I just can’t get enough isn’t a Depeche Mode song

Posted by Wild_Read9062@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 22 comments

I love the song, love the video, but always felt it doesn’t fit nicely in their catalog, outside of maybe alongside ’flexible’. It always feels uneven on any DM playlist I make.

I think if it more of an Erasure/Yaz Vince Clarke song.

How about you?

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ThisusernameThen@reddit

Its yazoo. Yaz.is a tall.blonde.

And vince clark.can donwhatever he likes.

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krschob@reddit

Sort of, In the US the band was Yaz, something something trademarks I can't be bothered to look up right now. My Upstairs at Eric's definitely just said "Yaz" and I didn't know any different

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ThisusernameThen@reddit

your personal opinions are being stated as hard truths - smells like.

cant be bothered

dont know any different

youl be saying alison moyet was in erasure in a dream you had once in your next post

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SparksWood71@reddit

It takes two seconds to look this up.

We never called them Yazoo in the US

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lufcpdx@reddit

You seem like you're fun at parties. It's literally the easiest to look up. "The British synth-pop duo Yazoo released music under the name Yaz in the US to avoid a trademark dispute."

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Jensen1994@reddit

💯. The most skipped song in my DM playlist for many years.

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SWO6@reddit

I love going to DM concerts and sitting through 2 hours of brooding, atmospheric music just to get to the encore and have them sing about love and rainbows.

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Yup. They are great in concert. Period. HOWEVER!!! When they play Just Can’t Get Enough (and Enjoy The Silence) and the whole arena is bouncing up and down together like waves in a sea of human beings… that is a religious experience

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heartwoodhoney@reddit

We always sung “just can’t get it up”

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gringoloco01@reddit

Now this is gonna be stuck in my head

"And I just can't seem to get it up at all."

ROFLMAO

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FragrantGearHead@reddit

DM has a “Vince wrote most of the music” period, pretty much just Speak and Spell, and a “Martin wrote most of the music” period, everything after that.

The two guys have very different styles.

For example, Vince is well known for thinking having several monophonic melodies that are polyrhythmic and interplay with each other is the purest form of music, and that chords are “cheating”.

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Routine_Breath_7137@reddit

I just added 'Personal Jesus' to my Playlist. Didn't even flinch when it first came out. It now scratches a part of brain it didn't before.

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dugs-special-mission@reddit

Well seeing that Vince Clarke wrote the song while he was a member of Depeche Mode you’d be correct.

That said it does fit in their catalog, their early catalog. I’m not sure what your point is. Every band evolves and moves in new directions when they stay together long enough. Their early catalog still sounds good to me and is equally what I think of when I hear their name in contrast to their newer work.

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Redhosky@reddit

It sits perfectly in place along with Master & Servant.

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Authoritaye@reddit

This was the inspiration for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE2sCISQmpE

It completely fits with the era. Bands can change a lot over a few years.

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