You guys gotta be kidding, Duran Duran is so cheesy! Whereas Depeche Mode I like musically--they had a pretty innovative sound for the time, and also find the things they sing about to be pretty interesting. Of course one could fault them with providing lots of ammo for future goth posers, but really is that fair? I feel that there is a relationship between techno and (esp. early) "goth" and industrial; I think this is a difference between techno and the deep house scene, although they do have many things in common. It's just a little hard for me to see much of a connection between deep house/neosoul/broken beat stuff and the old goth and industrial stuff, whereas with techno (and maybe stuff coming out of acid house) I definitely see a connection.
We hear too much the "getting old" theory of musical taste, but maybe whether people came to techno through an enjoyment of some type of industrial music also has a lot do with the direction of their musical tastes??? Please discuss. Regardless, I like it all. Actually after repeated listens I've started to dig some stuff I didn't get into at first, most especially Amp Fiddler's Basementality, and Love and War, neither of which I really dug on first listen. Now I am almost considering trying to find them and buying. BTW, our own Sean Deason must have liked DM cus he sampled that "I Just Can't Get Enough" song on the white label Matrix record he made a little while ago. Although personally I prefer the material that came about a little later, when they moved from synthpop into a slightly darker vein. The album with "Lie to Me" and "Blasphemous Rumors" is really great in my opinion, and the use of electronics and production on the album is just excellent. _Dave -----Original Message----- From: J. T. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: (313) How about Depeche Mode? was: new order. >never liked Depeche Mode as much but *every* electronic musician will >namecheck them. I preferred Duran Duran. They were really underrated, >probably as they were too pretty. ;) The Chauffeur was amazing. Their >remixes (or extended versions) are great. hehe. i gotta confess that i was always more into the durans than depeche mode too, but that could've been because DM just wasnt on the radio on much where i grew up, compared to dd...plus the durans had sexy girls in their videos while depeche mode were usually wandering around some london streets or something looking upset....haha actually i am a big fan of either one of those settings.. anyways speaking of good 80's pop/romantic, i still love the fixx's "reach the beach". some really nice sounds.... jt _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
