Depeche Mode- Music For The Masses LP (Sale price!)

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180-gram heavyweight LP pressing of Depeche Mode's classic "Music For The Masses" album.

• 1 Never Let Me Down Again
• 2 The Things You Said
• 3 Strangelove
• 4 Sacred
• 5 Little 15
• 6 Behind the Wheel
• 7 I Want You Now
• 8 To Have and to Hold
• 9 Nothing
• 10 Pimpf

This album is a culmination of Depeche Mode's middle-period experimentation. More informed by Goth than techno, it is still anchored by plenty of the larger-than-life-baritone melodrama so distinctive of David Gahan's vocals. The most experimental track is "Pimpf"--a song that heave-hoes along with the synthesized emulation of a Russian men's choir. Although nowhere near fast enough to be danceable, the commanding "Never Let Me Down" ranks as the best single on the track, with the most hummable "Strangelove" coming in at a close second. Each song is a praiseworthy accomplishment, but the singles here set off the experimental tracks, making the album seem thematically schizophrenic. --Beth Bessmer