fulminating hate and utter contempt. Time to open up a new frontier...

genuinely did not enjoy this album. very dated and i was looking forward to getting to the last song

Migraine inducing. Not a single redeemable song.

Half way through, not really into it

Notes as I listen: Songs 1-5: This is so boring I’m considering switching over to Megadeth Song 6: Is the concept "gregorian chants over 80s techno"? Song 8: Put in my other earbud to see if that helped at all. Song 8: It didn't. Song 8: This is like when the most boring person you know starts telling a story about the children of people you don't know. Song 10: wtf is this Song 10: very upset that this is 14 songs long. Song 11: Was this album meant to be the background scoring for a movie? Summary: This is a fucking slog. Started as a gentleman's 3, but the more I listened the more I hated it.

Didn’t finish, didn’t really like.

I've hit a bad run of time wasting albums...

I despise synthy 80s music and I despise Depeche mode. Music is subjective, but I genuinely cannot find anything to like in this. Utter crap

Not for me

Don't love the industrial sound of this album. Reeks of a genre of music that never came to be. Not much enjoyable about the music itself

sucked 2/10

the vocals of depeche mode have always been a non starter for me, so the almost entirely acapella sexy breathing song really ruined my night. i also did not care for the songs that sounded like they were from a castlevania soundtrack

I really had a hard time rating this one. On the one hand, it's extremely over-the-top, ridiculous pop with vague lyrics. I should LOVE it. But on the other, it's the most 80s synth-sounding album I've listened to in full before. The synths, the drums, the droning, the echoeyness, all the stuff distinct to that particular period... I just can't do it. It's not for me. If this album were made with technology available 5 years earlier or 5 years later, we could be cooking. So I have no choice but to move to intent. What is this album supposed to do? What am I supposed to feel? And literally right as I'm sitting there having this existential crisis over a Depeche Mode album, completely at war with myself, second-guessing my sincerely held musical convictions, my guy taunts me by asking "What am I trying to do, what am I trying to say? I'm not trying to tell you anything you didn't know when you woke up today." I hate you for that, Depeche Mode, and I hated most of the 80s when I woke up this morning. But I did enjoy "Never Let Me Down Again." I would enjoy the alternate timeline version of it much more, though. The rest of the album is one big skip.

Meh, too scary

I hated this. The music itself is fine. It's not particularly good, and it doesn't have any flaws or anything, but I don't like the guy's voice, and the style of music is something that I really don't like. So this is just an un-perfect storm.

Generally not a fan of Depeche Mode's sound

Really somber and boring. With the bad ass drumming and synth one would think some more energy would be coming from this. Plus wasn’t there a lot of cocaine back then too? This album had 0 fun from the 80s.

The vocals on this are so bad and stereotypically 80's that it borders on parody.

It all blurred together, nothing special. A couple songs were ok but it was overall disappointing and some of it made me feel anxious.

Another album that just makes me mad at the creators of this list.

This is the second Depeche Mode album I've been recommended. I gave "Music for the Masses" three songs. I can't take any more. I'll never be a Depeche Mode fan. This shit sucks. 👎👎

Music for the Masses, by Despeche Mode, is genuinely the most bland thing I have ever heard. There is non substance, the synths sound stupid, the snares dont work, the lyrics are awful, and it fails utterly at feeling like some grandiose package, and is rather some dude making annoying sounds with alarms in the background. The highlights are Never Let Me Dow Again and I Want You Now, which are honestly not too shabby. Besides these though, the album has no substance. All in all, Music for the Masses is a horrible album. Best Song: I Want You Now Worst Song: Nothing

Music for the Masses? I know one person that likes them

Rick roll like. 80s pop

I hate this album

I don’t like this at all. I was optimistic at first but this album is annoying and unpleasant in my opinion. Honestly, how did this one even make the list?

This is a big bag of poop.

Not my jam.

Not their best

Moody atmospheric self loathing 80s synth music. Sounds like an electronic church service. Painfully repetitive. Wish zero rating was an option

Really didn't like this one much at all.

This stinks.

This album did nothing for me.

Just yuck!

doomy and unpleasant

Not good

Die einzigen sinnvollen Lieder: Pleasure, little Treasure und Route66.

Not much to say about this. I know people who love them, I don't share that opinion. But it's not terrible. 1

Disappointingly dull and basic.

Nope, didn’t like it at all

outdated sound, bad

Seeeeeehr langsweilig

Found this a tough listen. Didn't grab me at all, felt very flat, boring and dull. 20+ albums in and this is down the bottom.

just cant do it

What, why was this on here lol

I enjoyed 'The Things You Said'. Other than that, I did not enjoy the album. I understand that Depeche Mode helped lay the groundwork for depressive synth electronica and "industrial music" (per Wikipedia; that's not how I would describe their genre at all). But in listening to this record, I find myself wanting to listen to their successors instead. The bands that followed DM, that were inspired by DM, the bands that pioneered entire genres off the backs of DM's influence - Drab Majesty, The Soft Moon, Traitrs, etc. The electronica present here sounds like shit a lot of the time. It sounds cheap in an 80's way. There's this fucking horn sound on a few of these tracks that's so 80's it makes me want to erase the decade from its place in time. I can appreciate that what they were doing here, sound-wise, was in its infancy - but who in their right mind looks back at their time on earth as an infant fondly? I'd rather listen to the groups that that grew this early, "infant" sound, into adolescence and eventual adulthood.

Awful

dull

Not really my style - felt a lot like The Smiths.

This is one of those albums I think you have to have heard as a teenager to get. I’m in my mid twenties now, and I did not get the hype at all. The ‘good’ songs all sounded very similar to me, and three of the songs: Little 15, I Want You Now, and Pimpf, are amongst the most irritating things I’ve ever heard. Everything else sounded generic, I could think of a dozen synthpop acts around the same time who were doing better things. I an sorry to say that I just do not get it.

Does Depeche Mode mean stinky band with bloated self-important vocals? I'm no self-important linguist, but I'm pretty sure it does. The industrial sound isn't something I enjoy, but it's that dude Gahan's pompous sounding voice that really makes me want to barf. Honestly it would be more enjoyable if Gilbert Gottfried fronted this band. Instead, we've got Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lamb singing and dancing with himself in front of the mirror. In case.you can't tell, I'm not much of a DM fan. Even listening to the Johnny Cash version of Personal Jesus makes me wince ...and I love Johnny Cash. In fact, if I never listened to Depeche Mode again, it would be too soon.

So very very dull.

Truly did not like

this '80 electronis synth thing really isnt for me

When people say they hate 80s music it’s because they listened to Depeche Mode and realized what trash it was.

I like Depeche Mode, but in its later incarnations. Clearly, this one hasn’t aged that well; given the gift of hindsight, it feels as if the band wa yet to find its true way (and just synthed its way to an album).

Depeche mode music for the masses? More like music sung from asses. Do not like the singers voice

Oh look, another English band from the 1980s or 1990s, how shocking. I have never listened to this band--I assumed I would recognize some songs but didn't. I cannot get behind this music at all, there is nothing redeeming about this record.

Another 80s album that just doesn't really do much for me. The production choices on this type of synth-pop just make it feel so shallow. I'm not saying this isn't decent music, just not what I would ever choose to listen to as I have trouble connecting to the artists at all. Standout Tracks: Never Let Me Down Again

Gonna be honest I didn't listen to much of it but I'm just not a fan of this type of music. The dramatic 80s gothic rock is not for me

I'd probably say these were half decent if it wasn't for the lead singers voice.

Bad

Sorry Depeche Mode fans, I hate the shitty Emo/Goth sound of 80s synth pop music. Sounds like amateur whiny basement/garage made garbage.

lame

Fuck Depeche Mode. Incredibly monotonous, dull and boring.

the europeans are welcome to keep depeche mode. i could not be arsed with this at all.

So as I was listening to this album I was trying to imagine if you stripped it down and add real instruments what would that bring to the table. By the end of this album I was wondering what the point would be. I have said it before that the synthesizer age of the eighties did not age well. This is how these lads made their music. They were the kings of it. Sucks for them. I hated this album. Beyond the synthesizer, you had better have a good structured song for it to be over four minutes. 7 songs over 4 minutes, 1 over five minutes, 2 at the high end three minute range and just one song under three minutes. Perfect song is 3:30. Anything longer better be damn good.

I listened to the whole album which was an accomplishment but it was the same story for me with all the other albums of theirs. I've really always wanted to like Depeche Mode but end up being embarassed by lame rhyming lyrics and predictable melodies. Occasional flashes of a good song followed by the same melody or synth-trick over and over. Great if you're really into them or the whole scene but really too samey.

Wished I hadn't listened to it

meh -- one and out

1.5

Don't like this album

One of the first albums I have actively disliked.

I did not enjoy this album. There's like 5 listenable songs and 2 of them are any good. The singer can only hit like 5 notes and the songs' experiments make for an ear-grating experience. Favorite Track: Little 15

dafuq was this??? it tried to be edgy but it was so cringe

boo!!

Super 80s not really my style

If youre into that, maybe okay. Sounded overblown and long

very 80s 🙄 Terrible couldnt finish. one star? 80s is not my genre and this one in particular.

More wack 80's music.

Not their best, why does it sound like funeral music the whole album?

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Not their best, pretty generic new wave.

didnt like it

Bjejeb