Violator

I really don't like this band. It's just so boring and feels like it's trying hard to be moody.

I got 2/3 of the way through this album and did not enjoy a single song. 80's music like this just isn't for me. I give it 2 out of 10 personally.

That sucks soooo bad.

Enjoy the Silence is an alright tune, which is apt considering I'd find more enjoyment in 47-minutes of silence than listening to this album again.

Just not good. Uninteresting. The best part was when it ended.

Music For The Masses was the second album I received when I started on this journey. It was also the first album I rated one star. And in some way I’ve been waiting for this day to come ever since. Violator, the other Depeche Mode album. The opportunity to prove me wrong, or to confirm my suspicions. I do not like Depeche Mode. Their music is consistently both incredibly overwrought and abysmally dreary. Violator is supposed to have taken a break from their usual writing style but that doesn’t come through because it sounds exactly the same as Music For The Masses, same dull electronics, same boring string quartet droning the same few trills midway through the song, same boring lyrics that just repeats the one verse over and over again. Fucking hell. I really can’t stand it. Even the ‘good songs:’ Personal Jesus and Enjoy The Silence have been both played to death and done better by other people. So… I am not going crazy. I do not like this band. What I’m now left to go crazy over is why you fuckers do like them so much

1.5

Didn't like it at all. Even skipped some songs.

I really don’t like this band lol

Boring as fuck. Had one nice song and I guess made a song I like covered by someone else.

Very sleepy album probably good for background noise but that's about it. Only one good song and it's the bands best one "enjoy the silence"

Not ideal

There's a famine in my heart to hear something else.

Meh

Couldn't get past the second song. Just not for me sorry.

1/5. Just awful. An abomination of an album. I cannot believe 90s kids enjoyed this New Wave garbage. I skipped many songs half way through and funny enough, enjoyed one of the bonus tracks better than any song on the actual album!

I'm starting to think that they wasted a lot of these slots. I know 1001 Albums seems like a lot but you can't pick every album from every band ever and I'm sure some real classics are left out for Albums like this. It's both annoying AND boring which is interesting because usually it's one or the other so good job. I find it annoying because the Instrumentation is fucking nails on a chalkboard and boring because the vocalist can only really sing in the droning dull kinda way. I don't know who this music is for but I'm glad I don't know them.

Another Depeche Mode album that leaves me not wanting to listen to them. This is worse than the others, 1.

So boring has aged badly

Overall, did not enjoy this album. Riffs and melodies were repetitive. I did like Clean because it felt authentically moody and brooding.

Not into this kind of music at all

It's ok for a long drive, otherwise, I would not listen.

Boring album. Only enjoy the silence was worth listening.

Not really a fan of the poppy sound. Would have to really check it out when I am not busy.