Music for the Masses

This album has been added to 1 private list and 4 public lists:

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  1987

  James

  The synth textures get darker and more physical at the same time. “Never Let Me Down Again” builds through repetition so patiently that by the end it feels enormous without ever turning bombastic. Dave Gahan sings with more emotional weight here, grounding the increasingly elaborate production. It’s electronic music that understands atmosphere as architecture.

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  [ARCHIVED] Listening Log 2025

  dvt

  10/14/2024

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  Albums of My Youth

  Sean Breslin

  This album made me want to travel.

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  1001Albums

  Neil Hopkins

  This was supposedly the album that marked the transition from fay electro pop dweebs to stadium friendly behemoths, but it’s not quite there for me. There’s nothing that grabs me in quite the same way as Enjoy the Silence or Personal Jesus on their later album Violater. The best track is probably the opener “Never Let Me Down” but the rest of the album doesn’t quite live up to this.