Title: the not-yet-depressed moles
Product review: The best thing about this retrocruise of old Depeche giddy synth-pop from the early `80s isn't the music, it's the liner notes. Each song is accompanied by original reviews from the British press. They are savagely hilarious. `Deadpan vocals, programmed rhythm rejoinders and a candyfloss melody,' said NME of the 1981 hit Dreaming of Me. The follow-up -Just Can't Get Enough -was `hugely enjoyable, bouncy and boppy and very close to irritating.' It got worse. `Just Can't Enough was trying... and now this is insipid,' another critic said the next hit See You. To be fair, Depeche Mode's early material ... wasn't any worse than their contemporaries at the time. The band changed dramatically in the mid-80s, adopting a pseudo-sado gloom goth motif that proved wildly successful with teens who preferred to sit in dark rooms and talk about death, vampires and mascara. But this early on, the Depeche Mode catalogue remains as it always was;...
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