So I'm hearing this for the first time (Advanced copy)

Only on the first track but.... Those siren sounds freak me out..


Wonder how this albums gonna turn out


Really good so far

"Lilian" is my fav track this far, well perhaps "John the Revelator",
I can't choose. Loving this album a lot though. It has some very cool
easy access tracks and some deeper material that will need a lot more
time to digest. Cool! It's instantly gratifying and it will have some
more secrets to give way over time.

What does advance copy really mean?

PANDURITO said:

it means "i downloaded an illegally leaked copy off the internet"

Really mean

PANDURITO said:

i take it you want a copy than?

I can wait for the real thing, thanks

Is it that good?
No really.I can hardly taste the new music I'm buying lately .I miss the old times when I'd buy one or two albums a month and let the music soak me til I knew every single note. Now after one listen it goes right to the iPod with another 9000 songs so chances are they won't get much play

PANDURITO said:

I've been having that problem lately too, and for the most part, I'm a one album and one artist at a time kind of guy.

GangstaFam said:

exactly. i'm kind of sad that very little music these days gets me
as excited as it used to when i was a kid. i'm glad to have new cd
releases by great musicians, but in these days of filesharing, you
get so much music in such a short span of time (since it is not an
issue of money anymore with a lot of free downloads).

it just becomes a matter of restraining yourself from pulling in a
new album again and again before having totally absorbed the other
ones.

as i said on another thread, over the past 3 months i have laid my
hands on about 70 new albums coming from friends, family, p2p and,
fcuz the occasional actual cd bought in a store.

and indeed, what with work, studies, relationship and family it is
just too much to sit down and listen to. so i give most of them an
occasional listen whilst working or in the car. but that way, i've
yet to find the beauty in Stevie's "Songs in the key of Life" for,
after having had it for 2 weeks now, I can honestly say that I can
remember only 1 song from it lol.

same thing with the Paul McCartney album. It's the most beautiful
album I've heard in a long time and i've barely sat down to play
it. there's just this constant stream of new music coming in that
pushes everything into the multi-track-playlist, where only the
occasional song swings by from those albums.

i really have to stop that and perhaps burn everything onto dvd's
and start building up my pc files slowly from scratch whilst doin
some extensive listening to the albums first.

I know that in the old days, just these three albums:

Paul McCartney - Chaos And Creation in the Backyard
Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth

would have tied me over at least 3 months.

now, i listened to them, went and forgot about them because
of the multitude of material streaming in.

filesharing kind of ruins the magic of the music imo. sometimes i
wish we would just have albums and no online music at all.

only sometimes tho

All I know is that I hate you all for having heard it before me!!!

IstenSzek said:

I enjoyed your comments...so maybe I'll keep putting off buying an iPod! I'm old school, still pretty much only getting my music on CD's.

yeah but advanced copy doesnt meant you have downloaded the mp3's...


it could be stream... but in rare cases

I seem to be preferring the production job of "Exciter" recently.. It always reminded me of an updated version of their sound in the 80's.. this new cd sounds like its going back to the basics (in a good way) but its a return to their original sound..

IstenSzek said:

I'm always gettin new stuff.. but that album has stuck with me.. I know its a winner..


it'll come back round, that album is gonna withstand the test of time.. unlike a lot of his solo stuff

I agree. I'm listening to his album right now and it's a winner.
Def an album that will stay on my playlist for a long long long
long time.

Good album, i have had it for sometime now. and it really grows for every week. I really look forward to see their new show.

IstenSzek said:

You know what - I had the same feeling back in the 90s, when somehow Prince tracks leaked to boots which later actually were featured on an album. When the new album came out, I actually knew quite a lot of the material already - did not like that at all.

I like the approach of 2-3 albums per month, listened to extensively, and listen to the downloads/copies n the car.

Back to the topic...I bought this CD yesterday and I'm quite pleased with it! Right now I'm liking "Nothing's Impossible" the best, but that will prob change.

Yes, but...did you like it?

andykeen said:

I'll have to track that one down & give it a listen.
It sounds amazing!

Sdldawn said:

Got tix for Nov when they're in LA. It'll be my first time seeig them.


Would you say PTA is better musically than Exciter?

The glowing reviews are rolling in...

from AMG

When Ultra was declared the best Depeche Mode album since Violator, those who said so must have forgotten about Songs of Faith and Devotion. When Exciter was declared the best Depeche Mode album since Violator, those who said so must have also forgotten about Songs of Faith and Devotion, in addition to having found a roundabout way of saying that it was merely better than Ultra. There's no doubt this time: Playing the Angel is both the band's best album since Violator and, more significantly, an album that is near Violator in stature. The biggest clue dropped by the band prior to its release was a quote from Dave Gahan, who said that being in Depeche Mode is better than it has been in 15 years. Some quick math reveals that Gahan was hinting at the Violator era, a time when the band's creativity and popularity peaked synchronously. It also turns out that this is a time as good as any other to be paying attention to the band. Playing the Angel lacks Songs of Faith and Devotion's end-to-end chest-beating, Ultra's grinding murk, and Exciter's desiccated patches. It takes the best qualities from those releases, combines them with a few subtle allusions to Violator — tiptoeing the border that separates retread from reinvention — and makes for a highly concentrated set of songs that all but demand to be heard in one uninterrupted shot. Gahan, still riding the confidence he gained as a songwriter from Paper Monsters, his 2003 solo debut, contributes three songs co-written with band associates Christian Eigner and Andrew Phillpott. Though none of them vie to be the album's centerpiece, it's apparent that the move wasn't a concession of desperation on anyone's part. The friendly competition seems to have kicked chief songwriter Martin Gore into high gear; he's in top form. Musically, a lot of analog gear was used, and it's apparent that the arrangements and extra sounds were less fussed over than they have been in the recent past. You get the sense that everything fell into place, as opposed to being forced or aimlessly manipulated. Despite the favoring of older gear, there's no other year in which any of the songs could've been made. Like the best Depeche Mode, almost everything on the album will make an initial wowing impact while remaining layered enough in subtle details to surprise and thrill with repeated listens. It is not the kind of album a 25-year-old band is supposed to make.

GangstaFam said:

OK THAT SOUND GOOD