Talk:Violator (album)

'Rock' /Synth 'Rock'/Alternative 'Rock' / Industrial 'Rock'
Why the genre 'Rock' is incorrect:

Daniel Miller Quote (p 333, in the book ‘Stripped’ By Jonathan Miller): “The thing is, they’re not a rock band... because it’s not pure [rock ‘n roll]. There’s a horrible kind of authenticity about rock music, and they’re definitely not authentic in that sense” http://books.google.com/books?id=gIrZbmss3kEC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=martin+gore+depeche+mode+%22not+a+rock+band%22&source=web&ots=67M7nujLj1&sig=Z4Iq30etb0pSfB-mvB_ceTps3Ns&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result. Kalied04 (talk) 14:57, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Alan Wilder himself mentioned on his Recoil website http://www.recoil.co.uk/, Q&A Section, Songs of Faith and Devotion ... "Well, SOFAD is far from a rock album but that's another issue" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.232.168.216 (talk) 14:14, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

<^>v!!This album is connected!!v<^>

 * All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 22:12, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

"Many view Violator as the third in the band's triptych of top albums"
This sentence has a few problems: 1) Define "many" and give sources. 2) Name the other two parts of the supposed triptych. Thanks CapnZapp (talk) 16:16, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

No information about the album
Mainly about the remasters and re-releases, please help.--Holy Roman Empire (talk) 22:31, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Consider removal of Rolling Stone article that seems to be for another album
If you read through some of the linked Rolling Stone review, it is pretty obvious that they're reviewing another album, not Violator. It must be some sort of mistake the webmaster of the Rolling Stone website hasn't noticed, especially considering that Rolling Stone ranked Violator 342 of the 500 Greatest Albums Ever, why would they say that after giving it 2/5 stars?

- TheBrightLights (talk) 02:23, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Nope, RS had such a big hate for the album that they barely even mentioned it's name in the article and the 2/5 stars review is correct. On the other hand, a Soulja Boy album is much better... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.76.27.68 (talk) 12:39, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Stop labeling this as Synthpop!
Please stop labeling all of Depeche Mode's work as synthpop. Only their first two albums were in this genre. Everything after 1982 is NOT synthpop anymore.

"While most current popular music in the industrialized world is realized via electronic instruments, synthpop has its own stylistic tendencies which differentiate it from other music produced by the same means. These include the exploitation of artificiality (the synthesizers are not used to imitate acoustic instruments), the use of mechanical sounding rhythms, vocal arrangements as a counterpoint to the artificiality of the instruments, and ostinato patterns as an effect. Synthpop song structures are generally the same as in other popular music." - Wikipedia

Read the definition and you can clearly see DM is not synthpop. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.76.26.6 (talk) 12:11, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Dead external links to Allmusic website – January 2011
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No idea what listening
No idea what listening. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.25.8.176 (talk) 19:38, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

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