Symphonic Music of Depeche Mode

Symphonic Music of Depeche Mode Artist: Various Artists
Label: Cleopatra
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 741157109627
EAN: 0741157109627
ASIN: B00005O6I6


Release Date: 2001-09-18

Symphonic Music of Depeche Mode


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Tracks:

  1. The Intro
  2. Never Let Me Down
  3. Enjoy The Silence
  4. I Feel You
  5. Little
  6. Stripped
  7. Policy Of Truth
  8. Walking In My Shoes
  9. Useless
  10. Higher Love
  11. Fly On The Windscreen

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1. The Intro
2. Never Let Me Down
3. Enjoy The Silence
4. I Feel You
5. Little 15
6. Stripped
7. Policy Of Truth
8. Walking In My Shoes
9. Useless
10. Higher Love
11. Fly On The Windscreen

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars My Imaginary Computer Nerd 6-Year-Old Brother Can Make Better Music!.......2007-03-17

I love Depeche Mode. Love, love, love them. Sure, their music is electronic for the most part and their remixes are often discotheque material.

However, if there is anything DM is not, it's elevator music, so why did the author of this compilation feel it had to go there? I was drawn in to the idea of this CD after purchasing a CD of piano covers of DM's songs (it was wonderful). Unfortunately, this CD ought to be called "The MIDI Music of Depeche Mode." Seriously, there is no substance on the CD. The only remotely decent song is "Higher Love" and only because it has a touch of a Spanish-guitar-like twist to it. I'm sure this didn't take more than a week to finish. It probably didn't even take the better part of a day. It's so cheesy.

Granted, DM was a bit cheesy in the early 80s (then again, what wasn't cheesy about the early 80s?). However, they matured into a darker and more emotionally tormented (cue "emo" sarcasm here) yet beautiful band in the mid-80s. Though they started out using synthesizers, they never had music that sounded like Video Poker or Casio music... which is exactly what this CD is. Listen to it, and you'll swear you are next to a data stream.

Don't buy it- it's not worth it at all. If you want real symphonic music, try The String Quartet's tribute to Depeche Mode. There may not be a lot of songs, but at least it sounds like music.

1 out of 5 stars Impossibly Bad.......2006-11-27

I've given this album one star only because there isn't the option of giving it negative stars.

To get a proper feel for this album, picture a spoiled twit with zero musical talent. Now give him a rack of halfway decent synthesizers without telling him how to adjust any of the preset voices and let him download Depeche Mode MIDI files off the Internet and play them through his new toys. Voila, you have this album.

There is nothing original or imaginative about this work. The choices Mr. Huetter makes in electronic voices (he has the NERVE to call them an "orchestra") are unilaterally poor fits for the feel of the original tracks--parodies at best. Muzak could do better.

I picked up this album at a local record store, hoping it would be listenable, and the only reason my copy isn't on the rack at the used record store is that I could neither, in good conscience, accept cash for this garbage nor inflict it upon another unwitting buyer.

It does, however, make an acceptable coaster.

1 out of 5 stars Absolutely Horrible.......2004-01-30

When it comes to tribute albums it's either hit or miss.
This one alone doesn't even show up on the radar.
I got this in anticipation that it would be intense. A symphony doing a tribute to one of my all time favorite bands. I was way too quick to judge it a stellar performance before I even brought it up to the cash register.
Got it to the car and popped it into my cd player and drove off to go home.
The first track sounded okay and symphonic, but everything else after just sounded all synthesized and cheeeeeeeeeeezy.
It doesn't even deserve the star I gave it.
It reminded me of some sort of crappy Wyndam Hill compilation from the 80's or something.
Maybe if your a John Tesh fan or Yanni you might like this but this was absolutely disappointing and an utter waste of 13.99.

1 out of 5 stars Boooooooooooooooooring.......2004-01-16

I love Depeche Mode and have liked certain instrumental tributes to other bands. I thought this would be a nice addition to my collection. I was so so so wrong. The songs are a little too unrecognizable and otherwise poorly interpreted. It is incredibly dull (songs drag on forever and have been slowed down to sleepy speed).

1 out of 5 stars One word to describe it..........2003-08-21

Elevator? You know you are getting old when your favorite songs have become elevator music!!!
I feel the wrinkles coming on!!

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  3. Colezo: Shocking Blue ~ Shocking Blue
  4. From The Ether ~ Amfibian
  5. Very Best of the BSO Live ~ Brian Setzer Orchestra
  6. Saturdays of Thunder ~ Hank Jones
  7. Monkey Business ~ Eric Herman and the Invisible Band
  8. All the Best
  9. Best Ballads
  10. Contents Under Pressure ~ Pro-Pain

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Son of Psiloritis ~ Psarantonis

Salute ~ Djivan Gasparyan

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Fantastic World ~ Love Psychedelico

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