Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (Remaster 2006) [EAC-FLAC] [ReP

******************************************************************************* Some Great Reward (Remaster 2006) ******************************************************************************* This torrent contains both the Audio CD in its remastered stereo form, as released in 2006, plus a short video, which tells the story of DM during the era. The video is presented in XviD with .mp3 sound. There are spanish and english subtitles already ripped and a subpack which also includes subs in Deutsch, Français and Italiano. You have to rip it yourself (I currently use SubRip on Windows), in order to use them. Note: There's no 5.1 audio here. I repeat: there's no 5.1 audio here. Only the 2.0 stereo album remastered. And sounds great! CD: Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (2006 remastered) 01. Something To Do [0:03:47.54] 02. Lie To Me [0:05:03.45] 03. People Are People [0:03:52.06] 04. It Doesn't Matter [0:04:44.72] 05. Stories Of Old [0:03:14.17] 06. Somebody [0:04:27.37] 07. Master And Servant [0:04:12.60] 08. If You Want [0:04:40.70] 09. Blasphemous Rumours [0:06:21.42] DOCUMENTARY 84 - You Can Get Away With Anything If You Give It A Good Tune [0:29:21] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ALLMUSIC REVIEW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- by Ned Raggett The peak of the band's industrial-gone-mainstream fusion, and still one of the best electronic music albums yet recorded, Some Great Reward still sounds great, with the band's ever-evolving musical and production skills matching even more ambitious songwriting from Martin Gore. "People Are People" appears here, but finds itself outclassed by some of Depeche Mode's undisputed classics, most especially the moody, beautiful "Somebody," a Gore-sung piano ballad that mixes its wit and emotion skillfully; "Master and Servant," an amped-up, slamming dance track that conflates sexual and economic politics to sharp effect; and the closing "Blasphemous Rumors," a slow-building anthemic number supporting one of Gore's most cynical lyrics, addressing a suicidal teen who finds God only to die soon afterward. Even lesser-known tracks like the low-key pulse of "Lie to Me" and the weirdly dreamy "It Doesn't Matter" showcase an increasingly confident band. Alan Wilder's arrangements veer from the big to the stripped down, but always with just the right touch, such as the crowd samples bubbling beneath "Somebody" or the call/response a cappella start to "Master and Servant." With Reward, David Gahan's singing style found the métier it was going to stick with for the next ten years, and while it's never gone down well with some ears, it still has a compelling edge to it that suits the material well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME WIKIPEDIA INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some Great Reward is the fourth album by the British electronic group Depeche Mode, released in 1984. The album peaked at #5 in the UK and at #54 in the US. The title comes from a phrase used near the end of track 2, Lie to Me ("Make me think by the end of the day, some great reward will be coming my way"). In 2006, Some Great Reward was re-released with a bonus DVD. The CD was remastered and (except in the USA) was released on a CD/SACD hybrid. The bonus DVD includes the two B-side tracks "In Your Memory" and "Set Me Free (Remotivate Me)" in addition to "Somebody (Remix)" and several live versions of some of the songs from the album. The DVD also includes a documentary on the making of the album. The remastered album was released on "deluxe" vinyl in March 2007. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOME TRACKS REVIEWED AT ALLMUSIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE by Stewart Mason Originally released as a stand-alone single in the U.K. in April 1984, "People Are People" ended up becoming Depeche Mode's U.S. breakthrough hit, getting enough MTV and club airplay that Sire Records ended up gathering a number of stray single tracks and remixes and releasing the stopgap People Are People LP in the States. (This made U.S. consumers feel slightly cheated a few months later when "People Are People" showed up yet again on the Some Great Reward album.) It's ironic that this is the song that broke the group in the States as opposed to a poppier slice of synth pop like "See You," because "People Are People" was the single that introduced Depeche Mode's next-level sound as the group that made industrial music (à la Einsturzende Neubauten or Test Dept.) palatable to the masses: the song features samples of clanging pipes, shattering glass, and other sounds recorded by the group and engineer Gareth Jones at a German junkyard during the sessions for Construction Time Again, manipulated into a deliberately choppy rhythm that emphasizes the beat to a considerably larger extent than Depeche Mode's earlier singles. (The overall effect is oddly similar to the contemporaneous singles by the Art of Noise, particularly since "People Are People" also makes use of a Trevor Horn trademark, the Fairlight orchestral stab.) Over this, the group repeatedly chants a sloganeering chorus, in between which Dave Gahan sings a well-intentioned but unfortunately trite set of lyrics about hatred and other bad vibes. Lyrically and musically, the song's saving grace is a refrain sung by songwriter Martin Gore, whose lightweight voice suits the lyrics' questioning tone better than Gahan's more strident delivery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOMEBODY by Stewart Mason Although "Somebody" is one of Depeche Mode's most atypical songs, it's an all- time fan favorite, remaining a key point of the group's live sets for the rest of its career. One of the few Depeche Mode songs sung by primary songwriter Martin Gore, "Somebody" is in fact basically a solo performance for the keyboard player, who sings the almost embarrassingly abject lyrics in a thin, weedy voice that makes plain why he's not the band's primary singer. Cleverly, however, Gore has his cake and eats it by turning himself (and the song as a whole) into a joke at the end of both verses, by inserting some self-protective sarcasm into lines like "Though things like this make me sick/In a case like this, I'll get away with it." It's only because of that level of self-awareness that he does; without it, "Somebody" would make anyone past the age of 15 gag. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MASTER AND SERVANT by Ned Raggett Right from the start, with its call-and-response vocals between Martin Gore and David Gahan ("It's a lot -- it's a lot -- it's a lot -- like life!"), "Master and Servant" shows Depeche plunging even more deeply into its self-created image of sexual/social renegades. Keep in mind that this is the same band that scored big with "Just Can't Get Enough" three years earlier -- and that it not only kept a pop audience with this song, but the single went number six in the band's homeland. The gentle distortion on the harmony vocals, the crunches and synth melodies, created via sampling as much metallic banging as the group could manage, Gahan's echoed delivery of the often downright sadistic lyrics, and more all contribute to this being one of the more unlikely hit numbers around. That Trent Reznor, to name one of many people, listened to this on a regular basis when young is perfectly clear as the shuddering, massive beats punch the song along. As always, Depeche know how to sugar the pill just enough, as with the quick synth shimmer that concludes the second verses, but as long as one can hear the screams and screeches littered throughout the mix, simple and sweet boy band pop this isn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EAC LOG EXTRACT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008 EAC extraction logfile from 31. July 2009, 23:37 Depeche Mode / Some Great Reward (2006 remastered) Used drive : HL-DT-STDVD-RAM GSA-H55N Adapter: 0 ID: 0 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction : 102 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface Gap handling : Not detected, thus appended to previous track Used output format : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s Quality : High Add ID3 tag : No Command line compressor : F:Archivos de programaExact Audio CopyFLACFLAC.EXE Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACCURIP REPORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Verification date: 31/07/2009 23:38:04] [Disc ID: 000d3969-00616a15-63097909] Track [ CRC ] Status 01 [a6b340c5] (73/94) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 02 [f550c69b] (72/95) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 03 [fa4ab696] (74/95) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 04 [bf6ebccb] (73/94) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 05 [0412c4bf] (73/94) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 06 [78d6aaba] (73/94) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 07 [2c7997b2] (73/94) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 08 [771d77ea] (72/93) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 09 [e177ad53] (69/91) Accurately ripped as in pressing(s) #1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ (A REQUEST) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's usual to post comments only to complain about a torrent which doesn't work in your configuration. 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degsey (2009-08-02)

Thanks...have seeded to at least 1:1

mauro145 (2009-08-21)

gracias.