FIRST TIME HEARING Higher Love! Depeche Mode | REACTION!
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- This has got to be one of the best martin gore songs i have ever heard. The notes he hits are freaking mind melting!
This is my reaction to Depeche Mode Higher Love. This is also my first time hearing Higher Love, Depeche Mode Reaction 1990
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Finally Higher Love,for me the best Song ever made,work of art,a real masterpiece
❤❤❤
It’s up there ❤
Same here brother. Favorite song of all time!
Probably mine too
Yeah. I'm kind of obsessed with this song.
Now b-sides and then we move into a great masterpiece called "Devotional"
Devotional!!! Devotional!!!!! Devotional!!!!
When I bought this album in 1993. This was my favourite song to start off with. Now all 10 songs are beautiful.
I started with Mercy in You and ended up with all 10 !!!
this is one of the most underrated & spiritual songs of all-time 💯
ESTE ALBUM ES UNA JOYA , TODAS LAS CANCIONES SON UNA VERDADERA OBRA DE ARTE .
ES UNO DE LOS MEJORES ÁLBUNES DE LA HISTORIA.
Martin writes most songs in Minor Chords which creates a darker/sadder, more real feel.... love this one!
When reacting to "My Joy", the one B-side recorded for Songs of Faith and Devotion, make sure the version you listen to is titled "7 Inch" or "Single Mix" and not "Slow Slide". The 7 inch/Single version is the original version of that track. It is considered by many to be the best Depeche Mode B-side.
It is their best bside. 4 lines but the production in the last minute is UNBELIEVABLE
My Joy is in my all time top 5 DM songs……..Fantastic
@@platetec4636 it makes sense. For me In Your Room (album version), Higher Love and My Joy are the pinnacle of this album, and this album imo is the pinnacle of DM career. 🖤
Check out depeche mode song in chains. The original one and the Alan kind of version
"Songs of faith and devotion" is usually defined by old Depeche mode fans as the top three of all Depeche albums - and not uncommonly as number two or even number one.
I like "Higher love" for its soundscape and dark atmosphere. It is also the song that the group opened all concerts with during the big "Devotional tour". One of the concerts during the Devotional tour was filmed and released on DVD - and can of course be seen on TH-cam. Often referred to as the best tour Depeche has done.
The next album, "Ultra" is without Alan Wilder and came out 4 years later, in 1997. - For a long time it was unclear whether the band would continue after Alan's departure and Dave's personal difficulties with his drug addiction.
"Ultra" is perhaps the album without Alan where you can hear the least that he is not involved. It feels like incarcerated producer Tim Simenon tried to do a pastiche of Depeche, so to speak. - Which he succeeded quite well with.
- But you would still like to know how Depeche and Ultra would have sounded with Alan still in the band.
"Songs of faith and devotion" is without a doubt their best album.
This song will always remind me of when I saw them on the Devotional Tour…………You’ll understand it when you watch the performance! I recently went to an evening with Gareth Jones in London breaking down Depeche songs from Construction Time Again. He was the engineer and co-producer for the Berlin trilogy. You wouldn’t believe the amount of layers on one of the DM sound sources, sometimes up to 6 elements to make up one thick layered sound. It was an amazing night.
Goosebumps every single time ...at the start of this song...takes me back to 94 ...seeing them for the first time❤❤❤
Don’t feel silly about alll the S’s; this is their greatest album and for me the greatest album of all time.
(Black Celebration and then Violator and MFTM are near behind.)
Faultless track, one of their finest
I don't know if I'm wrong but I think that Martin Gore's way of writing provokes various interpretations, they are not the typical pop songs, they tend to be more profound than sad. Sometimes I don't know if I explain myself well because English is not my language.
I think you put it very well!
Please next song Depeche Mode - Death's Door by B-side
This song again gets me euphoric...I cant wait til you check out devotional tour!!!
A good Reaction 👍
Its so powerful it makes you cry
Starting a huge world tour as devotional with this song is just epic
I believe ,without fear of been mistaken, that SOFAD is the album where Alan put all his effort & skills to make it sound like it does (with the help of Flood & Steve Lyon of course) and that must be the Depeche Mode record of which he feels most proud of being involved.
Masterpiece ❤
😁You are Just as Excited as I was when I Heard this (really anything by them)... for the very first time 😁! I really feels like it was yesterday. Again, Never Gets Old! Eternal!! Beautiful! LOL! Cheers! - Joey
DEVOTIONAL TOUR !!!!!!
Higher Love, Rush and Mercy in you are so good as Non-Singles! It's a pity, only Album Buyers know them.
Actually one of my favorites from the album!
You got good taste
This is one of my favourite DM song, it takes me to another planet.
I got you ! In music theory, the sad vibe can comes out from what we call a minor scale (enjoy the silence, in your room, and actually 99 percent of dm input), the more happy one comes from major scale (just can get enough, pleasure little treasure )
It's not sad at all.
It's about spiritual awakening and connecting to GOD.
Please can you review the devotional live film,absolutely brilliant.
Ohh i definitely will
One of my all time favorite DM songs, this is amazing
I would say it's not so much sad as powerful and evocative, so it brings out many emotions, including sadness, but also a light, uplifting spirit. This concludes a quartet of what are arguably their greatest albums, starting with Black Celebration. (Actually, Construction Time Again is my #2 rank, but that more for nostalgic reasons.) The next, Ultra, is considered by many to be their last great LP, mainly because Martin's songwriting was still in top form, but it stands alone as the first without Alan. Between Mart's songs and Alan's arrangements, they acheived a body of work that will never be surpassed. Bask in it! (And BTW, as you get into what I call the Late Phase, be ready to be...underwhelmed. There some good stuff, but it'll never be like this.) Don't forget Death's Door and My Joy!
Thank you Seph for your wonderful reactions to SOFAD, my favorite album of all time. And you've finally made it to my FAVORITE song of all time. Not favorite song of the album or favorite DM song but the most perfect peice of music I believe ever created. The atmosphere Alan made with the music is simply devine and the raw power and raspiness of the way Dave says Higher Love in the choruses are to die for. For the last 30 years I've tried to listen to this song every night before I go to bed. This song has it all. The Perfect voice, ambiance, lyrics/meaning. Depech Mode is and will always be my Higher Love!!!
Ironically this is the last track on the album but is the first song on the tour
The harmonic modulation around the 3 minute mark is flawless.
That's a masterpiece.
their best song ever
Try the live version from the "Devotional" 🙂
B-sides and don't forget about the "Zephyr Mix" of In Your Room.
SOFAD or Violator are often mentioned by fans as their top # 1 album, i for one are more on the SOFAD team with Violator as a close 2nd place... The 3rd place is the one that will change the most depending who you ask (for me, is Ultra -the next album to be reviewed- by the way)
I saw this tour in LA . It was outstanding!
Very deep lyrics in this one. Like this one. Greetings.
Re Dave's vocal ... I once heard someone say that if Dave wasn't singing in Heaven when they died, they weren't going ... go figure ...!!😊
They opened gigs on the devotional tour with this with Dave singing behind a curtain for the whole song, an atmospheric way to start a gig!
Enjoyed watching you analyse this classic album ,as with violator before it every song is as you would say a 'banger' ...now you have to hear these live !!! Devotional next
This song is one of their masterpieces imho...it's just perfect! Moved, indeed. Glad you liked it, you're one of us now lol. 🥹🥰🤗🤗
Higher Love is one of my favorite Songs from this album. Ja, dieser Song ist traurig und aufheiternd zugleich. Wunderbare Melodie.
Endlich jemand auf Deutsch. Ich finde Seth reactions genial. Setzt mich über 30 Jahre zurück und erinnert mich, warum ich DM Fan bin (seit 1987 und ab 1997 gab es Perlen). Habe mein Sohn (18) drauf angesetzt, sowas wie Seth zu machen.... Kein Bock. Mist.
@@BigALquitti Mein Englisch ist eher schlecht als recht. Deswegen hatte ich mich entschieden auf Deutsch zu schreiben. Ja, finde Seph auch toll. Verfolge ihn, seit er letztes Jahr mit Speak And Spell angefangen hat. Ich habe Depeche 1997 mit Ultra "wiederentdeckt", kannte bis dahin nur die Singles aus Violator.
What an end ! Great final the same vibe as « in your room ». The opening track for the tour ;) For the B Side there are « my joy » and « death’s door » who originally early appeared on the music lp for the film from Wim Wenders « Until the end of the world »
Oh, this is so good. First track on the Devotional tour. :)
NOW YOU MUST REACT TO "DEVOTIONAL" TOUR... AFTER 101 IS THE BEST CONCERT OF DEPECHE MODE. 😉😉😉😉🙌🙌🎹🎙🎤📢
One of my faves on the album. So uplifting (to me) and the perfect way to wrap up a pretty much perfect album. The only closing track to match this one is "Clean" on Violator.
Can't wait to see what you decide to do next, whether it's Devotional, the official videos or Ultra!
ETA: I was so excited I forgot about the Bsides
PS It's Dave singing
I prefer Insight to Clean. I prefer Speak to me from their latest album to Clean. I dont think Clean is their best closer. I even prefer The Sun and the rainfall or And then ans blasphemous rumours 🤣
Tbh I forgot about insight and it's one of my faves! Talk about blasphemy.... 😂
Broo, I'm so glad you like this! 🎉❤
El devotional debes veerlo en su orden. Y recuerda que este concierto es muy visual. Saludos here the full concert th-cam.com/video/INMpqPStn58/w-d-xo.html
bellissima, il pezzo elettronico del disco.
Seph, I think that maybe the answer to this is what pervades most (if not all) of DM's songs - a dissatisfaction with what IS in the World, and a longing for a state of existence which is higher, more perfect, more heavenly. Thus the musical tone reflecting sadness and longing. I do feel the mood lifts though towards the end of the song and becomes more hopeful, less tortured ...
Songs of faith and devotion album is one I need to play from time to time as my own personal eargasm addiction. This album always takes me to places and memories only it can. After this album I used to play The Mission Album - God's Own Medicine album, starting with the songs - And the dance goes on, blood brother, lay with me, waste land, severina. The mission were or are an English Gothic rock band from the mid late 80s.
Told Ya 😁 My personal favourite from this album... Was hoping that you'd put it in S rank 🙂 Also a first one on DEVOTIONAL... You will be more than satisfied with a live version 👍 TRIPLE BANGER 🤯
P. S. There's a very good documentary about this period of DM. I think you should react to this after DEVOTIONAL. The title is "Depeche Mode: 1995-98 Oh well, that's the end of the band" MUST SEE!!!
this is my all time favourite song from Depeche Mode I love this song so so much. Its about the love of God!!!!
The whole album is the result of a band imploding or exploding... When you are at your lowest ebb you shine .. Like a phoenix from the flames.... This album was a crash in emotions, conflicts of opinion, fights, arguments, absolute disdain for each other.... Production from Flood and Wilder burst the balls of the music at the time ... Also this album saved Gary Numan's career..He was at his lowest ebb and listening to this brought him back from the brink... It brought me back to Depeche but when Alan left that was it for me
one of the top 3 live intro songs they have done.
Then you should see the intro of the Devotional Your with this song, it was amazing the atmosphere created all around
You meant played in minor keys :)
I think what you were trying to say is that the song is set in a minor key. Songs set in major keys sound positive and happy, where songs set in minor keys sound dark, sad and broody.
Most of the albums starting from Violator is just mostly all hits IMO.
Watch Devotional and you'll see . Opener to that show that tour ❤
@Seph Just out of interest do you think this album is better than Violator?
I think im going to hold off ranking the albums for now and wait until ive heard them all 😊
This is the first time i did not understand you to 100%
Why is the lyrics so sad? Its about love, higher love…🙄
I think that the tune itself turns you down, because the tune is soo heavy loaded… and the tune of this song can make you feel bad… maybe?
I personaly LOVED this thune from the very beginning. This Song lift me higher, so mutch. It feels like flying around, still, and this srill after 30 years😅
One of my fave songs shame they have never performed it live again after the devotion tour
Minor chords = sad. Major chords = Happy :)
So what comes next??
Death‘s door (not bad) and then… My Joy?
So in my opinion you can skip „My Joy“😅
Anyway, then after Decotional Tour?😃
I would like that before you catch ULTRA😎
Ohh thats definitely in my list haha
Now onto My Joy, after this be curious if you are gonna do the live album or live tour video or move onto Ultra (well first should be the single from the soundtrack you missed before this album.,
Im actually not sure what im gonna do next 😅
For a new band, you now need Nine Inch Nails starting with Pretty Hate Machine album.
Shocked this hasn't been in a movie soundtrack. I think all songs from this era are like a movie in themselves but this was ripe for a Hollywood movie. Also, It is Songs of Faith and Devotion... but to what ? a person ? a religion ? an addiction ?
Great reaction! Not sure why you get sad from this one, I find it to be the happiest! Lol This is the sexiest track of the album “I can taste more than feel…” and it is also the most spiritual… “ I surrender heart and soul, sacrificed to a higher goal, moved by a higher love.” This is the “World in my Eyes” and the “Behind the Wheel” of this album. Maybe it’s something you find dark or how you relate to profound subjects (I noticed you didn’t say “spirituality”). it is, as always, about where you are when you listen to the song. I recently listened to “waiting for the night” after the millionth time (that was the 1st CD I ever bought in 1990) and “heard” something different and now I cannot hear it without crying… that’s it! I tuned into something different and there’s no way to unhear it now! Enjoy the rollover coaster! DM songs sound different every time!
For me the best of Sofad🤩
Masterpiece....... Album is Extra, and last one with Alan
"I don't know why, this is another one... The lyrics come across as sad, but the tune is happy. It's got a happy tune but sad lyrics." (3:28) For me, it's the inverse. The lyrics are uplifting ("moved, lifted higher") and the music is largely melancholy.
"I know I'm smiling, but it's really got a sad vibe to this. Like it's very downplayed. How do I pronounce it? Is this in a different... not like in a high key? It's in like a low key or something? I don't know how to actually explain what I mean but it feels sad." (7:58) The verses use minor chords (sad tonality) and the choruses ("moved, lifted...") use a major chord (happy tonality) and minor chord ("...higher"). The bridge ("heaven bound on the wings of love") uses major chords (happy tonality). I think this is what you are describing here with the feeling of sadness during certain passages of the song.
The modulation (chord changes) in the third verse always cut me up, when Dave and Martin harmonize in a higher register, "I surrender heart and soul, sacrificed to a higher goal." (6:21)
As you are no doubt aware of by now, this was the opening track on the first leg of their SONGS OF FAITH AND DEVOTION tour. It was a particularly surprising and emotional choice. Made even more dramatic in that the band were behind a curtain until Dave reveals himself at the start of the third verse.
If the lyrics Written by Martin are great Like Dave's voice, the musical arrangements made by Alan Wilder are brutals.
Wilder said so himself that he considers SOFAD to be his masterpiece.
This is not a sad song, I would go with introspective
Sorry dear Seph but All songs from sofad were writen by M. L. GORE,,,,
Thank you! How are you these days? having a good week?
@@SephPlays hi Seph saturday 24 i m going to París in Stade de France to see depeche mode life, i m living in Valencia,,,
OMG PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW GOOD IT WAS!
Yes they were but it took someone like Alan Wilder to add the music and atmosphere that made this album the classic it is and this song the masterpiece it is
Where ´s your hat , Dim?
By listening, it sounds like this song is in Am (A minor). There's nothing "high" or "low" about that. There are only twelve notes per octave (but there are a lot of variation on minors, which are utilized in this song). There's also lots of other scale variations beyond major and minor, but this isn't the place for that. :)
The song is very well constructed, like most DM songs from roughly Construction Time Again are. (The early stuff is a LOT of Vince Clarke influence, which is great, and perfectly constructed, but not what DM turned into. Vince ended up making Yaz and then Erasure after leaving DM and writing one of their most iconic hits, but I'd say he did fine.)
Let the song play through without stopping it though. Go back to parts you like when it's done -- great. Pause and rewind constantly -- not so good. But at least you're getting exposed to why DM has endured. :)
I love this little breakdown! Thanks for this Kevin! 😊
Legally i have to pause as much as i do. Its just the way youtube is 😅
Either i pause the song and talk or i get sued by a billion dollar company for copyright infringement.
@@SephPlays If you have a piano (or any instrument I guess) and know how to play, go Am, F#m, Dm, Em. That is the main progression here. It then goes to FM, and then a common descending progression. Didn't figure out those little violin hits between chorus and verse though. heh... It can't be hard. I only spent 5 minutes or so getting what I got. But dammit, I was right on the Am guess! :)
You mention sad more than a few times.... it's Depeche Mode man!
It’s funny how music affects everyone differently. Makes me feel like a sexy old lady lol.
I loved violator for years but it is really dated compared to this album. This is there best❤
This is so damned hot! Too bad it was during one of the worst periods of Dave’s life.