Exciter | 
 enlarge | Artist: Depeche Mode
Label: Wea/Warner Brothers
Category: Music
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Rating:  383 reviews
Sales Rank: 16056
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 47960
UPC: 936247960220
EAN: 0093624796022
ASIN: B00005BL2A
Release Date: May 15, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Dream On | | • | Shine | | • | The Sweetest Condition | | • | When The Body Speaks | | • | The Dead of Night | | • | Lovetheme | | • | Freelove | | • | Comatose | | • | I Feel Loved | | • | Breathe | | • | Easy Tiger | | • | I Am You | | • | Goodnight Lovers |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
One of Depeche Mode's greatest strengths is also their greatest weakness. The band comes up with some of pop music's most inventive lyrics, and at the same time, they always give the impression that they'll arbitrarily sing about anything, as long as it's depressing. But on Exciter there's an autobiography in the lyrics that, for the first time, strikes a chord with skeptics and believers alike. Singer David Gahan's battle with addiction and its horrendous pitfalls took its toll in DM's 1990s releases; Songs of Faith and Devotion failed to measure up to their groundbreaking albums of the '80s, and Ultra found songwriter Martin Gore less inspired, and a hoarse Gahan incapable of delivering his signature clear and booming vocals. Mercifully, the band has exorcised the demons and produced an album that places them squarely back on track. The opener, "Dream On," is a close cousin to "Personal Jesus," combining earthy guitar with electrified, pulsating synths. The track's physical and metaphorical imagery poignantly relays the karmic revolution of living the fast life. The brilliant, mesmerizing monster of a tune, "The Dead of Night," swaggers with a giant, crushing industrial beat like a Nine Inch Nails song dressed in glamorous drag, while the ballads "Shine" and "Freelove" are as beautiful as the classic "Somebody" (but entirely unburdened by saccharine sentimentality). Gore's keen ear for shimmering sonics and bellowing rhythm reinvigorates the Depeche Mode-branded synth-pop that's remained unique for the last 20 years. In all, Exciter is a stunning return to form, and a triumph by every definition. --Beth Massa
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| Customer Reviews:
 I can't believe I once hated this album... June 3, 2008
insoc (Miami, Florida United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Maybe it was because I expected a more danceable, synthpoppy album. I said, what the hell is this and I didn't care to listen to it any more as I had also the CD singles of Dream On, I Feel Loved and the magnificent Freelove. It was not long ago that I took the time to listen again to this album and really have to say now that this is one of DM's best albums. I just can't stop hearing songs like Breathe or Goodnight Lovers. This is DM's at a very special phase that we may not hear again. Those two songs (Breathe or Goodnight Lovers) actually doesnt't sound very DM as one could say but has such emotion, such soul that now I feel like I have found a treasure and plan to enjoy it forever. Martin Gore is such a genius.
 Worst Depeche Mode album ever January 26, 2008
Nicole LaFevre (Chicago, IL)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I consider myself a huge Depeche Mode fan and this album is just terrible. There is not one redeeming song on it. I was severely disappointed. Buy Playing the Angel, Violator, A Broken Frame, Some Great Reward, anything other than this.
Exciter ? hmmm I don't think I've heard that one September 23, 2007
J. Darigan-Botelho (Cornwall, New York)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Obviously if you are reading a review of this disc from DM in the year 2007 you have either just completed your ENTIRE collection or stumbled upon this GEM quite by accident as a later in life fan...either way Congratulations! EXCITER is something that pulls on your senses from the minute you put it on and before you know it your heart strings are involved. Gahan's vocals are such that people stop talking when his voice enters the room in "Dream On"...from there it is only a matter of time before this disc never quite leaves your disc player. It's something that you randomly find you're trying to work into conversation... It's a work of art in the truest sense... ( it will make you want to START a collection )Martin Gore Thank You
 and... suddenly they fell from grace September 6, 2007
Andre Felix-diaz Rojo (Mexico City)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a fan since 1987's Music for the Masses. I'm totally devoted to Depeche Mode, but it's 2007 and Exciter strikes as their worst CD ever. I'm not that fond of A Broken Frame, but there's an innocence to that album that enlightens and lets the listener aware that there's a bright future ahead for this band.
Exciter is a complete joke. The songs are truly uninspired, the lyrics are lame -Gore seems to drift away from his very intimate topics from all past Depeche albums- and, worst of all, Mark Bell has nothing to do with the somber and poppy mixture of sound that became DM's trademark. Tim Simenon did a hell of a job in translating the band to the late 90's. But Bell choose to get Bjorkesque on them. The result is a total lack of emotion.
For some reason I really like Sweetest Condition (bluesy and simple) and Freelove (seductive and quiet), but the rest of the album is so forgettable that nobody gave a damn when they failed to play any of its tracks on the Playing the Angel tour.
Every band has to suffer through a phase like this, but DM seemed as they have gone way above that curse for so long and... suddenly they fell from grace.
Wow, what a grower June 19, 2007
R O C K E T (The Twin Cities, MN)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I don't think any album has ever grown on me quite like Exciter has. And I don't believe that time has simply made it more palatable - I'm pretty sure now in retrospect that the main reason I was initially disappointed was because it followed my favorite DM album, Ultra, so the bar was impossibly high. Also, it's undeniably more subdued than the previous albums. I love mellow stuff, but I wasn't expecting it, so it took me a little by surprise.
Fast forward a half dozen years and now this is one of the DM albums I find myself going back to the most. I absolutely love it, and can't believe there was ever a time I didn't. I love that this album is different from the others in that it's the most low-key and romantic. It's such a beautiful album, and showcases elements of this great band that are not necessarily highlighted in other albums. The only song I still don't love is "Breathe," but even that one I like a lot more than I used to. On the other hand, I think "Comatose" is one of the best Gore-sung tracks in their entire catalog (bizarre as it is). "Dream On," "Shine," "When the Body Speaks," "Dead of Night," "Freelove," "I Feel Loved," "I Am You," and "Goodnight Lovers" are every bit as good as all the classics. The production on this album is superb, and often reminiscent of Bjork's Vespertine.
If you gave up on this album early on and tossed it aside, calling it crap, I suggest popping it in sometime (preferably on a beautiful summer night) and giving it another chance. You may find that with the passage of time, you have changed your mind.
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