Violator

He rattled off a load.

And he said, oh, whatever you do, you need to do Violator by Depeche Mode.

And I was like, no, we've done that one.

He went, what? How could you have reviewed that already? He said, how many pods have you done? I said, I think we've done seven at the time.

I have a

bone to pick with you on this.

I listened to the Violator review.

Yeah.

But if I had to narrow it down to one album that That would be the biggest influence for me.

It might be Violator because Violator came out and I began to listen to it, whereas everything else was kind of already out.

And so

it was when I felt like I was already a fan and I was able to be on the bandwagon rather than catching up with the bandwagon.

By the end of the 80s, they were filling the Pasadena Rose Bowl and preparing to release an album that would define their legacy.

That album was Violator.

And the centerpiece of the album was Enjoy the Silence.

It almost never became a hit.

They put that beat to it, and suddenly it was this hypnotic, beautiful monster of a track.

David Gaunt will go on to say, Martin was furious at first, but once he added that guitar riff, we all knew it was our signature song.

Released in 1990 as the lead single from Violator, Enjoy the Silence peaked at number eight on the Hot 100, and it became the highest US chart position Depeche Mode had ever achieved.

The number one song the week that it hit number eight was Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice.

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed is him in my arms Words are very unnecessary, they come only too hard

It was recorded in 1989 and released on the album Violator, Depeche Mode and Enjoy the Silence.

Rubik's Cubes, hair gel, mousse was also around, lots of fluoro colours, some of the things from the 80s, but Radio Without Pictures is focusing on the music.

What I'm doing is recognising 100 music icons from that decade.

And it was just all these sort of rock bars playing a lot of 80s, music you know and obviously hip-hop a lot of hip-hop bars and stuff and um I was like no I'm just not going to DJ for a while like I'm just going to do other things and you know do some songwriting and production music like you know jingles and stuff like that with a view just try and get into doing scoring and stuff and so I've been doing a bit of that work as well which I really enjoy and um I got offered this amazing position my friends were um friends with um Stephen and Patty Dewey and our Stephen had a studio called Machine Head.

Depeche Mode had made Violator there.

All the music for The Matrix got made out of there.

They just had this huge global hit with Junkie XL with A Little Less Conversation.