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| 4.0 excellent | Tom93M | March 10th 11 |
The addition of Alan Wilder seemed to propel the bands creativity into overdrive. The result was an album more rich, dense and sample-heavy than any other DM record that came before.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | December 1st 21 |
Here DM offer an album with a lot more mystery and flair than before, with lots of percussive elements, tribal sort of sounds at times, and instruments we werent used to hearing in the band's prior catalogue. That being said, there is also a lot of awkwardness and outdatedness. The band hasn't yet found its vocal identity. 1 feels very outdated but does have some cute sounds, 2 has a great halloween/luigi's mansion vibe atop a cool bass riff tho its accelerating finale is a bit weird, then 3 shows us how this album is largely kinda weird, but cool weirdness I guess. 4 is a famous song and shows a lot more of their future colours here, and its reprise on the kinda useless but fine 10 shows it is the flagship here. 5 is cute but feels a bit underbaked like most of the early DM material, 6 is weird but not that great, then 7 wakes things up with a lot of bounce n groove but does show how the vocals are not yet on par with the rest/lack identity. 8 has a supre fun intro and gets kinda dissonant in the middle which is cool. I like this album, it's not the best but it has an aura and some great bits. 3.6
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| 2.5 average | Alabaster Jones | July 4th 16 |
Although this is an improvement over A Broken Frame, it's still kind of hard to believe the type of quality jump Depeche Mode did from this album to Some Great Reward. This mainly came from the band deciding to embrace their innermost darkness, and it really shows on albums like this. I say that because Construction Time Again, while having a couple of really good songs like opener "Love, In Itself", just feels so artificial in all of its emotion. When the style is upbeat, the band sounds as if they're playing with the biggest, most obvious fake smiles they can make. When the style is more dreary, they sound much more apathetic than they do truly depressed or angry. This doesn't necessarily mean the music is bad, as the songwriting is pretty good, as is the production, but it ultimately feels boring. It's good to know that they'd become what they've become, because I don't know how much longer they would've lasted putting out this stuff.
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| 3.5 great | Log S. | December 2nd 15 |
My first favorite Depeche Mode album! or... something of that nature
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| 4.0 excellent | mandan | March 16th 13 |
Construction Time Again is very consistent, but lacks the maturity of later albums. Basically, the best was still yet to come.
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| 3.0 good | Lassie | February 23rd 24 |
| 2.5 average | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 3.0 good | Ryus | November 19th 23 |
| 3.5 great | phylyps | November 18th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Veldin | November 12th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cam | April 23rd 23 |
| 3.5 great | Ledgy | April 6th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Srglvrz | March 24th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | fifek | March 22nd 23 |
| 3.0 good | Timmy | January 12th 23 |
| 3.5 great | MvdW | November 25th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Brabiz | October 30th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | kildare | September 28th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Djokoll | September 19th 22 |
| 2.5 average | olmedou | September 8th 22 |
| 3.5 great | MUSEli | July 19th 22 |
| 3.0 good | Zeuzo | December 5th 21 |
| 3.5 great | biggzhc | September 17th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Icw70 | September 11th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | quetzal | August 25th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jerrad | August 10th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Snuron | June 22nd 21 |
| 3.0 good | fog CONTRIBUTOR | February 19th 21 |
| 3.5 great | heck | February 8th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Jrzg85 | December 18th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Aranox | July 30th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yep321 | July 19th 20 |
| 3.5 great | degina | February 29th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Cayit | December 16th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Bossie | October 26th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | jk2two | June 28th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Nero | May 25th 18 |
| 2.5 average | ArvidL | January 26th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | kb3984 | December 6th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | KOZAKY | October 17th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | igi78 | September 20th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | aghast | July 20th 17 |
| 2.5 average | Barher | June 7th 17 |
| 2.5 average | wg98 | May 12th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | TwigTW | March 17th 17 |
| 2.5 average | ZeCham0 | February 24th 17 |
| 3.5 great | bSmith | January 6th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Jots EMERITUS | November 19th 16 |
| 3.0 good | DaveD | September 3rd 16 |
| 3.0 good | abysmo | February 17th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Sysk | November 2nd 15 |
| 3.5 great | edirp | June 6th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | HasseC | April 16th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Dav85 | February 1st 15 |
| 3.5 great | alin1 | December 28th 14 |
| 3.5 great | nobouk | October 29th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Trey STAFF | March 10th 14 |
| 2.5 average | 0Kelvin | January 8th 14 |
| 3.0 good | kbyo | December 12th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kalhur | December 4th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | lotus62 | September 25th 13 |
| 3.5 great | t67 | August 17th 13 |
| 3.5 great | goat38 | March 28th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Lobber | February 4th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Escain | January 29th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Majkl | January 25th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Atheus | November 29th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | raithen | August 22nd 12 |
| 3.5 great | erdi | June 14th 12 |
| 3.0 good | Acorn | May 11th 12 |
| 2.5 average | virpi | February 25th 12 |
| 3.0 good | tmm87 | December 29th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | ppW | November 26th 11 |
| 3.5 great | boleyn2 | November 15th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | ElDev | November 9th 11 |
| 3.0 good | GenBK | August 10th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | iggy00 | March 18th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | stefan77 | February 27th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | Duckman | August 30th 10 |
| 3.5 great | IAJP | August 14th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Smevin | February 7th 10 |
| 3.5 great | aeuk | November 16th 09 |
| 2.0 poor | ferrum | November 4th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Boaz | May 1st 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | kygermo | August 19th 08 |
| 3.0 good | Kaleid | December 21st 06 |
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